Rubbish, I’m getting about 170 to 178 miles on a run at the moment as are others and so it’s not plain wrong...and much more around town, happy to provide evidence on the next run if it helps to prove a point.....
Actually just checked the photos please see the attached.
See my previous posts with evidence supporting this fact
Left with 448 Volts, and trip meters reset (18027 miles on clock)
Completed 136.4 miles, 4.3 miles per KWh with 48 miles remaining so possible maximum range on that day / night was 184.4 if things continued as they were see link below to photo. Battery capacity 42.5 KWh x 4.3 miles per KWh = 182.75 miles...
Here is my "Two Pennies Worth" on this subject.
As many of you are already aware, my car ( under another set of circumstances - long story ) was one of the first cars to receive the BMS update first released on Friday 15th Jan 2021.
The car received the update first thing on the Monday morning of the 18th Jan 2021.
It was never affected by the "Buggy" software, because it never had it !.
MG Tech instructed the dealer to install the latest update as part of bringing the car back to life, after it was pronounced dead after the car went in for service on the Friday ( Again - Long Story ).
Okay, back ground story covered.
When we received the car back, we where only able to use the car for small trips due to the lock down situation. Very difficult to estimate how the car had been affected by all of the rectification work required to get the car up and running again.
But, over the last few weeks we have now been able to take more pleasure drives in our car.
Oh ..... the car is about 15 months old and has covered just over 11,000 miles at this point.
Prior to the problems in Jan 2021 - I had enough time behind the wheel, charging cycles done & enough miles on the clock in order to get a good handle, on what to expect regarding it's consumption and efficiency.
In the early days of ownership ( our first FULL EV ) I found myself constantly checking the remaining battery range a LOT !.
But after only a few short weeks, this constant checking soon subsided when I learnt to trust the car a little better. I found that the predicted remaining range on the GOM to be pretty accurate to the miles covered in distance ?.
One mile of range covered, to roughly mile of range used from the GOM.
Not to be totally relied on of course, but not a million miles out either folks !.
I was very concerned after having the BMS update done, like how this would have changed the car that I had become easy to understand SO well over previous 12 months.
Over the last few weeks, on our "Non Child Minding Days" we have been covering return pleasure trips of around a 100± miles.
Not the same route every time it should be noted.
This info COULD be useful for anybody who wants to use this as a "Yard Stick" to compare their cars "Post" update.
So after the update and with a full charge, the voltage on HV pack ( with all items turned OFF ) is displaying around 448 - 449 Volts - I have seen it hit 450 Volts briefly twice I think.
The predicted range ( In default NORMAL and Regen level 3 ) after resetting BOTH of the trip recorders, is anything from the lowest I have seen at 159 to highest at 162 miles.
When resetting the trips for the first few long trips and studying the evidence later.
The car was regularly returning around 4.5 m/kwh. - on the last trip it hit 4.9 m/kwh's.
This is with a little HVAC use on a hot day also.
Not always the same route, but all with some dual carriageway, some "A" roads and a bit of slow town driving.
A good mixture of every day driving I would say ?.
I believe the car is behaving in the very same way as it did PRIOR to the update.
In our latest longer trips ( About 100 miles plus ) I have not bothered resetting both trips and therefore my predicted range reported on the GOM on start up, has increased in value.
Today, we left with a fully charged & balanced battery.
The car was reporting an predicted 203 miles of range in the default mode on the GOM.
When we returned home ( some HVAC use again today ) we had covered just over 100 miles and the GOM was still reporting a remaining range of 101 miles.
Do I think we could have travelled another 100 miles on that range ?.
Probably not, who know's ?.
But I think achieving another 50 miles out of the predicted 100 remaining on the GOM, would put the car close to the figure that some believe is NOT possible to achieve ?.
Resetting the trips, or not resetting the trips does not appear to alter the consumption vs reported figure on the GOM.
The car is still pretty good at keeping a handle on reporting the distance covered, to the consumption used from the battery on a "One To One" basis.
One mile covered, to one mile consumed.
Again, just to say that my car never suffered any radical effects of massively reduced range by the "Buggy" software.
But it may offer some comfort to owners who HAVE been affected, that when the software is installed correctly and the pack is rebalanced, the car WILL be returned to the car they THOUGHT they had purchased in good faith.
Dealers who try to convince owners who's cars are "OKAY" - when they will clearly NOT even coming close to covering the distance they had expected, is clearly not acceptable.
VW tried that with their cars - look how that ended up!.
Only being able to cover 60 miles of range between each charge on a brand new car, should have had the alarm bells sounding loud and clear !.