Gently, gently catchee monkee - MG5 efficiency with light foot

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If you hate efficiency look away now ... ;)
Forgot to charge overnight so when it came to my 45 mile drive to work this morning I was super careful to drive as efficiently as possible, in order to make it there with as much charge as possible.
Started with 31% battery, outside temp 7°C, got to work with 15% battery, 4.7m/KWh :)
Drove the whole way with the 'powerometer' in the 'efficiency' band, but still kept it at 50-60 mph on dual carriageway and motorway.
Only took me about 5 minutes longer than normal as well.
Love this car (y)
 
Tommy said:
If you hate efficiency look away now ... ;)
Forgot to charge overnight so when it came to my 45 mile drive to work this morning I was super careful to drive as efficiently as possible, in order to make it there with as much charge as possible.
Started with 31% battery, outside temp 7°C, got to work with 15% battery, 4.7m/KWh :)
Drove the whole way with the 'powerometer' in the 'efficiency' band, but still kept it at 50-60 mph on dual carriageway and motorway.
Only took me about 5 minutes longer than normal as well.
Love this car (y)
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Wow, so using 16% of battery you did 45 miles -- leading to a potential 281 miles on a full charge, in the winter! You really were driving miss daisy, right? :)
 
szymon said:
Wow, so using 16% of battery you did 45 miles -- leading to a potential 281 miles on a full charge, in the winter! You really were driving miss daisy, right? :)
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Yep, drove it like I was carrying a trifle on my way to granny's house on Christmas Day ... I think the problem is if the power is there you will always use it. I really had to tell myself not to floor it, oh and I didn't use the heater, or ACC ... ;)
 
I totally rinsed 22% doing 35 miles burning my arse off (literally, damn heated seats are too good in suit trousers), charging at work is free, so no bad consequences beyond poor habit forming.
 
I used 21% doing 35 miles yesterday, mixed urban and A roads, temp 6 degrees, heater on all the way. Showed as 3.3m/kWh but that doesn't make sense.
 
Our May 2022 LR was averaging 4.1m/kw in 15C+, 4.1m/kw 10C+ and now sub zero to 5C 3.1m/kw.
This is ALWAYS eco and 3 brake re-gen.
However for the first 6 weeks we were getting 4.5m/kw part of the reason is the tyres had been filled to 2.6 bar not 2.2 bar by Richmond MG Portsmouth
The car is driven 95% single driver with minimal load.
It was notable with this tyre pressure even in efficient mode the tyres " spun" pulling away.
The supplied tyres seem very supple and help give a smooth ride and in our hands an OK drive





However
 
RogerWill said:
Our May 2022 LR was averaging 4.1m/kw in 15C+, 4.1m/kw 10C+ and now sub zero to 5C 3.1m/kw.
This is ALWAYS eco and 3 brake re-gen.
However for the first 6 weeks we were getting 4.5m/kw part of the reason is the tyres had been filled to 2.6 bar not 2.2 bar by Richmond MG Portsmouth
The car is driven 95% single driver with minimal load.
It was notable with this tyre pressure even in efficient mode the tyres " spun" pulling away.
The supplied tyres seem very supple and help give a smooth ride and in our hands an OK drive





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Wait so you’re saying that overinflating the tyres can dramatically improve fuel economy??
 
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