Road tripping in the MG4

[Jamesrr]

This was indeed quite noticeable difference, it allowed me to get a bit closer to the car in front before braking and it relies on slowing down with no regen, then I imagine it cycles from level 1 to 2 to 3 and eventually brakes, so it naturally feels smoother.

I have no idea what the level of regen has to do with how close to the car in front you get. This makes no sense to me whatsoever.

Could you please try and explain it better?

 

[decrep]

Hi James, I was also puzzled by this, but now I think it could it have something to do with being in ACC?
I never use ACC so I'm not familiar with how it behaves.

 

[ReintjeWA]

Perhaps it is just the illusion of the car getting closer. I find that with ACC set to a certain distance, the car slows down fairly brisk when set to regen 3, if using regen A the car often feels like it coasts more. I’m sure the ACC will still maintain the same distance but perhaps it feels like you can get a little closer because the transition to slowing down is less abrupt?

 

[Jamesrr]

Hi James, I was also puzzled by this, but now I think it could it have something to do with being in ACC?
I never use ACC so I'm not familiar with how it behaves.

I use ACC all the time when driving long distances. There is a setting to adjust the distance between the car in front of you. It has nothing to do with the Regen level (which I set at "3").

Perhaps it is just the illusion of the car getting closer. I find that with ACC set to a certain distance, the car slows down fairly brisk when set to regen 3, if using regen A the car often feels like it coasts more. I’m sure the ACC will still maintain the same distance but perhaps it feels like you can get a little closer because the transition to slowing down is less abrupt?

I've never tried regen "A". I'd prefer to use OPD regen, but that doesn't get remembered between driving sessions so the closest I can get is Regen 3 with "Autohold" enabled. This is remembered between sessions and is good enough for me.

I'd really hope the regen setting doesn't interfere with the distance ACC keeps. That would be bad.

...and why would you want to get closer!!! The whole point of it is to keep a safe distance. Not to automatically tailgate someone

 

[decrep]

...and why would you want to get closer!!! The whole point of it is to keep a safe distance. Not to automatically tailgate someone

That's another puzzle, and even if it did, how would that affect consumption?
Apart from the drag on effect.

 

[FrankMG4]

I just concluded my first "road trip" in Spain: cruising, not speeding, a total of 1,120 km in 4 days (day 1: 410 km, day 2: 200 km, day 3: 30 km / visiting friends, day 4: 480 km). I only charged with Iberdrola fast chargers: between €0.6 per kWh for the 50&100 kW chargers and €0.67 per kWh for the 350kW charger.
Charging went very well most of the time, except on the way back in Murcia. There, it only worked on the fifth attempt, after trying four different charging stations! We then tried a 350kW charger (actually for trucks), and within 30 minutes we were at 90% (we charged up to 127kW there).
All in all, an interesting learning experience…
The price per km (€0.092) is slightly higher than my Golf Diesel (€0.085) if you only use fast chargers.
I'm quite happy with the range: only four charges for a 1,120km trip, with less than 150 Wh/km for this whole trip

 

[Kenno]

Regarding ACC, I have tried regen A and regen 1 (after another post that said it was smoother when you hit slow traffic). Not sure if it's smoother, but my other finding is that the MG seems to use quite a narrow beam to work out the distance to the car in front, so if the car in front likes to drive to either side (of a wide motorway lane), instead of the middle, I need to also drive a bit to the right or left, but not too far that LKA complains.

 

[mg4]

Regarding ACC, I have tried regen A and regen 1 (after another post that said it was smoother when you hit slow traffic). Not sure if it's smoother, but my other finding is that the MG seems to use quite a narrow beam to work out the distance to the car in front, so if the car in front likes to drive to either side (of a wide motorway lane), instead of the middle, I need to also drive a bit to the right or left, but not too far that LKA complains.

I have not noticed that so far, i wonder if others have?

In place of narrow, i have more discomfort of the MG4 being too agressive if the car was going 10kmh slower than my set ACC speed and than it overtakes a truck, the MG detects simply no obstacle and soo agressively speeds up to where it gets way to close to the now 20kmh slower than me truck. Then it brakes soo hard that in few seconds the passangers get 2 abrupt jerks. I find setting it A regen is somewhat better for this. Do others get this as well or should i go to the dealer?

 

[Kenno]

Interesting - slightly different scenario, but I find when I pull into the outside lane to pass the slower vehicle that caused the ACC to slow me down I have to encourage my MG4 to speed up, now that there is nothing in the way. So I would expect yours to be equally lethargic after the first slow vehicle is out of the way. This the opposite behaviour to our 5 year old ICE Kia, that our young adult son drives, which drops several gears and guns the engine when it thinks the way is clear, which sounds like your MG4. Perhaps the MG4 behaviour is different software versions. The only software that has been update on mine for more than 2.5 years relates to AEB, not the full suite.

 

[mg4]

Interesting - slightly different scenario, but I find when I pull into the outside lane to pass the slower vehicle that caused the ACC to slow me down I have to encourage my MG4 to speed up, now that there is nothing in the way. So I would expect yours to be equally lethargic after the first slow vehicle is out of the way. This the opposite behaviour to our 5 year old ICE Kia, that our young adult son drives, which drops several gears and guns the engine when it thinks the way is clear, which sounds like your MG4. Perhaps the MG4 behaviour is different software versions. The only software that has been update on mine for more than 2.5 years relates to AEB, not the full suite.

Interesting, i had 3 different versions so far and on all 3 i had the too aggressive speed up also when overtaking. That might just be a subjective thing though.