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[TheBoy]

BMW nav says I can get home with 12% remaining.

Do tell us if BMW nav is lying and you end up walking the final mile home? 

Hey, I do the walk of shame in petrol and diesel as well

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Currently in Wales, normally I burn a tank of fuel in the mummy bus getting here and back.

Charged the I4 to 100% and I splashed 20% of juice in just after the Prince of Wales bridge, for the grand cost of £7.40. Continued onto our destination, BMW nav says I can get home with 12% remaining.

Should be less than a tenner. Normally cost me at least £60 to come here.

I should really invest in a granny lead, but I need at least a 10 or 15m one here to charge. Car gets no use once we arrive as we walk everywhere. Could easily charge back up over the course of several days.

That said the charger station out of 6 chargers 2 were broken, 2 were taken with what looked cars left there for the weekend. You don't get that problem at petrol stations....

It should come with one as standard.

I'd contact the dealer and ask him where it is.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Currently in Wales, normally I burn a tank of fuel in the mummy bus getting here and back.

Charged the I4 to 100% and I splashed 20% of juice in just after the Prince of Wales bridge, for the grand cost of £7.40. Continued onto our destination, BMW nav says I can get home with 12% remaining.

Should be less than a tenner. Normally cost me at least £60 to come here.

I should really invest in a granny lead, but I need at least a 10 or 15m one here to charge. Car gets no use once we arrive as we walk everywhere. Could easily charge back up over the course of several days.

That said the charger station out of 6 chargers 2 were broken, 2 were taken with what looked cars left there for the weekend. You don't get that problem at petrol stations....

It should come with one as standard.

I'd contact the dealer and ask him where it is.

What's a granny lead?   

I never took my Nan for a walk, but if I had I don't think she'd have run off or chased sheep or anything like that.     

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Currently in Wales, normally I burn a tank of fuel in the mummy bus getting here and back.

Charged the I4 to 100% and I splashed 20% of juice in just after the Prince of Wales bridge, for the grand cost of £7.40. Continued onto our destination, BMW nav says I can get home with 12% remaining.

Should be less than a tenner. Normally cost me at least £60 to come here.

I should really invest in a granny lead, but I need at least a 10 or 15m one here to charge. Car gets no use once we arrive as we walk everywhere. Could easily charge back up over the course of several days.

That said the charger station out of 6 chargers 2 were broken, 2 were taken with what looked cars left there for the weekend. You don't get that problem at petrol stations....

It should come with one as standard.

I'd contact the dealer and ask him where it is.

What's a granny lead?   

I never took my Nan for a walk, but if I had I don't think she'd have run off or chased sheep or anything like that.     

It's a shit-slow charging cable.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Currently in Wales, normally I burn a tank of fuel in the mummy bus getting here and back.

Charged the I4 to 100% and I splashed 20% of juice in just after the Prince of Wales bridge, for the grand cost of £7.40. Continued onto our destination, BMW nav says I can get home with 12% remaining.

Should be less than a tenner. Normally cost me at least £60 to come here.

I should really invest in a granny lead, but I need at least a 10 or 15m one here to charge. Car gets no use once we arrive as we walk everywhere. Could easily charge back up over the course of several days.

That said the charger station out of 6 chargers 2 were broken, 2 were taken with what looked cars left there for the weekend. You don't get that problem at petrol stations....

It should come with one as standard.

I'd contact the dealer and ask him where it is.

What's a granny lead?   

I never took my Nan for a walk, but if I had I don't think she'd have run off or chased sheep or anything like that.     

It's a shit-slow charging cable.

With a 3 pin 13 Amp plug on the end? 

[TheBoy]

Yeah, so a 3kW charger.  The sort of thing you charge those pointless plug-in hybrid with.

12hrs on one of those might get you a few tens of miles....

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Yep. Its what I will use once in a while to put some electricity in the milk float at home.
Public chargers area definite no for me, except in a real emergency. It would probably be cheaper to use the Omega than charge up with one of those.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Yeah, so a 3kW charger.  The sort of thing you charge those pointless plug-in hybrid with.

12hrs on one of those might get you a few tens of miles....

Yep.....and Tunnie should have one with his car.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Yep. Its what I will use once in a while to put some electricity in the milk float at home.
Public chargers area definite no for me, except in a real emergency. It would probably be cheaper to use the Omega than charge up with one of those.

