Happy Zappy
Standard Member
With the recent good weather, I've been really happy with the economy from the ZS. Over the past 700 miles I've been averaging around 4.2 miles/Kwh.
However, that changed on Friday. We were due to do a trip out to visit somewhere that was 59 miles away. No problem for the return journey I thought, especially when an overnight charge showed a potential 203 miles on the GOM. The trip up the M3, round the M25 & down the M23 was in horrendous rain, with wipers going constantly, headlights on & large amounts of surface water. We arrived having travelled 59 miles, but it had wiped 120 miles off the range!!!
For the return journey, I thought it might just about be within range, but there were huge queues on the M25 which were adding over 45 minutes to the journey. So we decided to take a longer route back and had to do a "splash & dash" at the Shell Recharge station near Horsham. It was only a 17 minute charge, but, with only 1 "pump" there, I had a 25 minute wait for the previous user to finish. Arrived home with no further issues & around 30 miles of range left.
All in all a rather eye opening journey on the effects that weather can have on the range......
However, that changed on Friday. We were due to do a trip out to visit somewhere that was 59 miles away. No problem for the return journey I thought, especially when an overnight charge showed a potential 203 miles on the GOM. The trip up the M3, round the M25 & down the M23 was in horrendous rain, with wipers going constantly, headlights on & large amounts of surface water. We arrived having travelled 59 miles, but it had wiped 120 miles off the range!!!
For the return journey, I thought it might just about be within range, but there were huge queues on the M25 which were adding over 45 minutes to the journey. So we decided to take a longer route back and had to do a "splash & dash" at the Shell Recharge station near Horsham. It was only a 17 minute charge, but, with only 1 "pump" there, I had a 25 minute wait for the previous user to finish. Arrived home with no further issues & around 30 miles of range left.
All in all a rather eye opening journey on the effects that weather can have on the range......