Motorway Range

[Gadget Geek]

I hardly think that the combined weight of three women one who weighs 8 stone and the others two elderly ones who weigh next to nothing are going to drag my car down. Had my husband (16stone) been in the car then maybe but not us.

A paper written in 2016, published by Science Direct concluded that; "From the simulations results that the vehicle weight and size of the battery pack have the main impact on the range."
Reference: Analysis of Parameters Influencing Electric Vehicle Range

 

[Ruislip Resident]

I drive about 46 miles mostly on the motorway each way to work (92 miles) and am considering getting a MG ZS EV to minimise servicing and fuel costs. Charging costs shouldn’t be a problem as we have solar panels at home. I was just wondering how those who have owned the car have found the motorway mileage like? Theoretically I should be able to get by but would have to charge every night, but not sure how this would be in the real world and how the battery degrades over time?
And how are you all getting by with the granny charger? Does it really take 6 hours to fully charge or is it actually longer?
Thanks

36 hours to fully charge (zero to 100) a LR with a granny. Get a dedicated 7kw charger installed.

 

[leafowner]

Our granny charger shows as delivering 1.9 kW. Ours is LR so 70+kwh battery will take over 35 hours to charge from empty to full.
With a 7kw charger it will take about 10hours.

Running an EV is a different mindset to petrol/diesel. You just plug in when you get home and the car is charged and ready to go next morning.

What sort of charger you need depends on your use of the vehicle. If you just do short journeys then you can get away with just using the granny charger overnight (but make sure that you get the socket checked out - cheap sockets might not be happy with a continuous draw of 10Amps. especially if the positioning means that there is any pull on the cable that might cause a less than perfect connection.

We had nissan leafs for 8 years before getting the mg. We managed on a granny charger all that time - although I did replace the plug on the charger with a 16A rated commando type plug and put the socket on its own cable/rcbo.
Plenty of people only charge at work if there employer gives a free 7kw charger. 8 hours at 7kW is 56kwh which should be good for over 160miles driving if you assume 3miles/kwh.

 

[suz]

I don’t know anything about miles ? but my weekly trip to the office is 155km and I drive a ZS EV Essence (the current Australian model which I think is a bit of an “in between” one??) with a range of 320km. First half of the drive is country highway with bends and hills and things but no traffic so pretty consistently doing 100-110km/hr, second half is major metropolitan highway with 10 minutes in the city at the end…so some traffic, breaking, periods of 100km/hr but not consistent. I arrive with 49-50% battery.

I charge in Carpark in town (included in parking fee) and we have an 7kwh charger installed at home. We do about 1,000km/week on average so charging it lots. Works beautifully for what we need and savings are adding up quite significantly. Have had since mid-September so don’t know about longer term battery performance but all great so far.

 

[Tim Green]

I mainly do short trips locally and just use the car just like any other. However on longer trips, say over 30 miles each way, I am extremely careful and try to keep over 3.6m/kw on the trip meter. I find this matches the real mileage quite well with the GOM. This makes the trip more predictable and pre-plan recharges. I go to Cornwall several times a year (about 240 miles) and I can just do this with one stop around Taunton.