Well its been a few years but back on this forum. At the moment I have the MG HS PHEV, no matter what people say this has been a brilliant car, nothing has gone wrong, the 12v is still the original, the DAB Radio still works and no stupid screen aerial glove box lash up either. 3 years and all is well.

My wife has now ordered the new Hyundai Inster 02 EV and got £3.750 EV grant and £500 deposit contribution. We have a Zappi on the wall for the MG so thought I'd see what my options were. The new MG, EV3, or maybe the Elroq ? I have yet to book test drives so I would like to get a heads up on your thoughts on this car, so when I take it out of the dealer showroom I will hopefully remember what to check out!

Any comments, good or bad would be appreciated.

I noticed, or rather did not notice what the Elroq would attract in terms of the new Grant. £3750 or £1500. as said the Hyundai were offering a total of £4250 off a new car. Skoda does not list any value on its configuration pages.

^^^ That is Hyundai,s Grant or reduced price of £3,750. Not the UK Government grant as it is not a Band 1 EV.

Money off, or not to pay is all the same, and maybe better not from the Tax Payers and from Manufacturers that were pricing EV,s too high.

23 hours ago, Ootohere said:

^^^ That is Hyundai,s Grant or reduced price of £3,750. Not the UK Government grant as it is not a Band 1 EV.

Money off, or not to pay is all the same, and maybe better not from the Tax Payers and from Manufacturers that were pricing EV,s too high.

I think I got this from Auto Express article regarding the grant and that Hyundai had applied it to the Inster 02. I Probably read it wrong. Thanks for the correction, but either way £4250 off a new EV is a good discount.

I like the Insters practicality with the folding front seat and sliding rear seats makes room for 4 people or lots of shopping!

On 03/09/2025 at 18:38, ajw1100 said:

Well its been a few years but back on this forum. At the moment I have the MG HS PHEV, no matter what people say this has been a brilliant car, nothing has gone wrong, the 12v is still the original, the DAB Radio still works and no stupid screen aerial glove box lash up either. 3 years and all is well.

My wife has now ordered the new Hyundai Inster 02 EV and got £3.750 EV grant and £500 deposit contribution. We have a Zappi on the wall for the MG so thought I'd see what my options were. The new MG, EV3, or maybe the Elroq ? I have yet to book test drives so I would like to get a heads up on your thoughts on this car, so when I take it out of the dealer showroom I will hopefully remember what to check out!

Any comments, good or bad would be appreciated.

I noticed, or rather did not notice what the Elroq would attract in terms of the new Grant. £3750 or £1500. as said the Hyundai were offering a total of £4250 off a new car. Skoda does not list any value on its configuration pages.

Have you managed to get any test drives of your choices? What did you think of each?

And I still have my 2022 PHEV despite lots of looking, reading and a couple of test drives. The new HS has side steps, my wife scraped her shin/calf on them getting in or out. I asked MG Customer Service if my Dealer removed them would it mean the car had been 'modified' and so would not be covered? Their response was to send me a link to their warranty page! Obviously too hard a question.

I did test drive the Elroq and did like it, however we had a problem with our MyEnergi/Zappi set up that took a lot of emails and about 3-4 days of no charging, my wife did not then want to risk it with a BEV and suggested we went for another PHEV or Hybrid. For us not needing such a large car am now finding it hard to find something suitable. Obviously fitting a fuel tank and a battery takes up a lot of space. One candidate, despite its image was the Honda Jazz, practical, economical, well equipped and under the 40k Gvnt ceiling. The test drive when driven at tip-toe speed was great but the CVT was something else, when you wanted some power that CVT was really awful. On returning to the dealership my back said I should ask if it had lumber support, which it didn't, so that was a very dissapointed salesman!

So here I am, still with my 3.5 year old MG HS PHEV with just 8k on the clock. I hope to find a good Hybrid or convince my wife having two BEV's is not such a risky decision.

I take my hat off to MyEnergi who's Customer Service has been superb.