I have owned my Cooper SE for 1 month and 11 days now. Got it with 16km on the clock. Currently sitting at 4200km. I've driven from Bloemfontein to Cape Town charging Colesberg, Richmond, Beaufort-Wes, Laingsburg, Worcester and then you're in Cape Town. Highway speed driven was 93km/h on clock which is 90km/h GPS speed. Travelling 2200km round trip cost R1600 on the GridCars fast charge network. Less than R1/km even on expensive charging. Home charging on Eskom costs around 30cents per km. Having solar drops that to below 15cents per km. Thus far super duper happy with my SE.
@@shalemasindi138 It just clocked over 13000km this week. I drove 1500km in September and it cost me R160 since I charge mostly from my solar array. It's the best car I've even owned and its a pleasure to drive every day. The range for city is perfect and you will never run out but on road trips you have to plan each stop and ensure charger is working etc. You really won't be disappointed if you get one.
Hi im from bloem glad to hear someone that drove to CT and found a nice route to charge, mini here in bfn let me keep one for a day and i love it alot, great to know you happy with the car and its more cost effective. they want me to buy the demo one they have but it has 1700km on the clock, so rather going to wait until march next year until they in stock again , for now will work on getting a solor powered system to charge it.
Here in Port Elizabeth, oh wait, sorry, Gqeberha, most things are between 10 to 20 min drive away so the mini electric would work here, the BMW i3 is fairly popular down here, I often see between 2 to 3 a week😁
I hope with GWM already being in the country, that they will bring the Ora Cat to South Africa, and secondly that the government will scrap the excessive taxes on the cars.
@@eyeofthetiger4214 Bro, are you dumb. By the end of the decade, for the majority of car manufacturers it won’t make sense to build ICE cars for other markets if their main Home market has banned them. And so if they stop selling ICE cars while we incentive them, then there’ll be no point of selling their cars in general if they’re EVs. I swear I hope you’re trolling.
@@eyeofthetiger4214 Hey Abdullah, fossil fuel cars will eventually be replaced by something else, we need to save the climate. Although btw, I think it's too late for the climate anyway.
when i was a kid i never liked a car that is gas powered , today i see that future is going well, am hoping you to show more unique and durable electric cars ! 🤗
These cute looking cars are made especially for stupid non car people. My dad's wife insisted on an automatic Fiat 500 because it looked "cute" OMG, the car was the biggest piece of crap with problems from day one. Eventually gave up and traded it in (for almost nothing) on a Toyota.
Hi Cirro ! HUGE CONGRATS on presenting us - "the publuc" - with the BEST OF THE BEST car jorno / reviewing channel, material literally available locally, but probably GLOBALLY atthis point ! Adding the BRILLIANT "production work", your channel is absolutely WORLD CLASS !! Brilliant, accurate and onnpoint reviewing 😃💪👍 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ As for the POOR little mini "gogga" in today's review.... WELL, lets just say 😣😮😤😨😵😰... AWFULL ⤵
I have one as a company car and let me tell you what a little rocket I give all the big performance cars a shock built by bmw so it’s a Great drive and good quality
I think you hit the nail on the head with "this must be a 2nd car" statement and the same actually applies to bigger batteries as well. Even 400KM range is not enough for a road trip unless there is a fast charger somewhere along the way. Most of us do
Electric cars in SA are expensive and limiting in their use. And people want wireless charging for their phones because plugging something in is a big mission apparently. And today they announce load shedding. Now if you could run your tv and a lamp off your car then maybe this has a future...
The technology is on the way. You charge your electric vehicle when there is power, and then run your home off the car's batteries during loadshedding. Totally doable. C'mon clever entrepreneurs, here's your chance to make a killing. A fully charged EV battery can easily power a whole house if you have the correct inverters and whatnot.
Yip... Imagine electric cars filling in the gaps of load-shedding... I can't believe we are not a world leader in electric cars, actually!!! Thank you ANC!!!
Read up about the Ford Lightning in USA. You can run your home from it. Saw it on "The Fast Lane Truck" I hope more manufacturers will make vehicles like the Jeep Wrangler 4xE . For me that is the best of both worlds.
