JBChiangRai

The MG4 has just been named Car of the Year 2023 in the UK.

I have long thought that Thais think, if someone makes it, it must be good. Hence awful chrome bits stuck on behind the door handles, around lights, black trim around doors, bonnet & trunk. Taste often means "Less is More". Bring back furry dice and Starsky & Hutch style rear window louvres!

I’m sure the software is different on the MG4 as cruise control does use regen and I have only seen it overspeed by 2 kmhr, but it is annoying as it’s too aggressive switching from power to regen. The car is permanently online and hopefully will update the software some time, I’d love to tinker with it if I knew how. I drive it in one pedal mode down to 10kmhr most of the time, it regens at -15% and I wouldn’t want it more than that. My other EV uses regen on the brake pedal to 0.4g. It only uses the brakes in an emergency or bringing the car to a complete stop. The cruise control on that car whilst not adaptive is much smoother and only exceeds set speed by 1 kmhr briefly on downhill stretches.

Thanks for your kind advice. How do you cope living in Thailand if you’re allergic to nonsense?

If the standard battery is LiFePo4 and the extended battery is NMC, you definitely don’t want the NMC battery in this climate. Even in a cooler climate NMC is a lot fussier with half the charge/discharge cycles of LiFePo4. Add in the hot climate and it’s likely to be considerably worse.

On my MG4 with regeneration set to the maximum the cruise control decelerates using regen and not the brakes. You can see the power meter go negative.

I don't see the BYD as being worth 42% more than an EP+ They insured my MG4 for 1,000 baht more than I paid for it,

We have both EP+ and MG4, they are both fantastic cars with the same motor and battery. The MG4 is more sporty and handles superbly, the EP+ is a little more boat like and can spin the front wheels at 40km/hr. The MG4 can get a squeal out the rear wheels occasionally under heavy acceleration at the same speed. My daughter prefers her EP+, I think I prefer the MG4 but it's a close thing. They both feel a lot quicker than the performance figures suggest and dispatch overtaking easily on busy roads. The MG4 has a load of tech, I don't like that I have to turn off the Lane Keeping Assist (LKA) every time I start the car for anything other than town driving and it takes 4 touches/swipes to do that and though I initially hated the default regeneration mode set to maximum, I have trained myself to prefer it, it's practically one pedal driving. I understand why LKA defaults to on, it's mandatory in the EU. The MG4 will probably have self-driving capability at some point, it recognises motorbikes, cars and trucks in front/side and shows them moving in real-time on the display & one of the cruise control modes is adaptive with lane keeping so you can see where the software is heading. I don't like the cruise control, it slows down for even gentle bends, but overall, it's a superb car and I find myself choosing it over my other EV when I go out. I keep asking myself the question, is the MG4 worth 25% more over the EP+ at 771k baht? It's not that that the MG4 is overpriced, it's that the EP+ is the bargain of the century, hence the 5 month waiting lists.

It produces AC, so it's not connected with the wires the wrong way round, it's over the wrong wire

I would prefer the BYD Han Performance to all of those cars, likewise the ORA Lightning Cat Performance if the suspension isn't too soft.

When you don't want one, they fit one immediately, when you do want one, you can't get one. TiT

There are some tests you can do, it looks to me like you are exporting to the grid (because otherwise I'd expect your PV production to plateau rather than follow the typical sunlight production bell shape), assuming you have a spinning wheel meter, it should be going backwards at peak times, if you have a digital meter, maybe it records import and export separately. Check your meter reading(s) at midnight and again at midnight the next day and see how they compare to your charts. It does also look like either a bug in the graphing software, it's probably adding PV production to Consumption to give you the Red line or more likely the CT Transformer is on the wrong leg (PEA/House).

This boy is probably a future serial killer

I have just spent a week or so in Chiang Mai, I was astounded at the number of EV's on the road, I think you're going to be very wrong on the sales volumes this year. I just hope the charging infrastructure can keep up.

I am hoping to see the BYD Han Performance and/or ORA Lightning Cat Performance (aka ORA Grand Cat Performance) in Thailand this year. We are in the middle of an EV revolution here.

I think I read somewhere that the government do want the populous to embrace solar power. As usual, they just mire the whole thing up in red tape, which encourages fraud and illegal activity, so that it becomes difficult to comply. I should imagine it’s very difficult for an installer to get approved without greasing palms, hence the ridiculous price quoted by approved suppliers. If your inverter is approved, I can’t see how you could connect it in such a way that it would damage the PEA system or shock the lineman working on the cables in a power cut.

Export and import could be the other way round

One is Export (to PEA I guess), the other is Import, that meter has the ability to pay you for your export, IF you had approval

MG also advertise that their battery packs are replaceable by module. I think that is a fairly smart marketing idea.

I think you need to check your meter when you know you are exporting to the grid whether or not PEA are charging you to export, hopefully not.

MG DC chargers are another well known brand, I can’t remember which, but with an MG iSmart account I was able to fast charge my non-MG car.

Thanks for that, I thought it was odd

Here's another from NIH Ivermectin Prophylaxis Used for COVID-19: A Citywide, Prospective, Observational Study of 223,128 Subjects Using Propensity Score Matching - PubMed (nih.gov) Conclusion: In this large PSM study, regular use of ivermectin as a prophylactic agent was associated with significantly reduced COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and mortality rates.

I think it's fairly conclusive that Ivermectin is ineffective at treating Covid, but what about as a pre-exposure prophylaxis? Have there been any trials of that?

I got an MG4 three weeks ago, it's a great car.