Recent content by shpub

same here.

No it won't.

According to In-depth: the Formula E powertrain explained "Formula E cars has two speed boxes - a lower speed gear for slow hairpins and starts but as of 2020 no Formula E car has a multispeed box." They certainly has 5 speed boxes initially but the option of single speed was allowed with the...

I am not so sure that what they found is actually relevant to EV use. The full paper is here: Radware Bot Manager Captcha Note the high temperatures used in the testing with battery temperatures of 55 deg in some cases and taking the battery voltage down to an SOC of 0. The batteries were...

No they didn't. Newport Pagnell superchargers for example are Tesla only. This is all Tesla superchargers... according to Tesla. This is open Tesla superchargers. Again according to Tesla

AS for which are open Tesla, the Tesla app knows you have a non-`tesla and will show only open Tesla chargers. If I am planning a longer journey I will often confirm with Zap Map and use Chat to confirm that non teslas have charged there.

It also depends on the current capability of the cable itself. If the cable is rated at 16A then you only get 3kw ish per phase. So if your car as a 7kw single phase charger, then the 16A cable will limit it to 3kw(ish) anyway. So the number of phases the EVSE can provide, the number of phases...

Coulomb counting is not that accurate either if you want to calculate a battery SOC. It's accurate in that you can measure the current going in and out which will tell you how much can be extracted. Liion EV batteries are around 90% efficient at best, but it is very dependent on a lot of...

The car thinks it knows the SoC but it is a guess that could be 10% out. SoC is really difficult to measure, especially in an environment where the battery is constantly being discharged and charged at differing rates.

I documented the whole saga for the MG5 (started in 2021) here in 4 FAQs: MG5 Supercharger problems: FAQ 1 - Timeline of events

Plug it in when you need more miles. Drive it when you have miles. Life is really too short to do anything else. You will need a 100% AC charge to balance the batteries which is a good thing which really blows this idea of never going to 100% out of the water. DC charging to 80% is a good...

There are multiple versions of that CCU and they vary in terms of the power and voltage outputs and also include V2L capability. No you can't get a newer unit and retrofit to get V2L. It would make sense to "vin lock" them so that the wrong unit does not go and do some thing silly like charging...

Just switch the car off. Yes.

1B2500 is not a valid code or at least it is not one in the MG5 manual. It could be an incorrect decoding from the OBD reader. There is a PID2500 which is an internal PEB fault with the electronics supply voltage. It may be that. Given that the 12v battery died indicates that the Charger may...

I don't know what your experience or background is but so forgive me if this is a bit granny sucking eggs. Just to confirm the system is full of 400v sources which if touched will kill you. You need the right ppe and to follow the procedures for isolating the battery. Assume nothing. If the...