Content by T1 Terry in February, 2026

Over 12 yrs and over 200 off grid system installed, all built from cell level up, you get to see everything that can go wrong, generally, owner inflicted. Some absolute horror stories, but I won't bore members with those ..... I have enjoyed our to and fro @johnb80, hope I didn't over step the...

Now I understand the principle, we have seasonal registration in South Australia, where you register the vehicle for 3 mths at a time when you want to use it, you can cancel that at any time and get a refund or credit, but if you want to reregister within the next 3 mth period, there is an...

Help, it's like a couple of deaf people at the pub arguing from different ends of the bar, they don't really hear what the other one is saying, but it must be wrong because it wasn't them that said it :rolleyes: T1 Terry

Eventually, but read between the lines, that also says there will be none allocated for floor stock that might influence a quick sale at a discounted price to move the vehicle off the financing floor plan ..... It appears MG might be moving to a supply on demand basis, show me your money and we...

Not meant as an attack here, but your understanding of LFP battery/cell behaviour is letting you down ...... I'm interested in how you determine the voltage of an LFP pack @ 75% to 80% SOC? 4 cell groups in series, balanced properly, not just all reaching 3.4 V DC together, anything under 0.5...

Like the cat who ate the cheese? T1 Terry

Trump is in a difficult position, on one side he has his rich US controllers sponsors donors and on the other side he has very powerful people he owns a lot of money and even more favours to in Russia, and a country that won't simply buckle and bend the knee .... He now has to choose between his...

Hadn't thought about it from that end, I can simply delete the MG4 connecting on my BlueTooth list T1 Terry

Our MG4 does it to me all the time, I have to put my phone on speaker if the MG is on because the wife is in it keeping cool or driving in/out of the yard ..... I probably should unpair it with the MG4 because I use the USB cord anyway to keep the phone charged with using Google maps and...

And my full support behind your countries efforts to keep Putin and his version of Russia out. Keep up the drone attacks, Putin clearly doesn't have the drone defence capabilities the major military powers have, so keep draining their economy until the Russian's themselves stop his insane war...

Yes, I did say previously that a power supply was what was needed, not the battery charger that you believed would be fine for the job Should we get more home battery capacity? We are at least in agreement that the adjustable max output voltage was required and that is not something the linked...

Conversion hasn't started yet, maybe set backs with repairs needed to our home on wheels, The 31ft Winnebago, after first out workshop burnt to the ground with our Hino motorhome inside and all the gear I had collected over the yrs for the conversion, then 15 mths later, our replacement...

Still confused, if they are sold outside the UK registration area for the purpose of repair because they were a financial write off, then they are not actually a Statutory Write Off but rather a repairable write off ..... have I got that part correct, so if they are on sold to be repaired, they...

When the reply to "How's ya day going" by the person waiting to scan your card to extract funds, has change from, "yeah, ok I guess" to "About as well as can be expected for an old bloke" ........ or from "fightin' fit to fighting Centrelink" T1 Terry

Clearly better equipped than I am, even passing a 1 cent coin would bring a tear to the eye :cry:, the 5 cent is the smallest coin now ..... and for that sort of money I'd water a lemon tree :D T1 Terry

Then, what do they do with them? Keep them at home as a memorial to the faithful service that had provided? A great old car like that, we pin $10 to the steering wheel, showing it still has value to us ;) :lol: T1 Terry

I remember, vaguely, requiring platform tickets, no conductors on busses but the ticket was torn out of a sort of book, each ticket a different colour the denoted travel between which sections, that way the inspector, should on be waiting at stop, could easily see if the ticket was valid or not...

It is not the inverter seeing the charger voltage or current, it's the fact you have tapped into a line that will move current both ways. If the inverter does use all the charger output, it will flow back to the battery. I'm not sure how you plan to limit the input to 2kW on the LiFePO4 Charger...

A few wise words I've picked up over the yrs Without freedom of speech, it would be a lot harder to pick out the idiots ........ So many people appear to be bright, until they speak and you immediately realise the error you were about to make by talking to them ...... "It is better to...

