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MG5 41,000 mile update

angusmcfisher said:
So, at 1.3% per 40,000 miles. On that basis, to get to 10% degradation would happen around 307,000 miles. So assuming full capacity is 210miles, that would mean full range at 10% would look like 190 miles.
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Degradation will accelerate as they get older and the SOH get worse but he should be able to get better than 200k
 
Hairyfool said:
When its empty it's not a major issue but if everyone had the discipline to park/drive/ behave reasonably there would be little conflict needed. My local Asda has one set of disabled bays opposite the ATMs which are frequently used by drivers "just getting some money out" even if it is the last bay available. Even better are those that park in the middle blocking some 6 bays for the same reason. Technically they are not in a reserved bay but just to save a few steps they want to be obstructive, again not a real issue if the driver is in the car to move it but often its the driver that has gone to the machine.

The EV bays had to have plastic cones in front asking people to leave them free unless charging. I was just coming out when I heard the Tannoy paging for a driver, a few minutes later a man came stomping out cursing because he had to move his (non-electric) VW T4 campervan off the charging bay and park elsewhere

Yesterday I parked up (in a bay) next to a white Verso which was bang over the junction of 4 bays making them all unusable! Why??
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I totally agree and support your views on unnecessary “Blocking” of both EV and more importantly disabled spaces.
At the very beginning of the video, you can see James enter the car park through a side access gate, you get a very brief view of the car park and it is huge, with only about 3 cars using it.
My guess would be that this video was shot latter in the evening and he was using this section of the car park, to avoid getting interrupted by any passing cars and therefore little use by anybody at this time of day, I would say.
Latter in the video you get a better view over James shoulder and it can actually seen that the car park is almost completely deserted.
My local ASDA has a similar set up, they have placed the disabled bays right next the the ATM cash points.
Who ever plans these type of things, needs a long lesson in common sense.
 
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The fact that the title ends with a question mark means he is asking a question and not a statement of fact.

Perhaps if he had put 'Is at the beginning as in 'Is EV dead after 41000 miles?' it may have been clearer.
 
It's like the old adage that the answer to any newspaper headline that ends in a question mark is the word "No".
 
... it's a bit like those who travel in lane 3 of the 4 lane motorways when lanes 1 & 2 are empty, thereby hogging three lanes.
 
angusmcfisher said:
So, at 1.3% per 40,000 miles.
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No, that's not how it works. The battery had a buffer above 100% originally which it may also have lost.

Hairyfool said:
Degradation will accelerate as they get older and the SOH get worse
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It doesn't always work like that. Particularly when the car is used hard in its early life as this one clearly is with repeated Rapid charges and fast and deep discharges.
 
Waiting for the 82000 mile review. If its still going strong it may make me think twice at trading up at the end of my lease.
 
I’ve just clocked over 10000 miles in mine. Owned since December. So far costs have been approx £400 had a screw in side wall of tyre and a bit of motorway charging and odd bit at home overnight. But mostly charged off solar and at work.
A spot of my bike lubricant sorted the squeaking mirror out.
Intended just to use if for commuting but with cost of fuel we’ve ended up using it for trips to.
My winter kayaking trips are the hardest part with the car as cold and wet and the drag from roof really hits the m/kw.
Great car.
 
Gomev said:
In one of the answers in the comments below the video if you watch it in Youtube he says.....
'The traction battery is currently at 98.7% SOH'

If you have seen any of the other videos he does with the car (well worth watching IMO) you will see that it is charged to 100% a least 4 times/days a week as the car is used for work 5 days a week, and very often has rapid charging whilst the car is out and about all over the country.
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My MG5 EV Long Range SW (22 plate) stops charging at 95% it just automatically cut out and done.
 
Gomev said:
Not on a fast (7kW) charger I hope which is where he charges overnight at home ready for next day.
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On the BE.EV 7kw charging point near home 49p per kwh or 46p if you have a membership card and pay at the end of the month. On INSTAVOLT 50kw, on PODPOINT in Lidl store car park, on OSPREY 50kw (which I have stopped using because they put the price up from 59p per kwh to 66p per kwh, and also on GRIDSERVE 120kw in Norwich and on the M62 Welcome Break service station 59p per kwh. All stop at 95%.
 
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