The delta between gas prices and electricity prices in South Africa are favorable for EVs... but man o man is that car expensive there; not to mention the extra tax for owning an EV and no other incentives. Yowzers. In the US, you can get the base trim version of this for $22,400 usd after federal tax credit. Some states offer between $1500 and $5000 additional on EVs, so some state residents could potentially buy this for $17,400 usd. BTW, who says this needs to be a household's primary car. This would make a fine second household daily driver, whereas a second car could be used for road trips. For individuals, so long as they have nightly charging, this vehicle would work fine as a primary vehicle, but for long trips they may need to trade cars with friends/family, or rent a car. With all the money saved... I'm sure it's worth it.
Not sure about the electric, but the ICE models are notorious for reliability issues and came in a recent top 5 worst second hand cars list here in Australia.
Loadshedding is back this week. This means electric cars would be used to power up our homes for 2hrs of loadshedding and then charge up after loadshedding. We need cheaper models to come quickly. Petrol/diesel is the past electric cars are the future. I want it now.
If folks dont know, the Chinese are at the 3rd iteration of the electric car. To put this in perspective, bmw is starting their 2nd iteration electric car. So dont jump, wait for the Chinese.
Hey Ciro. I bet that you would have a different result if you drove via Voortrekker road from town to Stellenbosch perhaps. That Mini is not meant for the freeway.
Not worth the money or the crazy expensive after sales costs that come with BMW group territory. Not to mention the lack of electric vehicle infrastructure in our "wonderful" new South Africa. In my opinion... get one of Toyota's new hybrid vehicles.
Cause government saw if evs were popular we'd jump due to high fuel prices and rise in transport fees, just like how s.a jumped to haval, so to would we jump to eV cars so to make companies like tesla not invest in us they made taxes on it, which is shitty shows that they don't really care of the environment they can give grants to unemployed people but kill does that earn salaries with heavy taxes and price of goods.
As a city runner 200KM+ is plenty... Time for our South African Government (or should we say, the corrupt ANC), to come on board; that's if they want to stay relevant.
@@oomstu Lol, Was quite the deal. x1000. Nice part is that selling it in a week or so and been offered R630k. R50k depreciation in 2.5 years just show how low the depreciation are on these EVs. Hope the XC40 recharge is the same, will have to see
@@oomstu Truth. This chip shortage has sent car prices through the roof. I was lucky to preorder the XC40 recharge before the chipshortage and Volvo has been kind enough to honour its preorder prices. Car's being delivered on Wednesday
Hi there Chiro. I have been looking into the Mini Cooper SE. The merits works for a work vehicle. If I am where I am based and not helping out, it makes perfect sense. Then my daily drive would be 30km for my work home round trip. Currently, I walk to work as 300m would just make me lazy to say the least. Major fuel savings I know. With research, I found that if you drive somewhere between driving Miss Daisy and legal top speeds on the free, the range is a lot better. Putting that into South African context, 80km/h to 100km/h. Above a 100km/h the range drops like a child constantly grabbing your cellphone to play games and you having nowhere to charge it. Our temperatures are also in the green zone for the vehicle, not the last few days, where we had heat and a/c would also have an impact on the range. Okay, speaking of the charging infrastructure. N1 and N2 are capable of handling some of our trips, if you don't mind stopping more regularly. N1 on the other hand, after Laingsburg, the chargers becomes a distance you wouldn't be comfortable with unless you know your car. The N7 on the flip side of the coin, only has a DC charger in Langebaan, so if your dream was to road trip the West Coast, sorry. Not going to work. Then again as with any other vehicle. The purpose and capability of the vehicle will only become more evident after you had it for a while and got use to it. For a singleton or a family without small children or that is just small, with mostly small structures, this makes the perfect go to. The price is the factor that is off putting. Let the EV guru for South Africa come, and do the best way to drive an EV and not just look at the pick up and go.
Funny that you passed a petrol ⛽ tanker with a electric car 😂😂, and with such a low range, how many stops do u make from Joburg to CT with that number plate, perhaps at the back of a truck 😂😂😂
Great job as always on your delivery Chiro but I don't like this EV. I didn't even finish the video. I have nothing against electric cars but this one just doesn't make sense to me.
