tarbat
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Did our first trip out today in the Cyberster, so thought I'd evaluate what I thought of the car and range achieved, etc. Sorry for the length of this post.
Today's trip was from our home over to Ullapool on the west coast, following some of the NC500 route which goes past the end of our road. Mainly on the A835 which is a good A-road in the Scottish Highlands.
Lets say that I was "enjoying" the car, so typically driving at around 60mph(ish) except when stuck behind a logging lorry or similar. Several uses of the RED button to surprise other exotic cars doing the NC500, including a rather lovely yellow Ferrari. A Z4 followed us for quite a few miles.
The Cyberster averaged 3.0 mi/kWh over the 88 miles, and we arrived back home still with 61% charge and a predicted remaining range of 166 miles.
So, based on 166 miles remaining with 61% battery, total range would have been 272 miles. Alternatively, the 3.0 mi/kWh x battery size (74.4kW) would give a total range of 223 miles.
Whichever is right, I'm very happy with the range, given the way I was driving the car - I made full use of all modes!!
Sadly ABRP doesn't yet have a profile for the Cyberster, but using the MG4 Extended Range profile it predicted 3.22 mi/kWh and a remaining battery of 63%. So fairly close.
On the car's display, 91.7% was used for power, 7.1% for Aircon, and 1.2% for Others. We had the Aircon on ECO mode but set to 22°C, as whilst the sun was out this is Autumn in the far north!!
A couple of little things that I'd love to see MG change:
1. Automatically brighten the displays when the roof is down.
2. I wish the right paddle was regen decrease, and the left paddle was regen increase. Having both increase and decrease on the same paddle gets confusing. I'm used to using regen inc/dec a bit like gear shifts, increasing regen when approaching a roundabout or junction, etc.
Today's trip was from our home over to Ullapool on the west coast, following some of the NC500 route which goes past the end of our road. Mainly on the A835 which is a good A-road in the Scottish Highlands.
Lets say that I was "enjoying" the car, so typically driving at around 60mph(ish) except when stuck behind a logging lorry or similar. Several uses of the RED button to surprise other exotic cars doing the NC500, including a rather lovely yellow Ferrari. A Z4 followed us for quite a few miles.
The Cyberster averaged 3.0 mi/kWh over the 88 miles, and we arrived back home still with 61% charge and a predicted remaining range of 166 miles.
So, based on 166 miles remaining with 61% battery, total range would have been 272 miles. Alternatively, the 3.0 mi/kWh x battery size (74.4kW) would give a total range of 223 miles.
Whichever is right, I'm very happy with the range, given the way I was driving the car - I made full use of all modes!!
Sadly ABRP doesn't yet have a profile for the Cyberster, but using the MG4 Extended Range profile it predicted 3.22 mi/kWh and a remaining battery of 63%. So fairly close.
On the car's display, 91.7% was used for power, 7.1% for Aircon, and 1.2% for Others. We had the Aircon on ECO mode but set to 22°C, as whilst the sun was out this is Autumn in the far north!!
A couple of little things that I'd love to see MG change:
1. Automatically brighten the displays when the roof is down.
2. I wish the right paddle was regen decrease, and the left paddle was regen increase. Having both increase and decrease on the same paddle gets confusing. I'm used to using regen inc/dec a bit like gear shifts, increasing regen when approaching a roundabout or junction, etc.
