Content by suavecarve in April, 2026

Jeez. That's a farm !

I ve been putting some thought into ev motorhomes, as planning to keep this one for 5-6 years then blow the budget on ev motorhome, but only having bought this MG4 on Sunday it looks limiting for ev motorhome. I can leave house with full (say 100 kWh of battery) travel 200 miles (say) then fill...

I m already on dumb octopus go which is only a penny more expensive (after vat). Looked at it and I would only gain in winter and 800 quid more til payback at that rate. Only 5 hours on the dumb version but it will fill car and battery in that time and expansion of the battery to 20 kWh makes...

All sorted with relatives

You make a fair to reasonable point. My error here was googling "best bidirectional EV chargers" and hitting the first link (which if I find it I will post it (with a warning)) Then trusting the top 10 best bidirectional EV chargers would actually be bidirectional, then going to Amazon and...

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Should I have mentioned the vorsprung EV charger is bidirectional ? The electricity would not go to the grid as I'm not set up for export apart from excess solar. It would go to the house. The home battery is part of the house. As far as I can see it's pretty similar to V2L apart from going...

Picking your brains as an obvious knowledge on charging house batteries from MG4. Current set up is a fox 10kWh battery with internal 3.4kW inverter to the house filled up overnight with 6.5p/kWh leccy. Topped up with 4.2kW of solar. Having a Vorsprung 7.4kW EV charger put in this week. My...