Not some much making me feel old, more making me grateful I'm now old enough and still above ground to living in an age that I no longer have to ask to be connected to make a phone call, or get up early to earn some money or crave a snack bar ...... T1 Terry

So, you pay tax on the vehicle, even if it isn't registered to be on the road? This just get stranger and stranger T1 Terry

Confusion reigned and they all get wet ;) :LOL: ..... SORN stands for Statutory Off Road Notification, from the OP, if the vehicle was not a financially prospect to return to a roadworthy condition, then there is a relationship between the two terms ..... isn't there o_O :unsure: T1 Terry

Maybe, but if they don't pass your roadworthy equivalent, the MOT, and the repair cost compared to replacement cost says it's not worth fixing, then does that put it in the SORN category and because it failed the MOT, then it might be classed as a reliability thing .... T1 Terry

The older you get, the longer it takes to recover from the beating that younger woman gives you, so you just feel old again :unsure: T1 Terry

Might be the lower purchase price is then reflected in a low resale price, so it doesn't take much before it's not worth fixing ..... T1 Terry

At least better than not fit to shovel .... you know what rhymes there .... but putting in a good word that you are sure they could step up to the task if given enough time and training ...... T1 Terry

The reason for requiring the adjustable voltage control is to stop the 48vdc charger, that the BMS has no control over, pushing a cell into the cell damage voltage zone. This will cause the BMS to shut down the system, the very thing the system owner is trying to avoid. Try putting one of those...

You look at photo of brothers and sisters of the ex and say they look really old, and your 42yr old daughter from the second marriage laughs ...... and you realise you might actually be older than the ones in the photo ..... :eek: T1 Terry

You have a bladder that has an 800km range, you can drive that far and stay full alert in one go ...... Let's be a tad realistic here, 400km range and 30 mins 10% to 80% adds up to a total of around 700kms, you are going to need a min 1hr stop by this length of driving if you want to put in...

You know when you've reached that age when you joke with the security lady at the front of the store, "If I don't show my docket and run, will you tackle me?" and the snap reply is "As if you could run at your age" They get really cheeky when they know there about the same age as you :LOL: T1 Terry

I reckon he's just setting you up :lol: T1 Terry

I wonder how one would go with a transplant of the rear drive from an MG4, a tad of modification required to shoebox it in there, but it would be great for embarrassing XPower owners ;) :LOL: T1 Terry

No idea where the last reply went ..... It might be like that in WA ... but in NSW they are ruthless, tougher than the first driving test to get a licence because they expect you to have learnt a lot more during your yrs of driving If you have a high grade licence, such as a medium rigid to...

My wife would be far worse than the ACC, she will jump on the brakes at the last second, plant the foot as soon as there is a space big enough for postage stamp .... so the ACC saves both the battery capacity and cleaning costs from the upholstery and my clothes ..... I can't wait until she is...

They end up in the write off register over here because either no one wants to fix the minor problems, or the time it would take to get it repaired is not satisfactory to the insurance companies client, a rental car for that period would be far too expensive, so they simply write a perfectly...

No voltage control and very crude output filtering, generally resulting in AC ripple superimposed over the DC square wave, causes all sorts of confusion to sophisticated electronics, generally resulting in a shut down because it just doesn't like the dirty signals it is seeing. I was looking...

This view on a recent complete bungle by the current US govt, tells the story only to well regarding the US fall from the mighty empire it thought it once was Fancy being stupid enough to threaten the place the houses the US eyes and ears in this part of the world ..... they couldn't even do...

Yeah, it's that noisy insect that starts up as soon as you turn the lights off. JayCar (an electronics shop over here) had a kit you could make up and it would only activate after 5 mins in the dark, great for pranking the poor bugger who had to get up early so went to bed well before everyone...

I don't know what either of the comparison look like, is it the size on a Mitsubishi i Miev and looks like it was caught between two trucks as they merged from 3 lanes into 2 lanes ....... T1 Terry

Much like the Victorian state govt over here, they tried to extract an EV tax from EV owners, who collectively took them to court regarding their authority to apply such a tax ...... and had to give the money back ...... Kinda tricky when they had already patted themselves on the back and used...

Is that the new US term for accepting bribes? He backs down big time when anyone pulls the court hearing card, he can't handle being humiliated and then defeated on public record, so he avoids court hearing at any cost. I doubt he could find anyone silly enough to represent him these days...

Some of my vehicles would have had minus scores on any of these tests, but the only one I really got injured in was the company HiLux ute when I was hit from behind .... the vehicle might been referred to as indestructible, sadly, those in the cab needed to be built the same way ..... and I...

The idea wasn't to connect to the EV DC circuit, but rather, a 48 V DC battery charger being powered by the V2L and the output from the battery charger connected to the battery at the end of that cable with the two ring terminals (at least that is what they look like) by adding ring terminals...

The judge looks over his half glasses at the man in the docks .... how could you deliberately kill 24 people? No, that's not how it was, there were two blokes walking across the road heading towards a restaurant with people dining outside ..... I attempt to brake but the pedal goes to the floor...

