JAECOO J7 2025 SHS Plug-in Hybrid // HOW Many MILES on JUST EV?
Today I’m going to be checking out how many miles you can get solely on the electric engine with the JQU J7 in 2025. Now I personally own this vehicle and it’s fully charged. It’s saying I’ve got 57 miles to the electric uh engine side of it. So let’s see. Is that a realworld distance before the car swaps over to the hybrid mode? From my understanding, it switches over to the hybrid when you get to about 11 miles. So, yeah, let’s see. Let’s see how far we get. So, to start this little mini experiment, it’s in EV. I’ve reset the tripometer. We started off with full battery. I’ve got it in eco mode. I’ve taken off lane departure warning cuz it does my nutting. I’m going to leave the new energy in initial. So, I’m not going to put it in smarter force or anything. So hopefully we will have the least amount of energy put back into the battery so we can actually see how far we can get. Now I don’t know about you guys, but me personally just been a little bit skeptical so far with the battery range that’s always provided. Always seems to be whatever the manufacturer said you’ll get. You struggle to get to that point. And that’s why I had to go for a hybrid. I couldn’t go for an electric only because I do too many miles uh in one journey. Electric, full electric does not fit my lifestyle. But yeah, having this plug-in hybrid with 58 mi, 57 mi full on my average working week that covers me. But it’s the other things I do outside of work that means I can’t have the electric only. If you are new to the JU, the hybrid world, then check out some of my other videos. I’ll leave a card in the top right corner. Now, for how does the JQ drive, but I’ve done a few videos from my initial kind of first review, how it drives, my top five points or top five features that I love about this car. By the time this video drops, I will have released my top five features I hate about the car. I thought I’d make this video because I’ve seen quite a few comments and queries about the fuel consumption, the electric consumption, like do you really get your 7 750 mi claimed? But yeah, today just the electric side, but then at some point I will do a full hybrid mileage test and see how far or how close we can get to the claim 750 mi. One thing I have actually What are you doing out there? One thing I have noticed is when you’ve got a full tank and you’ve got a full battery, if you put it into hybrid straight away, is that it will predominantly use the battery only first and then when it gets down to its kind of 25% level, then properly switch over to the hybrid as in using the petrol and electric. Rightly or not, I don’t know. But I assumed if you had both full, put it in hybrid, it would then mix between the electric and the petrol for the entire journey rather than electric first, then hybrid. This is my first hybrid, so that’s why I thought I’d make these style videos for anyone that is also like me, very new to the world of kind of hybrid, electric, plugin, you name it. So yeah, if you’ve got any questions, queries, comments, or anything you want me to test out or make a video on, leave a comment below, and I’ll do my best to get round to it. I’m pretty sure from when I looked last that the max speed the battery can take in kilowatt hours, is around 40 44. Now, where I plug in at work, I get around 5 6 kilwatt hours. And to fully charge this battery, it will take just under four hours. Now, that’s no problem for me because when I’m doing my half days in work, it’s a 4-hour shift anyway, so by the time I finish, I’m fully charged. There are some chargers out there that are like 600 kW chargers, but obviously it’ll cap out at 44. Anyway, you do notice a hell of a difference when you plug into a fast charger. Even at 44 kW versus the five, I can only imagine if you’ve got a car, I assume Tesla or one of the bigger ones that can take the full 600 kW charge capacity. You can imagine how quick that can do it. Cuz again, that’s my problem with going full electric is I feel like at the minute we don’t have the full infrastructure to handle it if everyone or the majority of people are electric. But also, it’s the time of which it takes to charge the battery. If it takes me 5 minutes to go fill up the petrol or 45 minutes to sit there whilst I’m waiting for the electric to charge, at the minute I know what I’m choosing. I have seen videos of mopeds in other countries where they got the swappable battery. So you pull up to a battery hub almost like the Amazon collection boxes, put in your your car details, and then a bin will open, take out that full battery, swap it with yours, put yours in there, and that’s it. And I’ve also seen some cars that having the batteries just swapped instead of charging. So it will be interesting to see where this space goes in the next few years. Whilst I’m driving, I’m doing nothing out of the ordinary, trying to save battery or whatever. I’ve got the air con on. I’ve got the satnav on driving to to the speed limit. Trying to keep it as real world as possible right now. So, we started off 57. I think I was it’s 5756 by the time I’d left uh work. Actually, the car was almost I was faffing. So, I used a little bit of battery power. I’m at 6.3 miles and showing 49 on the clock. So, at the minute, pretty accurate. I’ve just made it to my first uh location and it was 11 miles from work and it’s bang on 11 miles on the tripometer and we’re showing 47 milesi on electric which realistically obser 5657 which I mean actually that’s we’re better off at the minute. So, that’s cool. That’s cool. So far the JQU stats are living up to to the hype. Look at this data that so I thought only fair that I do some motorway miles. I’ve done about 10 15 minutes on the motorway sitting around the 66 68 mph. Now, currently we have showing 9 mi left on the battery, still an EV, and we covered 41.5 mi. Like I said, it gets to a certain point and then it does swap over from electric to hybrid. I thought that was around the 11 mile mark on the battery, assuming we’re down to nine. Maybe it’s not. I’ve had the battery regen in level one, which is the least amount of regen into the battery. Obviously goes one, two, and three. Level three is really strong to the point where you take your foot off the accelerator and it generally feels like the car has applied the brakes for you, and it does get a little bit annoying like you take it off and next minute you are really starting to slow down. So on a normal drive, I’ll leave it in level two unless I do want to start getting some miles back into the battery. then I will put it into three. So for the last 50 km we are showing uh an average of 45.6 mp gallon on the electric. The thing I personally think that is amazing about this car is when it does swap between electric and hybrid. You can’t tell. You can’t tell it’s changed over when it is in hybrid mode. You can’t tell when it’s using electric versus the petrol. Like it’s so smooth. It’s really quiet. It is something that needs to be tested. If you’ve never driven the JU or you’ve got some doubt surrounding the JU, go and test drive it. You will be pleasantly surprised. And there we go then. It’s just clicked over from electric to hybrid. We’ve covered 49.9 miles on pure electric. And the battery is now showing 3 miles left. So add those three miles, that’s what, 53 miles. and we started off at 5657. So overall, I’m super impressed with that. I think I’d rather have a genuine realworld number from the manufacturer than them going, “Yeah, you’ll get 70 mi and then you end up getting 50, 55. If I’m only getting 55, 56, tell me.” And I’m happy with that. So there you go. Now you know, just shy of 50 miles pure electric. You can’t complain, can you? Hopefully that answers a few of the questions surrounding the electric battery range. If you are interested in anything JQU J7 related, got subscribe. Thank you very much for watching. Like this video. I’ll see you on the next one.
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