Not proud of it, but hit 0% battery range a mile from home and made it back!!!!

[Rolfe]

My MG4 SE SR has been faultless in its range predictions too.

 

[steve1973]

I failed this test miserably 49m journey with 79 miles on the battery thought great charger at work free so wasn't going to pay for it. Started raining in the morning so my battery use was more. Stuck outside my place of work looking at the charger. AA called and had to tow me to the charger 300 metres away. He kept asking me what engine size my car was and couldn't fathom it when i said its electric mate. Luckily no harm done checked on my last service battery good.

 

[Wil Tryharder]

……Either it means 16 chargers (they are dual bay) or it already knows that half of them have been reserved for this afternoon. (There were 18 spaces left when I reserved mine a few days ago.) ….

You can reserve chargers? I’ve never heard of that before ?
Does that cost extra?
Is it like Disney World, if you pay more can you jump the queue? Or is it like Qantas, where if you pay more you can bump someone off their seat! ?

 

[Rolfe]

In this particular venue they're proud of their green credentials and their wind turbine. They advertise the availability of their destination chargers to ticket-holders and encourage them to reserve a space. Reservation is free. They say that it's essential to make a reservation but in practice if you rock up in an EV and the car park attendant knows that they're not all reserved (I don't think they've ever been full yet), you'll just be waved casually towards the chargers and told to pick one.

It would be great if all entertainment venues were like this. Maybe some day.

 

[Ruislip Resident]

In this particular venue they're proud of their green credentials and their wind turbine. They advertise the availability of their destination chargers to ticket-holders and encourage them to reserve a space. Reservation is free. They say that it's essential to make a reservation but in practice if you rock up in an EV and the car park attendant knows that they're not all reserved (I don't think they've ever been full yet), you'll just be waved casually towards the chargers and told to pick one.

It would be great if all entertainment venues were like this. Maybe some day.

One place you can reserve is a pre booked (no cost) parking space at Center parcs with a chargpoint (untethered). You don't have to move once charged. I do to 80% on the first night and to a 100% on the last night. They only charge between 11pm and 4 / 5 am. They also have some rock up and use if available chargepoints, perhaps on those you would move off after getting charged.

 

[Rolfe]

Just got home from the road trip. How about this for getting in with space for Octopus's half price deal tomorrow night, then?

Oh, did I mention I have the cat to collect tomorrow too? That's about a five mile round trip.

 

[DelBoy]

Just got home from the road trip. How about this for getting in with space for Octopus's half price deal tomorrow night, then?

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Oh, did I mention I have the cat to collect tomorrow too? That's about a five mile round trip.

Life on the edge, might want to put pressure in your tyres though as that'll effect your miles to go!

 

[salty]

Just got home from the road trip. How about this for getting in with space for Octopus's half price deal tomorrow night, then?

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Oh, did I mention I have the cat to collect tomorrow too? That's about a five mile round trip.

Lets hope its not a Catastrophy. ???

 

[Rolfe]

Life on the edge, might want to put pressure in your tyres though as that'll effect your miles to go!

The tyre in question was showing 2.5 bar when it pinged. I think it was the other rear one that pinged at about the same place on the way south. It cleared at my first stop and stayed cleared. My first pressure warnings since April.

Obviously I need to put some air in them as you say, but it's mostly an indictment of the silly weather for August. I mean, 10°C is insane. The tyres should have been warmed up at the time too.

 

[Alb]

25psi?

 

[Rolfe]

Oops, missed the decimal point. Will edit.

 

[DaevM]

I just top it up when it drops below 80% - haven't had any problems yet....
{ removes tongue from cheek }

 

[Bogrole]

I managed to get down to 4% in My MG5 on Sat on a 205 mile round trip, during heavy rain. Worried? Never.

 

[Rolfe]

Anyone want to try to beat GOM showing 21 miles when I still had 28 miles to go? (And as you can see, then getting home with 11 miles in hand.)

