MG HS PHEV - Why It Is Not Going Into EV Mode / EV Mode Entry Not Support / Exit From EV Mode

[@AlexAlex-jk2tn]

You can use EV mode when you use lower AC temperature, e.g. I'm using LOW all the time, so it is always working in EV mode. Note that front window mode ignore your temperature, so I'm using "leg and window" to removing fog on front window. Also the video didn't mention that car exit from EV mode when battery is charged 80+% and your speed is higher than 68km/h (e.g. on motorway) and you are not accelerating, I guess it is occurs because inverter can not manage with extra energy comes from wheels. One more case is when you are driving from long hill with recuperation, it also exits from EV mode after some time, I guess it because inverter is heated up too much.

[@JeromeJerome-m6x]

If only the mg5 essence came as plug in Hybrid like this 😢

[@JerryPanandCars]

They have MG6 phev in China but not a big seller.

[@1966knight]

Great Video and explanation . Thanx

[@gunsumwong3948]

A better explanation is when the car starts from cold it always fires up the petrol engine to get it into a working condition with the lubricants nice and warm circulating every part of the engine. More importantly when the user has a need of heated warm air it makes sense the engine cooling system is functional. Therefore the designer of MG HS Phev needs a reasonable "hot" cooling water circuit to power the heater. The heat is provided as a byproduct of the ICE engine cooling at no extra cost to the user. However if the user wants to have a heated environment before the ICE engine has been adequately warm up then MG must install extra electric heater in the car. This adds extra cost to the car but most importantly drain the 16.6 kWh battery needed for the 90kW electric motor. MG prefers to get over this problem by a slight delay to the user's requirement instead. That is perfectly understandable because after running the ICE engine for say over one mile the coolant will be sufficiently hot to permit the MG user to switch into the EV mode. That is certainly my experience and the designer of MG HS Phev has my vote for making this arrangement..

[@AlexAlex-jk2tn]

I'm using MG HS in EV mode only most of time and there is no reason for using ICE from my perspective, at the same time I have to use cold car with no option to warm up the interior, so there is a huge fault in MG design to not use heat pump here. At the same time the car starts ICE while I'm driving and don't take any time for warming up its lubricants just because EV inverter over heated and recuperation stops working. So I don't recommend this car for any one who are going to use it the same as me: as EV vehicle in cities + ICE vehicle on long trips - it is not designed for that at all.

[@gunsumwong3948]

@@AlexAlex-jk2tn What you want can be done but the car has to carry a bigger battery and more equipment. So try other PHEV instead of MG.

[@ollykeegan]

Great explanation, thank you

[@JerryPanandCars]

Thanks for the support.

[@mrki412]

This is by far biggest isue in MG, maybe you can turn seat heating on or wear a blanket?!

[@JerryPanandCars]

:(((

[@faskhacal2904]

Hello, I am writing to you from Turkey. Unfortunately, my English is not very good. I am writing to you using Google Translate. I am also having the problem of leaving the vehicle's ev mode. I could understand some of what you said, but if you can write to understand it in detail, I can understand it better through translate. I can understand that when we use the air conditioner in the car, it goes out of ev mode, but the house I live in is in a high part of the city and I go down a long hill on my way to work and here it goes out of ev mode even though the air conditioner is off. I would appreciate it if you could write the reason, thank you.

[@JerryPanandCars]

Does it happen when your vehicle is fully charged? If you go down a long hill, the regenative braking would generate too much charge into the battery, that might force the vehicle to go out of EV mode as you are not using any of the EV power. Hope that helps.

[@faskhacal2904]

Thank you very much

[@AlexAlex-jk2tn]

@@JerryPanandCars Exiting from EV mode also might be caused by overheating inverter on long hills, and it doesn't matter which battery level you had then.