The cables must connect between the battery and the inverter somehow, I doubt it's an all in one unit. If there was a battery or BMS problem, the whole entire set would have to be replaced if that was the case. I think the problem is probably to do with the battery BMS having no control over...

Generally a sign of poor bushing material choice or poor alignment, such as the bushing mounting hole not being square to the mounting position, or a steering geometry problem that is putting excessive strain on that particular bushing. I'm guessing the latter can be ruled out, not every MG4...

Not meaning any disrespect here, but you haven't driven your MG4 far enough to even need tyres as an MOT fail item, so I'd say your MG4 isn't a good representation on the average user over a 36 mth period ..... T1 Terry

Bloke has the window seat on a long distance plane trip, just as the last passengers are boarding, a man sits in the other outside seat and a dog sits in the middle seat. The bloke looks at the dog, then at the other bloke, then back at the dog and continues this until the man says something...

Is there battery cables that come of the battery that go to the inverter, if so, connect the battery charger negative and positive there and set the battery charger to a max output voltage of 54vdc, below the point the BMS will attempt to do a cell balance on the whole battery ..... T1 Terry

Rather than more battery, you need a V2X system that is a two DC circuit that plugs into the EV's DC port and the house solar and battery. These systems can move the DC current in either direction from the EV battery: 1) charging it when there is excess energy from either cheap/free mains power...

And here too Really big cloud T1 Terry

Mine is Temu, for some reason they seem to think I'd look good in a skirt split to waist or something that will make my breasts enter a room 5 mins before the rest of me ..... or hand tools I have no idea what they would be used for ..... but they every so often have just what I need at a really...

When you see the charging screen come up on the centre screen, swipe down or up or what ever it takes to get the main charging screen, there, you can change the charge percentage you want to stop charging. If you set it to 100% you have to leave it powered up until it finished balance charging...

Even if/when the Democrats win the mid terms, they still won't have the numbers to get an impeachment across the line, they would need a 2/3rds majority vote ..... unless a lot more Republicans abandon ship and simply retire, they can't get the numbers. I think the Democrats will go for the low...

Rained all night rained all day Just enough to be annoying and getting things wet under the awning T1 Terry

How much power does the central heating draw? Is your house battery 48vdc? T1 Terry

I don't think the USA in general can be blamed for the way DJT is, that can be blamed of no one calling him to task from a very young age .... he developed the idea he could tell any lie he liked and make it accepted as fact by threat or money. Too many of the upper echelon of the US whose who...

Double heck or double deck then? A typo perhaps T1 Terry Go to the timber yard and buy some timber Head on home Build a bridge get over it Go well as a T shirt T1 Terry

Wouldn't the 80% of the 51kwh battery in the MG4 be better value, you already have it after all and you can drive it some where to refill it if needed ...... T1 Terry

Good night all It's raining here Hard to believe Well, sprinkling really T1 Terry

Then they are the ones to show this recurring problem and let them determine if it is natural wear and tear or a defective design or materials problem ..... from there, they wouldn't have much option than to call in a random sample of MG4s to inspect themselves ..... I wouldn't mind betting...

I would be surprised if it dropped below 90%. 45.9kwh, close enough to 46kwh and far closer than the claimed 51kwh. The new battery is 49kwh claimed, still LFP .... do you believe they would fit a lower capacity battery in the base model? Or are they slowly reducing the claimed capacity till it...

Must be a very British thing, I've never heard it before ..... T1 Terry

So it was Australian ... well, there ya go ..... it started airing 2 yrs before I was born :LOL: We didn't get a TV until after my father died, I'd just turned 11 then .... we must have had it by July '69 because I stayed home from school to watch the first steps on the moon ..... one of those...

Back in the USSR, you don't know how luck you are ....... T1 Terry

I think I must have been 7 or 8 yrs old. Dexter was married with kids, lived in the average .... I'm guessing American neighbourhood and got into all sorts of troubles by completely reading the situation wrong, generating quite funny scenarios. His neighbour was one of those types that had a way...

The guests are all booked into the same hotel resort where the wedding will take place, between a 97yr old fairly wealthy man and his 23 yr old nurse .... There are a few concerns whispered between the guests that she might finish him off on the wedding night and are up early to see if he makes...

At the rate of performance decline, I'm sure my MG4 will out last me :LOL: I'm glad they don't run an SOH on the driver, I would have been sent to the recyclers years ago and a driver in better condition installed in my place ..... T1 Terry

I remember as a kid, sitting around the speaker of the radiogram listening to radio shows like "Life with Dexter" The fact I can even remember the name of one of the radio shows means there must still be something left in the brain box ..... No idea why it was important to remember rubbish like...

