Advice on HS PHEV

[Pascal]

I’ve had my PHEV February. I always drive in normal mode with regen on 2. My 40 mile daily commute involves local roads, 50, 60 and 70mph dual carriageway. During the summer 75 miles range is easily achievable and recently, with the cold weather I’m getting 60 to 65 miles range, even using pre heating the car and having 24 degrees set on my heating plus seat heater. 200 miles per week costs around £5!

That is much cheaper than in Belgium. A full load costs me just over 10€, which works out the same as driving on petrol!

 

[Noel]

A very interesting discourse, to which, if I may, I’d like to add my two pennyworth.
I took delivery of my HS PHEV on November 20th, and to be honest it’s the best car I ever had, and that includes the likes of BMW, Volvo, Mini Cooper, Honda, Audi, Fiat, Renault, Skoda, Mazda, to name a few.
It’s Pearl White, with Tan upholstery and looks amazing, it’s very comfortable, very quiet, frugal, and goes, 0 to 60 in 6.5sec.. Sure getting your head round how to control the vast number of faculties takes a bit of time, but once you have……
Being retired, I don’t do many miles, probably around 150/mth. Mainly local with the occasional 50 mile round trip. When I picked up the car, the dealership apologised for omitting to charge the battery, and to compensate they filled the tank. During the first two weeks, prior to my installing an EVDANCE 32amp charger (Amazon £151) I drove it in EV mode, and got around 50mpg. Since then I’ve been ‘home charging’, and the mpg display has risen to 99.9mpg (it only shows 3 digits, so it’s probability more). To date, (around 350 miles I’ve only used about 14L of petrol (£18.20), or if I include electricity, around £11/mth. My maths isn’t as good as it once was , but £11 a month, sounds good to me.
My conclusion is, why would anyone, driving a reasonable low annual mileage want, or need a full EV? The MG HS PHEV offers all the advantage’s of a full EV, but without the dreaded range anxiety.
In addition, British Gas are currently offering half price electricity on Saturdays and Sundays between 11AM and 4PM. So instead of paying 25p/kWH, I’m paying 12.5p/kWh. Needless to say the dishwasher, washing machine, tumble drier, and the cook, are also very busy during these periods.
If I need to top-up at other times, I’m still only paying 25p/kWh which is a lot less than charging on a forecourt.
Cheers Noel