Real World X Power mi/kWh Thread.

[decrep]

If you think England is bad you should come to WA. we have plenty of both extremes. Idiots weaving in and out and tailgating, trying to force the person in front to speed up or slow down. This behaviour isn't helped by the other extreme, also idiots sitting in the outside lane 10km.hr under the speed limit.
I tend to agree if everybody stuck to the speed limit, things would run much smoother.
In varying conditions, if it's not an emergency, just being patient, and fitting in with the traffic, helps reduce the stress, passing when there's plenty of room to do so, not forcing anybody else to brake, all helps. Just common courtesy I guess.
I enjoyed driving Italy, they seemed to have it about right on the motorstradas, but that was 15years ago.

 

[JonnyG]

I think this has gone a bit off topic !! I think the OP started it because here in the UK we have finally got some warmer daily temperatures and was interested to see how others were finding their mls/kWh improving with warmer batteries and less heating required. It wasn't about how slow or fast you drive (or should drive !!) - just comparing the changes in mls/kWh for our own individual typical driving ?

 

[mbpits]

I'm not a fan of people driving too slowly or excessively quickly.

I like 65mph on motorways simply because it is relaxing: fast enough to overtake lorries and slow enough to let those in a hurry pass easily. It works as a minimum stress approach and keeps me away from the extreme drivers who cause most of the problems.

For me it is nothing to do with the environment nor the capability of the car.

pretty much what I do. generally there are too many cars on the roads when I drive anyway so its impossible to get above that for any long period to really cut down on journey time and from my recent long dive I found the LKA seems to work best around 60 to 65.

 

[Archev]

I tend to prefer 55 mph as my go to speed, I find vehicles are really happiest at that, the world is perfect off the motorways anyway.
And if you’re using a forty or fifty year old Land Rover I always found it was happiest in 4WD at 5 mph and 30 degrees on boggy moorland tracks - or better still at a furious 15 - 20 mph through a river !

 

[Bricktop X PWR]

As any of the many learned members on here will tell you, (@siteguru) if it's not over at least 200 miles, it doesn't count.

Anyone? can get a great figure over a short distance with not much effort, but the 'Big Balls' claims are surely over 200 miles. (?)

Driven normally, climate on, much beanage deployed 'if' required.

(I find I always need to deploy the beans at some point)

Not complaining at this recent trip.
Considering the performance available, I'm very happy.

 

[Tonych]

Yep, 4.8 today. Tended to be 3.5 when we got it in February.

SE though so not so much power on tap!

Similar to my Trophy scores!

 

[Tonych]

As any of the many learned members on here will tell you, (@siteguru) if it's not over at least 200 miles, it doesn't count.

Anyone? can get a great figure over a short distance with not much effort, but the 'Big Balls' claims are surely over 200 miles. (?)

Driven normally, climate on, much beanage deployed 'if' required.

(I find I always need to deploy the beans at some point)

Not complaining at this recent trip.
Considering the performance available, I'm very happy.

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My miles per are lower around town and nudge 5 on the round trip to work - 180 miles

 

[Bricktop X PWR]

My miles per are lower around town and nudge 5 on the round trip to work - 180 miles

Doesn't count seeing as this is the X Power forum. ?

I'm pretty sure there are loads of threads more relevant to 'normal' MG4's.

(Says MG4 Trophy in your info)

 

[Anon70]

That comment about using the beans made me think of this, I think the XPower has enough ?

 

[Archev]

That comment about using the beans made me think of this, I think the XPower has enough ?

Root cause of the vibration do you think ?

 

[Tonych]

My miles per are lower around town and nudge 5 on the round trip to work - 180 miles

And yet other posts here are from non X-power owners.....

 

[JonnyG]

As any of the many learned members on here will tell you, (@siteguru) if it's not over at least 200 miles, it doesn't count.

Anyone? can get a great figure over a short distance with not much effort, but the 'Big Balls' claims are surely over 200 miles. (?)........

My problem is that all my long trips are all motorway or A1, so I very rarely get over 3mls/kWh overall on these trips even in warmer weather as I don't hang about at 56 mph for any of the trip ??.

On a Friday my usual shorter return trip on local roads is 32 miles and on that I can now achieve well over 4 at speeds of 30 - 50mph in the warmer weather.

 

[mbpits]

As any of the many learned members on here will tell you, (@siteguru) if it's not over at least 200 miles, it doesn't count.

Anyone? can get a great figure over a short distance with not much effort, but the 'Big Balls' claims are surely over 200 miles. (?)

Driven normally, climate on, much beanage deployed 'if' required.

(I find I always need to deploy the beans at some point)

Not complaining at this recent trip.
Considering the performance available, I'm very happy.

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Nice, I am driving down to Portsmouth tomorrow, 110 miles for me per-direction, so hopefully I can get around the 3.4/3.5 to save me from having to top up to much on the road home.

 

[Bricktop X PWR]

Nice, I am driving down to Portsmouth tomorrow, 110 miles for me per-direction, so hopefully I can get around the 3.4/3.5 to save me from having to top up to much on the road home.

If you can stay off the 'fast' roads you will see that I'm sure.

Caveat: Unless your happy sitting at 60 mph on the motorway.

I always take the back roads if I'm not in a hurry.

More relaxing, usually more scenic and better for efficiency.

Just less stress all round I M O.?

 

[DavecUK]

Nice, I am driving down to Portsmouth tomorrow, 110 miles for me per-direction, so hopefully I can get around the 3.4/3.5 to save me from having to top up to much on the road home.

If you travel at 60 you should easily get around 4.8 miles per kWh, even with aircon you should get over 4.5. The journey might take 4 or 5 minutes longer, but that surely isn't a problem.

 

[Bricktop X PWR]

If you travel at 60 you should easily get around 4.8 miles per kW, even with aircon you should get over 4.5. The journey might take 4 or 5 minutes longer, but that surely isn't a problem.

???

You don't own an X Power do you?

 

[DavecUK]

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You don't own an X Power do you?

No, but it shouldn't make any difference...The energy used to propel an MG 4 X Power shouldn't be very much different to an MG 4 LR. Drag is going to be the same, and I would imagine the weight won't be very different either.

Unless you can explain where I have misunderstood and why the energy usage per mile will be drastically different at a given speed....unless of course you drive it like you stole it.

 

[salty]

....unless of course you drive it like you stole it.

Is there any other way? ???

 

[Bricktop X PWR]

Suffice to say the OP posted in the X Power forum and apart from obvious similarities in looks, we have a lot more going on

 

[jamherber]

No, but it shouldn't make any difference...The energy used to propel an MG 4 X Power shouldn't be very much different to an MG 4 LR. Drag is going to be the same, and I would imagine the weight won't be very different either.

Unless you can explain where I have misunderstood and why the energy usage per mile will be drastically different at a given speed....unless of course you drive it like you stole it.

Keeping it brief:-

Additional drive train loss due to the front motor (even when front motor isn't in use)
Additional weight (circa 150kg AFAIK)

Even the rated range of the LR Trophy (same battery and 'toys') is officially 16% better due to the above.