EV general discussion

ID.7 has continued to have problems since taking it in. Still getting software crashes with the entire instrument cluster dying. Thankfully for the moment it recovers and reboots.


There is something impacting CarPlay GPS though. I initially thought it was my phone but Apple advised me that my phone would be using the cars GPS for CarPlay maps and hence it must be a problem with the car.


It took a turn for the worst recently and now doesn’t work 90% of the time. My location on CarPlay is stationary/spins around/moves erratically. You can’t use CarPlay at all for nav.


Still having issues with regen and the transition from regen to friction. It’s like an on off switch and you get a sudden snap when the friction brakes engage. Doesn’t do it when the battery is fully charged as it doesn’t regen.



Tried to book it back in but can’t get anything before June 29th. Alphabet have washed their hands of it. Have now started a claim with the financial ombudsman.
 
Loads of Corsa e’s have popped up around the estate where I live.

A quick look on auto trader and dealers are knocking them out for £16k on a pre-reg I so can see why…

Sure it’s not the best car with the best range but in reality it meets most people needs and it’s just great value for a brand new car.

Who said EVs are expensive?
 
I paid £19k for mine but I got the posh ultimate version….lol… I get over 200 miles a charge which is more than enough for what we wanted it for. Tbh it’s a nice car to drive and is pretty comfy too. It has lots of tech which I’m still working out but the radar cruise with auto steer works really well on the motorway.

I’m happy with it and I’m looking at replacing my Petrol Astra sports tourer with an electric one when some deals come up. I was very anti EV until I borrowed a leap motor from Vauxhall.

Really looking forward to getting the home charger fitted as the granny charger is so slow and I don’t get much charge in the 5 hours cheap rate.
 
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MrRockliffe said:
There is something impacting CarPlay GPS though. I initially thought it was my phone but Apple advised me that my phone would be using the cars GPS for CarPlay maps and hence it must be a problem with the car.
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I thought car play always used the phone GPS?

Your symptoms sound too severe to be the usual GPS lag due to the phone going to sleep.
 
lordrobs said:
I thought car play always used the phone GPS?

Your symptoms sound too severe to be the usual GPS lag due to the phone going to sleep.
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Just going by Apple’s comments from their senior techs.

Had to go through a data capture process with them to work out the cause.


Issue doesn’t occur with any other car with CarPlay either
 
does the ID7 permit wired car-play and may let the phone use it's own gps - which is what I use anyway for better audio quality using vlc/foobar/spotify
[carplay presentation I linked a while back, also with audio quality discussion https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016/722/ ]

... Telegraph keeping up the good fight (diddums I'm being ironic) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/05/29/electric-cars-halve-in-value-after-just-two-years/
it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, with some good deals for true disciples.
 
jpaul said:
does the ID7 permit wired car-play and may let the phone use it's own gps - which is what I use anyway for better audio quality using vlc/foobar/spotify
[carplay presentation I linked a while back, also with audio quality discussion https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016/722/ ]

... Telegraph keeping up the good fight (diddums I'm being ironic) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/05/29/electric-cars-halve-in-value-after-just-two-years/
it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, with some good deals for true disciples.
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The depreciation (in the first year especially ) is due to them being too expensive in the first place.

After that they seem to get back onto a more reasonable depreciation curve.

Buying one at list or close to list is a scary proposition. I think after that initial plummet in 1-2 years they are reasonably good value
 
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List price can be a deceptive factor as well.

I sourced my current company hack about Astra. List £40080 we paid £24600 and that was brand new, not pre registered. So if we sold it the same day for what we paid for it on paper it still looks like it deprecated 39% in a day.
 
PSA - I’ve spotted a few people reporting their Octopus Electroverse accounts being compromised and allegedly being used by taxi drivers to fuel their cars.

Allegedly accounts are for sale on some uber/PHV groups.

I spotted it on the Tesla owners group and someone posted a link to this discussion here: https://www.speakev.com/threads/fra...pmQJs_Uw_5xsGJZg6L_aem_c-51cc0ys27q2gRa_DA5Uw

Octopus’ security on their accounts also seems to be terrible.

You can’t turn on 2FA on your octopus Electroverse account.

In the case of the Tesla owner who reported it, they changed his password and to change it, you need to know the old password so they can’t even lock the other person out. This person used an Apple generated password unique to octopus which wasn’t used elsewhere.

It’s not clear if they were phished or there has been a wider breach but we can be sure it wasn’t from a 3rd party password database breach as the password was unique.
 
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b0rn2sk8 said:
PSA - I’ve spotted a few people reporting their Octopus Electroverse accounts being compromised and allegedly being used by taxi drivers to fuel their cars.

Allegedly accounts are for sale on some uber/PHV groups.

I spotted it on the Tesla owners group and someone posted a link to this discussion here: https://www.speakev.com/threads/fra...pmQJs_Uw_5xsGJZg6L_aem_c-51cc0ys27q2gRa_DA5Uw

Octopus’ security on their accounts also seems to be terrible.

You can’t turn on 2FA on your octopus Electroverse account.

In the case of the Tesla owner who reported it, they changed his password and to change it, you need to know the old password so they can’t even lock the other person out. This person used an Apple generated password unique to octopus which wasn’t used elsewhere.

It’s not clear if they were phished or there has been a wider breach but we can be sure it wasn’t from a 3rd party password database breach as the password was unique.
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Seems a massive issue if this is true

But taxi drivers will surely be on CCTV going in and out which is pretty stupid by them to try this
 
Indeed but it’s fair to say the police are unlikely to get involved or investigate to any degree because of the amounts involved.

In theory the rapid charger should also be liking the unique ID for the car so it shouldn’t be hard to track down if they used their own credit card to start a charger before or after the fraudulent transaction on any network.

The issue is someone has to do the legwork and that’s unlikely to happen for a £300 theft that Octopus or the bank will just eat.
 
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Hacks on the public charger itself are another attack vector to get reduced priced/free electricity - that won some of the top discovery awards in international security/hacking conference.

Puma-e seems to be reviewing well - however leases seem exhorbitant £500 24month 10K , 48months £350 ; do they have an increasing strategy to lock people in ?
 
jpaul said:
Hacks on the public charger itself are another attack vector to get reduced priced/free electricity - that won some of the top discovery awards in international security/hacking conference.

Puma-e seems to be reviewing well - however leases seem exhorbitant £500 24month 10K , 48months £350 ; do they have an increasing strategy to lock people in ?
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R5 is £450 on same 24m 10k
Born V2 £520
MG4 LR £485

Doesnt seem an outlier?
 
I mean what the lease rates say about depreciation ... and whether in the past few years the cost/pm for a short/24 lease used to be as high relative to a longer/48 one;
24 months @500 is pretty unpalatable. but £350 would entice me.

- an exception alpha junior shows lease of £500 for 24 or 48 months (with that tasty diff & face )
 
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