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This will depend on your tariff and chargee! If you are using Octopus Go & a Zappi, then it doesn't matter how you operate it - schedule in the car or in the charger should work - ECO+ will allow the car to charge if plugged in and there is enough sun (Having home battery storage can **** this all up as its possible that the home battery will charge the car - which in most cases, isn;t a good idea. I'm pretty sure you would have to schedule the charge off the charger in this case, rather than the car - the car will determine how much you charge too - set via the app or the car) If you are using Octopus Intelligent Go, then you either get Octopus to control the charger or the car. The former the zappi is set to Eco+ - when you plug in, it will do a test charge and set up charging slots to get to the amount of charge you want to add as a % of the cars battery size. If you get Octopus to control the car, then the Zappi is set to Fast and again when you plug in, it will start to charge (You can manually turn it off if you want, I generally don't bother as it usually stops after less than 1kWh charge) and give you some charge slots based on the % battery SOC you want to get to - so I usually set it to 80% (Car is set to 100% charge limit) and only go to 100% if I have a long journey. IOG will then charge the car during the slots - it may not charge for the whole 30 minute slot given - but may do. Thats the whole point of the tariff in that it can balance the grid.

My two penneth. If you are using Intelligent Octopus GO, then the charger is largely dumb. I have a Zappi, which in theory can use excess solar to charge the battery (If you have solar panels obviously!) - but as I currently use the Car integration with Octopus, it has to run in Fast mode (IE Dumb). When it is plugged in, it will start to charge the car and Octopus see's it and then turns off the charge via the car and gives you the charging slots to get to the SOC you want. If you use the Zappi integration, then you run the charger in Eco+ mode - which means (I believe) that you can charge from excess solar as well as via IOG. So, if you intend using IOG via the Cars Integration, get the charger that suits your needs and aesthetics. The zappi isn't pretty (I can't really see it most of the time), but then most aren't. If you intend using the charger integration, you currently have a choice of 3. Ohme, Wallbox or Zappi. (In order of cost installed via Octopus) As for installer, there are quite a few, Octopus installed mine (Part of my EV package) and I have no complaints at all. I believe all their installers are actually employed by them with all the necessary qualifications - the lady that installed mine also sorted the henly block and resealed the fuse (They are one of the few that can do that I believe)

Its when you multiply this by the number of miles a year that it gets frightening! (I get to 40years since passing my test next month).

It was on the configurator a couple of days ago!

Bit of a mute point at the moment - the option seems to have disappeared from the UK configurator!

Thats the same as the Land Rover I had - I changed the seat pad and also heater element on it after 180k or so as the squab had gone a bit soft and they are different part numbers for leather and cloth. Maybe they run at a different temperature?

I'll be happy if I can get 20k out of a set of tyres - my contract allows 4 tyres every 20K! - I don't know how good they are against puncture resistance - but I have only had to replace one tyre I can think of in the last few years - and only had 2 punctures when I used to offroad my Land Rover - did 174k in that!

Tidal has definitely got its place. Hydrogen a lot less so due to the cost and efficiency of making it. It really isn’t good especially when you include the compression of it to get it into a small space.

Where I work a salary sacrifice scheme has just been introduced. I think its classed as a company car - so BIK @ 2% and we have to claim back business miles at 5p/m (HMRC Current rate) - Includes a home charger. Given I'm paying for it in effect, I would hope I could claim the business use against tax at 25/45 (Less the 5p for "fuel") - but I suspect that won't be allowed.

Have you activated the SIM? You have to reply to a text from memory - but they come through on the car ok - and I also registered. I've just checked mine - I added £10 and it went down quite quickly at first - but seems to have stayed at £8.87 for some time - and I've done probably 3000miles since I put it in a month or so ago.

I'm not too stressed about the empty tank function, I would just like to easily see the locations of the BP site - Merc have them on their Satnag! Anyway, I've found another list on the BP site it self, but I think it needs some editing to make it work. When I get a few minutes I'll give it a go!

I have got some of the bp fuel stations into the nag screen by downloading the list and uploading them using the Skoda website It sort of works but a lot are missing or in the wrong place. May be the list isn’t the latest. It is suggested that there is a list on the bp site but I’m buggered if I can find it.

Danny. Yes I did sort of correlate it to the seat memory - but not every time. Anyway you should t have to memories the seat every time you move it a bit.

I’ve had the car parked up for 4 days and not been an issue. If I know I’m going to leave it much longer than that I’ll just unplug it.

I’m glad I’m not going mad as I get this too. Ill have a word with my dealer when it’s next in for a service. Unless I get really cheesed off with it beforehand!