Recent content by wattmatters

Not sure if I can extract driving time from the data.

I noticed before I decided to buy my first EV (the MG4) that there wasn't a lot of long term consistently collated data on actual energy consumption and costs. Lots of people were posting cherry picked data in order to win some silly online argument they were having with a troll, so I decided...

It's mostly automated. A couple of minutes each month perhaps. No, not with an ICE car because I didn't have Home Assistant integrations automatically collecting the data for any of my previous vehicles, and not for petrol/diesel purchases either. With electricity I have data supplied by my...

If we travel and need to use highway DC fast chargers, then the cost is much much higher. Meanwhile a month of only charging from home is as cheap as chips. Cheaper actually. DC fast charging has made up 16% of the total charge energy but is 58% of the total cost.

October 2025 done and dusted. 10c per 100 km.

I just switched to Globird's Zero Hero plan. It has a $2.035/day supply fee (we have controlled load so often a bit higher than for those without CL). 11AM - 2PM being free energy, the other tariffs don't matter. There is a bonus $1/day if no imports 6-8 PM (< 0.06 kWh) which we do easily...

They are in the process of moving towards variable export limits similar to what operates elsewhere (e.g. in VIC). https://www.essentialenergy.com.au/-/media/Project/EssentialEnergy/Website/Files/At-Home/Flexible-export-limits-fact-sheet.pdf?rev=801abd1616f34a34acf65bdf4cea11c4 It sounds good...

You did well to get that as OVO recently (in the last week or two) removed this offer from market. You can still get the 3-hours free OR the 8c/kWh overnight but not both together.

Had the Sigen EVDC charge module price drop been in place when we installed the EVAC module, I'd have probably gone for it over the extra EVAC, mainly for ensuring extended outage coverage. It wouldn't have been all that much more $. But with the price at the time it made little sense. We've...

I'm very close to signing onto the GloBird Zero Hero plan. 3-hours free 11AM-2PM but you get $1/day bonus for each day you import no more than 0.06 kWh between 6-8PM. And if you have some battery capacity to spare, exports in the 6-8PM window provide a credit of 15 c/kWh. With our 5 kW export...

Her car is the ZSEV, not the MG4. Yes, on my MG4 at least, the cryptic message lasts for about a millisecond which you may be lucky to see. Many EVs do blended braking, indeed the MG4 does too, just not in this instance. What is level 0.5?

My wife only learned to drive a few years ago, mostly learning in a Mazda 3, then she drove my old diesel Golf after getting her license. She has not the 40+ years of experience of driving scores of different vehicles that I do. When the car behaved (significantly) differently to what she had...

They need to be whinging to MG Australia about the process, not the customers with whom they made service promises. I got some update(s) which changed LKA and cruise functions but not all, the infotainment system was not updated.

Sorry, had too many friends killed and maimed by idiots behind the wheel of a car. I have little tolerance for people making jokes about safe driving.

The driver is responsible for the safe and legal management of the vehicle. What shoes you happen to wear is not a defence for not upholding such responsibilities. If you need a rest, you have a rest. If you need to change shoes, you change shoes. Just because it might be "inconvenient" to do so...