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Ups and Downs with my Jaguar I-PACE in 2021

January 1, 2022 Andrew Howe
Jaguar I-PACE EV400SE

A review of my second year with the EV Big Cat

It’s January 1st, 2022.  Like many, I am not so much seeing the New Year in, as making sure the Old Year leaves.  It’s difficult to draw firm conclusions in such abnormal times but, whilst normality seems unattainable, I will press on regardless.

Do I still like the I-PACE?

Yes, I do, very much so.  Newer, shinier models have come along and the reviewers seem to have forgotten the I-PACE.  I have seen most of the new contenders and followed all the new model reviews.  However, I think the four year old Jag design still offers a competitive blend of performance, luxury, looks and practicality compared to the class of ’21.

That is not to say my I-PACE has been faultless.  In early Feb 2021, on the coldest day of that year, the HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning) decided to just be VAC.  Through a perfect storm of the pandemic, Brexit and general supply chain chaos, it took nearly 2 months to find its way home.  In fairness to Jaguar Land Rover, they lent me a top-spec Land Rover Discovery to keep me going (albeit in a considerably less planet-friendly manner).

Land Rover Discovery

Land Rover Discovery courtesy car from JLR

A few months later, the ABS and the powertrain had a serious falling out over an unresolved error code leaving it in limp mode.  Fortunately, I only had to limp a few hundred metres.  That fault was sorted by one of Jaguar’s excellent mobile engineers.  I suspect this may be true of other legacy manufacturers, but the dealerships still seem afraid of EV’s.  We are going to need a lot more people with the skillset, equipment and confidence of the Jaguar Assistance Team if we are going to make a successful transition to EVs.

Crunching the Data

The Jaguar lets you download statistics on journeys, and I combine that with my own log of charging information.  I can tell you that I did 6,348 miles in 2021 and consumed 2,282kW.  That is 2.8KW/mile - the I-PACE is a bit of a “Watt Guzzler”.  I actually used 2,657kW from the chargers.  This gives you an idea of the conversion losses of getting power into the batteries - about 14%.  That energy cost me £339 for the year (5.3p per mile).

Insights into life with an EV

I-PACE Journey Consumption

I-PACE Journey Length against Energy Consumption Graph

The chart above looks at my journeys in the I-PACE in 2021.  A journey to the I-PACE log is between turning the “ignition” on and off.  I may have traveled further in a day, but 150 miles is the most I did in any one driving stint.  This compares with the 240 mile maximum real-world range.  On the Y-axis is consumption in kW/100 miles and the journey distance in miles is on the X-axis.  As you can see, shorter journeys are far more common and with a much wider range of energy consumption.  This shows the greater impact of pre-heating, driving style and hills on short-distance journeys.  My parents live 35 miles away, so there is a cluster of points at this distance.  Most journeys are short enough to mean recharging away from home is unnecessary.  I only used public chargers 15 times last year, and most of those were on multi-day vacations. What the chart shows is, most of the time, I drive somewhere, I drive home again and plugin.  The day-to-day ownership experience is far better for me than with a fossil car. As the cliché goes “Your mileage may vary” but I suspect it doesn’t that much.

In Motoring, Review, Eco Living Tags Jaguar, I-Pace, EV, Review, Long-term
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