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Haven’t seen any reviews yet but 51kwh for £26k is super cheap.

I would just check what sort of efficiency and charge speed they’re getting if you’re thinking about doing any longish journeys. Think the original MG EV could only charge at 22kw meaning this battery would take a min of 3 hours to charge to full on a public charger.

We may be getting one, I need to check the insurance on it though, not sure how the companies treat MG these days. Specs look really good for the price, especially the long range version.

This was my theory too.

The top range is 31k with 64kwh, would ideally would be nice to have 77 like the new ionq 5 but with almost 20k more might not be best bang for buck for now.

They state they can charge up to 150kw but definitely an improvement from the previous gen.

There is one in the show room in Piccadilly which we are planning to see IRL too.

£31k for 64kwh is still excellent and it looks like it gets you some nice internal kit too and if it can do 150Kw public charging then it should be a really good buy. I think the previous one got decent reviews (when considering the price difference).

Interested to see what you think of it IRL.

Dream electric car. Tesla model S performance motor, 74kWh battery pack, 0 to 62 in just under 4 seconds, custom carbon bodywork. To me it’s just the right balance between retro and modern. Totally unreachable for 99% of the people unfortunately

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wow so nice. are there many retro fit EVs getting made i did wonder how a classic mini would work with a battery

https://youtu.be/fKWe1R1bWOM

Very cool.

https://youtu.be/fqWNqJ6a-vE

Beautiful! That's inspiring stuff!

Great channel that

@HoKe

https://youtu.be/GLHjx623jA4

I spent today in my work's brand new E-van. It arrived with fuck all battery and I spent far more of my day than I would have liked fucking around trying to keep enough juice in it to keep it on the road! Any tips for getting as much charge as possible in a short space of time? Are there certain public charging stations that work better than others for topping up quickly? We're waiting on a charging station to be installed at our premises but that's looking like it'll take about a month to arrive.

It really depends on the charging speed of the van. It will have a maximum speed it can accept charge. Could be as low as 11kw or as high as 300kw.

If you have a 50kwh battery, that could mean anywhere between 15 mins and 6 hours.

Use something like the ABRP app to find nearest chargers by type and Kw.

Thanks! It would help if I knew anything about the van/ EVs in general. I was just given the keys this morning and told to figure it out. It's currently on charge, telling me it needs 10 hours to max it out.

Assume you've got it plugged in to a 13amp right now then?

What model is it? Might be able to tell you what I can accept...

https://youtu.be/Gr6gvdUaxp0

Everytime I watch a video on a high end build (ICE or EV) in the States I get a bit jealous because they can do so much things we can’t in the Netherlands. I wish we could just chuck an Art Morisson chassis under a car and make a classic that much better. All the rules and regulations are there for a good reason but daaamn.

I had an extended time away from the ID3 , meaning it sat idle for nearly 8 weeks .
I left it at 71% charge and when I got back in it had 25%.
Quite a depletion, I guess the really hot temps didn’t help

That’s odd. Does it have any monitoring systems or cabin overheat on?

The Tesla does this as it has the dash cam system and loses around 1% a day. The Zoe doesn’t lose any % when left alone.

Could it be the car keeping the battery at optimum temperature with the battery heating cooling system?

Sounds right! It's a Maxus E-deliver 9 or something like that. Luckily our regular driver is back next week and I'm back on a cargo bike. He's got experience using e-vans so he should be less hopeless than me.

Looks like 50Kw max charging capacity so pretty average.

Pretty much any public charging point should hit that speed.

Pretty much any public charging point should hit that speed.

Nah.

All the Source London posts are 23kW.
Podpoints are 11kW mainly.

To get 50kW you need a fast DC charger.

Lol.

Keep forgetting how shit public infrastructure is in the UK. Tesla is fine but everything else is laughable.

In France, pretty much every charger in car parks to petrol stations was min 50Kw.