My upcoming MG ZS EV

[bikerdude666]

Originally Posted by MissMoppet

I've been looking through this thread to see what I'm missing. Then I looked up the price. £30000+ and only does just over 100 miles? I could get 10 immaculate R75s for that. And probably do some of the repairs myself - or trot down the road to someone I know who can. These EVs will cost a fortune to clock into a garage.


Sorry chaps, but I'm sticking to what I know.

The ones that drop to around 120 mile range in the winter are the old model with smaller battery, as far as I know, it's no longer available new, so only 2nd hand are for sale, which start around £21,000 for the top spec.

The £30,000+ are the new long range models, which are supposed to be capable of something like 260 miles, but obviously less in winter. Even then, there are companies out there doing deals, I've seen them advertised for just under £30,000 for the top model, with the base model somewhere around £26,000.

I had been planning on getting the HS PHEV to replace the ZT, but for me the performance while towing wasn't acceptable, from various user reviews it only had a range of about 130 miles while towing, which would mean at least 2 stops, but more likely 3, for our journeys for holidays, which I don't want.

[Simondi]

Originally Posted by MissMoppet

I've been looking through this thread to see what I'm missing. Then I looked up the price. £30000+ and only does just over 100 miles? I could get 10 immaculate R75s for that. And probably do some of the repairs myself - or trot down the road to someone I know who can. These EVs will cost a fortune to clock into a garage.


Sorry chaps, but I'm sticking to what I know.

That's fair enough, albeit to buy a brand new 75 in today's money would probably be similar to the EV.

[Lancpudn]

First Snowfoam of the year





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[Lancpudn]

What are you MG EV'ers using for public chargers? I never really fancied a wallet full of RFID cards or lots of different charging companies apps on my mobile phone to use public chargers.
We got assigned to Octopus energy by OFGEM when our utility supplier (AVRO energy) went belly up a few years ago.
I've just found out that Octopus energy have a new card called Electroverse. The Electrocard gives you the power to charge with one simple tap across the UK & beyond with no fees or charges on a multitude of public chargers & your account is linked to your home utility bills. I got mine in the post today.
https://electroverse.octopus.energy/

[Lancpudn]

Originally Posted by Lancpudn

What are you MG EV'ers using for public chargers? I never really fancied a wallet full of RFID cards or lots of different charging companies apps on my mobile phone to use public chargers.
We got assigned to Octopus energy by OFGEM when our utility supplier (AVRO energy) went belly up a few years ago.
I've just found out that Octopus energy have a new card called Electroverse. The Electrocard gives you the power to charge with one simple tap across the UK & beyond with no fees or charges on a multitude of public chargers & your account is linked to your home utility bills. I got mine in the post today.
https://electroverse.octopus.energy/

Well I thought I'll try this Octopus energy electroverse payment card out so I tried two local places with Osprey 50kW chargers & on both occasions at different places they weren't working.Zapmap reckons they were available & working!!!! Good job I don't have to depend on them.

[guru]

I've used the electric universe card on Ionity and Shell recharge both with no problems and cheaper then just using a contactless.

Thankfully things have improved now and other then when I use the Octopus card pretty much all chargers are just straight forward contactless now so my myriad of apps and cards is largely redundant.

[Lancpudn]

Just scored a good deal on a Ohme pro 7kW home charger for the garage. It'll be connected to the wi-fi to make use of smart cheap rate overnight electricity tariffs 7.5p/kWh between the hours of 12:30 & 04:30.