What car did your MG4 replace?

[wattmatters]

And she couldn't work it out for herself...

My wife only learned to drive a few years ago, mostly learning in a Mazda 3, then she drove my old diesel Golf after getting her license. She has not the 40+ years of experience of driving scores of different vehicles that I do.

When the car behaved (significantly) differently to what she had experienced up to that point, she was concerned something was wrong.

Braking level when you lift the foot off the accelerator pedal should be a consistent experience when the settings in the car have not changed. It's a system design fault IMO.

 

[decrep]

Braking level when you lift the foot off the accelerator pedal should be a consistent experience when the settings in the car have not changed. It's a system design fault IMO.

You do get a warning that braking levels have changed.

Very hard to get a consistent experience with no regen, you'd have to electronically activate the brakes, when you lift your foot off, (not something I'd trust MG to do safely), or have level 0.5 as default.

 

[wattmatters]

Very hard to get a consistent experience with no regen, you'd have to electronically activate the brakes, when you lift your foot off, (not something I'd trust MG to do safely), or have level 0.5 as default.

Her car is the ZSEV, not the MG4.

You do get a warning that braking levels have changed.

Yes, on my MG4 at least, the cryptic message lasts for about a millisecond which you may be lucky to see.

Very hard to get a consistent experience with no regen, you'd have to electronically activate the brakes, when you lift your foot off, (not something I'd trust MG to do safely), or have level 0.5 as default.

Many EVs do blended braking, indeed the MG4 does too, just not in this instance.

What is level 0.5?