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Chennai to Coimbatore in my Mahindra XEV 9e: Range and charging

17th April 2025, 19:15 by R Patil

I started the trip with 88 percent charge, thought will try the trick proposed by Purohitanuj and set the mode to power saver. Reached Kallakuruchi A2B - 245 kms done with 37 percent charge left

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Hi all,

Quick update on the return trip from Chennai to Coimbatore.

Used Glida charging hub @ Pallikaranai to charge before starting back, there are multiple 60 kw chargers there accessible through Statiq app. There were a lot of taxis charging at 6:30 am when I went but finding a spot was not an issue. The process was not as seamless as Zeon as I had one failure at 12 percent of charging & then I had to switch guns. Though rated at 60 kw, after first 10 minutes I was getting charged only at 40 kw. I charged from 31 to 88 percent in about an hour and then stopped as I ran out of patience.

I started the trip with 88 percent charge, thought will try the trick proposed by Purohitanuj and set the mode to power saver. Reached Kallakuruchi A2B - 245 kms done with 37 percent charge left.

Huge shout out to Shyampsunder for both the auto charge trick ans the 120 kw location. I found the 120 kw charger and with auto charge the experience was another level - started charging @ 93kwh, then one me on pulled in and started charging with the other gun - charging dropped to 73kwh. Charge topped upto 71 percent in 23 mins before it got cut due to low balance. By this time lunch hadn’t even arrived, I felt this charge was more than sufficient to get us home and stopped charging at 71.
Drove back & reached with 12 percent charge left.
Summary of return trip
Total kms - 501.7 kms, total percent of battery 51+59 =110 % as against 116 % while going to Chennai, average cruizing speed of 66kmph as against 70, 6.3 km/kwh vs. 6km/kwh and total drive time of 7 hours 37 minutes vs 7:13.
Summary of total trip
Total kms 1027.7, average speed 62kmph, 16 hours 37 mins and efficiency of 6.1km/kwh.

Total DC charging done:
54.55 kWh at Zeon to & from.
67.62 kWh at Zlida hub Pallikaranaim
Total time spent charging:
1. 36 minutes during trip to Chennai - offset by time spent at a2b having breakfast.
2. 82 minutes spent early morning at Glida hub - time spent watching YouTube in the third screen!!
3. 23 minutes during return - waiting for lunch to arrive.

Total cost of DC charging:
Rs. 1602.8 at Zeon + 1345 at Statiq = Rs 3037.38.
Niggles faced on return trip.
Just 2 episodes of flash in the screen asking me to check wheel alignment.

All in al it was a very enjoyable trip, during the way to Chennai I drove like how I would normally drive an Ice car and the way back I was more sedate. The difference in time taken was less than ten minutes & the charging infrastructure atleast in this segment is excellent. I did not have any range anxiety whatsoever. We were three adults & two kids. I think in our normal highway conditions I would be getting anywhere between 420 to 460 kms regularly. Starting with a full charge, can plan for 275-350 kms before needing a top up.