Great video. Have an mg4 long-range myself. Love driving it.  There is an emergency plug release pull cord in the left side of the boot behind the flap in the liner.

Did you really need to charge all the way to 80% to get home?  I think the biggest mindset shift when driving an EV is only charging as much as you need to get to the next charge stop (plus a bit of a buffer), and this is especially true when your next charge stop is home and you can charge overnight at much cheaper rates than public chargers!

It’s getting used to a new method of filling up your car - remember there are over 250,000 call outs annually in the UK to motorists who have either run out of fuel or put the wrong type of fuel in their cars. So many people still struggle ICE cars after more than 120 years since their adoption.

Great video!

We have an ID.3 and only very occasionally use public charging.  We did experience one charge session where the charge cable seemed to be locked in.  Logic tells me that it is the car because the lock catch is operated by the car.

My solution was to start and then end the charge session in the VW app.

A friend occasionally uses the car and he charges using a 16 amp mennekes granny cable on his drive to charge.  He has experienced problems a coupke of times trying to remove the cable.  We have no such problems.  I tell him that it's "user error".  🤣

Great video.   👍

I've just bought an MG4. My first, and only, attempt at public charging did not go well. It simply kept stopping after 1 or 2 minutes. So, I couldn't leave it to charge. After half a dozen attempts over 2 days on different chargers [there's 6 at my location] it finally charged for 90 minutes... but even that session involved a number of clicks on the app to restart charging.
So, it's still a work in progress.

Hi, hit the stop button on the charger first. The warnings on the screen - press and hold the home button for around 20 - 30 seconds, it will restart the unit. I hope it will help. Safe journeys

Mini Mac is smashing it with the filming!!

Hi, thanks for the amazing reviews on MG4, really useful! We are looking to replace our lease mild hybrid car with an EV, MG4 Trophy Long range looks very appealing financially as the lease cost is relatively small and very comparable to what we are currently paying, as it has been about 6 months since your last review, is there anything else you have learned, for example over the air updates have been applied? Thank again. Ivo

Gotta hit the start/stop button on the charger first. I have the MG4 SE LR nearly a year now, and not had any issues with the 10k miles I have driven so far.

My MG you have to lock the doors then unlock them sometimes to get the DC cable detached.

It's much better when cars have a button for it... Like my old Polestar... But that just adds cost.

Don’t be put off public charging from your first  bad experience. Do make sure you follow the sequence described on the charger of doing things, though, as they’re not all the same.
Also, don’t worry about getting stuck in traffic.  You’ll get greater range in slow traffic than at motorway speeds.

I recommend joining the MGEVs forum as all the issues you are experiencing have been discussed there. 😊

I have experienced that on a Tesla charger. I assumed it was because it was not open to all even though it appeared on the Tesla app. Did get it released eventually but there is a release in the boot on the charger sid behind a small pane.
Great video, thanks.

Maybe if you presented your charging card to the actual chargers NFC-reader it would have worked. It failed because you tried it on the VISA/MASTERCARD-addon they have on the reader. Right to the right of it you can see the area to touch for NFC Charge-cards

I had this with an osprey charger rang the help number and they remotely disconnected the cable .

Had the same thing with an Osprey (Kempower) charger, everything worked well until I tried to unplug and it wasn’t having it. Fortunately there was an Ionity maintenance chap in the bay next to me and he told me to keep locking and unlocking the car, something which, eventually(!), worked. Bit nerve wracking though as it was only the second time I’d publicly charged so I know how you must have felt, on the plus side it hasn’t happened again. I hope you don’t have any more issues and great video.

X power does 150kw LR does 130kw in ideal conditions although my LR managed 141kw once so hope my X does 160kw in Ideal conditions this summer.

Your first focus should be to disconnect the plug from the car when you've finished charging. In fact, I wouldn't recommend setting a charge limit and then walking away on a public charger. Apart from anything else, you're blocking the charger. The car locks cables to it to prevent them from being stolen. Sounds like that happened and then you got into some software bother in the meantime. Remember also that the 12V battery is being drained all that time you're faffing about with the kids, so better not to have the cable connected because the car will not engage the traction battery for safety when there is a cable there, but it's not charging.

If you get that again try unlocking it twice rather than locking it again. Works for me!