Will be further south tomorrow!
Where ? Africa ?
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I have spent some time trying to think of a “Not Nice, nah Bonne” joke but can’t quite parse it. Anyway, I shall soon be near Narbonne 
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Love Narbonne. If it wasn’t for Brexit, we would likely be living there or Bezier.
Or Crete.
Or Calabria.
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The more I drive mine the more I like it 
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They about £250 for the BYD one, I’ll make do with the single socket for £36 and a 4 way socket for a tenner 
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It was in the boot loose but didn’t pay for it - And wouldn’t have
Yes I know it’s standard on the top model, us peasants have to buy our own 
Did you buy the car new or was it a demonstrator?
A demo registered three months ago - The ODO readout was 82 miles was a showroom demo
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Mine had 3800 mls, I got a brilliant deal. Registered Nov 25.
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When I set up the timer for off peak charging I couldn’t find a way to limit charge to 80%. I spoke to the dealership and was told that regularly charging to 100% is not a problem, in fact it is to be considered the norm.
thought only fully discharging batteries causes problems? my home battery has a discharge limit of 10% to protect it
All other manufacturers,as far as I know recommend only charging to 80%
Like everything, it depends. There’s very little wrong with charging to 100% if you are going on a trip and using the car a few hours or a day after charging.
If you charge to 100% then leave the car standing for days/weeks at time, that’s not so good for long term battery health.
If the car is sitting for long periods like that then 80% is a decent limit although best practise is to often charge the battery to different limits between about 40-80% so that the BMS is properly calibrated.
Currently very tempted by an ID Buzz Cargo, with something like this in the back:
https://campal.co.uk/simply-campal/
Really like the look of them plus I can pick one up for £20k with low mileage, two front seats instead of one and a bench, reversing camera, heated seats etc.
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If you charge to 100% then leave the car standing for days/weeks at time, that’s not so good for long term battery health.
BYD are saying that with their new blade battery it doesn’t matter which is why there’s no option for partial charging on timed charging.
Our DT has been charged to 100% at least 50% of the time over the last 5 years / 40k miles. The battery is fine, maybe a small drop in range, certainly under 10%
Theres no way to limit the charge to a lower %.
It has only been fast charged once however, always connected to 7 or 11kw charger.
With the other 3 EVs that I have owned if you set the timer to charge to 100% they gave a warning to only charge to 80%.. The ID3 used to drive me mad and kept resetting itself to 80% max charge.
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