Sumpy wrote:
I sometimes use the charge trick to facilitate quicker and safer overtaking, but I won't be trying this pre-loading of the motors as it is my own private vehicle and I want to look after it. Having said that has anyone done this and recorded the actual 0-60 time? Like I have already stated I won't be doing this to my car, and I wouldn't advise anyone else to either, but just interested for the possible bragging rights down the pub

This was discussed already before .. with advanced graph from Anko:
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Even before owning the car, simply by reading the spec sheets, I have always assumed that it would not make a difference whether the engine was pre-started or not, as indeed, at low speed that battery can produce all the power the E-motors can consume. From the graphs, it seems to make a very small difference but not something to worry about.