One pedal driving vs KERs

[mike9876]

Hi I have taken delivery of my new camden grey S5 having upgraded from a ZS EV and everything is fine so far. I am very happy with it. This is the first car I've had with one pedal driving, and what I was hoping some one could explain is, is the energy recovery better on one pedal driving or normal mode with the recovery set on high. Also I right in thinking when in adaptive cruise control there is no recovery, I never see the minus numbers on the display when the car slows in this mode

 

[5teep]

One pedal ( or level 3 kers) is really only good for town driving, don't use it on the open road. You'll use more energy trying to keep the speed up than you save with the extra regen.

Apart from that, play with the settings to see what works best for you. I tended to drive in Eco and level 2 kers all the time, hardly ever went up to level 3 as most of my driving is out of town. Level 1 kers works best on long downhill runs where you want the maximum regen and least speed drop. Since downhill runs like that are far between I didn't use it much either

 

[kevin ellard]

Hi I have taken delivery of my new camden grey S5 having upgraded from a ZS EV and everything is fine so far. I am very happy with it. This is the first car I've had with one pedal driving, and what I was hoping some one could explain is, is the energy recovery better on one pedal driving or normal mode with the recovery set on high. Also I right in thinking when in adaptive cruise control there is no recovery, I never see the minus numbers on the display when the car slows in this mode

Energy recovery is the same but KERS 3 requires more accurate pedal control but less moving you feet over to the brake pedal.
Keep checking the figures when on ACC - My MG5 Trophy definitely recovers energy while on ACC but the MGS5 is a completely different car so anything is possible.

 

[5teep]

Hi I have taken delivery of my new camden grey S5 having upgraded from a ZS EV and everything is fine so far. I am very happy with it. This is the first car I've had with one pedal driving, and what I was hoping some one could explain is, is the energy recovery better on one pedal driving or normal mode with the recovery set on high. Also I right in thinking when in adaptive cruise control there is no recovery, I never see the minus numbers on the display when the car slows in this mode

Ah, just noticed you said S5, this should go in the MGS5 forum @admin?

 

[mike9876]

Thanks everyone for the advice. Sorry for posting in the wrong forum Ive only just started to use forums like this

 

[MG Clive]

Ah, just noticed you said S5, this should go in the MGS5 forum @admin?

Thanks everyone for the advice. Sorry for posting in the wrong forum Ive only just started to use forums like this

Thanks, I hadn't even noticed, moved to MGS5 forum.

 

[MorrisDancer]

Energy recovery is energy recovery.

All Regen 1, 2, 3 and One Pedal Driving change is the amount of regen you get for a given position of the accelerator pedal.

The % pwr line on the right shows you how much energy is going out of (green) or into (blue) the battery.

Lifting off the accelerator pedal completely with the different regen levels gives you
L1 -5% regen
L2 -15% regen
L3 -21% regen
OPD -25% regen and the car will come to a complete stop

Using L1, if you take your foot off the accelerator completely, the car rolls for ages, slowing down gently. For the same behaviour in OPD you have to keep your foot on the accelerator.

Different people prefer different behaviours, but either way, -5% regen is -5% regen.

I drive everywhere with OPD and use my right foot to adjust how much regen I want. It is counter intuitive at first, but I like being able to get the car to come to a complete stop with one pedal.

Adaptive Cruise Control does use regen to slow down, but will use the brakes if it needs to. You can see what it's doing by watching the % pwr line.

I think that ACC on the 1st generation MG5 only used the brakes to slow down, but the long range version I had did use regen.

 

[Joningy]

Energy recovery is energy recovery.

All Regen 1, 2, 3 and One Pedal Driving change is the amount of regen you get for a given position of the accelerator pedal.

The % pwr line on the right shows you how much energy is going out of (green) or into (blue) the battery.

Lifting off the accelerator pedal completely with the different regen levels gives you
L1 -5% regen
L2 -15% regen
L3 -21% regen
OPD -25% regen and the car will come to a complete stop

Using L1, if you take your foot off the accelerator completely, the car rolls for ages, slowing down gently. For the same behaviour in OPD you have to keep your foot on the accelerator.

Different people prefer different behaviours, but either way, -5% regen is -5% regen.

I drive everywhere with OPD and use my right foot to adjust how much regen I want. It is counter intuitive at first, but I like being able to get the car to come to a complete stop with one pedal.

Adaptive Cruise Control does use regen to slow down, but will use the brakes if it needs to. You can see what it's doing by watching the % pwr line.

I think that ACC on the 1st generation MG5 only used the brakes to slow down, but the long range version I had did use regen.

I like to use OPD all the time, but exiting my garage forwards is tricky because the available width is narrowed by the electric door activation arms, they protrude about 60 to 70mm either side of the frame, giving me about 60mm clearance either side which is a tad tight , meaning I drive slowly into and out of the garage, but as I'm driving so slowly out, the OPD thinks I want to keep stopping, a bit of a pain, but it is easy to fold the mirrors in and back out again.

A bit off topic now, but relevant to people like me who regularly garage their cars.
Width is a thing I need to look carefully at when purchasing a replacement car, I guess the alternative is all the extra expense of changing the door mechanism to perhaps a roller type which need no door frames, the channels are fixed behind the brick work, this would give an lot of additional space. Got me thinking now!

 

[peterseddon]

The S5 does use regen to slow when using ACC.