Luckypants

Thanks for the information, currently showing as £86.89 a corner at Costco, in my car's size. (your car is £30 a tyre cheaper!) I find the Goodyears do well in the tyre tests and were a contender on performance, so price is a factor now.

The tyre size is 185/55R15 given its a Monte Carlo. I had considered VREDESTEIN but they are more expensive than the Hankooks and do not fare as well in the tyre tests I've read. (Catskill do not list them in my size) You say these will last longer than the Hankooks, on what basis are you making that statement? My experience of Hankook shows they last quite well. TBH Longevity is not high on my priorities as the car only does 2-3K miles a year. Have you run Quatracs on your Citigo? How do they go? PS Thanks for the Catskill links, Hankooks are £20 cheaper there, although would need them fitted.

Hello Citigo hive mind! The tyres on my Citigo need replacing and I want to fit all season tyres. My current favourite is Hankook Kinergy 4S2 due to a combination of price, good reviews and my own recent good experience with Hankook tyres. My car takes 185/55R15 tyres My question is who has fitted all season tyres to a Citigo and how have you found them? Please give details of tyre/model/size and miles covered.

That would be hilarious fun!

This approach is also evident in VW group's MEB cars. Standard D mode aways allows the car to coast rather than brake via regen. Its very reminiscent of ECO mode on my old Karoq, which disengaged the engine and allowed coasting. I find D mode to be most economic on cross country trips, the B mode with immediate regen is too intrusive. However in urban areas B mode shines due to constant braking at roundabouts and junctions. B mode is also most economic in this type of driving.

Is it a local Merc dealer using that as a dumping ground for staff cars / domos? Passive/aggressive note on the windscreen? 🙂

Why can't they make basic small hatches that the vast majority want and can maybe afford? I don't really want a crossover / SUV, a medium sized estate would be great for the main car. For an 'entry level' car, why not make a Polo sized hatchback? The UP sized city car EVs sold / sell like hot cakes despite VW's best efforts to kill it off and second hand ones still command good prices. That is the small city EV they need to build as there is clearly demand. A Polo sized small car would be in demand also I think. ID.3 takes care of the Golf sized segment (even though they promise an EV golf in future). Cars need to get smaller.

6.6p per mile is still cheap motoring though. My home tariff is 22p and I'm getting 3.2 ish miles / kWh at the moment, so about 6.9p per mile. Compared with a similar diesel, which would be 16p / mile that's cheap. I can see EV costs going up, but still works out cheap compared to ICE. Yesterday I charged at a client's office for 8 hours @ 50p an hour. Worked out that I paid about 7p a kWh for what the car took, which is super cheap.

I watched that yesterday and the most interesting part for me was the lodges where they stayed!

The same thing at Northop services on the A55. 4x150 chargers are desperately needed on this trunk route. I have a feeling that Shell's contractors have stuffed up the DNO connection requests and as a result they have chargers hanging about waiting for a hook up to the grid. Local DNOs seem to be a real bottleneck in non-Motorway locations, so government need to step in to make sure these monopoly DNOs meet stringent time frames to install the connections needed to get the infrastructure installed. The leave it to the market approach does not work where there is no competition, but those in power conveniently ignore this fact (in many areas of life).

Aldi is 25p / kWh through the Shell Recharge app

You are right, my mistake. My local Tesco PodPoint is 28p, making the local Aldi look good value.

Supermarket charging is pretty much dead at the moment. ASDA have no interest (I've seen both PodPoint and BP charge posts "out of order"), Lidl have no interest except the rapids PodPoint installed. Other supermarkets I've tried without success are Waitrose, Marks & Spencer and Morrisons. I've never seen a charger at a Sainsbury. Aldi have been very unreliable but recently have improved and seem to be supporting the chargers in their car-parks to compete with Tesco, charging 25p/kWh via Shell Recharge around here. The Tesco PodPoint chargers seem much more reliable than other supermarket chargers and have never let me down in 2 years. Tesco is reasonably priced too at 28p.* The situation in the video is reprehensible though. On paper that area will be well served but so many out of order? Heads need knocking together. EDIT: Tesco price corrected, see below.

