MG4 Urban 0-60/Range

[LenEV2016]

I agree with @Everest it's not about the long distance journey range, it's the round trip range for me.

Do various trips of single legs 90-150 miles, I can do most return journeys without charging in summer. Obviously different in winter.

 

[siteguru]

But if your destination (where you're likely to be staying for several hours, at least) has even 7kW charge points, why not simply make use of them? (Cost notwithstanding, of course).

 

[McPhee]

These ranges are luxury for us early adopters, having 80 miles range in Leafs in 2015 with 1 ecotricity charger per services if you were lucky, it might even work

I will never forget a trip up to Teeside from the midlands in my Zoe for a friend's wedding. I was getting far better than expected efficiency, so I skipped my plan service stop & went for the next one. I got there to find that someone had smushed a Cream Egg into the AC charge connector (back in the days where most chargers had a tethered 22kW AC).

I was about 5 miles of range short of making it to the next service stop. So I had to exit the motorway and drive miles in the wrong direction to get to an Asda which had 3kW AC chargers.

It was a long, long day. But at least all of the charging was free at the time.

I had a 24kWh Leaf after that. Only upgraded to the 40 three years ago. Since then I've barely used public charging.

 

[Everest]

But if your destination (where you're likely to be staying for several hours, at least) has even 7kW charge points, why not simply make use of them? (Cost notwithstanding, of course).

Agree, but in my case, the destinations I have been to since owning an EV didn't have charging facilities.

Apart from holidays abroad, the longer trips I have made have been:-
a) relatives with no EV charging point
b) a university for drop off / pick up
c) a trip to purchase or view something very specific, which is unlikely to have a charger and where I probably won't be there for long.

 

[tsedge]

I must be out of the norm. When I was driving, I liked to get large chunks done in one go. Sometimes I did a whole 230 mile journey sans stopping.

The stats say this is pretty rare these days. Of course there are always outliers, but the market will build for the common cases, which is why ranges are clustering around 150-200 and 250-300 miles.

 

[tsedge]

IME, range is not all about doing a long distance in one go. A few months ago, we drove to outer London, stopped at the destination to do what we needed to do there (which was not a place I could charge at). On the way back, stopped to eat our packed lunch in countryside, and then detoured to pick another vehicle up that had been in for a service at a dealer 25 miles away. Got back with about 12% SOC and total journey of about 220 miles IIRC.

So having a 250+ mile range meant we could...
a) do the whole trip without having to go out of our way to find and spend time at a rapid charger
b) do all the charging at our overnight rate.

Yes, I acknowledged that the cost of Rapids charging is a big issue - which any government could fix if they followed my plan. But that aside, having to stop to charge on these kinds of trips isn't a big deal for most people.

 

[tsedge]

It's a weird thing, nearly all my journeys are less than a 50 mile round trip, so range really shouldn't be a concern for me, but I'd still want more range from my next EV, I wouldn't dream of buying a new car with less range, even though I know I don't need it.

That's the psychology at work! We could have done find with an SR MG4, because we tend to charge our LR at 30% anyway. But it felt more comfortable to have more range, for sure.

Now though, I'd be willing to have less range.

 

[Everest]

which any government could fix if they followed my plan

do share

 

[tsedge]

do share

I did a few months back... will have to find the original post if I can!

 

[siteguru]

I think it was in a thread in the General Chat board ... from vague memory.

 

[tsedge]

It was here:

Post in thread 'Pay per mile. Another blow for EV drivers'

Nov 27, 2025

I don't think we need a long drawn out enquiry into public charging, the issues are well known.

There are 3 simple things they can do right now to dramatically reduce Rapid charger costs:

1. Cap the cost of electricity supply for public charging and make it usage, not supply based: currently this is at uncapped commercial rates and sites often pay high capacity-based fees regardless of usage.

2. Zero-rate public charging for VAT purposes. Not 5%, eliminate it completely.

3. Create a large tax writeoff against capital costs for the construction of new capacity: new sites and...

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[Everest]

makes sense. Obviously EV charging stations could reduce their capacity ongoing charges by deploying more local battery storage - but that would increase up-front costs. Guess there's a sweet spot there between max kVA charges capacity vs. cost of local storage.

 

[OriginalBigAl]

People generally like bigger numbers, bigger battery , bigger range, bigger wheels , bigger boot , I blame the old Top Trumps ( sic ) playing cards on a various range of themes , a favourite pastime in the playground.

 

[securespark]

I remember having the Jag XJ-S and the Lockheed Blackbird.

But not in the same pack!

 

[Everest]

Oh... I must be old then, best was a Jenson Interceptor in my day.

 

[securespark]

Well, the XJ-S started its life towards the end of the Interceptor's... It may have been in my pack of TT cards.

I could give away my age and say I was born the year that England won a certain footy match...In fact, I think the Jensen was born the same year.