charging

A charging station, also called an EV charger or electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE), is a piece of equipment that supplies electrical power for charging plug-in electric vehicles (including hybrids, neighborhood electric vehicles, trucks, buses, and others).
Although batteries can only be charged with DC power, most electric vehicles have an onboard AC-to-DC converter that allows them to be plugged into a standard household AC electrical receptacle. Inexpensive low-power public charging stations will also provide AC power, known as "AC charging stations". To facilitate higher power charging, which requires much larger AC-to-DC converters, the converter is built into the charging station instead of the vehicle, and the station supplies already-converted DC power directly to the vehicle, bypassing the vehicle's onboard converter. These are known as "DC charging stations". Most fully electric car models can accept both AC and DC power.
Charging stations provide connectors that conform to a variety of standards. DC charging stations are commonly equipped with multiple connectors to be able to supply a wide variety of vehicles.
Public charging stations are typically found street-side or at retail shopping centers, government facilities, and other parking areas.

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  1. raycook

    Archived charging cable

    Genuine MG charging cable in bag ,£50. collection only Clacton on sea.
  2. 5teep

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  3. SteveRW

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  4. A

    MG4 Not fully charging

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  5. D

    A week away without charging report

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  6. mikgle

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  7. Stoob

    Charging

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  8. Gomev

    Instavolt summer offer

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  9. N

    Charge complete at 99%

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  10. 3

    Reporting charger issue: do Shell view EV drivers with contempt

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  11. S

    delayed charging

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  12. jelly

    Charging Door Warning – MG5 EV

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  13. Ethernea

    Long Range's Range Cant Be Trusted? Almost Failed To Arrive Home... 😮‍💨

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  14. 5teep

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  15. F

    Battery charging Percentage setting

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  16. S

    Home charging

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  17. RTB

    Public Charging

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  18. J

    Wireless charging not very good

    How is everyone getting on with the wireless charging pad. Unsure if it's my phone oneplus12, or it's just not good or working properly. The issue is the phone keeps switching on and off to say its charging, but actually just overheats and actually runs down the battery level. I never used it...
  19. R

    How does the 12V charger work?

    Anyone have any info on how the 12V charger works? The manual says it "intelligently" keeps the 12V battery topped up, but doesn't go into detail. I'm just wondering how well it works with a dashcam in parking mode. Can I leave it on full power, recording video for hours while I'm parked away...
  20. Z

    Why is my MG EV ZS is not charging to 100%?

    I set my Ohme charger on MAX charge to charge on the Ohme app. I set scheduled charging on my MG iSMART app for 12am to 5am. Usually it charges to 100% but just recently it has only been charging to about 80%. It’s a 2023 model. Is the battery failing?
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