EQC Range problem or is it me......

[Darrell]

Sisters EQC. A nice car.

 

[Darrell]

EQC interior.

 

[alexanderfoti]

Distance: 1715 miles
Average consumption 2.3 mpkWh

I mean, I get that the market demand is for 4x4 vehicles for various reasons (I don't see why), but this is part of the problem, On our zoe (hatefull thing) we get 4+ Miles per KWH on avg, higher in the summer. Directly translates to a 150-180 mile range in the summer on a 41kwh battery (40kwh usable).

Thinking about changing for a EQA/EQB but the Ioniq 5 seems a better proposition.

 

[BoristheBounce]

Well... moving house on Friday so I've just arranged with Octopus to transfer my account and they have honoured the contract after initially saying I would have to start all over again, so I'm still on 5p overnight

 

[st13phil]

Thinking about changing for a EQA/EQB but the Ioniq 5 seems a better proposition.

I've had a couple of EQA's as loan cars in the last month or so while our (petrol) cars were being serviced.

They were pleasant enough, with good refinement and reasonable ride quality, although body roll was greater and the limit of grip easier to encounter than on my W177 hatch. The big "but" is that they carry an enormous price premium over their ICE counterparts that I would find impossible to justify. I accept that other usage patterns may make them more viable, but you need to do some detailed maths.

 

[alexanderfoti]

I've had a couple of EQA's as loan cars in the last month or so while our (petrol) cars were being serviced.

They were pleasant enough, with good refinement and reasonable ride quality, although body roll was greater and the limit of grip easier to encounter than on my W177 hatch. The big "but" is that they carry an enormous price premium over their ICE counterparts that I would find impossible to justify. I accept that other usage patterns may make them more viable, but you need to do some detailed maths.

The biggest issue is the limiting range of the Zoe (150 miles). We need another 50 or so to be able to use it for most journeys. It would replace the zoe and the SLK for my wife but if the range is too limiting then it is just too expensive.

The Ioniq 5 at 70kwh for 48k seems a better cost proposition.

 

[st13phil]

The biggest issue is the limiting range of the Zoe (150 miles). We need another 50 or so to be able to use it for most journeys.

Both times I took the loan cars (both were EQA 250's) they were fully charged and the dash estimated their range at something between 180 and 190 miles. Ambient temperature was low teens centigrade. I fear your 200 mile range requirement will not be met.

BTW, a friend has a Zoe and I agree: they're horrid.

 

[CoopsSA]

Well... moving house on Friday so I've just arranged with Octopus to transfer my account and they have honoured the contract after initially saying I would have to start all over again, so I'm still on 5p overnight

To be fair EDF were the same with me. Although I had to transfer to EON (new build) then transfer back but they then put me back on original tariff.

 

[Lloydmac]

Hi all, fist time post here so here goes and please let me know if its in the wrong section......

Been lucky enough to have just picked up a new 2020 EQC in the last 2 weeks with 8 miles on the clock and as the instruction manual says, best to charge to 80% to try to maintain battery life. Bit crap i thought if we need to start down that road but thought ok lets see what we get at that level of charge. Driving is 10 miles on the school run with country roads and using the regeneration D minus, minus rather than brakes with no hard acceleration and i mean none as you simply cant with all the twists and narrow roads. So given we dont want to run the battery down anything less than 30 miles and the car starts moaning at you from under 40, we charge it from around the 30 ish level. This allows us 2 full school trips and so circa 40 miles in total over two days before another charge to 80%. On an 80% charge it says we have around 145 miles from the start. Bit naff i thought so the wife needed to go further today and so we charged it fully to see and also to give her some peace of mind. Well, fully charged showed 225 miles and yet by the time she got 2 miles down the road it was showing 160 miles. There is no AC being used or heated seats and or demist. Just heating on 22 degrees. So im thinking is the weather at plus 4 degrees really the issue here or do we have a problem. This car is supposed to do around 250 and i know it will never do that, but though we would at least get 200. At this rate and from what i have seen, we seem to be around 120 miles if we are lucky. Any thoughts or other EQC experiences out there and thanks........

Can empathise with your 'loss' of expected mileage. I've had a '74' plate EQA since Oct and the return is really disappointing with 20-25% loss of expected mileage! With the Winter setting in.... it has just made me decide to change EVs or move to a PHEV. Previously I drove a Tesla for 3 years and the battery was very good and nowhere near the poor EQA return. I recently had to borrow my son's PHEV to go to Liverpool (fm Glasgow), as I could not risk it or cope with the range anxiety. Super easy with the Tesla, as it was a one 'stop' at the Tebay Service M6 super chargers (20 mins) and 50% top up to 95%. Also sad to realise that the rate for EQA is only 100kW maximum DC charge rate. Plus, don't get me started that you can't programme the car to charge during the seriously cheap night rates during 12:30-05:00am. A huge own-goal in my opinion. World leading car manufacturer? - oh dear Mercedes!

 

[BoristheBounce]

Can empathise with your 'loss' of expected mileage. I've had a '74' plate EQA since Oct and the return is really disappointing with 20-25% loss of expected mileage! With the Winter setting in.... it has just made me decide to change EVs or move to a PHEV. Previously I drove a Tesla for 3 years and the battery was very good and nowhere near the poor EQA return. I recently had to borrow my son's PHEV to go to Liverpool (fm Glasgow), as I could not risk it or cope with the range anxiety. Super easy with the Tesla, as it was a one 'stop' at the Tebay Service M6 super chargers (20 mins) and 50% top up to 95%. Also sad to realise that the rate for EQA is only 100kW maximum DC charge rate. Plus, don't get me started that you can't programme the car to charge during the seriously cheap night rates during 12:30-05:00am. A huge own-goal in my opinion. World leading car manufacturer? - oh dear Mercedes!

I'm about to retire in March 25, and wasn't sure when I was going to retire originally, so it was stupid taking on another company lease car so I've hung onto the EQC for longer than I normally would, I've currently had it 3 years and 9 months.
On these cold mornings up here the fully charged mileage is reading around 175 miles, which is a huge chunk less on the 243 or 234 originally quoted. (Can't remember)

I'm keeping the SL400, but have a Toyota RAV4 GR Sport 4X4 PHEV on order for March. over 300bhp in a RAV 4 who would have thought and who would have though of a RAV4 ever being over 50K