I'm using Halfords -20C screen wash and it hasn't frozen yet. The standard -12C stuff doesn't work with VW spray washer nozzles, the spray freezes.

As I've got older i find my hands get cold on long journeys, so heated steering wheel is a must these days.

Wallbox Pulsar Plus. One person can set their rate and download charging data to a CSV. They can then remove any private charges, friends charging etc in Excel before using the resulting sheet as evidence for claim. Like I said earlier, most smart chargers will offer similar. HTH

I've just had a play in the online portal. If your company is providing the chargers you could connect them all to a single company account and see each user's use directly. Access can be controlled via RFID card or even face recognition on some models. It gives all kinds of options for setting up an 'organisation' and each charger can have it's own rate set to account for whatever the user is charged for leccy. It seems quite comprehensive. Take a look here to start with https://wallbox.com/en_uk/mywallbox

My Wallbox Pulsar Plus reports all charges back to the Wallbox server if connected to wi-fi. I can access this data via an app on my phone or an internet portal. This data can be downloaded to a CSV file if required. I would imagine most smart chargers have a similar capability. Does this help at all? EDIT: I can set various costs per kWh in the Wallbox so each charge has a cost associated with it. As I'm on a fixed rate that just means one rate for all charges, but looks like I can set time of use rates too. Accounting for VAT would have to be done as part of the expense claim as the Wallbox does not allow for that. If reimbursement is a flat rate per kWh, then all you need is the power charged regardless of cost?

If you connect your car with an OBDI dongle, it uses real time consumption from your car. People who do this can opt to share the data with ABRP which they use to build 'real world' average data for ABRP consumption for all cars. So therefore my car as an example the ABRP consumption figure is lower than VW's but a bit pessimistic for my driving style so I find its calculations conservative. I set the consumption figure for me in the ABRP settings. ABRP also takes into account temperature and weather conditions in the settings or via a weather forecast system if you pay for premium. ABRP is better at factoring in terrain too, which the VW / Skoda system is bad at. Watch Bjorn Nyland's videos about ABRP, tells you a lot about how it works.

I call BS. There are thousands of chargepoints installed indoors in the UK. I personally can think of three or four places where they are installed in indoor car parks. Indoor chargepoints in public car parks are commonplace in Europe. This is an attempt by the developer to avoid having to install these chargepoints. I hope the planning condition is enforced.

How come your "free" AC charging cost £4?

The charging companies and EV manufacturers are working towards this to implement Plug & Charge ISO 15188 (and to a lesser extent AutoCharge non ISO standard) to allow cars to pay for charging by plugging in. This requires each car to identify itself uniquely and could be implemented on all chargers. This would identify cars being used untaxed or uninsured but will have loopholes eg granny chargers. Once plug and charge is in place car fuel duty could easily be levied on electricity given.

With MFG, Ionity, Instavolt, Osprey and Gridserve all opening new hubs in the past few weeks, it's getting difficult to keep up. We've even had one in North Wales courtesy of the council, but I worry that one will be a white elephant. Rhyl is not on the way to anywhere.... https://www.denbighshire.gov.uk/en/news/news-detail.aspx?article=e3158776-def9-4813-8664-ab8bb849a3f1

Dayam! hooked him before I did wyx087 puts it well, most of my charging is at home. I used to make fair use of the Tesco charger in town while it was free but don't bother now as my home tariff is cheaper. The only charging away from home in 21k miles has been on a holiday in Scotland and visiting relatives. Once got a 20 minute top up on a long weekend away when mileage was more than anticipated. Home charging is a game changer if you get a reasonable rate. I don't have an EV tariff but have a good fixed price for next 9 months.

@Mr Grump The maths is reasonably simple, if we assume a perfect system. (e.g. No heat losses, all charge goes to the battery and maximum charging speed at all times). A 120kW charger will deliver 70kWh in 35 minutes, (120/60)*35=70. To get 70kWh out of a 50 kW charger work out the kWh per minute 60/60= 0.833 then divide 70 by 0.833 to get the time taken to deliver 70kWh. 70/0.833=84 minutes. The answer to B is straight forward. 35 minutes @ 120kW is 70kWh, so cost is £35. This is basic maths, so wondering if I'm falling for some bait?