Not used the one we have for Mrs Opti's milk float as we have the 7KW Octopussy 'Zappy'

3kw is not great but better than a knee in the groin, a slapped face, or a drink poured over your head by an irate girlie.

I have experienced all three.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

You need to become more of a smooth talker by the sound of it. 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

You need to become more of a smooth talker by the sound of it. 

I blame it on the combination of youth, booze, and wacky baccy.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

 

[LC0112G]

He gave uk clear instructions. “ Get your own oil”.

Don’t worry this sh1t show will end in a few weeks then everyone else will have to pick up the mess ( except of course Israel)

Dorset has it's own oil! 

We should proclaim independence from Starmer's socialist shitshow Yookay. 

The Democratic People's Republic Petrostate of Dorsetshire?   

I know you're sort of joking, but the UK has no refineries producing Diesel. All diesel has to be imported. So even if Darzet has a squillion barrels of crude oil lying around, it'll still have no diesel.

And it doesn't matter what hole in the ground the oil comes out of, or even which country that hole in the ground is actually in. Oil is globally priced, so if it's $100 a barrel in the UK, it's $100 a barrel in the USA, $100 a barrel in China, $100 a barrel in Russia etc. The oil isn't owned by 'the UK' or 'Darzet' - it's owned by Shell/BP/Exon/Whoever, and they will sell it to whoever is prepared to pay the most for it. If some idiot starts a war which cuts off 30% of world supply, then the countries that used to receive that oil will shop elsewhere, which puts up prices for everyone. The only way to stop that is export restrictions, but since we can't refine the oil anyway that'd be pointless.

[tunnie]

So BMW was actually a bit pessimistic on charge on arrival, rubbish bank holiday traffic helped though. Stop/start speed up/down traffic is actually better for an EV than a constant cruise I've found. As it can generate quite a bit more of electric back into the car.

Going home from Wales it said I would have 16% on arrival home, actually had 19%.

Decided to use (even with discount) over priced Ionity charger at Magor just off the M4 on the way up to Wales. Charged to 100% before leaving home, arrived at the charger on route with ~59%, car said it would be 56%. (so again a little under)

Still infrastructure and people issues though, of the 6 chargers:

2 = Looked like the cars had been parked overnight and no one there. (middle of an industrial estate on a bank holiday)
1 = Already being used
2 = Broken
1 = I used

Another lady arrived in a BYD, she could not get the first charger I used to work. (we both got an authentication error)  - She tried the other spare, also an error. So she had to wait for me, luckily I only wanted 20% so I was gone in side 15 mins.

Even though BMW nav was pointed to a charger it recognised, I don't think it pre-conditioned the battery for charge. At most I got 120kWh out of it and it quickly dropped to ~70.

Far away from the 350 kWh limit of the charger and supposed 225 limit of the car. 

Splash and dash of 20% charge cost me £7.50 and that was enough for the complete journey into Wales and then back home again. Technically I could probably bung 10% or even 5% in and it would have been enough.

The i4 M60 with it's dual motors AWD though is far from the most efficient EV out there, suspect something far more boring could easily do the run in a single charge.

Granny lead, as others have said, slow charger adaptor for a 3pin plug. I don't need the car once arriving in Wales, enjoying the country walks to the pub far to much for that. So a slow charge over multiple days is not an issue.

I'd even go as far as to limit the output to 6amps and be very slow and not stress the old house electrics. BMW being BMW are being tight now and don't provide one from new, first I4's did but mine did not come with one. It's £120-£150 for the cable and given this is the first time in nearly 6 months I've charged away from the house, not sure I can justify one at the moment. 

[TheBoy]

So BMW was actually a bit pessimistic on charge on arrival, rubbish bank holiday traffic helped though. Stop/start speed up/down traffic is actually better for an EV than a constant cruise I've found. As it can generate quite a bit more of electric back into the car.

Constant speed is better for any vehicle, as Scottie would say, ye cannae change the laws of physics, Captain.

Also you'll only regenerate leccy under "braking", but thats inefficient as you have to speed up again, unless of course you need to slow down.


As to not getting much out of the charger, it is possible you were also at a point where the batteries can't take full whack, which is prob as you approach 80%-ish?