► A difficult journey
► The day-to-day of Cooper SE ownership
► Read month 1
The day didn’t begin well: a broken home charger – on account of it having no phone signal, of all things – meant the Mini didn’t start a journey to Heathrow fully topped up.
The nav within the Mini phone app should in theory be good for in-journey solutions, offering options as to where you can stop and containing details like charger speed and availability.
In practice, less so. One charger it offered was in the middle of a private car park, another was on the wrong side of the M4.
I finally managed to get juiced up thanks to a combination of Zapmap and Google Maps but it’s frustrating that what should be a one-stop app doesn’t live up to the promise.
Logbook: Mini Cooper SE (month 3)
Price £34,500 (£39,799 as tested)
Performance 49kWh battery, e-motor, 215bhp, 6.7sec 0-62mph, 106mph
Efficiency 4.2-4.4 miles per kWh (official), 4.1 miles per kWh (tested), 0g/km CO2
Range 240-249 miles (official), 200 miles (tested)
Energy cost 6.0p per mile
Miles this month 1123
Total miles 3518