#Mg5 fast charge full#

Not all EVs do this and some of the posher ones, with bigger more powerful batteries, really struggle to take a charge from the mains.

#Mg5 fast charge full#

The good thing with the MG5 is that it willingly takes the charge from a three-pin domestic plug socket and overnight that results in lifting the battery from 59 per cent as I left it to full charge by the next morning. The cold does impact on the range of the EV and what had read 204 miles for 100 per cent charge on a milder morning drops to 190 in the chill. Within minutes we are toasty and off to school. Instant hot air makes short work of the ice on the windscreen, blows comfortingly at your face, while the electrically heated seats warm your bum. That means the heat starts to come through as soon as the starter button is depressed. Instead of the ubiquitous combustion engine it has a 61kWh motor so the heating, like the car, is electric. But, strangely, with MG’s new EV estate, the 5, this is not the case.īack to the frosty mornings the great thing about the MG5 is that it doesn’t rely on the engine warning up to generate heat, mainly because it hasn’t gone one. With this in mind you would imagine an electric vehicle is going to make life worse not better, with all that sitting around supermarket car parks waiting for it to charge and in some cases it does. I remember recently waiting impatiently for the windscreen to clear on a frosty start – it seemed to take forever and resulted in a speedier than normal commute to make up lost time. It’s the same in the morning when sleepy teenager fails to get out of bed in good time making us late for the school run. It conspires to make us anxious, twitchy, a tad ADHD. PATIENCE is a virtue but not one many of us possess nowadays – or is that just me?Īs the speed of modern technology hastens by the second, we seem to spend more time waiting – to find a parking spot, for people to respond to messages, to get through traffic jams.