Ding
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Last Saturday I accidentally drove my ev for a 380 miles round trip from Shropshire to Reading then Orpington. This was because there was no diesel at all my local filling stations including Tesco, Shell and Sainsbury. I was planned to travel with my vw diesel car however the car need to refill. My wife also needed her petrol car to take kid to club. So there was no choice but to test the real range of the zs ev after top up to 100% 270 miles
In brief, I've been driving carefully at 65mph speed in eco mode on M6/M5/M40. Also had 20 minutes break at Oxford service but decided not to charge the car due to high cost (48p per kwh). There were at least 10 tesla charging at their fancy supercharging station though. When I arrived at Orpington in the afternoon I have 12% 33 miles range left. This works out motorway range around 230 miles.
On the return journey, I recharged on a 50kw charger at Sidcup Tesco for 1 hour which costs 27p per kwh. With the remaining range around 230mile left after 80% top up, I went back to home in the evening with 20 miles left on the clock. This 380miles trip took me about 6 hours plus 1 hour charging at Tesco in cold temperature between 2 to 8 degrees without charging at motorway service station.
In brief, I've been driving carefully at 65mph speed in eco mode on M6/M5/M40. Also had 20 minutes break at Oxford service but decided not to charge the car due to high cost (48p per kwh). There were at least 10 tesla charging at their fancy supercharging station though. When I arrived at Orpington in the afternoon I have 12% 33 miles range left. This works out motorway range around 230 miles.
On the return journey, I recharged on a 50kw charger at Sidcup Tesco for 1 hour which costs 27p per kwh. With the remaining range around 230mile left after 80% top up, I went back to home in the evening with 20 miles left on the clock. This 380miles trip took me about 6 hours plus 1 hour charging at Tesco in cold temperature between 2 to 8 degrees without charging at motorway service station.