Good to hear, we're hopefully picking ours up tomorrow so may see you by one of the lamp posts... Do you mind me asking, can you do a battery balance at them or does it cut out? That's the only bit of info I haven't been able to find!
Teaching your offspring to drive? I think that covers it
Honestly no idea ..how do I find out? Given that I have never rapid charged is this a problem ? The other day for the 1st time it stopped charging at 94% full. Which is something most petrol users would currently be very happy with. Still I wonder about how the lampost chargers work now they also need to power the street light for longer periods.
Funny you say that. It is exactly what drew me to the mg5.
I am still at the don't like it or trust it stage due to charging anxiety, and have run into a lot of broken eco tricity charging stands, I know this is not the cars fault. Also finding the cost of charging at home on mains verses public chargers confusing and can't figure out if I should put in a charger at home. Also not the cars fault. For another thread? It is nice to drive does not feel as sturdy as my old volvo that I have hung onto just in case.I did like it, didn’t like it, did, didn’t until I realised it’s the infrastructure (at the moment) I don’t like. Now I am getting there with it I really do like it....a lot, it’s quirky, meets all my daily needs and is saving me a fortune, what’s not to like???
I case you don't already know. Yes you can balance the battery on a type 2 fast charger. I regularly balance mine at a 5kw lamppost charger.
I realise that a home charger is an expense even with govt grant but it makes sense. I’ve had my ZS EV since early June and have only public charged a few times on longer trips. I use Instavolt so no probs. Now done nearly 5000 miles. I charge with my Hypervolt charger mostly at 5p a unit on Octopus Go.
I too, have an old Volvo (xc70 2.4) as a plan B / bad weather car.. the volvo is a heavier sturdier car but the Mg5 is really well built and drives so much nicer than the volvo. The recent cost of the timing belt and new suspension parts for the volvo would be equivalent to the cost of driving the Mg5 40,000 miles !. Diesel for 40,000 in the volvo would be around £8000. Oh, and another £1400 road tax. And Mots, repairs, congestion charges etc..etc. so maybe keeping your old volvo AND getting an Mg5 would overall be cheaper overall and give you the security of having at least one car that's good to go. I'm fortunate to have somewhere offroad to stash my volvo. I can un SORN it in minutes if I need it. Only £210 a year to insure the volvo which is doing less than 4k a year.
My thoughts exactly when I was seriously considering the MG5. I was always going to have a backup plan in the guise of my old Rav4 petrol 4x4 which sits sorned in the summer and is only on the road in the winter as a backup vehicle in case the car or van goes down. Alas wont need a backup plan now that I went for the HS.
Same here. And driving the Xc70 after driving the Mg5 is like getting innto a tractor/dump truck or similar
Yup, we stuffed a whee sponge down behind them for this exact reason,
When it's on 100% and says "Connected but not charging" it has balanced the batteries. Before then it says 100% and something like "Finished".
Never knew these existed... genius! I'm off to surf the waves of Amazon....Those silicon thingies I bought seem to be working okay with a child seat in place (suspect they might not be comfy if three in the back) - but if the sponge is working, then good solution
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Feels like you're missing a didi thereDo Wididi dum de de do!
Save my arthritic fingers!
Quite right! :-(
