ClawzSkunk
Standard Member
Hey all,
I've been trying to record my rapid charging speeds since getting my new car a week or 2 ago. I do about 24k miles a year in my car so it's relatively important to me that I can charge quickly, but from all the working out I'm doing I'm driving the car down to 10% but never break 26kW on the rapid chargers...
I've tried IONITY, BT Polar, Electric Highway & Shell Recharge but it's always the same...
I know my old leaf suffered from "Rapidgate" and it looks like MG have done a really good job at keeping the battery cool on these cars, but have they done it at the detriment of charging in cold weather (Coldgate)? I'd love to know how many other people have been experiencing this to understand if it's me or if there is genuinely an issue with the rapid charging on my vehicle.
As a side note, I've taken my car into the dealer and they're being excellent with trying to get information from MG but I'm struggling to find anywhere that MG details how fast the car should charge? In some placed it mentions 20% to 80% in 40 minutes (which would require about 40kW rapid charging) and in others (such as the FAQ's) it says that empty to 80% should be 40 minutes on a standard 50kW charger..
I'm just very confused and what I thought would be a good budget car with a thermally managed battery (heat when cold and cooling when hot) is turning out to be much less so.
I don't really want to go with the Battery Heater option because I'm also hearing some horror stories about it significantly draining the battery and the UK notes from service centres advise against it, saying it's irreversable and could lower the value of the vehicle in the future...
Open to discussion and feedback here guys as if I can't break 30kW then it's likely this is not the car for me.
I've been trying to record my rapid charging speeds since getting my new car a week or 2 ago. I do about 24k miles a year in my car so it's relatively important to me that I can charge quickly, but from all the working out I'm doing I'm driving the car down to 10% but never break 26kW on the rapid chargers...
I've tried IONITY, BT Polar, Electric Highway & Shell Recharge but it's always the same...
I know my old leaf suffered from "Rapidgate" and it looks like MG have done a really good job at keeping the battery cool on these cars, but have they done it at the detriment of charging in cold weather (Coldgate)? I'd love to know how many other people have been experiencing this to understand if it's me or if there is genuinely an issue with the rapid charging on my vehicle.
As a side note, I've taken my car into the dealer and they're being excellent with trying to get information from MG but I'm struggling to find anywhere that MG details how fast the car should charge? In some placed it mentions 20% to 80% in 40 minutes (which would require about 40kW rapid charging) and in others (such as the FAQ's) it says that empty to 80% should be 40 minutes on a standard 50kW charger..
I'm just very confused and what I thought would be a good budget car with a thermally managed battery (heat when cold and cooling when hot) is turning out to be much less so.
I don't really want to go with the Battery Heater option because I'm also hearing some horror stories about it significantly draining the battery and the UK notes from service centres advise against it, saying it's irreversable and could lower the value of the vehicle in the future...
Open to discussion and feedback here guys as if I can't break 30kW then it's likely this is not the car for me.