3000 km report

[TonyF]

After nearly four months my XPower has travelled 3000km, small potatoes to some, but a milestone to me. I'm getting comfortable now.

Some lifetime stats:
Average speed: 40 km/h (WHAT? )
Juice use: 16.3kWh/100km (3.81 miles/kWh)
Unexpected reversing: 4 (OPD always on, seems to happen after late foot braking to a stop on slight downhills - same spot twice.
ELK re-enablings: Hard to say. A few times I thought I'd disabled it. Maybe 4-5 times I know I disabled it.
Wishes that I had one button to select all my favourite settings: Every drive it's not hard now, but should be easier.
Forced Infotainment resets: 1
Traffic light launches: Many. In normal it easily leaves ICE for dead. Even eco's quick. Such fun to launch, hit the speed limit, and laugh as humiliated hoon loud ICE car drivers finally get going and furiously fly past, valves bouncing.
Swearing at ICE cars for being too slow to get going: ummm, me?

Fun: Every drive

 

[MG Clive]

Nice one Tony, I'd love to see 3.81 miles/kWh, I'm only at around 2.5, but I've only had mine for 3 cold winter months, so it should start to improve now that spring is just around the corner.

 

[TonyF]

Most of my driving is in 80km/h zones - I've only done about 500km in 100/110 zones, which probably helps. Living at ~650m and travelling between 100 and 1000m, I get good regen out or back every drive, which must help. I'm mostly in normal, but am prone to planting it around twonks

Coming home from the beach yesterday, it was 18.4 kWh/100km, which translates to ~3.38 miles/kWh - two big climbs and extensive 100 & 110 zones. AC and some planting.

As you can guess from my mention of beaches, I've had mine over summer. It'll rarely get to 0°C here, even in the depths of winter. No snow in over 40 years. I'm hoping that means range will be less temperature affected than those in snow countries. I'll still have plenty for my needs

 

[Tuareg]

Same here, we only get 10-15 non-contiguous days a year where it gets below 10C. Never snows at all in our area, can't stand the stuff. Summer is 5-6 months where 3 months of that is always above 30°C, perfect climate for us and great for an EV. It also makes a PV system pay back very quickly, especially as we get a government subsidy for installing one and of course a big subsidy for EVs.

 

[salty]

Traffic light launches: Many. In normal it easily leaves ICE for dead. Even eco's quick. Such fun to launch, hit the speed limit, and laugh as humiliated hoon loud ICE car drivers finally get going and furiously fly past, valves bouncing.
Swearing at ICE cars for being too slow to get going: ummm, me?

Fun: Every drive

Brilliant! Couldn't have said it better meself.

 

[MG Clive]

Nice one Tony, I'd love to see 3.81 miles/kWh, I'm only at around 2.5, but I've only had mine for 3 cold winter months, so it should start to improve now that spring is just around the corner.

I just wanted to add to this, today has been the very first dry and warm day we've had since I got my XPower in November, and on today's steady 30 mile drive with just a couple of mad moments (because you've just got to), I came home on 3.8 mi/kWh, so it just demonstrates the difference between a nice day like today, and the cold, wet, damp, frosty days with headlights, heaters, wipers, etc on, that we've been having for the last 3 months.