Hi everyone, looking at getting an MG ZS exclusive 2019. So as stated on the dealership you get 163 miles, is this correct? As I’ve been told I’d only get 130. Also when at traffic lights does the car regenerate electric? As I’ve been told otherwise. A lot of conflicting advice. With regards to home charging where is the best place to get a home charger? And does it only take 7hrs to charge overnight? How long would a rapid charge take from 0-80% battery? Thank you
As I understand it, the 2019 version is the ‘Mark 1’ version with a standard size battery.
The life of the battery depends on how many miles it’s done, how many times it’s been recharged etc. All batteries deteriorate over time. I have a similar version from 2020 and in cold weather, I can get 145 miles on the ‘guess-O-meter (GOM)’ mileage indicator, using a 7kW home charger. In Summer, this goes up to 165 or so as the state of charge - how much charge your battery holds - is very temperature dependent.
I got my home charger, a Zappi 2, from my energy supplier, Octopus energy, as at the time they were the cheapest.
To fully charge and equalise the battery takes about 6 hours, but you could stop the charge after about 3 hours and find you have nearly fully charged it. The excess time is spent trickling a very low voltage to the battery to equalise the charge across each of the battery cells. It’s a general recommendation to do this once a month but on the Zappi, you need to charge to 100% before this kicks in.
The GOM mileage is just that - an estimate - which can change depending on how you drive your car, so again it’s generally thought that resetting the car running mileage counters before charging should get your mileage guess to it’s optimal value.
Regen/KERS is braking regenerative - if you slow down using the brakes, the energy generated from that goes to the battery. Regen does not occur when you’re driving forwards and not braking or when your stopped. You can see this happen on the right hand dial next to the speed indicator meter, on the right in the dashboard. The needle goes from the 9 o’clock position down towards the 8 o’clock and further, depending on the harshness of the brake application & length of time spent braking.
I hope this helps - there might be some small inaccuracies but I defer to the experts here to correct my ‘ordinary driver’ understanding.
Happy EV motoring!