MINI Countryman PHEV review - DrivingElectric
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The MINI Countryman Cooper S E All4 plug-in hybrid looks great on paper, with an official electric range of 25 miles and enough performance to justify the ‘Cooper S’ badge on the boot. But is it a strong enough package overall? Vicky Parrott gives her verdict…
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having seen dozens of reviews for this car and been an owner for 3 months I can confirm this is a great review`(the best / most accurate). It highlights the key pros and cons. Having switched from the Outlander PHEV they are like chalk and cheese. The Outlander had a slightly longer EV range (when new), a larger boot and could tow up to 1,500 kg caravan but was not nice to sit in or drive: too much up and down and sideways motion, like sailing! The Mini if you don’t mind losing some boot space is a pleasure to sit and drives like a dream. It can do leisurely eco driving and when you need it delivers sports performance and handling that would be difficult to get in a similar sized SUV. I love it.
Still can't get over the fact that we've just accepted that if you keep a car for 11 years as is the average now, by the end your "fuel" capacity is pretty much guaranteed to be a fraction of new. If you told someone the 23 gallon fuel tank in their car would shrink and become a 13 gallon fuel tank over time, might stop holding fuel entirely and that it could cost $10K to replace out of warranty, and even when new it has a restrictor plate on the spout so refueling it takes an hour or more, they would tell you where to shove it, but tell them that fuel tank holds electrons instead of hydrocarbons and suddenly no problem!
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I own 2016 Countryman
It is an excellent all round car
I average about 40 mpg on highway trips.
I would love the hybrid but it is quite pricey, minis are lot more reliable than people assume.
It just needs to be properly maintained, and many Mini consumers don't know how.
As everything I need is within 10km the range is not a problem. If I go on longer journeys here in Australia I need the hybrid. My perfect car, and beats the socks off the other boring ones as far as style is concerned. Love you to do an update to this.
Nice and clear review!
Hi, so once the battery is out of juice and the gas engine take over, but now you are carrying the dead battery weight. Am i correct?
Great review, well done!
These reviews are great, thanks. Any chance of a video review of the BMW 225xe which I think uses the same engine/electric motor as the Mini Countryman PHEV?
Ray Cahill Tested both cars back to back in August 2019. I decided to go for (buy) the Mini. Far superioor!
It's disappointing car reviewers do not learn how to drive these plug in hybrids. I'm achieving 71% battery running my BMW 225xe (same as Countryman e) using sports mod to charge and max battery when running on battery. Any long trips they are all achieving at least on 55% battery only.
New longer range batteries are going into the Countryman & BMW in July. Increased from 41km to 57km.
Appalling mileage, mine dropped from 26 to 16 within 2 weeks, I'm convinced it was set up to show higher mileage then gradually tip suggestion to a way lower reality asap. Thank God VW prove such underhand tactics do exist. Now, 18 months on, in the cold suggests 11/12 miles but running it i reckon you get around 8-9 only, warm only brings it back to 13/14 tops. A stylish but over priced and under preforming Electric car.
It's a plug-in hybrid not an electric car. And the perfomance is good even to today's standards.
@@lex_uss Not really, its a third of what I get with current car and previous, when would 10-14 miles of electric with and Plug in hybrid be considered a good range.
You mentioned nothing about how the electric motor and the engine work together or more importantly, fuel economy.
No
@jake Stevens
There is a link in the description for the mpg
Look at the info.
well done
Car is brilliant
I'd say definitely get adaptive dampers if you're caring people in the back as on the back seats you can feel every bump and it's not as comfortable as on the front!!
We have one. We test drove multipal different models and found the wheel size made the most difference, although the adaptive dampers are very nice.
The 2021 model has a bigger battery, so more EV range, and that deals, to some extent, with the main criticism in this review.
I own a ICE Mini "S" Countryman (selling it) and two EV's. I was hopefull that Mini could pull this off but it is a complete fail. Had this been relaesed 8 years ago it may have had a market but that time has passed. Mini needs a full EV, nothing less will do at this point. ICE is dying and any R&D spent on it is wasted envestment. With sunsets on ICE in parts of EU and UK you would think/hope that of all companies MINI would be leading.
16 miles each charge tops for me too, 12-14 in the winter, mine is almost unfit for purpose compared to the 25 suggested, first round of talks with mini and they referred to "driving style" but this video makes me think they deflect/pacify as much as possible. For me it's livable but disappointing, My Mitsubishi PHEV gave around 800 miles per £20 fuel, This gives me around 600 Per £20 so the margins are close, anyone else with slightly higher range needs will be extremely disappointed.
Vicky appears to be tightrope walking at the beginning of the video!!
I hate the Nigel farage lights, the rest is cool
The MINI EV range is very disappointing :(
The MAXI price is also disappointing :(
The price is excellent for a 2.5 litre X drive doing 6.7 seconds 0-100kph.
Don't know how the range is disappointing. Isn't full electric and is perfect for the target market (quick journeys to a town for example) it also adds a nice boost to acerleation
No reference of the Golf/Passat GTE models. Faster, better range, more practical and also pretty good to drive....Lack of research perhaps???
Neither the Passat GTE nor the Golf GTE are currently on sale: new versions of both are due later this year and in early 2020 respectively.
@@josephholding756 True (due to carcinogenic components in the batteries apparently), but the Golf is probably the closest to the mini in regards to car type, performance, size etc so to not mention it seems odd (to me anyway)!
This is just not good enough BMW. YOU COULD DO BETTER.
No rapid, wasted opportunity.
You don't need rapid charging if you drive them correctly.
@@thecades1 how do you work that out? You can drive it 'correctly' until the battery is flat then you still need to wait 2hrs to charge it!
Yes they should have added dc quick charging like the Outlander.
@@miickyp what's wrong with 30 minute charging?
@@djenson what u talking about?
The problem with this car is that it is not self charging. Self charging hybrids are more efficient because you don't have to plug them in.
They are self charging in sports mod.
Is this a joke?😂
@@miickyp it's in the name. They charge themselves.
@@leesmith9299 no they don't. They use petrol from their petrol engine to charge them!
@@miickyp fantastically efficient. They charge themselves!! What a great world we live in.