My Zs Ev will often achieve 180 miles on a full charge when running about locally, as I use it for a delivery job that I have, I do this three days a week. I also do quite a few long journeys from Glasgow to Manchester, Liverpool or Nottingham. I used to suffer from range anxiety but now I know I can rely on my car doing 110+ miles on a fast (68mph average) long journey so I tend to stop every hour and a half to two hours. On Thursday I left Glasgow to see The Rolling Stones at Anfield, Liverpool. I stopped at my normal stop Southwaite south Services, charged for 35 minutes then had enough charge to get to Liverpool (225 miles total). I was running ahead of schedule so stopped at the brilliant MFG Crow Orchard charge point where there are 8 150Kw chargers, that always work. I filled up to 90% so I didn't need to charge in Liverpool and could get half way home. I was pulling 138amps for most of this charge which is much faster than I can charge at most public charging points. On the way home I had a short stop at Burton-In Kendal services to see their new charger set up and to add about 15kwh, this was enough to get me to the Belstane Avenue Carlisle Road, Crawford, chargers which are free to use, so charged up to 85 % and headed home. Total cost for the journey in electric was £24.58 against probably over £100 with an ICE vehicle.
). I’ve already planned charge stops etc using Zap-Map and plan to use the car normally, what’s the point having it and not using it properly? Drmcw is spot on!
