Luckypants

I heard about this place just last week. 50+ chargers! Apparently parking charges are steep, so free electric makes it more bearable.

This is an article written in April this year citing a study that used data from 2012-2018 - a time when the EV infrastructure was in its infancy. I can see why some people would give up on EVs back then, short range, poor public charging, no service centres and the general hassle of being a (very) early adopter. The situation in the UK in 2021 is VERY DIFFERENT - 200 plus mile range is common, thousands of public charging points (more than there are petrol stations) plenty of garages with EV expertise. This is fake news using out of date data.

They can hardly give it as a free upgrade without giving refunds to those who paid for the faster charging when they bought the car. So I guess its now available as a dealer upgrade for anyone regretting not ordering it from the get go or buying second hand.

I got mine from SmartHomeCharge, who have several options of chargers at various prices. They have video reviews of their chargers. https://www.smarthomecharge.co.uk/ https://www.smarthomecharge.co.uk/guides/charger-selector-tool/

Lots of people jumped ship from the Agile tariff in the early part of the year as 'plunge pricing' (negative rates) became more rare and the top rate of 35p became more prevalent. Many jumped to the Octopus Go or Go Faster tariffs and fixed at a good rate - before the "energy crisis" became a news item. Go tariffs are now very expensive for peak rate, but the headline off peak rate of 5p is still there. Although to be fair, all tariffs are expensive at the moment.

Fully charged and Autogefuhl have also covered the launch. Looks a bit odd, slightly remodelled ID.3 IMO.

Fully charged and Autogefuhl have also covered the launch. Looks a bit odd, slightly remodelled ID.3 IMO.

The government would have to foot the bill for that, so very unlikely. I see road pricing being the way they get the tax back, this is already being trailed by the Treasury. Rishi Sunak appears to be keen. 2p/mile would see a 12K mile/year driver pay £240 in road use tax. I suspect that the VED rules will also change to include electric cars and I think this will be based on the car's value when new. BIK rules for company drivers will be brought in line with ICE vehicles.

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.