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Posted 22 April 2023
MG MG4 51kWh SE Auto 5 door Car - £25,850 Collection / £26,220.74 Delivered @ MG Cinderford / Auto Trader
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This car comes with
10.25in Floating Colour Touchscreen
17in Alloy Wheels - with Low Wind Resistance Aero Cover
4-Speaker Audio System
7in Full Digital Driver Information Display
Adaptive Cruise Control
Alarm & Engine Immobiliser
Android Auto
Apple CarPlay
Auto Headlights
ESP - Electronic Stability Programme
Front Side Airbags
Intelligent High Beam Assist
LED Rear Lights
Lane Keep Assist with Lane Departure Warning System
Parking Sensors - Rear
Projector LED Headlights
Side Airbag Curtain
Steering Wheel - Leather
TPMS - Tyre Pressure Monitoring System
Tinted Glass
How long will it take to charge?
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Edited by sajidtg, 22 April 2023
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sorted byTotal Charging Costs for the 970 Miles £51 (Ionity at 25p Kwh)
Brilliant Car Great Roadtripper.
More Details here for anyone interested in using an Electric Car for long trips (We do 40 to 50k miles a year in ours)
speakev.com/thr…67/ (edited)
What are your thoughts on the ZS EV
Please. Thank you (edited)
I don't have a home charger and I've had an EV for 18 months.
I much prefer a smoothed over front like the Tesla's and this have.
Many EVs require very little service costs beyond the usual consumable brakes etc..
one of my friends bought a Tesla Model s in 2015. he has free supercharging for life and to date, his TOTAL service cost is under £200 (brake overhaul) .. its done over 100000 miles and is the cheapest car he has ever owned (he used to change them every 3 years)..
I had a Leaf; all I ever did was replace the brake sliders and put pads on them (even though they did not need them).
Get a cheap home EV charging tariff, which can be a very cheap way to run a vehicle. Out-and-about charge costs do vary between free and about 75p/kWh. home charging can be around 7.5p/kWh overnight on the likes of Octopus Energy.
I'll kick off... here's some myths about evs. If you're saying any of those, don't bother
I woke up crazily early for the start of a 12 hr shift. Getting up 10 minutes earlier to get petrol (or get home 10 mins later last night to get petrol) wasn't an option. It was freezing outside so I didnt to be stood outside in the cold as my car defrosted. I also didn't dare leave my car engine running without me being there due to legality and insurance concerns. So instead I pressed a button on my phone. It defrosted whilst I had a cuppa. When I finished my tea I set off for work. My road is quiet so luckily no loud engine noise. I'm also able to turn off the reversing bongs on the car so it was almost silent so didnt wake up people. I got into my de-iced, lovely warm car with warm seats and steering wheel. I had already sent the address where I was going to the car when I was inside. I forgot to say I spent aboit 5 seconds unplugging my cable and started with 100% charge. I drive 10 miles away, so the 20 miles round trip would be OK with my 280 mile range ev. Having said that, regen braking gave me about 30% back so only usef around 14 miles of energy for the round trip.
The sat nav showed no big issues or diversions but had there been one then it would have shown alternative routes. Was so easy to drive. My left foot was resting as no clutch. My right foot simply went up and down rather than going between the accelerator and brake and this was due to one pedal driving. Also my left hand wasn't constantly changing gears. In fact I utilised adaptive cruise control so my right foot was hardly used too. The lane control even helped me steer. The only time I took control was at junctions and traffic lights.
Drove past a school that were there early due to a school trip. Traffic was crazy so I was almost stood still. What surprised me was the amount of emissions from the parents cars and the coach and this was blowing over the kids. I saw some kids coughing as it happened. But alsp remembered reading about emissions and poor brain development in children. Eventually I was on the dual carriageway. Cruise ocntroll set and wow it was effortless. At one point some bad driver started to move into my lane without looking. But no issues as I hit the accelerator and quickly got safely in front of them. Nybautomatic wipers sensed the rain and the auto main beam worked a treat. Also Nice to think that every slow down I didn't use my brakes and in fact got energy back. Win win.
Got to work feeling refreshed and calm. Then 12 hrs later the same trip back. Again no dancing my hands and feet around the cabin to brake, use clutch and change gears... just easy. I did stop off to see friends but still way more range than I needed. On the trip back I saw a 8 pump pwtrpl station which was full and with aboit 6 people waiting. So much so they were stopping traffic on the main road. Anyway I got home and plugged in the car. Took me about 5 seconds. Normally I wouldn't charge every night but knew I was having a long trip the next day and needed 100%. The cheap tarrif didn't start for another 2 hrs. But the charger knew this sonic saved me going back out to turn it on. Similarly it knew when to turn it off at 1.30am so I just slept as normal. I also used the off peak tariff to use the dishwasher and washing machine so this saved me money too.
