realistic ability for 202 mile round trip, advice please!

[lol64]

Hi All,

I currently have a hybrid and my wife drives a diesel, but we're both going to be changing to working from home permanently in the near future and I'd really like to go down to one car to reduce costs. We've test driven a BZ and it would work great for us, BUT I've got a couple of questions to put to experienced owners please.

We don't do many long trips, however our daughter has just had a baby and of course we're visiting a lot more to help out at the moment. It's a 202 mile round trip, mostly motorway. Is that realistic in a BZ? I know they say that the range is over 300 miles, but from the little bit of reading I've done, that seems to be hopelessly optimistic.

We'd really like the Vision because the memory seats are so useful with 2 drivers (we're not interested the other Vision spec). BUT it's only available with the 20" wheels. We'd rather the 18" wheels, as we live in England and all the roads are heavily pot holed. Even worse than that, the range apparently plummets from 318 miles to 278 miles. So, my second question is: is this really true? Do you really take a 13% hit on range just because you have the 20" wheels?

We're in England, so the model would be FWD, 71.4KW.

Many thanks in advance if you can share some real world UK experience.

 

[philip42h]

Pop the details of your journey into the Range Calculator and see what it says ...

 

[G S]

I always work on a real world range of 2/3 of listed range in summer and 1/2 listed range in winter. That way you should get stranded