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I manage to mix and match. I sometimes have "a breaker go in the fusebox", but then I twitch inwardly when people confuse "less" and "fewer". I help to keep this mental gymnastics in control by mixing my measurements (mainly to confuse my kids). There's something pleasing about referring to...

To be fair, most people don't know or care about the difference. It's still a thing to plug your car in to charge it up. It's probably the right phrase for their target audience so it's a balancing act between sounding too techy and trying to appeal to a general audience.

A small genny would struggle to give you 5Kw, so only really useful if a 3 pin plug isn't available. And don't forget to keep your fuel with you, and replaced as it does go off, and service the gen. And don't forget the space that'll take up too. As you can imagine, I'm not feeling much love for...

Welcome to the mad house. If you've got off street parking available, with a home charger a 42 mile each way usage will be fine with the MG5. You'll be using less than 50% of your range each day, so no range anxiety summer or winter. The aim is to charge at home as often as possible - if you...

I've had a couple of issues: First was leaving a car park, someone was stood with their back to me. Beeping the horn felt to aggressive, and I couldn't give the engine a little blip that I would have done previously. She did jump a bit when she realised a car had crept up on her. All very good...

I appreciate the sentiment, but I've always wondered how visually impaired people deal with bicycles or joggers. Fully Charged did a video about this years ago when a blind man was interviewed over it and he was impressed by how quiet the car was but thought the worry over it was way over hyped.

Neither would I, but at least I'd know the underside was clean afterwards.

I can even open it up via the app. ;)

Don't forget to factor in the availability of charging at your destination. My MG5 was stacked with everything including the kitchen sink, and filling a roof box (no idea of weight but I'm willing to bet it was well over 35Kg all up - no issues to report). At 65 on the motorway still was getting...

Mine has one - it's just inside the glasses holder. o_O

That puts my recent 550 mile round trip to the Norfolk Broads in it's place. I found planning on zap-map for a stop around the 100 mile mark worked out well as a balance between the placement of Instavolt chargers and the range of the dog's bladder.

Not quite. The granny charger is using the onboard 7kW charger, and so will provide a balance charge. You're right about rapid though, that wont. We might have a new sport here - "Balance on your granny".

A red MG5 Exclusive was spotted on charge at Asda in Liscard on Saturday, and a few months ago there was a white Excite on charge at Tesco in Formby. So there's one or two about in the North West - maybe a meet up should be planned. :)

I know that feeling - I still remember the shock of working out that I'd spent more on diesel in my old Dacia Logan that I did on buying it.....oddly it worked out over 6 years about the same amount as buying the MG5. So if my electricity bill is less than my old maintenance bill, I'm quids...

Done that trip many times. It's lovely in good weather, but less so when it's not. I've not had a chance to do in the 5 yet, so interesting to have a benchmark. :)

Anything between 50% and 80% is supposed to be the "ideal" level for the cells to be kept for longevity. That is cell level, not the reported pack level. MG try very hard to keep your worst intentions for severely damaging the pack. If, like me, you generally do shorts journeys with the...

I have it in 3 and feather the power when/where needed and try to keep it in CC. It does depend on traffic though, so just like most things in life, there's no "one size fits all" solution. Try different ones and see what works for you in that situation.

It's so the MG5 doesn't waste valuable watts triggering the lights. After all, every electron counts!

They'll probably be re-branded as Reduced-Sport and Timid-Sport.

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