Will battery still have charge if I leave my MG4 EV at airport for 2 weeks ?

[Jan Bryan]

Going on holiday for 2 weeks and want to leave my MG4 EV in the car park at the airport. Does anyone have any experience of this and will the battery retain its charge?

 

[webhiker]

Oh yes!
I left my car for 7 weeks while in the hospital. And I did not notice any loss of charge

 

[JohnV6]

If you are worried use the app to heat the car. It also then charges the battery.

Or plug on the intelligent home charge point and add 5%

 

[GoElectric]

Just make sure it has around 60% charge. Don't leave it with too low or too high of a charge for long periods of time.

 

[Archev]

Going on holiday for 2 weeks and want to leave my MG4 EV in the car park at the airport. Does anyone have any experience of this and will the battery retain its charge?

Yes - six weeks without a problem leave it around 50 / 60 % charge.

 

[Rolfe]

Another confirmation that it's fine. I left mine for just over two weeks and the SOC was the same on my return as when I'd left it.

I noticed the long-stay car park had a couple of chargers. Maybe to allow people who arrived quite low to charge up before leaving the car.

 

[JonnyG]

Yes, mine spent 16 nights at Manchester Airport and the car opened and started fine

It's the small 12v battery under the bonnet you need to take care of really when leaving I think. As above it's best to leave the cars battery at a SoC between 60% - 80% if possible (that seems to be the consensus advice on here).

I did not look at the MG App once, just in case ! (as that can wake up the car to send info back)

Also "be prepared" seems to be the general advice and so I took a spare key fob battery and a charged up 12v powerbank battery jumper

 

[Tuareg]

I left mine for 5 weeks in Feb-Mar, was exactly the same soc as when I left it and drove away like I had used it the day before.