I wonder these days how I did it. I guess working in an industry where things were heavy, but still within the reality of being able to lift and place them by hand, kept the muscles in tune. I remember going on 14 hr shift shutdowns at Bluescope Steel carrying a tool bag that weighed 80kg ...

There is so much AI generated rubbish on the interweb now, it's getting far to difficult to determine just what the situation is between Canada and the USA .... 1) Have they cut the oil pipeline? 2) Have they stopped supplying uranium to the USA 3) Are the Canadian's holding the panel stamping...

This might answer that question better Everything Electric and the launch of the Na+ battery @ -30*C T1 Terry

I'm 70 now and couldn't imagine trying to drag 80kgs, but I do remember lifting VW engines and automatic transmissions onto the disassembly bench from the ground without even thinking about it ..... and lifting a 650 BSA Lighting motor in and out of a go cart frame on my own while making up...

I noticed there were no come backs about England winning a World Cup .... or about the Ashes ;) :LOL: T1 Terry

Now, that would be freaky, I'd no idea who it was looking back at me :LOL: T1 Terry

I remember Red Skelton Show, Laugh-in, Auntie Jack, The Mavis Branston Show, Full Frontal, The first episode of Dr Who (scared the crap out of me :LOL:) You can't see round corners (Australian ABC drama series) Just watch a bit of the first episode ..... now I really feel old :eek: T1 Terry

Put a CC to the vehicle safety people when you send the email to escalate the claim ..... or just do that at the dealer level first, just to let them know to pass it on to MG, that the current nonsense isn't going to be tolerated and the vehicle safety mob could demand a total recall to evaluate...

It is one of those things I have always had in the back of my mind, would I be able to survive if the whole system collapsed ...... and, even at this age, I think I could ..... The problem would be surviving those that want what you have set up, that would be going back to the days where you...

Are you sure some of that isn't made up ..... what's an Eastender? Can't remember watching Apollo 13 .... and did England really win a World Cup .... and at what? My memory is failing rapidly, but I can't remember the last time Australia didn't win the Ashes ;) :LOL: T1 Terry

Always feeling tired needing a nap in the afternoon waking up with a migraine and very sore neck getting up without groaning is an impossible task Remember watching man's first steps on the moon while still in high school and remembering the jingle for the introduction of decimal currency...

You could copy the @Archev method and just make stuff up and put it up here on the forum :LOL: If I could go back in time and then return, I'd make some investments and buy up a few garbage bags of the smoko we had back then :lol: Just for medicinal purposes of course ..... I'd also tell myself...

I had problems connecting to the local vehicle mobs chargers (RAA) and after nearly an hr and 5 chargers in the same parking garage, a young female assistant on the phone told me to unplug, lock/unlock the car rapidly 5 or 6 times, then try again ..... and away it went and has not given me...

I can't imagine the Gen 2 Prius would be much fun to drive as an ICE only, no hope of getting between 700km and 1,000km on 50L of fuel, or pull out and overtake with the same level of ease ..... but I'd certainly look at a different battery pack, the NiMH battery was ok for its time, but a good...

D Not to get associated at all with the first bitch woman I ended up marrying and have a kid with, things didn't turn out well for her sadly, so I could have saved her that horror ..... That would probably have helped me not getting involved with the second one .... but who knows .... it could...

Sometimes I wish I could go back to my childhood, but still knowing what I know now ..... but then I think about how easy it would be to slip up saying something I shouldn't and the whole time line would change .... after a lifetime of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time, I know I'd stuff...

We often think how much easier we had it when we were young, so life must have been better then ..... from there we seem to believe that life before things got so hectic and wars seem to be the only thing we seem hear about ..... or how bad our health system is ..... add your own attention...

Just to see how good they have it back in the lucky country ;) :LOL: Are you seriously trying to tell me people want to emigrate from Australia to England ..... Is it just so they can get a job pulling beers in a pub, a skill learnt early over here so there is a lot of competition for jobs...

Despite the high cost of living, it still remains popular I think we can all learn something from this ..... Shut up and just get on with it :LOL: T1 Terry

Do you really think an energy supplier would not take advantage of something that was approved in the eastern states, and have it pushed through over your side? T1 Terry

In Australia, there are strict rules as to how close to an edge a solar array can reach, all to do with installer/maintainer safety ..... Having said that, there are a lot of systems out there that would never pass even a glancing look so ..... There are rules, and there are rules that are...

