i have zero miles left of range i literally chose nothing down here now
Welcome to Tech in the Car! this is the MG ZS EV electric car!
In this video today i'm gonna test the range we're gonna drive to london just like i did with the
Honda E just like i did with the Citroen e-C4 and we're gonna see does it actually achieve what it
says how is it to drive what is the journey like let's find out so first of all i'm driving this in
eco mode there's three modes eco normal and sport i've got the regen braking at its highest level
it says 179 miles on here which is really really interesting the wltp range is 163 miles
when i unplugged this from the charger a few minutes ago it said 174 miles when i
started driving it said 163 which is the wltp range and now he's telling me 179 so we'll see
how it goes on the way to london and we'll do what we did last time with the honda e we'll
drive up and we'll see how far we get and i'll report on the journey as we go along
miles into the journey the range now shows 134 miles so it's worth keeping in mind that i have
the air conditioning on pretty high because it is a very very warm and probably the air conditioning
was off then i'd have more range typically having the air conditioning on only uses of a couple of
miles so it shouldn't make a massive massive difference but i don't know unless i turn it off
however it's way too hot to do that so please don't hate me for having the air conditioning
on during this test because it's a very warm day what's interesting in this car is unlike the other
electric cars i've driven this car doesn't have digital dials it has traditional analog speedo
dials except for on the right it's obviously not revs it's a percentage power and then it
also underneath has a traditional old style fuel gauge except for obviously it's for electric power
and on the left it's got the speed in the middle is a small display which shows you information
such as your driver assistant status digital readout of your speed and any other information
you would need from a car it works great and it's really easy to understand and see what's going on
it's unusual but the other cars i've driven but i can't knock this car at all on the equipment and
how it's spent and value for money it's you know it's got all the driving system safety features
it's got a much better range than the similar cars in the price point and it's really comfortable to
drive i'm 50 miles into my drive 51.5 miles and it's telling me i've got 85 miles of range left so
it's doing all right we're doing 3.1 miles per kilowatt so that is very very
much in line with what i was getting at the honda e this has got a bigger battery and a bigger range
so if i was going to estimate on the basis that we have a bigger battery honda e let's just
guess whether you gave me 106 mile range and in reality even 80 miles i would suggest that maybe
this gives me 160 miles range and maybe i'll get 100 miles 10 miles out of it possibly we'll see
just a guess i might be wrong i might be right i guess it might be good maybe it might be bad
62.1 miles into the journey i got 78 miles range left
averaging 3.3 miles per kilowatt hour at an average speed of 44 miles per hour i've
been on the motorway i'm now inside london driving through london towards the wimbledon
area i'm at my waypoint for tonight so i've done 67.2 miles we've got a range of 80 miles
left that means that according to what i've done and the range left the car has a range of 147.2
miles tomorrow to get to my destination is 96 miles from where i am now
which suggests i'm going to have to stop at some point before i get there so we'll
see at what point how long into the journey and what the actual range is
tomorrow so let's find out then a new day i've got 96 miles to my destination at 80 miles of range
at some point i'm going to have to stop in charge the question is when and how long along
my journey update i'm now just about to enter the m25 i've driven 16.5 miles today that's
about half an hour averaging 29 miles an hour driving through london and as a result in total
i've driven a combined total of 83.7 miles the car certainly has 65 miles of range left which
suggests a total range of about 140 miles i have another 80 miles left to my destination so again
i'm gonna have to stop somewhere along the line to charge it the low charge warning just came
on today i've driven 36 miles it's telling me about 34 miles of range left 103 miles in total
i've done so far again if we go on that basis it's telling me i've got
139 miles of actual physical real world range i am at the ionity charger at beaconfield services
just before oxford 28 miles of range left 108.8 miles in total 28 miles left so that means it's
saying essentially that i have around 140 miles unfortunately the next charging point is too far
beyond the range i have to charge now so i'll give my thoughts on this later on and give a summary of
what i think of the charger i'm at the ionity charging here and i'm using to charge the car
so this is a really fast charger the problem is there's only four of them here and only
two of them work which is really bad come on sort it out infrastructure for car charging is
the only problem you have and it's actually more of a problem i would say at motorway
service stations than it is in the city or town because there's tons of them in
those places but on the motorway not so much anyway this is charging now here's the ionity
and the way this car charges is you plug it in down here so you just push down on the mg logo
and it pops obviously the car has to be unlocked i have zero miles left of range i literally it shows
nothing down here now so i'm really really low at this moment in time i'm basically
trying to get to a charger before the car stops in total i've driven 168.7 miles 3.3 miles per
kilowatt hour i stopped at an ionity charger and topped up from 22 which is what the car said the
battery was at to 55 percent which gave me 80 miles even though i had 55 to 56 mile journey
in actual fact probably because i had the air conditioning until super hot it ran down much much
lower so the real world range of this car seems to be today about 140 miles on motorway mainly
journey i'm about half a mile from the charger so we're gonna do that it's a slow charger so i
have to charge a bit and then go to a fast charger to finish it off unfortunately but you can't say
that i didn't do the range just properly because i'm pretty much ready to break down right now
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