Thank you so much for both this video and all your tips and tricks. I picked up my trophy LR last Thursday and your information has been priceless. Marc.

Thanks for the great video

Really good job. I like your clear and useful reviews.We've just adquired a MG4 Luxury and we've very excited waiting for it. I live in Canary Islands. Thank you very much sir.

I did much the same trip in reverse last week with my MG4 (Cardiff to Beaulieu and back) - although I stopped overnight near Basingstoke to see family. My distance travelled was longer as a result of course.... I got about 3.9 miles per Kwh with more motorway, so did have to charge. It helps that my relatives also have a home charger, so I did top up for a few hours there. Well done on your miles per Kwh!

I did Cardiff - Redruth / Redruth - Cardiff in my standard Model 3 with no problems. In fact because the family wanted to stop at Exeter services both ways, I decided to do a bit of a top-up. The car was ready well before they were ready to carry on. Sadly the return journey took 8 hrs as the bridge was closed causing huge tailbacks on the M5. Grrrr.

After much research (days and weeks) I've gone for an EV. MG4 standard range, thanks to content from yourself and a few others. You have really educated me about the ease of EVs and put many fears ro rest . Thabks to content like this i understand that 99% of my journeys over a year will never see "range anxiety", or to be honest a need me to even hink about it charging and my life will not change one bit other than saving in excess of £100 per month in diesel. The other 1% of journeys are 2/3 times a year and involve the family ( myself, wife and two young children), and despite my best efforts we can never go more than 2hrs in the car without the need for someone to need the toilet etc, and these stops are always 20 mins by the time everyone has faffed. So hooking the car up to get a charge while we are refreshing is sensible, no hardship at all and requires no more thought than planning which services to use rather than diving into one when we all feel like it.

wowzers

Thanks for the video, very informative. I expected to see less range for the lower 50% of the battery, but that did not seem to be the case.

Very useful as I own one 2.

Fantastic vid Burl, very impressed with that range

4.6 miles per kWh is excellent, even in those mild conditions. I have a Genesis Electrified G80 which is a large executive saloon with an 87.7 KWh battery and I would struggle to see much over 4 miles per kWh.

Thanks for the video- good info for EV driving on long journeys. I believe your average speed for the journey was about 40mph which is not fast but in fairness you seemed to keep up with traffic. Keeping a lower average speed is probably the most important parameter in maximising efficiency achieved. For info on our motorways 120kph I keep my speed at about 103kph to avoid an unnecessary drain on my EV battery- Cupra Born 😊

The more I see of this car, the better it seems to my use case. I live in tiny Barbados just 166 square miles so this can easily take me across the whole island 2-3 times. With solar charging it just seems to be really smart purchase. Ps. I agree cross country driving is way more fun than freeway.

Just a heads up Burl, it’s apparently very easy to add a USB port in the dome light area to power dashcams, would recommend if the cable down causes annoyance

Now MG just needs to sell the Trophy without that silly pointless spoiler. It does nothing for the car and only increases drag. The fact you can't order the SE Long Range with the Trophy equipment outside that is a silly choice on their point.

A lot of people are moving over to a better route planner tethered to OBD dongle so that their stop over calculations are linked to the point in time state of their charge. Does zip map works similarly.

In the user manual MG recommends that once every 3 to 6 months you perform a charge from less than 10% to 100%.

My accumulated average is sitting at 3.6 m/kwh after just over 1k miles. Not amazing, but i don't drive very carefully as i don't see the point of driving an EV if you're not going to use the superior acceleration to your advantage. Plus it's just more fun. I only worry about having range when i do those longer trips. Manchester to London Heathrow and back is going to be a challenge in December. Going off the WLTP I should be able to make it just barely without charging, but with the temperature that doesn't seem likely so there are a few rapid charging stations I've bookmarked along the last bits of the M40.

Nice to see how easily it did that journey without needing to charge, cracking average miles / kWh. Quick question if you don't mind , is that Google navigation native to the car or via Android auto / apple carplay? Looking forward to getting my trophy next month👍

Great video, what size battery has the MG , and what size pv system have you , cheers

This is really interesting. How did you manage to get such a high m/kWh figure? Other videos I've watched seem to only get 3-3.5 m/kWh? Was it because you avoided the motorway?

About 10 mins in - it's too many cars in urban areas that made it take 7 mins to do a mile, not the speed limit.

32kph in all built up areas? How built up is built up?

Looks a great car, though at least on the video the road noise on the motorway seemed quite excessive.

Interesting video. Did you use default driving mode and regeneration settings (Normal & 3) ?, and are those your preferred settings?

Hi, if it was 7mins at 20mph, how long would it have taken at 30mph? With traffic would it have made any appreciable difference to the experience of the drive? Isn't it just something we'll get used to? I just hope that it's only 20mph where it needs to be for genuine pedestrian safety.

You must have a light right foot, I average 4.4 at best in my SE LR... 😅

Is that all your daughter is taking ?? When my 2 daughter were at uni, the Skoda Estates was rammed to the roof!! (Octavia and Superb)

I can't get over 3.7 in my MG4 Trophy, and I have strong regen, use normal or eco, and don't really drive much on motorways. I'm baffled!

Real world driving would have been on the motorway though and going fastest route like normal people do? Most people won't go cross country roads, risk meeting tractors and being delayed even further etc and then you've got the potholes, loose chirpings damaging your car , bushes sticking out on the road and the wear and tear on the car from taking those roads regularly

Why why Roads in England are really really small ?

which model??

In the states, driving 120 km per hour ( on the Freeways) I bet you will not get that type of range. We drive fast here...lol.

The infotainment screen seems rather laggy.

don't drive like a miser just because you've got an EV. It's up to the company to build an efficient car, then we drive it however we feel like and deal with the consequences. It'll be a great shame if we become misers

Great vid mate. Thinking of getting the Trophy version of this in March. I'm a newbie to EVs. How much is it to charge a car from home overnight vs going to fill up a petrol car?

Nice video, however as I drive a diesel car I would have taken the dual carriageway and M4 if there were no problems showing as I much prefer driving on dual carriageways and motorways as I feel they are much safer to drive on so I think having to drive longer and on crappy single carriageway road is a pretty sad indictment of having an electric car and having to hunt out charging sites whereas fuel stations are just about around every corner.