WAC 768
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With the claim from MG, you can charge your car from 0 - 80 using a 50KW rapid charger in just 40 minutes; I thought i would put this to the test, given; I have rarely seen this speeds anywhere close to this. Now before i start yes, i am aware this is subject to outside temperature and SOC but for the latter and with the new BMS, it's only starts to flatten at around 80% (MG Claims not mine).
Here's my results and the route taken was a 50 - 50 split using a mixture of A roads (dual & single carriageway)
And you can see from the table above, using the same charger for the first 2 and in fairly mild weather it's well over 100 miles before the car is capable of accepting 50KW or greater (charger dependent) to achieve the mythical 40-minute charge time or less.
Now, i believe 25C is the optimum temperature for the battery, but anything between 15C - 30C is classed as the 'desired operating temperature', so would expect once above the lower limit 50KW should be achievable without having drive many miles before hand to bring the pack temperature upto the optimum, but clearly not in my case!!
Interested in your thoughts / comments on my findings
Here's my results and the route taken was a 50 - 50 split using a mixture of A roads (dual & single carriageway)
And you can see from the table above, using the same charger for the first 2 and in fairly mild weather it's well over 100 miles before the car is capable of accepting 50KW or greater (charger dependent) to achieve the mythical 40-minute charge time or less.
Now, i believe 25C is the optimum temperature for the battery, but anything between 15C - 30C is classed as the 'desired operating temperature', so would expect once above the lower limit 50KW should be achievable without having drive many miles before hand to bring the pack temperature upto the optimum, but clearly not in my case!!
Interested in your thoughts / comments on my findings
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