The Ultimate MG5 "Real World" Energy Consumption Thread

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This picks up and develops a previous thread that was a good idea but never developed.
To contribute, you will need to reset your consumption display on the first of the month and post a pic of your Accumulated Total dash display on the last day of that month (or as soon thereafter as possible). Anyone that did a reset on 1st April can post now otherwise just remember to reset tomorrow and post at the end of May et seq. This will give a month by month snapshot of real consumption averaged over a variety of circumstances.
It would give some context if you could add to the post some information indicating which driving mode and KERS setting you spent most of your time in. It may also be worth mentioning whether you have a Standard or Long Range but I'm not sure whether this materially affects consumption.

I can raise an identical thread for the ZS if there is a demand.

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I'll start by reposting my display from March (SR/Normal Mode/KERS3):

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Followed by my display for April (SR/Normal Mode/KERS3):

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July to November, pic somewhere here on the site, 4 or 4.2.
November to April 3.0 heaters on 99% of the time.
Monthly data would be good for long term so people can see how weather affects the car.
 
Ron61 said:
MG5 S/R Excite

Here's mine for April:-


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Previous Months: -

2021 September 4.7
2021 October 4.5
2021 November 4.1
2021 December 4.0
2022 January 3.6
2022 February 4.1
2022 March 4.3
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That's impressive, I assume most of your driving is lower speeds then judging by your average and probably why those figures look so good 👍🏻🙂
 
Alb said:
This picks up and develops a previous thread that was a good idea but never developed.
To contribute, you will need to reset your consumption display on the first of the month and post a pic of your Accumulated Total dash display on the last day of that month (or as soon thereafter as possible). Anyone that did a reset on 1st April can post now otherwise just remember to reset tomorrow and post at the end of May et seq. This will give a month by month snapshot of real consumption averaged over a variety of circumstances.
It would give some context if you could add to the post some information indicating which driving mode and KERS setting you spent most of your time in. It may also be worth mentioning whether you have a Standard or Long Range but I'm not sure whether this materially affects consumption.

I can raise an identical thread for the ZS if there is a demand.

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I'll start by reposting my display from March (SR/Normal Mode/KERS3):

View attachment 8186

Followed by my display for April (SR/Normal Mode/KERS3):

View attachment 8185
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My two penn'orth......
I don't own a suitable camera for a pic (I am a retired old fogey) but FWIW my figures for April are
422 miles 21 mph
19.4 hours 4.7 mpkwh

My car is a standard (short range) MG5 and I drive always in ECO kers 3. I have experimented with the kers settings and much prefer the stronger braking effect of kers 3. Bear in mind that all of this driving is on Isle of Wight, where distances are relatively short (journey about 12 miles each way usually) and speeds no higher than about 50mph (have you tried driving on the IW???). although there are some occasional faster bursts (yesterday along the "Military Road" for instance) and there are several hills to negotiate, typically up to 500 feet or so.
IMO this car is ideal for the Isle of Wight, and I have seen several about including a taxi. Interestingly my consumption over the winter months averaged out overall at 4.2 mpkwh, so already there is a summer increase. Over the winter period I was also achieving about 225 miles to a full charge which is more than the WLTP figure. This is based on miles actually driven between charges so is, I think, quite a good estimate. I am more than satisfied with this figure. For April, I have attained about 245 miles per full charge (estimated for example as 98 miles driven so far on 40% battery use, starting from my last charge to 80%), which clearly shows the effect of higher temperatures I think.
I am shortly to take a holiday with a full car load of 4 adults and luggage and a round trip of about 400 miles so I will be interested to see what happens then.
 
2,500 miles in - daily commute round trip is 70 miles. I average an appalling 30mph because other lack the ability to drive and 28 of my 35 miles is dual carriageway!

In the colder months March/April I've averaged 3.5m/kwh, that's with lights, wipers, radio, heating, a/c etc - zero compromise, travelling at 65mph on the dual carriageway, when possible.

Planing a trip to Stoneleigh tomorrow for the national kit car show, round trip is outside of the 'real range' of the MG, so I've got a stop planned at an Osprey unit using a free charge from bonnet or sticking it on my Octopus Juice card if it fails for the return leg. Would be interesting to see if i could get up there above 50% would still charge for comfort though don't want to run out of juice 10 miles from home.
 
I find the reported miles per kWh figure to be pretty inaccurate in comparison to the percentage drop of the battery. Either my battery capacity is bigger than advertised or the consumption figure is pessimistic.

By recording the energy used for charging I'm able to calculate the real miles per kWh. Over 14k miles that's pretty much 3.5 before considering any charging losses. I'm averaging near enough 200 miles per 100% battery consumption which, in my MG5 SR, equates to 4.1 miles per kWh.

17% loss seems reasonable when considering the high proportion of slow solar charging I do and heat lost with cell balancing. Some is also used by running the heating while charging at times - and perhaps this accounts for some of the anomaly.

So, like the GOM, I also ignore the consumption figure.
 
Hi have a daily commute of 42miles in winter I was using 22-3% of the battery it's now down to 20% and in the heat of summer it should fall further the roads are a mix of motorway 15 miles, town 6 miles, A roads 21 miles. Does better going in to work than coming home so I added both together to give a RWM of winter 190m, spring 210m.
 
CuriousIslander said:
My two penn'orth......
I don't own a suitable camera for a pic (I am a retired old fogey) but FWIW my figures for April are
422 miles 21 mph
19.4 hours 4.7 mpkwh

My car is a standard (short range) MG5 and I drive always in ECO kers 3. I have experimented with the kers settings and much prefer the stronger braking effect of kers 3. Bear in mind that all of this driving is on Isle of Wight, where distances are relatively short (journey about 12 miles each way usually) and speeds no higher than about 50mph (have you tried driving on the IW???). although there are some occasional faster bursts (yesterday along the "Military Road" for instance) and there are several hills to negotiate, typically up to 500 feet or so.
IMO this car is ideal for the Isle of Wight, and I have seen several about including a taxi. Interestingly my consumption over the winter months averaged out overall at 4.2 mpkwh, so already there is a summer increase. Over the winter period I was also achieving about 225 miles to a full charge which is more than the WLTP figure. This is based on miles actually driven between charges so is, I think, quite a good estimate. I am more than satisfied with this figure. For April, I have attained about 245 miles per full charge (estimated for example as 98 miles driven so far on 40% battery use, starting from my last charge to 80%), which clearly shows the effect of higher temperatures I think.
I am shortly to take a holiday with a full car load of 4 adults and luggage and a round trip of about 400 miles so I will be interested to see what happens then.
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Don’t forget to increase your tyre pressure for your holiday trip if you have a full car. I think the recommendation is Front 37 psi and back 42 for fully loaded car. It will help.
 
I'm driving & there's nowhere to stop. When I can I will, but have done it 4 times now and that's how I know nobody will beat it.
 
Yes, seems 20.0 is the maximum it will do.

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Mine

I guess now who gets the record for keeping it there for the longest distance. I made 2.5 miles before it dropped.
 
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