That follows on with the theory the phone being so far away from the vehicle, Bluetooth couldn't keep waking it up ..... T1 Terry

So, we have now moved on to the munchies? T1 Terry

I'm sure I wouldn't be driving to work, I'd driving to an airport to escape that sort of weather ..... what is it that keeps people in that sort of climate? In Australia, it's generally money, paid to much to leave or can't afford to escape .... although, we do live in a hot house for a few mths...

Have you thought about using the EV as a second battery to get you over the shortfall till you reach the cheaper power availability .... Sorry if someone has already posted about this idea, but the wife has said it's time for bed ;) :cool: :rolleyes: Yeah, but I can dream though :LOL: T1 Terry

This is what the electricity regulator is looking to do in Australia, Submissions Close On AEMC Plan To Raise Fixed Charges so the MG4 as an additional solar storage unit will be a must and we will go off grid ..... let them see how well that goes for them ;) :LOL: T1 Terry

That will be the true test, an EV of the same make and model, one with what ever the normally fitted battery is and the other with a CATL Na+ battery. Theoretically, the battery heating would be turned on, they are good down to -40*C, so the -20*C should concern it much. The other theoretical...

This one is for @Archev to explain who Jonny is ..... T1 Terry

But that only supplies 4 shells T1 Terry

Still on the good stuff I see :lol: Did you get it from Jonny? T1 Terry

3 phase I understand, but that has 4? Mega ultra fast charging? T1 Terry

Interesting, starting to sound like a design fault, MG know about it and they changed the design with the updated rear window wiper model ...... does that match the failed v still good suspension bush discoveries? T1 Terry

It's the crazy Americans with their Tesla designed charging port that are left out in the cold so to speak. The things I've only recently thought about, is regen into a very cold battery, does the battery heating kick in automatically if the battery temp approaches 0°C? T1 Terry

Our MG4 is just coming up to 12 mths old, so I best check that the canvas isn't showing, no guarantees they will still have legal tread on them with the way the wife drives :rolleyes: Somehow, she actually managed to get both the rear tyres to squeal on the dry bitumen as she launched out of the...

As if, I doubt you can even buy shares in CATL, Chinese companies are a bit funny like that :LOL: T1 Terry

If I had a cool $124K sitting in my pocket .... I'd be petrified I was about to get donged on the head ..... but I'd invest it till it reached $365,000, and by a Lucid Air Saphire ...... then park it some where safe because I'd never be able to afford the insurance :LOL: But how cool to roll up...

The CATL Na+ will charge at 5C without a problem, all day every day, NCA at around 2C to 80% but degrade due to heat generation internally over time, NMC at 1C to 1.5C to 80%, but again, continual fast charging will shorten cycle life. Good quality LFP, 3C to 5C, but 1C can be pumped in to...

This one seems to be a contentious subject regarding tyre rotation. In the rag tyre days, it was diagonally opposite swap and the worst went to the spare ..... at least that one has been sorted these days because spare tyres are worn by the driver and not part of the vehicle's equipment :LOL...

Glad to hear you are keeping yourself well informed ;) :LOL: T1 Terry

22°C when it's really hot and humid outside, 24°C when it's biting cold outside ..... probably the type of weather many on this forum might regard as summer weather :lol: As for driving on Ice and snow roads, I'm guessing my kWh/100km would be a lot better because I'd be driving slower and with...

It is broken, The two choices at the moment are: Ternary chemistry cells like NMC (Nickel Cobalt Manganese) and NCA (Nickel Cobalt Aluminium) don't function all that well in the cold, -20°C will result in a 60% to 80% capacity loss .... this becomes more apparent as the cycle life increases...

CATL recently announced their first supplies of Na+ (Sodium Ion) batteries for next mth. That belief that it was yrs away before they reached anything that was comparable to LFP may have just been shattered. My question is, would you choose an EV with comparable range that used Na+ cells, or...

They were selling for $50k including on road brand new not that long back ...... T1 Terry

Yeah, 25kwh/100kms, so the full 51kwh battery to travel under 200kms. Looked at the B/S label on the windscreen, claims 402km from the 51kwh battery, yet also shows 184wh/km, that comes out to the average of 18.4kwn/100kms .... one of them is realistic, the other, off with the fairies...

