Recent content by wattmatters

Thanks. I saw there is this site: https://www.the-blueprints.com/vectordrawings/show/28488/mg_4_ev/ and I presume you can order the right colour as well. I tried changing the image to monochrome using the limited software I have (Mac Photo and the Picture editor) but could not get the darker...

I'm looking for images of the MG4 in this style but a different colour car, in my case the Camden Grey. It's for use in the Home Assistant phone dashboard I have. I was shown by a kind soul on the HA forum how to create a picture element card with some data overlayed, like this: I searched...

I did this this journey again this past week. A stark contrast to the last time, which was before the Tesla superchargers at Thrumster and Raymond Terrace were available. On way down to Sydney used the Tesla Superchargers at Thrumster and Raymond Terrace. They charged faster than we needed with...

No chance in a 64. Most of our driving is @110km/h. 360km is an effective max, less if wind is not kind. I don't like going below 20% as that's ~70km of range when towns are typically 100km apart so you get left with little option if a charge point is dead. Fast chargers much further apart.

Any reason for New England inland route? The M1 (then M31/Hume from Sydney) is faster and with more charge options. And in general it's a safer road. I guess at present the 360km gap between Knockrow (Byron) and Thrumster (Port Macquarie) supercharger sites is quite long, leaving you reliant...

Oof. Yeah, pretty brave to try that trip in that car.

Is this the original Ioniq / 38 kWh? That would be stressful.

Yes, we'd finished our lunch break and I stopped the session when I got back to the car. It was still the only car plugged in at the 12 station site so it's not like I was hogging a spot. I guess a bit of a shake up every now and then is a thing with Tesla. Tech companies seem to make a sport...

Charge early, charge often. Unless you know you have a Supercharger site you can use.

Doing a quick plot of data captured showing charging power vs state of charge. Tesla Supercharger Raymond Terrace 2 May 2024. Essence 64. Obviously a bit of error with time stamps but the general curve is pretty clear, very rapid then slows down a fair bit between 50-60% SOC.

Had a couple of DC fast charges yesterday in our Essence 64 and it was still charging pretty solidly past 90% but it does slow down. I used the Tesla Superchargers at Thrumster and Raymond Terrace. This is the charge curve at Raymond Terrace: The steep curve on the left is 141 kW. The...

I'm using it. I set up a phone dashboard which is on both our phones: And have the rest of it all in a larger browser window dashboard. Plus track some key stuff with Grafana:

No, however it provides evidence of when (car's sensor records when it is running) and how far it was driven (odometer tracking). And you can set up an alert with Home Assistant to tell you when the car is running. It has a specific sensor for this. e.g. here's the sensor history yesterday...

Start here: https://www.mgevs.com/threads/api-integration.8381/post-279681

I track my odometer and battery status in Home Assistant. Pretty easy to see if/when it's been used.