Be careful in Milton Keynes on 30th Sep 2025

[pjmmk]

Be careful if you're travelling westbound on Chaffron Way in Milton Keynes today. Some <insert favourite expletive here> has dumped diesel on every roundabout. Sometimes I wish I could punch people I can't see...

 

[OriginalBigAl]

Time to get the rear end out and practice a bit of drifting. More seriously though, would having level 3 regen employed make the back end a bit twitchy when encountering diesel covered roads if you are not expecting it? Using the above example , you are on the entry to a clear roundabout using the " overrun " to slow down whilst negotiating the first quarter of the roundabout . The front wheels may slide a bit but the rears with the regen braking , could they let go ?

 

[Gomev]

Time to get the rear end out and practice a bit of drifting. More seriously though, would having level 3 regen employed make the back end a bit twitchy when encountering diesel covered roads if you are not expecting it? Using the above example , you are on the entry to a clear roundabout using the " overrun " to slow down whilst negotiating the first quarter of the roundabout . The front wheels may slide a bit but the rears with the regen braking , could they let go ?

Yep, good point to bring up for anyone new to EVs and loving regen. When driving in slippery or potential slippery conditions, set regen at lowest or even off if you can.

 

[pjmmk]

Yep, good point to bring up for anyone new to EVs and loving regen. When driving in slippery or potential slippery conditions, set regen at lowest or even off if you can.

That's easy to do quickly on a car with a regen level controlled via a switch or paddle on the steering wheel. Not quite so easy on my MG4 with it buried in a menu accessible via the touchscreen and not possible at all on the Tesla. Sometimes I think we're going backwards, taking far too much control away from the driver while turning the cars into mini airliners that needs months of training to understand.

 

[Rolfe]

You can set a steering wheel button to control the regen level on the MG4.

 

[pjmmk]

You can set a steering wheel button to control the regen level on the MG4.

That's true but I only have two buttons and I already have them set for other tasks - I use the left button to toggle the cameras on and off and the right one for the driving mode. It seems to me that as the number of functions goes up, the number of controls we get to interact with them goes down.

 

[Gomev]

That's easy to do quickly on a car with a regen level controlled via a switch or paddle on the steering wheel. Not quite so easy on my MG4 with it buried in a menu accessible via the touchscreen and not possible at all on the Tesla. Sometimes I think we're going backwards, taking far too much control away from the driver while turning the cars into mini airliners that needs months of training to understand.

If it's icy/slippery when you set off, set it then, there aren't too many times you set off on a journey and it suddenly becomes slippery, certainly not round these parts.

 

[OriginalBigAl]

As some of the different driving modes have different regen pre-sets , then changing the driving mode can get around that problem . Although toggling through them to get the desired setting whilst pirouetting on the patches of diesel might require a Lewis Hamilton skill set.