That is borderline negligent practice, not just a safety violation ..... maybe a word with the vehicle safety mob regarding the bushes failing but MG using delaying tactics rather than replacing obviously faulty parts ...... T1 Terry

Maybe they were contacting MG to see if there was a recall on certain models or if MG even knew the problem existed ...... then had to wait for MG to provide the parts if there was an upgraded version ...... But more than likely, just hoped you would go somewhere else ..... T1 Terry

I got all excited, started rehearsing the sale pitch to the minister of war and finance .... then saw it was in WA .... long drive for a test drive, is that production date in the built in vibrator range, or after it ....... T1 Terry

12 mths in and our MG4 poverty pack has been an outstanding vehicle for running costs and reliability. I would stress that it is important to make sure all the updates have been carried out before taking delivery and this forum is a great knowledge source for finding out both how to check they...

The 18.7kwh/100kms is ball park to what we are getting, but a lot of our driving is at 100km/h to 110km/h on the freeway, and that does drop the efficiency quite a bit. I was caught in strong winds for a trip recently to an Electric vehicle meeting and the 150km trip resulted in an average of...

You'll have plenty of spares if you ever need them .... I'd love to buy the Golf diesel if you weren't so far away, they were a great plodder .... T1 Terry

But will it be unbiased, like all the positive posts about MG4s :LOL: T1 Terry

Probably gone way off the joke thread topic but here is a You Tube video about making your own chocolate at home H You can see where so many flavours can be achieved, Grand Marnier is a favourite, or the Capparis mitchellii - Wikipedia or wild South Australian orange adds a flavour that is...

When is brewing and tasting time is more like it. Australia would be probably the only place that has chocolate tasting bars, no free tastings at these places :lol: T1 Terry

well, there was the first sign, no suspension noises, if it had been an XPower and you said the built in vibrator had stopped working, would have been another warning sign .... Do you have to pay for a second MOT over there? In South Australia, there are no vehicle inspections for rego, so I...

I think the premium long range market doesn't really worry about weight as much as the performance market. The ability to handle any weather conditions, fast charging and long cycle life when being fast charged and no thermal runaway, will be the selling point for Na+ batteries in the luxury...

As @Bam Bam has already posted, the chemistry itself isn't banned, but it can't meet the thermal runaway requirements, so it is dead as far as cell manufacturing in China. Sure, it opens up that chemistry to be built elsewhere, but would there be a market to sell them with " Solid State...

Did it have a chevy badge ;) :ROFLMAO: T1 Terry

There is a huge difference between fire proof and not self combustible. LFP requires oxygen to be supplied from an outside source, ternary lithium does not, it produces its own oxygen above a certain internal temperature, this is the point of thermal runaway. Because LFP can't generate it's own...

China has banned any chemistry battery that can self combust, in other words, make it's own oxygen when thermal runaway occurs, and chemistry with cobalt in the mix is going to suffer this problem. Unless you know of a company that can compete on price and manufacturing volume that isn't in...

I'll go and stand in the shame corner, I believe you may be correct and I got the bull by the tail ..... never a good place to be catching a bull by I'm told Now I'll have to wait for them to land in Australia to have a look .... :eek: T1 Terry

For all of Jan? 1400kwh T1 Terry

Alway wary of anything that says it's made from less that 50% local ingredients and not manufactured in Australia, but rather, Packed in Australia ..... But I still think they'd taste good :lol: T1 Terry

I first stumbled across it here New Facelift? and later saw the over the top insurance category that I'm guessing are related T1 Terry

Hard to find any EV related racing of any type, the powers that be have the motor racing viewers convinced that, if it doesn't belch fire and noise, it isn't a proper race car. Every so often, you get to see EV against ICE in different types of racing, the bikes are always interesting, although...

Go one, you know you want to :ROFLMAO: T1 Terry

This is rather old and probably very Australian centred ... but still funny T1 Terry

A greenhouse gas allows heat in, but traps it from escaping out into the upper atmosphere where it can dump the heat out into the great beyond via thermal radiation, it's a vacuum so no conduction possible. Water vapour will absorb heat from above, and trap heat below, but it will not allow the...

On a tailer, I tried to put the MG4 on the Gypsy trailer, bum up .... there is no steering lock, so that would need to be addressed at the steering rack, before the torque sensor and electronics .... no idea what that would do to the rack where the electric motor meshes with it .... I can't...

