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Weight is just one of the many "but what about..." knee jerk responses some anti-EV people come up with. I recently reviewed the IONIQ 5N which weighs 2.3 tonnes. You'd never know. Drove like a sports car. Absolute weapon in a straight line and in the bends. But I digress. This is a MG ZS EV...

Great choice. My mum loved her Rover 2000 and I learned to drive on it. While on an interstate trip I hit a giant kangaroo (a glancing blow, both Rover and Skippy OK) and had to apologise to mum on my return. Stay in touch!

Ah that's a shame. But I had a look around and found this in the MY22 Principles and Functions Manual. MY22 ZS EV 1st gear 3.957 Final drive ratio 2.414 Therefore combined ratio 9.552. So a shorter ratio than mine (numerically higher) but your motor revs higher than my MY21. Mine is 10,000rpm...

Hi all If you're interested in how MG ZS EVs work, heaps of information in this project. You'll need a lot of time on your hands though - there are 25 episodes already and plenty more to come. I'd encourage you to start at the beginning, but here's the latest one - when I actually get the MG...

I did dismantle it just to do this. I think the number you are looking for is 7.761 if your car is the same as mine - 2021 MG ZS EV All your answers are in this video

I forgot to add. On our channel we recently reviewed the MG4 Essence 64 and I currently have a MG4 XPower press car that we're in the process of reviewing. If you haven't been in one, you should. Very good car and roller-coaster fast. MG4 Review

I recently bought this crash-damaged MG ZS EV at auction, mainly for the batteries - to be used in my electrified Porsche 928 project. A project that's almost guaranteed to annoy people in both MG and Porsche camps. But I'm enjoying getting to know the technical side of my ZS, and I may end up...