Luckypants

The chances of leads changing from type-2 to 'something else' in the future are pretty much zero to not at all. The type-2 socket is part of the CCS DC charging standard that all European manufacturers use and Tesla also use for European Model 3 and Y. Literally millions of CCS and type-2 public charging stations have been installed at huge cost. The manufacturers are not going to throw that investment away. IMHO, go tethered so you always have a cable at home to plug in to and you will never forget to take your type-2 cable in your car should you need it.

VAT on electricity supplied via a paid for public charging point is already charged at 20%. This was clarified by HMRC back in May and it forced Instavolt (among others) to raise it's price to 40p/kWh. https://instavolt.co.uk/instavolt-ceo-issues-statement-in-response-to-hmrc-vat-brief-25-may-2021/ Despite the whinge by Instavolt CEO in the link above, it is clear that the 5% VAT rate was only ever intended to be for primary customers and 're-sold' electricity for charging cars should have VAT at 20% applied. Some charging networks (e.g. Podpoint and Ionity) were already applying the rules correctly.

What e-Roottoot said above. Check that the car you will be getting has all the features you ordered at the time. There has been a lot said on the UK Enyaq Facebook group about features going missing from packs on 2022 models.

To me that seems a very poorly designed charging point. If AC is available, surely that should be in a long term parking bay so as to leave the rapid sockets available? This problem appears to be raising it's head at the new Gridserve Electric Highway chargers also, use of AC blocks the rapid charging bays. In this particular instance, as the Tesla is charging I don't see anything wrong. His overall behaviour as you describe does seem selfish and arrogant though.

Looks like a moped to me. Tax, insurance and registration needed IMHO. A moped is motor assisted pedal machine - exactly what this is, it even looks like mopeds of the early 70's (Mobylette any one?) https://www.dictionary.com/browse/moped

Yes, my point was more about charging it to 100% then leaving the car undriven charged that high for an extended period. This is not good for the battery. If you only intend to charge to 80%, then there is no issue as the car will tell the charger to stop when the battery reaches 80%.

It shouldn't do damage to the Enyaq if you follow guidelines for not leaving it fully charged for extended periods. The charger communicates with the car to regulate charging. You should check the supply circuit and plug electrics for soundness if over a few years old, pulling 10A for 24 hours will heat any poor joints and may cause a fire or damage the insulation.

My ID.4 came with EV tyres, Hankook Ventus S1 Evo 3 EV. Others come with the tyres I listed above which are also EV tyres. I see no reason why the same isn't true of the Enyaq.

I wonder if he had his units right when he stated Audi require 30K miles from front tyres and 35K miles from rears? That seems very high. Also, with most EV being RWD (or AWD with rear bias) I would have thought the rears will wear quicker due to the heavy accelerative and regen forces involved. I'll be happy if I get 20K out of my rears.

I am aware of that! EDIT: Audi E-tron 55 charging curve.

Very interesting as these are the exact tyres my ID.4 came with. And he's talking *******s about recharge time in that Audi, it's one of the fastest out there.

I quite like the adaptive cruise on my ID.4 keeping to the speed limit. I pay attention to the road while driving and if I see a slower limit approaching, knock off the ACC and allow the car to coast down. I do get annoyed by the 'phantom braking' when the car 'sees' a limit for another adjacent road but it rarely happens for me. FWIW you can turn off ACC in the ID.4 and have plain old cruise control if you want, so I would expect the Enyaq to offer the same, as its basically the same software. I would strongly recommend reading up on it in the manual. If you want to just poke around, its somewhere in the driving aids menus.

My home tariff this week is 25p. Fingers crossed the wind starts to blow and the Russians start sending more gas.

Not trying to be funny, but have the dealers / factory left the plastic protective film over the reversing camera lens? Sometimes this film is hard to spot. I've resolved similar problems on phones / tablets by finding and removing the film.

Tesco, Aldi and Asda are the 'free' chargers I have used. The local Aldi have 22kW free charge posts, no app required - literally just turn up and plug in. Tesco are widespread but I find the ones in urban areas are often busy with all points taken. In fact my first need for a rapid charge was in Congleton and tried the Tesco rapid there, but previous user managed to knock it out faffing about trying to disconnect (also a new EV driver). The 4 7kW and 2 22kW posts were all taken. Luckily there was an Osprey charger nearby to use, just a bit more expensive. Asda was useful but run by BP Pulse and I needed to add £5 credit to the app to initiate a charge. So 'free' but I have £5 floating about in BP Pulse's bank account. These are excellent facilities and have probably given me 500+ free miles in the time I've had the car. You do have to wary of parking limits on the car parks and not all locations have the same restrictions e.g. no time limit at my local Aldi but the next one over has a strictly enforced 2 hour limit with £70 penalty charge.

Another excellent development in charging infrastructure is Osprey's introduction of Kempower chargers. First one will be live in Wolverhampton next month. These are very clever sharing the total power available for the hub between the vehicles charging dynamically to make the most of the grid connection. Not sure if this development has made it onto this forum so here it is

Yes I believe that to be the case. True highspeed chargers seem to be Ionity and those made by Tritium. The more common ABB chargers are limited by amps in this way it seems.

The Gridserve replacement of Ecotricity chargers has slowed down quite noticeably. It seems unlikely that they will hit the target of replacing all the old charger with the new ones by the end of this month. There has also been moans about reliability of the new chargers on Twitter and Zap-map. I hope these are teething troubles. I found out something interesting about the new Gridserve chargers going in on the Electric Highway network (mainly on motorways). They are advertised as 120kW chargers, but can only achieve this on 800V cars. The rest of us mere mortals will have to put up with 60kW. There is more to charging speeds than the headline speed. I also saw the same issue on another MFG's high speed chargers, 160kW for 800V but 'only' 80kW for normal 400V cars.

On that subject, I found out something interesting about the new Gridserve chargers going in to replace the ageing Ecotricity ones on the Electric Highway network (mainly on motorways). They are advertised as 120kW chargers, but can only achieve this on 800V cars. The rest of us mere mortals will have to put up with 60kW. Bit of a derail, but there is more to charging speeds than the headline speed. (I also saw the same issue on another network's high speed chargers but cannot remember which one)* *I remembered, it is on Motor Fuel Group's new high speed chargers, specifically at their new hub in Stretford. The headline speed is 160kW but the small print on the charger shows 80kW at 400V.

I think as he gets used to it the efficiency will improve. For example running re-gen level1 in town when it most likely should have been level3 or auto. However, if it doesn't get up past 3.2 I think it will damage Hyundai/Kia reputation for efficiency as people expect them to be good now. Efficiency in our ID.4 has definitely improved as we have got used to it, even allowing for better weather now over when we first got it.

Someone on the ID.4 group had the same issue, it was a disconnected drain hose.

I doubt very much is the suspension is adjustable in this fashion. More likely the transit blocks left in as has been previously suggested and they've taken them out to 'adjust' it. The adjustment story is likely BS to cover up their error. Its noticeable that no one else has complained of this problem with standard suspension on here or in any of the FB groups I'm in. I'm glad you've got it sorted and the car rides properly now.

There is a chap in the UK Enyaq owners Facebook group that has his Enyaq 60 on as a taxi. Might be worth having a search on there for any info? https://www.facebook.com/groups/3036207156410016

May be relevant, may be not. On the VW ID.4 and ID.3, the first part of the first over the air update to the software causes exactly these errors to appear. When the update is ready to be installed, the errors clear. I don't know if this update is being pushed to Enyaq yet, but you could check?

Should you be using Charge Your Car app now? SWARCO have launched a replacement app and that is the one they update. CYC have nothing to do with it anymore.