Neerav Bhatt's blog: electric Australian transportation & sustainable homes
The MG iSmart app for Android and iPhone lets you do lots of useful things with Australian and New Zealand versions of the MG4 electric car such as monitoring how much the car has charged, how much range it has left, remotely unlocking/locking, turning... Read More
The MG4 is currently one of Australia’s most popular electric cars available for a relatively affordable price. I have borrowed media loan cars of Essence 77 pre-production spec as well as Essence 64 (see my likes and dislikes article) and this... Read More
A lot of Australian readers who have already bought or are considering buying an MG4 electric car asked me a range of questions about software updates including would updates be sent via the car Vodafone connection over the air (OTA)? How often would... Read More
When I picked up an MG4 Essence 64 media loan review car recently I did a factory reset to clear out the previous drivers settings. However like the new MG4 owner in the screenshot below who did the same thing, when I tried to open the built-in... Read More
I’ve test driven and reviewed a lot of electric cars this year and while doing that I noticed that the only electric car brands sold in Australia at present which support V2L (Vehicle to Load) are Hyundai, Genesis, Kia, MG and BYD. What is... Read More
In their marketing MG Australia promises that the Excite 51, Excite 64, Essence 64 and X-Power versions of the MG4 2023 electric car are all capable of a Single Phase 6.6kW maximum AC charging rate. The MG4 Essence 77 Long Range is the only model in... Read More
Many Australians who purchase the MG4 Essence 64, Long Range 77 or XPower might not realise that the car supports built-in voice control with a huge list of possible commands, completely independent of whether you use Android Auto or Apple CarPlay. I... Read More
I recently drove 344km in a Australian MG4 Essence 64 2023 RWD electric car around Sydney. There were lots of short less than 10km trips as well as a 184km drive from Marrickville to Wollongong return, taking the coastal route A6/M1 on the way there... Read More
If you’re wondering how much boot and frunk storage space the Australian MG4 Essence 64 (2023 model) has, it’s listed as 350 litres cargo capacity with seats up. As a hatchback there is plenty of space to access the boot once the boot lid... Read More
A few days ago I had a chat with Bridie Schmidt for her Elevate EV podcast. You can listen to the podcast or read the transcript below (automatically generated by Descript and lightly edited by me), with some of my photos and videos added for extra... Read More