Woke up the next morning to drive to the airport. 2 weeks hols. I knew even with the long range of the ev, that I would still need a tiny charge ans decided to top it up a little before the airport so I was even easier when I return. Once again,in the morning I defrosted the car, heated the seats and steering wheel. Chucked the cases in the car and was on my way. Stopped off for about 6 mins. Stepped outside the car to stretch my legs. Got to the airport parking and done. Again no stress. I did remember to set valet mode to stop anyone being an idiot. I handed the keys over and enjoyed the hols. Upon my return I saw I didn't even lose 1% preheated the car whilst I waited for luggage. Drove home feeling tired but the actual drive was easy. Got home with more range than I needed. But I deliberately charged for the whopping 6 mins to ensure it was OK should I get diverted.
To be transparent. Yes the ice car would have saved me that 6 mins in charging but I still would have had a break for that time. So nothing gained. In fact I'd have had to set off aboit 8 to 10 mins early to ensure full petrol tank. So the ev was actually quicker. Cost wise, that trip would have cost nearly 60 in a petrpl car vs about 12 for the ev.
Currently leasing an Ioniq EV for £205pm thanks to HotUKDeals
We’ll probably all be driving them soon anyway with all these councils charging extra for polluting cars etc. I’ll wait until then. (edited)
Nowerdays many more people are either well informed regarding EVs or know someone who has one. It’s a very different picture today.
MG sell pretty decent EVs at “affordable “ prices.
Many people in the market for a new (cheaper smaller ) ICE car will probably find that coupled with an EV tariff like Octopus Go or Octopus Intelligent that the finances stack up vey well for the MG. And if you have solar at your home then this MG might cost next to nothing to fuel over 12 months
Buy only if you're an Uber driver and forget about resale value!
And thats not taking into account the 2.4 tonnes of emissions I would produce in 6 years using the ev itself. (edited)
Oh! and then you can pay the road tax, and servicing costs with lots of oil changes (more pollution) and lets hope you have deep pockets if you ever want to venture into one of the new and emerging ZERO emission zones..
photos.app.goo.gl/BaQ…Na7
Also some sites cheers you parking fees on top.
Wait for the hydrogen cars to arrive (edited)
IF you want to go hydrogen.. why not buy a Miri now.. they are available.
Spend a minute to do some research and you will very quickly understand why hydrogen will never be an option for a small vehicle. then look at storage and production.. even more challenges.
Expensive, overly complex and very short range on full EV and generally poor on petrol as it uses a small engine as a generator... expensive to service vs a pure EV. and will not be allowed in many of the emission zones soon as they are going to be 'ZERO emission'.
Certainly not all one way traffic anymore, that's for sure. You can now pick up a 72 reg leaf with 5k miles for £18k at a car supermarket.
For people who short commute it's a compelling argument and great opportunity.
However, teslas master plan is 10% over 10 years which is 1% of global gdp to move away from the harmful deadly chemicals
So it's cheaper for something better.
Just a thought for when people say "but what about the subsidies for ev (which are a tiny fraction of oil ones )" (edited)
The total vakue of oil extracted on the planet is only 3% of GDP so even if the thing was literally given away for free aka 100% subsidy it would only be 3% so your 6% is clearly BS
Also the way they try to con people is to pretend things that aren't subsidy are subsidy
For example if it costs $5 a barrel in Saudi to pump the oil and they sell it to their citizens for $5 a barrel that's called a subsidy becuase they aren't benchmarking it at what the New York Stock exchange says the value of oil is that moment
Overall oil is not subsidised but is VERY heavily taxed. This is how countries like Norway have built up bast sovereign wealth funds off the back of oil
It should be obvious if the stuff is making nations rich and every nation would love to have domestic deposits and production its not a burden but a blessing
In short use your own common sense don't believe the propaganda on media
And training of their technicians (ie using the wrong software to update the battery pack) then spending the next 2 months to realise the battery module was bricked. and specialist tools required to do the repairs.
Read the reviews at Trustpilot before buying.
Pretty sure anyone looking at EV cars know the plus and minuses for it and have done their homework; they likely don’t need some guy off the internet telling them it’s a load of rubbish 👌
Good deal this
Simon's mate might be paying the standard electricity tariff to charge his car so he'll be paying closer to £20 each charge (edited)
And most are white, which sells well in the US sunbelt but it's a very unpopular colour here.
That poor Elon Musk chap hardly has 10 $bn to rub together..
Electric Cars.. never going to happen is it? Every house has electricity.. but people are never going to figure out how to connect it to charge a car! Let's keep using up that finite supply of oil and being at the mercy of OPEC price setting as well as heavy government fuel tax..
I for one will be looking forward to waving at the EV owners (mugs) driving into the zero-emission zones while I park miles away and walk into town.. mind you I will be having to inhale that pure air as there are no tailpipe emissions .. But yeah.. Mugs!