MG4 Xpower times vs battery

[securespark]

I think we've got down to 12% in our LR Trophy and it's been fine. It just bleats all the time about being low!

I guess much lower and it might start crawling.

 

[siteguru]

I think @bedsev was crawling because of the weather and traffic, not because of the car.

 

[JonnyG]

Mine severely restricted power at 5%. It struggled to get up to and maintain 50mph on a mild incline . It had shown all the warnings on the dash though so no surprise really. Luckily I was testing it close to home, so no real worries.

 

[securespark]

I think @bedsev was crawling because of the weather and traffic, not because of the car.

Ah, OK!

 

[MG Clive]

Hopefully I'll never need to allow mine to drop so low that I'm worried about making it home, or losing power, luckily I will be able to charge at home when I get my charger next week, and I rarely travel more than 50 or so miles in any given day.

 

[Chrisdriving]

Quite surprised how ‘poorly’ the X Power goes at lower end of the battery, and not even that low, at 26% i felt sport was well restricted.
When i had the Tesla it maintained full grunt right down into single figure percentages. At 26% it would pull as if 100%.

 

[bedsev]

Quite surprised how ‘poorly’ the X Power goes at lower end of the battery, and not even that low, at 26% i felt sport was well restricted.
When i had the Tesla it maintained full grunt right down into single figure percentages. At 26% it would pull as if 100%.

MG4 Xpower times vs battery

On my SE SR I can see 100% power on the driver display at any SoC except below about 20%. ?‍♂️ Yes I would expect the software to start limiting power further after 20% to save range. The fact that the display is reporting 100% power, this is what the software is set to draw as a maximum from...

www.mgevs.com

It's 30% that it starts to drop off

 

[topperharley]

Quite surprised how ‘poorly’ the X Power goes at lower end of the battery, and not even that low, at 26% i felt sport was well restricted.
When i had the Tesla it maintained full grunt right down into single figure percentages. At 26% it would pull as if 100%.

Maybe the standard Tesla but not the performance version.
There are various tests that show the performance drop.

 

[GlobalHealer69]

I've been letting my X Power, get pretty low before charging. Down to less than 10% the other day was 5% and it did get a bit worrying. I'm gonna try and stick to charging it when it gets down to about 30%. Also because, apparently you don't get the full performance at less then 30%
Although it still feels pretty quick to me, at less than 30%

Whenever I start to notice low range potential ( as that's what it actually is according to how you drive ), I simply ( while driving ), reset the odometer which resets the ( potential ) range to to a more realistic number, thus lessening the 'range anxiety' and top up stop.

 

[siteguru]

Whenever I start to notice low range potential ( as that's what it actually is according to how you drive ), I simply ( while driving ), reset the odometer which resets the ( potential ) range to to a more realistic number, thus lessening the 'range anxiety' and top up stop.

All you're doing is playing mind tricks on yourself ... you don't magically get that extra range.

 

[Soultrappa]

Nothing that doesn't require you to set it going.
It will be near enough but is near enough good enough?

(70% Battery)



I shall be going out early on Sunday with a fully charged battery and hopefully get some quicker times.

There is an app called drag racer that you don't see to start manually

 

[mbpits]

So I only learnt yesterday that when you are below 5% battery you are limited to 40mph and after reading through this tread I did not realize how much the charge affects the battery, and looking at the graphs I must admit its a lot more than I expected. However, I think this might be due to this being my first electric car.

 

[JonnyG]

As long as you are above 30% SoC I think the power and acceleration available is reasonable. It seems to drop off after that and more so in the Xpower than other EV's.

Tested at -11c temps and Winter tyres

Skip to 5'25" for the full table of results for 90% to 10% SoC

 

[salty]

I've only really noticed it once in my, X Power and And that was below 20%
Agree with JonnyG though keep it above 30% and you've no worries. You'll have the full Dispatching capabilities.

 

[pjmmk]

I've noticed my Tesla MYP is aggressively quick after supercharging to 65%+ but it calms down a lot after the battery's cooled. How the MG will perform I guess I'll find out in a week or so - I hate waiting lol

 

[jamherber]

In cold temps, our xpower is noticeably down on grunt when battery is stone cold - after a few miles, once there is some heat in the battery, normal brutal service is resumed.

 

[salty]

In cold temps, our xpower is noticeably down on grunt when battery is stone cold - after a few miles, once there is some heat in the battery, normal brutal service is resumed.

Must admit, never noticed that.

 

[Bricktop X PWR]

Cold weather and a low battery circa 10%?

Don't go onto a motorway and do not request any beans.

They will not be available.

Just about tolerates 60mph on the flat, but show her an incline and you will be laughed at.

 

[securespark]

A bit like going uphill in a 1 litre Metro with 5 up, then!

 

[pjmmk]

Reminds me of my first time driving one of those horrible 1 litre three cylinder Fords that my cousin had on hire. The thing was utterly gutless, I had to rev the nuts off the thing just to get it moving on any sort of incline. I don't miss those things at all.