Rolfe
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Orange Trophy charging on the Gridserve chargers at Cherwell Valley this afternoon, maybe 3.30ish.
There will be one more from Tuesday till Friday as I’m visiting Paris by carHere in la France I've seen nary a one (despite the "best-selling" figures) – until about 3 weeks ago, when I slowed at a junction to let a car pull in and realised it was a grey MG4. And then, about a week later, I saw a black MG4 parked in a nearby village. But that's it so far! Increasing number of Teslas on the road, especially the Model 3s and Ys, and a sudden surge of Dacia Springs (I seem to have seen one of them every time I've been out on the road for the past month or so). Also a sudden spate of VW ID3s (possibly because of price drop? Possibly just serendipity). And just yesterday, my very first sight of the new Kia Niro, which is actually rather cool (albeit strikingly similar to the Volvo XC30, which I haven't yet seen).
AU comes back as a Norwich reg.Oh, nice! (It wasn't me, right colour but obviously not a Scottish reg no.)
But what goes up also goes down. We leave home, and up the first hill, Culcarroch, the economy is 2.5miles/kWHr. By the bottom of the big hill it's up to 3.5 or so. At the top of Cnoc a' Bhainne it's 2.5 again, but at the bottom it's 4.5. It fluctuates with the terrain but down the final hill we are back up to 4.2-4.5. Typically similar on the way home. At the bottom of our track, 4.5-4.8, but we lose 0.1 up the track.I wonder if the lack of flatness in Assynt is giving them conniptions?
But what goes up also goes down. We leave home, and up the first hill, Culcarroch, the economy is 2.5miles/kWHr. By the bottom of the big hill it's up to 3.5 or so. At the top of Cnoc a' Bhainne it's 2.5 again, but at the bottom it's 4.5. It fluctuates with the terrain but down the final hill we are back up to 4.2-4.5. Typically similar on the way home. At the bottom of our track, 4.5-4.8, but we lose 0.1 up the track.
But the road to Ullapool is a killer. In our ICE cars, we'd typically get at best two thirds of normal consumption. We can do 4.0-4.1 in Goth Leo though, so, while not bad, it's not great either. What's great is bowling down the hill at Corrieshalloch. Unless there's a 35mph campervan in front, you can feel all virtuous as the economy improves.
I got more than 140k on my Trophy!... well thats a positive on 2 fronts:-
a) you've spotted a few MG4's
b) managed to get over 125KWH charge rate..... the most I've ever got is 81KWH todate (Im going to try Ionity over the xmas break)
Here in the wilds of Essex there are none also - one has to go as far as Bristol Docks where there are hundreds waiting to start their migration to their final destinations.?
Mine is in East London and I have seen a few others around, including an identical Orange MG4 parked up in East HamNot seen a single MG4 in London.
I got more than 140k on my Trophy!
I was there a couple of weeks ago, it's a great facilityDriving from Somerset to Cornwall saw no other MG4s. Driving back Monday 21st there were three Trophies at Osprey's Salmon's Leap charging area off A38 at Buckfastleigh. Look forward to seeing more there as it's a very good one with farm shop and cafe.