Drew57
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Thing is for me (& call me old fashioned if you like).... I actually enjoy driving the car
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Bit of Both for me. I love driving, which is why I went for the P over the LR. However on the commute to work, or the long trip up the M1 to my mothers, FSD would be a boon. I know it's only a small thing but not engaging/disengaging AP every time I want to change lanes would be a boon. Plus, slow and ponderous it may be, I'd actually use Autopark. I did on my previous cars, a lot.Thing is for me (& call me old fashioned if you like).... I actually enjoy driving the car
In case it helps new owners - my experience so far on charging
Decent home setup is a must. It takes all thought of “will it have enough by morning” out of the equation completely. You could get by on 16A but 32A means after a morning, afternoon or evening you have + 50% capability.
Polar/Chargemaster 50kw - tried one yesterday for a couple of KW, faultless experience
Instavolt 50kw - tried one today, same as above completely faultless.
Superchargers - a complete doddle at both Hopwood M42 and Sarn Parc M4, my charge varied between 90 and 130 KW. Make sure you “navigate to supercharger” as it ensures pre-conditioning for the best result when you plug in.
I also encountered a chap with a Nissan E-200 van at another 50kw location yesterday - he was having nightmares with his experience ofGeniepoint. Accepted his card, then the car refused to kick charging off. He was faced with having to drive 20 miles to another location to get enough slow-charge miles to then make it onwards to his destination 80 miles away. He had been apparently hopping from one charge point to another for 18 months and seemed totally accepting of it taking him forever to navigate life. That’s not for me. His exact words were “life with electric cars is still a complete PITA”.
I couldn’t disagree more after 4 days of ownership, have just done exactly what I would have done since Friday, except I’m no longer in a hire car and have to walk 10 metres from the back door to plug a connector into a socket.
Have decide to go with OVO Energy as we don’t have smart meter capability here and the slightly higher KWh tariff rate will be offset by using the 2 years worth of Polar Plus membership included in their EV tariff.
Good point, it is a fantastic car to drive.Thing is for me (& call me old fashioned if you like).... I actually enjoy driving the car
Dont know if you have a Charge place Scotland card yet or use Live Map - ChargePlace Scotland as there is lots of 50kw chargers which could help and Zap Map is pretty good too I find that 30-90 usually is around an hour.
the RFID card hasn’t arrived yet so my first experience today in glasgow with chargeplace was not excellent.
but then nothing - no screen instructions and the app kept crashing... so my plan to charge for 3 hrs while I was in the Glasgow office backfired severely. I had to meekly trundle forward out of the space and call it quits. Tried the helpline for 20 mins but couldn’t get through and gave up.
I didn’t NEED to charge but I could, and I wanted to learn about it at a non-tesla charger so I don’t frazzle the battery only doing supercharges.
Lesson learnt... wait for the card....
One more sleep!!!
Really hoping for a positive experience.
On the plus side, I had about miles to drive back home and a few places. Recent developments have made it almost 60.
That's interesting, I noticed mine are rather high, and with 4 passengers I get plenty of oncoming cars flashing me. I raised a service request due to the warning in the manual; this is still a few weeks away, perhaps I'll give this a try too. Surely it should set self adjust at the start of each journey though? My Passat with LED headlights always went through a self test and alignment check at switch on, no issues.Something else for owners collecting - make sure the headlights have been calibrated.
I haven’t driven at night yet, but have had the auto-lights come on in lower light conditions, and have been noticing road signs being lit too high up.
Got the car parked level and lights shining onto wall in front, went to service menu and pressed Adjust Headlights, they immediately did a self-test and settled lower than original level. The manual wants not to fiddle around with manual alignment but recommend you do the first bit at least which is just letting the car choose its self-aligned levels.
Not convinced they were right at all until I did this. A by-product of transportation / lack of quality check at the docks maybe ?
Where are you collecting? Picking mine up in Dartford tomorrow!
Having a mild disaster though, my wife was supposed to be bringing me down but she's managed to kill her car so I am now using the train..instead of a 40 min drive it's now over 2 hours on public transport to get there and a 6.30 start