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[Rob24]

Hello everyone

I thought I would introduce myself after jumping onto the back of someone else's question.

I have been lurking for a month or so and I have picked up my ZS on Friday.

I have been researching the car for months and although there are many EV's on the market I kept coming back to the MG because it met most of my requirements. I wanted one that was no older than 18 months / 2 years and less than 10,000 miles.

I'm used to a diesel car that could give me a 1000 miles to a tank of fuel if I was good and on long journeys, so I wanted a battery that would give me as much range as possible.

I wanted a big boot and space between the front and back seats for the grandkids seats and buggies ?.

So I finally bit the bullet last week and paid for a 72 plate MGZS Trophy long range. I picked it up Friday and I am very happy with it, but I have many questions so if you don't mind I'll be a drain on your collective knowledge for a while.

Thank you
Rob

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[salty]

Rob, enjoy your new motor. ??

 

[Jomarkh]

Welcome to the forum, are you able to charge at home on a 7kW EVSE (charge point)?
I have to ask what did you have that gave you 1000 miles to a tank?

 

[fred12345]

Hello everyone

I thought I would introduce myself after jumping onto the back of someone else's question.

I have been lurking for a month or so and I have picked up my ZS on Friday.


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Congratulations! I got mine in April, second hand but with much higher mileage - so far so good, very happy.

First advice: take it easy! I found it overwhelming in the first few days/weeks - information overload - too much info jumping out of all the screens all the time ...

I'm still using 3-pin plug charger (3kW granny charger as they call it) with no problems. No rush to get 7kW yet ...

 

[Rob24]

Welcome to the forum, are you able to charge at home on a 7kW EVSE (charge point)?
I have to ask what did you have that gave you 1000 miles to a tank?

Thank you for the welcome.
Yes I had my charge point fitted about 2 weeks ago.
I moved to Octopus about 3 months ago and got 2 new meters (electric and gas) fitted, then I used Octopus again to fit the charger.

My old car that I traded in for the ZS was an Insignia. Vauxhall Insignia ECO. It had a 70 ltr fuel tank so it cost more than £100 to fill up from empty, but I averaged about 900 miles per tank and when I travelled for an holiday either all the way up to Scotland or all the way down to Cornwall I'd often do 1000 miles to the tank.

Rob

 

[Gadget Geek]

Thank you for the welcome.
Yes I had my charge point fitted about 2 weeks ago.
I moved to Octopus about 3 months ago and got 2 new meters (electric and gas) fitted, then I used Octopus again to fit the charger.

My old car that I traded in for the ZS was an Insignia. Vauxhall Insignia ECO. It had a 70 ltr fuel tank so it cost more than £100 to fill up from empty, but I averaged about 900 miles per tank and when I travelled for an holiday either all the way up to Scotland or all the way down to Cornwall I'd often do 1000 miles to the tank.

Rob

Hi, and welcome to the forum.

I bet you didn't do that 1000 miles in one go.

 

[fred12345]

Hi, and welcome to the forum.

I bet you didn't do that 1000 miles in one go.

I used to go about 950 motorway + autobahn miles in one day coming back from holidays, I don't think that would be possible with ZS ...

 

[Rob24]

Hi, and welcome to the forum.

I bet you didn't do that 1000 miles in one go.

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No combined over the week ?
Rob

 

[natasha y]

Welcome to the ZS family. They are underrated little buzz boxes imo. The software is a bit hit and miss but hey, it still works (mostly). Some control idiosyncrasies can be curious at times.

 

[Zoe2ZSEV]

I have the ZS Trophy Long Range, I did a 4 day trip from top of Fife to waist of Scotland to bottom of Wakefield and then left of Manchester to right of Manchester and repeat again until left of Manchester again, finally back to waist of Scotland and back home at top of Fife.

In one short sentence: All over the places.

~ Totalling just over 650 miles
~ Charged 2 times to near at Tebay South (99%) and North bound (90%) and 1 top up in between these two in Wakefield for 90 mins (50kw CCS).

Starts at 100% and end the trip at home with 15% left.

Both rapid charge times we were refilling our own "tanks", overall it is very enjoyable trip with very little stress. (I love driving, maybe why I enjoyed the trip?)

For us EV owners / or occasional users, you plan ahead to charge the car while you stop and charge yourself so you won't feel the time needed as much since the times there are parallel to you.

"And the below footnote - Do not try at home"
~ I have had a little short of kw going back home, so did a 57mph behind a tall trailer truck and a kind of test to see the difference, I managed a never seen 4.8 miles per kwh at a distance of about 50~60 miles! ? Don't even see this in town as I am a heavy right footer ?‍ !