 

[gazza487]

I was almost playing this game on Saturday. OH found a nice HS phev london way. 97 miles each way so didn’t expect to make it. I arrived with 47% remaining and politely asked the garage to spare me some electrons whilst doing the necessaries. Took it to 61%. I was like, be slow, drink their coffee and sign slowly! Not wanting to pay fast charger prices, killed off the AC and arrived home with 18%. Close but it paid for a Burger King ?

 

[Rolfe]

I don't regard 18% as anywhere close to close, I have to say!

My game was safe, in my mind, because the first 15 miles of the 28 miles from Wells of Tweed home is pretty much a friction-compensated inclined plane. You only lose about 1-2 miles of range from the watershed to Broughton. The rest of it is overall fairly level, and it's not a fast road. I knew from a previous run that I was about even-stevens at the watershed and got home with 19 miles range left. This time I was seven miles to the bad and got in 11 miles to the good, so pretty much the same effect.

 

[gazza487]

I don't regard 18% as anywhere close to close, I have to say!

My game was safe, in my mind, because the first 15 miles of the 28 miles from Wells of Tweed home is pretty much a friction-compensated inclined plane. You only lose about 1-2 miles of range from the watershed to Broughton. The rest of it is overall fairly level, and it's not a fast road. I knew from a previous run that I was about even-stevens at the watershed and got home with 19 miles range left. This time I was seven miles to the bad and got in 11 miles to the good, so pretty much the same effect.

Indeed it turned out not to be but had I not snaffled some Ford branded electrons 14% worth it may have been interesting (or 10mins of a pricey rapid) but ho hum. The SE did me proud and the HS is rather nice too.

 

[Rolfe]

Yes, I see your point about getting the 14% added. I'd have done the same!

When I started off home my GOM was showing 206 miles, for a 186-mile trip. I didn't think for a minute that it would do it, and had planned to stop for a short top-up at either Carlisle or Gretna. However, the way the car performed on the A65, which isn't a crazy-fast road, had me thinking that it was actually possible if I took the 90 miles of motorway calmly (like that's going to happen!). But common sense said, only try that on a warmer day than today. Nevertheless I was expecting only to have to stay at the supercharger for about 8 minutes.

Then the weather got absolutely atrocious. Torrential rain, and I mean torrential, and the car going not just along wet roads but through puddles and shallow floods. At one point, as I was passing the slip road to Tebay services and going past a lorry, I literally could not see the car in front. I realised that Caliban could see it with his radar though, and simply steered straight and held my breath till we were past.

I decided to stop at the Carlisle Ionitys, which are 73 miles from home. I ended up putting about 25% in the battery to take me to 90 miles range. My total time lost in the stop was 20 min, so possibly I charged for 15 min. I thought that would be plenty. Nevertheless that 17 miles leeway started to leach away too, although I had thought that the range calculation by then would have been based mainly on battling through a monsoon. I was always conscious of the favourable gradient at the end of the journey though, and that came good. Which is just as well, as the last charger before home is at Moffat, before the climb up to the Wells of Tweed. I did eye it as I passed, but thought, nah, it'll be fine.

And it was. SE SR comes good again. Granny charger in boot and pathetic pleas to nearby householders not required.

 

[Archev]

Aaarrgghhh!!! All those dirty electrons in the bottom of the battery you'll have pulled into the system ?

Fill to 110% immediately and drive careful for 50 miles or so... Aaand have AA on quick dial ??

Got down to 2 miles left at Jamaica Inn once, 2230, pitch black, driving into the tail end of a hurricane. Last half mile or so is uphill. Can't tell you how pleased I was that their charger worked. Nearest charger 30 miles away. Didn't know whether to heart attack or vomit.... or both.
As you say, not recommended ?

Aye just split one of those pretty orange pipes and fit an in line filter and she’ll be right. (Spoiler - don’t do this at home children)

 

[gwig66]

I took the car down below 10 miles range to condition the battery yesterday. It was interesting that as I drove around the block in Sports mode, dropped to 9 miles, then the screen was flashing that I needed to charge, so I dropped into Normal mode and circled until that dropped out into warnings to charge, popped it into Eco mode where I again saw 10 miles range, but a couple more circuits and heaters blasting and I was below 10 and ready to go home for a charge.