Even at the great discount for cash .... nah, not until they can offer some sort of reassurance about that cast rear end, I'll be holding on to my pressed metal spot welded outdated model, with a much lower insurance premium ..... T1 Terry

Well, it won't be an XPower facelift model on my shopping list .... an abandoned battery chemistry, cast rear suspension and drivetrain component that is not repairable ..... skip the yeah part, just nah, not for me thanks T1 Terry

Ummm...... like clouds you mean? T1 Terry

The rear window is similar ..... and neither of them have headlights at that end, that about the end of the similarities as far as I can see T1 Terry

With two motors, a good hard launch and you have to roll to the next fast charger, that's about all the battery capacity you could fit in such a compact car ... T1 Terry

Rowen Atkinson in one of funny political sketches T1 Terry

I'll order in extra ready for when you arrive, plus the really good ginger marmalade and ginger jam if the make it, I guess that must be more runny and mince ginger instead of thinly sliced piece that are in marmalade ..... T1 Terry

And Darrell Lea Dark Chocolate Coated Ginger 200g | Darrell Lea make the best dark cholate ginger ..... Well, they did when the factory was in Rocky Point Road Kogarah, just on the south side of Sydney central ..... it was within walking distance of my aunties place (well kids walking) and it...

The best ginger is grown here in Australia, Buderim Ginger Welcome to The Ginger Factory | Sunshine Coast, Yandina QLD For a real treat, a jar of ginger stems in ginger syrup ..... You can't really hog them all down in one go, the flavour goes on for quite a while and flows up through the nose...

No, Did you buy your EV to Save The Planet? a boring bar or auger is different again ..... and not a whole lot of use moving snow ..... but think of how fit you'll feel when finished .... fit for good lie down :lol: T1 Terry

A spade is a spade, the others are clubs, hearts and diamonds ....... you people would be a mind bending experience to play cards with :eek: T1 Terry

Let's hope it isn't ex power, but rather a quick nimble EV with decent range .... If the price down here is good enough, it might be the replacement towed vehicle behind the motorhome T1 Terry

Wasn't that VHS only movie? T1 Terry

This is a very classy VW beetle EV conversion, complete with sound T1 Terry

And 4 hrs T1 Terry

The Prius iTech have leather seats with lumbar support. The previous owner had removed the seat covering and added heater pads with a switch on the outer side plate with low/off/hi selectable ..... so I'm assuming the other MG stuff could be added as well ..... T1 Terry

A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse. "But why?" they asked, as they moved off. "Because", he said, "I can't stand...

Ah, but was it a New Born, the cost of the gynaecologist to deliver it is rather high these days ...... T1 Terry

Heated seats might be nice, but a cooled steering wheel for the Aust market would be great .... and auto dark reflective tinting on the windows, including the windscreen when the car is shut down and locked T1 Terry

Ah, why didn't ya say that :rolleyes: Interesting concept, taking an EV for a walk, does it heel and sit/stay waiting for you to do the shopping and hair cut T1 Terry

What, one to drive while the other is charging? What colours did you get? T1 Terry

Had to Google when it was, it's tomorrow, thanks for the tip ..... maybe she would like dark chocolate coated ginger, I love that stuff :D T1 Terry

That was a long drive to pick up a car ....... Even though it's a kero burner, great to hear all is well with the purchase. T1 Terry

Good night all heading for bed before the next three words are not what I want to hear T1 Terry

That the vibrator cracks the alloy cast rear cradle and it's a write-off before the seats are worn in .... If a certain XPower owner that once posted here bought one, I'm guessing he might have worn the tyres out by then though :LOL: T1 Terry

That power station closed in 2014, they are still demolishing it 12 yrs later, it is being converted to a big battery site with all the grid networking and substations still there, it was chosen as an ideal spot. The last time I was up that way, I bought our second motorhome from people who had...

What could of happened that required washing it clean T1 Terry

Agree, punch the bush out and weld it on properly. You can see the tack weld intended to hold it in place ready for the robot or welder to finish the job .... it just never happened. The worry is, if this weld was missed, how many others ..... and no idea what the idea was with the crap weld...

Cheer up mate At least you don't have to tie the boxes down with tarps T1 Terry

No time like now, we are about to head into Autumn so the deciduous trees will start to change colours and drop their leaves, the autumn flowering plants will be out in bloom, the days aren't so hot from here on until Oct Nov, but the days get shorter. You actually have to deliberately go to...

Very poor weld inspection, both robots and hand welders get their welds inspected. That wasn't welded professionally on either side, the weld on the side that had the tiny bit of contact at the lower corner, was a rather poor stick weld attempt ..... that should have been pick up on the...

It works on the roos as well ;) at least I have it on good word from a number of truck drivers with mufflers that seem to amplify the Jake Brake sound rather than quieten it ....... It's a great lead-in for the morning radio prank calls as well .... some of them get real wound up about it ...

There were a series of ads about soup you could eat with a fork, proper chunky soup, but pumpkin, tomato, cheese and leek, creamy chicken and chicken and sweet corn soups, all need to be puree And chicken noodle soup should remain a mystery regarding what part of the chicken is in there, or if...

