Thought I had set the car to charge overnight and put the climate control on for this morning. Neither happened. Bugger. Might have to rtfm some more.
Other than that I quite like it.
Costs about £1 to charge and it will do around 20 miles on average. Not really that amazing, but will add up over the mileage I do.
I hope you’ll not be polluting this thread with your faux milk float.
It does a bit of milk floating. Down the shops and back like.
Soya milk float?
By the sound of it, a soya milk flatté.
That’s barely adequate, even for these climes.
As a company car that does 30k/yr it sort of makes sense. I think.
If it does it right, this should be the most polluting mileage, where you’ll get close to 20mpg, which would cost 7x the cost of electricity.
I’m interested to hear how good it is at managing the electric vs ICE on your journeys. I think that I would probably end up manually changing it between the two, knowing what my journey is and where I can charge. Let us know how you get on.
I have left it on the most eco setting at the moment. If I have read the manual correctly then it should manage it according to the satnav destination as well.
Around 75% of my journeys are 36 miles to the office. I can then charge it at the office for the return trip. Other destinations probably won’t have a charging facilities, so I expect it to hurt the mpg a bit. Charging on the motorway will be a bit pointless, as it will take 2-3 hrs to give me 20 miles, as it will only charge fairly slowly.
Does it consider your journey in full, so leave enough battery for the bit at the end of the motorway? Would be nice if there were an option to leave, say, 5 miles’ battery for the next journey (or not, if you know you can charge). It’s that sort of thing there yet?
Mine has the option to manully choose whether the battery is charged (so you can emission shift like a Prius), used (in electric or hybrid mode) or held at a level while driving. There isn’t an option to leave a set level of charge at your destination in hybrid mode though, it always arrives with the battery empty or there abouts.
I will let you know after journey home. Will rtfm before I set off.
You say you’re doing 30k business miles and the car averages 20 miles between charges - based on the average number of working days (240) that equals 6.25 charges per day.
I think you need to do your sums again! 
Yes 6.25 charges at 2.5 to 3 hours each. Don’t see an issue with that.
Fuck that for a game of soldiers…
Given that it’s a hybrid wouldn’t it be running on petrol the rest of the time?
The tenants in the flat above ours in Plymouth had some kind of hybrid Kia that they only used round the town. Apparently there were months between the visits to the petrol station.
I reckon if I stop at every service station for an hour or two I should be able to get around without using the engine.
Who is responsible in Europe for disposal, recycling, re-use of spent EV batteries?
How would you define spent?
Adam.