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Two questions:
After an electric conversion, do they still leak oil? Get some pics from your friend fi he doesn't mind and share!

Two questions:
After an electric conversion, do they still leak oil? Get some pics from your friend fi he doesn't mind and share!

Two questions:
After an electric conversion, do they still leak oil? Get some pics from your friend fi he doesn't mind and share!

Two questions:
After an electric conversion, do they still leak oil? Get some pics from your friend fi he doesn't mind and share!

Two questions:
After an electric conversion, do they still leak oil? Get some pics from your friend fi he doesn't mind and share!

So this is very interesting. The Mini seems to report two different ranges. A type of Instantaneous or last few measures kwh/100km and similarly for the trip. Using the trip one seems to be the best. Then when the GPS is active, you can split the screen to show you your range (based on the trip kwh/100km) vs the amount of distance you need to travel. That seems to be very accurate. This is where you can play around with Mid/Green/Green+ and your speed to ensure that the bar on the left (range predicted) is longer than your actual destination. And as a driver you can influence this. I always adapted speed to give me at any one time a 16-20km buffer.
I think the most amount of stress is the South African infrastructure. When you drive an ICE and run out of fuel, AA is there to help. Currently the AA vehicles aren't equipped with Generator units and aren't driving Ford F150 Lightnings or BYD Sharks, which do have onboard facilities allowing you to charge another EV next to the road, should they run out of juice. As Mini told us, currently if you get stuck, you need to phone Mini assist and they will come tow you to the next available charge station.
But then what helped with stress and dynamic and static loads, please see the next part.
A Better Route Planner was a valuable tool in reducing stress.
You select your car and can add stuff like battery degradation, how much additional weight is added to the car, what the state of charge you want at the next charge etc. etc. etc. when planning your route. The App mostly accurately predicts said achievable distance, taking into account the elevation (going up - more power and going down - regenerate power) and other settings just mentioned. It will then also tell you how much charge and for how long you'll be charging to reach your next stop (charge station) with your chosen battery arrival SOC. We used this and didn't charge to full at every stop, only what we needed. It will even (if you set that it is allowed to adapt speed) tell you that on this stretch you can do the speed limit and on which stretches you need to do it at a lower speed than the speed limit (example do not exceed 100km/h for this stretch).
Then once you start your trip, you can say drive on the App and then as your trip progresses, you can slide a bar on the App for the amount of battery percentage you have to match that of the car. We found that the way we were driving, about every 10-15km, we needed to add 1%-2% on the battery on the App. 
So for Shoemanskloof, we were supposed to hit Millys at about 4% battery left driving at 90km/h, but driving the first part of the road on Green+ afforded us to switch to Green with aircon at 95-100km/h for the last part and rolling into Millys with 13% battery (Mini range estimator and the App - via the minor adjustments).
So ABRP alleviated a lot of stress, but I assume, as we drive these cars more and more, it will be like the fuel light comes on on your ICE and you know you can probably do 50km or so. But for now, App assistance really helps. And if you go Premium on the App, it will even take into account real-time traffic (assume this will lead to more starts/stops adding more regeneration) and real-time weather (because a very windy day will affect what you can do).
Thank you for the tip. We will try this next time.

While at Crystal Springs, we plugged in at our unit starting with 80% every morning for exploring except fathers day where we charged at Highwayman's for the fun of it while having pancakes.
In terms of public chargers, we had the following:
Silver Lakes: 9.2kwh @ T64.38 = R6.997/kwh (charge to 99%SOC).
Alzu: 16.52kwh @ T121.47 = R7.353/khw (charge to 76% SOC)
Dullstroom: 12.77kwh @ T75.14 = R5.89/kwh (AC charger didn't give the SOC)
Millys: 12.15kwh @ T85.02 = R6.998/kwh (charge to 54% SOC)
Alzu: 24.55kwh @ T180.51 = R7.353/khw (charge to 95% SOC)
Menlyn Maine: 12.95kwh @ T95.22 = R7.353/kwh (charge to 49% SOC)
Pilgrims Rest: 19.07kwh @ R112.23 = R5.89/kwh (AC Charger didn't give the SOC) - this was just for the fun as we could charge at CS so left out in below round trip cost and km plus it wasn't part of getting from Randburg to Crystal Springs and back.
So road via Dullstroom: 387km @ R260.99
Road via Schoemanskloof: 438km @ R360.75
Total: 825km @ R621.74 
Our other option was the Mahindra Scorpio Adventure @ 7.75l/100km.
Doing it in Diesel (at today's [19-06-2024] Diesel price of R23.80) would have been: R1521.71
About the Schoemanskloof road. Arriving at Alzu, there was a gentleman with a Volvo charging and he said he also did Schoemanskloof and the car reported that he regenerated 7% charge on that road (the Mini doesn't give this stat).