That is a big rain cloud T1 Terry

Maybe repairers aren't quite as scared of anything with an EV label and realise this is the direction they need to head if they wish to remain in the insurance companies' good books. T1 Terry

This one is good for a laugh ..... well, maybe not for all members ;) T1 Terry

Soup through a filter, you people are strange at times T1 Terry

Time for bed Good night all Still raining here T1 Terry

Pity Putin' Tat isn't still living with us, he'd be licking his chops and dribbling everywhere, just thinking about sorting out that dogs attitude problem :LOL: T1 Terry

Boring :eek: How will you identify it is the car park, it'll just another wizzbang wind up diesel van ..... not even the Jake Brake sound effects dialled up to 11 every time it backs off down a hill? The look of terror in the occupants of the cars around you is worth every penny of the weather...

At the 41 sec mark, "Integrated rear-body, Die-casting Technology" I can't remember what brand EV it was, but the rear frame was a single diecast piece, an impact from either side of the rear, vehicle write off, unrepairable, the casting metal can't be welded, straightened or even crack repaired...

Will it have the 2 x 4" chrome stack facing out each way behind the cab at 45*, twin air horns in the roof, bullbar and the mandatory night blind inducing 2 x led spotlights that melt tar at the 2 kms range? And the all important question, Cat, Cummins or Detroit Diesel powered? The full Jake...

Might be just sticking it to them eh ...... might help with direction control on the down hill events, and lock them all together on the 4 man bobsled :LOL: Bring tear to the eyes for the brakeman I'm guessing T1 Terry

Wotdidesay ..... something about his coffee being so weak he fell asleep? I really don't think a good flat white would go with Pavlova either ..... and certainly not good diet food ..... did I nearly get back on topic there ;) :ROFLMAO: T1 Terry

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Bloke sees the local pub has a "It's gotta be Punny" comp. The winner had his next nights beer on the house. So he enters his best 10 puns, the limit for any single person to enter ..... he figured at least one would be good enough for a prize ...... but no pun in 10 did ..... T1 Terry

But not thick like a milkshake .... well, the ones I remember anyway, a hot coffee flavour caffeine infused milk drink, but the coffee isn't perfectly blended throughout the milk ..... that is a proper flat white coffee, The bigger the cup, the stronger the coffee, in my Decor Thermocup holds...

Can I get a link to the code for programming that into Google Maps, gotta be better than Karen sending up off in the wrong direction :rolleyes: T1 Terry

Cut to the bone I tell ya ... Why was it ok for you to post when you were off your trolley, but I can't come up with a brilliant idea to save the world .... or at least, the airline industry ....... T1 Terry

Maybe they'll get this ammonia to hydrogen conversion down to a light and small package that they can feed it into the jet engines and just produce water as steam that will improve the thrust. The fuel tanks can be replaced with light weight graphene reinforced polycarbonate that doubles as the...

Sun gone now back to raining at least cooler inside with aircon Tropical humid outside T1 Terry

Probably skip lunch, half size dinner, skip breakfast tomorrow, chicken wrap with salad for lunch, skip dinner. On to the black cold coffee, without the coffee, maybe a Chemist Warehouse VOOST electrolyte tablet dissolved in it ..... rain is back :rolleyes: T1 Terry

Believe or not It's raining here Proper rain, kinda Proper belting down by Mannum standards Gone now, puddles on concrete vanishing like it's sand Wind pushed it in under awning bit of a mess T1 Terry

Hardly a weight loss beverage eh :LOL: Started the diet today, first fail was breakfast, on auto pilot and put two slices of fruit bread in the toaster .... couldn't waste it eh T1 Terry

Trump did that wait till older T1 Terry

Keeping on track? Straight line required Not real tough T1 Terry

You might get first place here T1 Terry

So, what's in? Flower decorations aren't really my thing T1 Terry

Yeah, should have read next post If truck driving best use backroads T1 Terry

Best avoid fish T1 Terry

Very strong coffee in first, the milk heater whizzer thing full on top of that, hot flat white coffee, can't stand watered down coffee that sort of tastes like dregs from a reused coffee bag and a dash of milk on top, that's just a cup of coffee flavour water .... Might as well have instant...

You must hear of the prank, you let off one of your own emissions, then ask if anyone else smells petrol ....... Naturally, they all take in a deep lungful through the nose :LOL: Now that could be classed as a daft emission, it being an electric vehicle, yet they all fell for it ..... T1 Terry

Just for you A fried out Kombi is an Aussie term for overheated or broken down VW Kombi or campervan it might be known as else where ....... T1 Terry