Recent content by rpannell

It's not the road speed that's important to efficiency but the air speed. So perhaps there was a strong Northerly wind on that trip? Also dry cold air is more dense than damp warm air so perhaps a cold day. These things also affect petrol cars but because the petrol engine is so inefficient...

If you are showing 91 miles for 50% that's 182 miles for 100%. The long range S5 has a usable battery of around 62 KWh so dividing 182/82 gives 2.94 miles per KWh. Have a look at your accumulated trip meter and see what average m/kwh it is showing. My guess is that it will be somewhere close to...

Normally driving forwards and backwards a few times allows the stone to fall out.

As AussiePete said, but make sure that any heating / AC / fan is also turned off. Both trip odometers need to be reset to zero, so the long term and recent trip odometers.

There was a strong Southerly wind yesterday/Tuesday (14MPH @ 180 degrees) so this will not have been helping the M/kWh. The journey described was into a head wind the entire journey.

Looks normal to me. I'm at -7% after 3 years and 52,000 miles. It's well within the warranty parameters.

I make a monthly trip to Machynlleth (near Aberystwyth) from Devon. Apart from all the chargers in Aber, there are rapid and fast in Mach. Alternatively, charge up at the Ionity near Magor services in Wales which will easily get you to Aber and back in a MG4.

You have not stated what the source of the mains is, i.e the granny supplied with the car, a 7KW intelligent charger etc, but here are a few things you can check: a) Is the battery limit set to a low figure? b) Some granny chargers have an inbuilt timer, so you have to reset the charger between...

Most likely, the fan was turned on in the car. This is unknown to the app so the app gives a higher potential mileage than the car. Also, as others have said it can be a difference in the driving mode selected

When the clocks go forwards this Sunday, does anyone know what happens to the timing of the cheap rate? Does it stay as GMT (so 01:00 - 07:00 BST) or does it remain at 00:00 - 06:00 clock / BST time? I'm struggling to find the information anywhere so hoping that someone here will know the answer.

Have you tried disconnecting the 12V battery for about 5 mins and then reconnecting? My Mk2 ZSEV would not AC charge once and this simple trick solved it for me. You will need a 10mm spanner to disconnect the -ve battery terminal. Once re-connected, set the max charge to 100%, turn off any...

One area not mentioned so far is where you are charging. If you are charging on a cheap tariff at home, then a SR or LR will be suitable. However if you have no access to home charging and have to always rely on the public network, then a LR will be more suitable in order to minimise the number...

Once in about 70,000 miles when the car would not type 2 charge. A quick disconnect solved the problem - Mk2 ZSEV.

Do you have an OBD dongle plugged in? There have been problems with the ZSEV with dongles causing the car alarm to activate when the car is left locked.

You can also get these error messages if the sun is low and the camera is looking into the low sun. Now you are aware of this, it will be easy for you to check whether the messages occur when driving towards the sun.