Hi billy and Stuart and everyone here, well I look at it this way a lot depends on how far you want to push it, I don’t like to get below 20% if I can avoid it having said that couple of times in my 9 months of ownership of the 5 I have had to, I think on the the whole I agree with Stuart’s figures but I don’t drive as fast as he does like to stay in the 62 to 65mph range so maybe get a little more efficiency than he does.
During the summer of 2021 I went to a wedding in South Wales and in very favourable conditions I did manage over 210 miles and ended up with 12% left I think it was but as I said conditions 22 degrees only about 10-15 miles of motorway driving average around 50 mph. I travel down to south London several times a year to visit Family and that’s around a 225 mile trip and I normally stop about half way and top up at rugby Gridserve both going there and on my return. Try to set off full charged and get to rugby with around 46-55% take it back up to 80-85 % on a rapid at rugby and arrive with mid 30- low 40% that journey is 90% motorway driving.
Big difference in summer and winter figures as we know with using the heater more etc tomorrow I will be doing around a 285 mile trip fully loaded (load to can make a difference) so I will monitor it and post an update,
Love the car best move I have made to go EV never go back to ice or even hybrid if I can avoid it
Les
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Hi again so I said the other day I had to do a long trip this week and would monitor it, so this was yesterday 18/01/22 travelling from Abbott’s Langley Hertfordshire to ( Lee ) in SE London and then back north to Wigan well here’s how it went.
Started off with a full charge 100% 207 miles.
Then drove to my sons home in Lee south east London, 49.3 miles away to deliver Christmas presents that they had not had because,they where to be coming home for Xmas until they got hit by Covid19 a few days before It, and are just about getting over it thank goodness, now arrived there with
77% battery left 156 miles on the Gom.
Put the car on charge there for a hour and half or so to top back up to 96% 194 miles to set off home to wigan around another 225 miles, but no problems in that, as Gridserve at Rugby was around 115 miles away just about half way, I have done this same journey several times since having my 5 and have been stopping at the same chargers at rugby since the week it was opened never an issue with it.
So off we set all good then disaster struck, as on arrival at Rugby I could see about 5/6 chargers had a barrier across then but there are 12 here so we will be ok I thought, several other EV owners where trying to get a charge but where unable to, as none of the units would let you pay by card or by the app by now I’m down to 35% 72 miles left.
So after trying to contact Gridserve as others there where also trying to as well, I checked on Zap-Maps and found there around 4/5 hours earlier it reported all chargers out of use not accepting payment sh-t, but I also noticed something else on Zap-Maps the price has changed again I remember Michael Fisher had posted the week before on the forum prices had gone from 30p-39p at Gridserve but now on Zap-Map it quotes prices as being 45p on these chargers at rugby as they are up to 350 kw and on checking this morning a couple are still out of use.
Now I’m not getting at Gridserve in any way at all they are doing a great job on the whole, but one of the guys there trying to get a charge said to me, it could be because of the price change, I’m not sure about that but I hope not as I’m sure three are more increases to come shortly due to the electricity prices sky rocketing.
Anyhow not too worried as I knew at Corley service’s about 12 miles further north on the M6, there was the good old Instavolts, 8 off them there to use even at 45p but had to use that station to get some or enough KWs to get me home on arrival there now down to 28% 61 miles.
Six where in used on arrival so I plug in to a 50kw pump and then see my charge rate is 27.6 kw !!?
Will it will go up I’m pretty sure it will so went off to the toilet and to grab a bite to eat on return had the rate gone up well no not really now been charging 35 minutes and only up to 59% by this time all units where now being Used
Check the charge rate on the pump still only at 28.8% so had a look at some of the other pumps and all where in the mid 40s kw so don’t know if it was the pump I’m on, my car, the weather or what else could it be ? Anyhow I could see a couple waiting so I decided to pull off at 61% which after I plugged out now showed 118 miles with around 105 to go very strange as you can see in the photo above at 59% the car said 125 miles but of course at that time the heater was off forgot about that now back on its 118 miles.
So still should be ok and set off to give others the chance to charge knowing Gridserve was down
So as I have said my times in the past I don’t like to get below about 20% remaining if I can help it, got up to Stafford thinking put a bit more in there but all pumps being used and others one waiting so kept going Keele is next but only one here and guess what in use, and the man had only just plugged in,so onwards we went thinking oh well we will just about make it with maybe 10% left, by this time it has gone a lot lot colder and it starting to rain so had to keep the heater running quite high suddenly from around 22% I quickly found the car on 14% and still some way to go, then I hit a long stretch of a 50mph area up to now been driving with the cruise control set at 63 mph as soon has I hit the motorways coming out of London, with the odd spell a bit faster when overtaking others,so now having to slowdown to 50 helped us get home, at around 9/8 miles remaining the battery symbol started flashing and then at 6/5 miles the GOM went - - - at this point I remembered Stuart Whitman’s post of 3%, well Stu I’m in there with you now as that’s what I had when I pulled on my driveway at home along with a Squeaky Bum !.
So in total 276 miles covered started at 100% let’s say 48 kw usable of that plus around 10 kw added at my sons house, then another 18kw at instavolt Corley
Sorry will now have to continue in a new tread lower down as this section is full so see below #16
Les