Ok we've seen uber luxury electric vehicle now this the cheapest one next up is a really cheap electic scooter to really give some9 perspective..also i just wanna see you on an electric scooter for a day living that extra green life. This car would make sense for me i can charge it at home and at work and works only 11kms away so it would be perfect for that.
Considering that this is really a front-wheel drive version of the old i3 94 AH , why doesn't MINI just bite the bullet and upgrade it to the 120 AH battery?
Ive been driving EVs since 2014 , I've gone for a small EV and kept my older ICE SUV, ...lot cheaper than a R2m EV that is a pain to do long trips.(and costs about the same as a normal vehicle)
I have been watching car reviews from other car reviewers from other countries and electric vehicles were available as much as 2019. But here in South Africa are not available, why South African car manufacturers are way far behind in importing electric cars?
@@bonganidavidbaloyi8497. If you get stuck in traffic in an EV, you will not use any electricity, except for AC and radio. Have you ever drove your ICE car and thought that you will make it home, after the fuel light came on, and then struck heavy traffic? Now that is range anxiety!
@@bonganidavidbaloyi8497 the distance one commutes to and from work will also be a deciding factor. For example I do 20km so despite its short range will still work in this instance
The same way your fuel economy takes a hit, the electric range will also take a hit but won’t be that significant. Regen will work better down hill🤷🏽♂️.
@@mbizozo6271 , I think it will be worse on range. It seems like weight and wind resistance have a worse effect on EV's than on ICE cars. Watch TFL on RU-vid, they do a lot of towing tests. An EV loses half its range when towing, where as a ICE vehicle is about 10 to 20% heavier on fuel.
@@blikkiesblignaut6999 I just watched Carwow’s video with the Enyaq. It showed that the car doesn’t lose that much range doing highway driving at around 120km/h with passengers. Lost only 12 km compared with the same speeds and no passengers.
Electric vehicles is the way to go, but prices scare me off. Why government 😕 don't subsdise or incentivise with low prices to promote green environment .like European countries
Sadly, they're moving the production of this vehicle from the UK to China. It's a great little car... but buying anything built in China is an insult to environmental regulation, an insult to fair worker pay and treatment, and an insult to human rights. It also directly leads to wealth transfer upwards. In countries with higher pay, more of the vehicle revenue goes to the workers. When a vehicle is built in a cheaper labor nation, the car still costs the same in the local market, but more of that revenue is taken as profits... and it's those who are already at the top who benefit the most from corporate profits. Well paid labor is a great way for product revenue to redistribute itself back into the overall economy. Corporate profits is a great way to make the rich richer. While I get this type of discussion isn't in car reviewers' wheelhouse, well maybe it should be... because this type of thing matters. We can choose not to support this type of corporate greed.
I agree with what you say, but just about everything that we buy has something in it, that comes from China. I bought a pair of CAT shoes last year. When I inspected it after the stitching came loose, I saw a label "Made In China". Same with Hi Tec, Dutch company, but made in China. Volvo, owned by a Chinese company, KTM, some made in China etc. What to do!
@@blikkiesblignaut6999 True, but there's a difference between "something in it from China", and "the entire car made in China". I know this is South Africa, but in the US, a lot of people just presume that a huge chunk of parts come from China. It turns out that it's only about 4% of parts. Automotive is one of the last remaining bastions of Western manufacturing, and it's one of the largest global industries. It would be a disaster for higher cost of living nations to concede this industry to China. Yeah, I'm not so happy about Volvo moving so much production to China. The Polestar 2 went from being an exciting new BEV to a travesty by where they decided to manufacturer it.
A 2.5h load shedding gap in Eskom power does not stop you having a fully charged Smart phone in the morning. Not much different having an EV on charge and still read to use the next morning.
Please stop just stop really man. This is extremely irritating. We don't want reviews of boring electric cars with no engine and no sound. Who wants to charge their car every time, it's really annoying Please review ICE cars which are here to stay