So this is very interesting. The Mini seems to report two different ranges. A type of Instantaneous or last few measures kwh/100km and similarly for the trip. Using the trip one seems to be the best. Then when the GPS is active, you can split the screen to show you your range (based on the trip kwh/100km) vs the amount of distance you need to travel. That seems to be very accurate. This is where you can play around with Mid/Green/Green+ and your speed to ensure that the bar on the left (range predicted) is longer than your actual destination. And as a driver you can influence this. I always adapted speed to give me at any one time a 16-20km buffer.
I think the most amount of stress is the South African infrastructure. When you drive an ICE and run out of fuel, AA is there to help. Currently the AA vehicles aren't equipped with Generator units and aren't driving Ford F150 Lightnings or BYD Sharks, which do have onboard facilities allowing you to charge another EV next to the road, should they run out of juice. As Mini told us, currently if you get stuck, you need to phone Mini assist and they will come tow you to the next available charge station.
But then what helped with stress and dynamic and static loads, please see the next part.
A Better Route Planner was a valuable tool in reducing stress.
You select your car and can add stuff like battery degradation, how much additional weight is added to the car, what the state of charge you want at the next charge etc. etc. etc. when planning your route. The App mostly accurately predicts said achievable distance, taking into account the elevation (going up - more power and going down - regenerate power) and other settings just mentioned. It will then also tell you how much charge and for how long you'll be charging to reach your next stop (charge station) with your chosen battery arrival SOC. We used this and didn't charge to full at every stop, only what we needed. It will even (if you set that it is allowed to adapt speed) tell you that on this stretch you can do the speed limit and on which stretches you need to do it at a lower speed than the speed limit (example do not exceed 100km/h for this stretch).
Then once you start your trip, you can say drive on the App and then as your trip progresses, you can slide a bar on the App for the amount of battery percentage you have to match that of the car. We found that the way we were driving, about every 10-15km, we needed to add 1%-2% on the battery on the App. 
So for Shoemanskloof, we were supposed to hit Millys at about 4% battery left driving at 90km/h, but driving the first part of the road on Green+ afforded us to switch to Green with aircon at 95-100km/h for the last part and rolling into Millys with 13% battery (Mini range estimator and the App - via the minor adjustments).
So ABRP alleviated a lot of stress, but I assume, as we drive these cars more and more, it will be like the fuel light comes on on your ICE and you know you can probably do 50km or so. But for now, App assistance really helps. And if you go Premium on the App, it will even take into account real-time traffic (assume this will lead to more starts/stops adding more regeneration) and real-time weather (because a very windy day will affect what you can do).
Thank you for the tip. We will try this next time.

While at Crystal Springs, we plugged in at our unit starting with 80% every morning for exploring except fathers day where we charged at Highwayman's for the fun of it while having pancakes.
In terms of public chargers, we had the following:
Silver Lakes: 9.2kwh @ T64.38 = R6.997/kwh (charge to 99%SOC).
Alzu: 16.52kwh @ T121.47 = R7.353/khw (charge to 76% SOC)
Dullstroom: 12.77kwh @ T75.14 = R5.89/kwh (AC charger didn't give the SOC)
Millys: 12.15kwh @ T85.02 = R6.998/kwh (charge to 54% SOC)
Alzu: 24.55kwh @ T180.51 = R7.353/khw (charge to 95% SOC)
Menlyn Maine: 12.95kwh @ T95.22 = R7.353/kwh (charge to 49% SOC)
Pilgrims Rest: 19.07kwh @ R112.23 = R5.89/kwh (AC Charger didn't give the SOC) - this was just for the fun as we could charge at CS so left out in below round trip cost and km plus it wasn't part of getting from Randburg to Crystal Springs and back.
So road via Dullstroom: 387km @ R260.99
Road via Schoemanskloof: 438km @ R360.75
Total: 825km @ R621.74 
Our other option was the Mahindra Scorpio Adventure @ 7.75l/100km.
Doing it in Diesel (at today's [19-06-2024] Diesel price of R23.80) would have been: R1521.71
About the Schoemanskloof road. Arriving at Alzu, there was a gentleman with a Volvo charging and he said he also did Schoemanskloof and the car reported that he regenerated 7% charge on that road (the Mini doesn't give this stat).