This slightly longer video demonstrates the real world efficiency and range of the MG4 Trophy EV on a long trip at maximum legal speeds on the motorway. Conducted at between 9 and 10 °C, with about 50 miles of drizzle on the journey, and a few sections of slower A roads and motorway speed restrictions, still around 120 miles of this journey was at 70mph.
I have included mutliple points on the trip to prove that I actually did this all in one go, and interestingly, the slow sections demonstrate how much of an improvement in efficiency there is to be had by slowing down a bit.
On a 250 to 300 mile journey, there comes a point when driving slower, say at 60mph and not having to stop for a charge would actually result in a shorter journey time than driving faster and having to stop. The lower speed sections were showing between 3.7 and 3.9 miles per kilowatt hour, the faster sections were 3.5 to 3.6, so the difference was around one third of a mile per KW/h, one third of 62 is 20.6, so driving at the lower speeds would have resulted in over 20 miles more range.
28 авг 2024
