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I'm about to buy my first personal EV this weekend. Wonder what card/app do people use for charging at public chargers. I've ordered an Octopus Electroverse card, but are there better/cheaper options?
 
Tinders said:
Are the settings mirrored in the app and car?
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As far as I can tell, yeah - I have checked a couple of times.


I thought the charging at preferred times not working was due to a setting at first but I’ve checked and everything is configured as per instructions. Plus, it did used to work and I haven’t changed anything since then. It just stopped working one day

SkyTerran said:
I'm about to buy my first personal EV this weekend. Wonder what card/app do people use for charging at public chargers. I've ordered an Octopus Electroverse card, but are there better/cheaper options?
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Cheapest is Tesla for their chargers. Up to 30p a unit less.


Firegod said:
Not sure if your VW is anything like my bro's Renault, or my dad's Honda, but we don't use any of the in car controls/scheduling. We both just let the Ohme control it all. For my dad's in particular, as long as the gap between plugging in the car and getting it charging isn't more than 2hrs away, it'll charge dynamically just fine. Any longer and I go into the car app on the phone, refresh the connection (wakes it up), and then when the schedule arrives it charges ok. Seems to be a sleep / wake issue. But we set it to say I need the car by like 1am in the morning and so it starts about 8PM. We can then check the smart meter to see if its pulling the KWh or not. If not, give it a kick. lol.
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I don’t have a smart charger otherwise I would - it isn’t worth spending the money on one, otherwise I’d have just kept the 320d and used that cost towards fuel.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
So what is the big one for and what is the other one for?
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The small button is for if/when you may need to manually operate the EPB.

Examples of when this might be are also given in a later section of the manual.

It will be virtually never but would be a pain in the backside if it was impossible to manually operate it on the odd occasions it might be necessary.
 
SkyTerran said:
I'm about to buy my first personal EV this weekend. Wonder what card/app do people use for charging at public chargers. I've ordered an Octopus Electroverse card, but are there better/cheaper options?
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Electroverse is good. They seem to do pricing offers, for eg yesterday it was 40% off on Ionity, osprey etc between 12pm and 2pm.
 
MrRockliffe said:
I thought the charging at preferred times not working was due to a setting at first but I’ve checked and everything is configured as per instructions. Plus, it did used to work and I haven’t changed anything since then. It just stopped working one day
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you have good vodaphone signals - this seems like one of the Stellantis issues on mokka I had (dlockers mentioned too) the cars can't be 'woken' via wifi and need 4g,
for supevisor instructions (I live in a mobile triangle - garage would additionally have metal components)
 
Alibaba99 said:
The small one just puts the handbrake on, the big P puts on both the handbrake and locks the transmission. The second is equivalent to putting the handbrake on and putting an ICE car into gear when you park up.
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Now I get it, I think others said it but not as easily as you.
The manual is a total mess, this evening I've had my brother and nephew in the car with me while trying to work it out with the manual.
I have also missed some replies so apologies.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
So what is the big one for and what is the other one for?
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I know this has been posted before but the big one is essentially the gear select and the small one is the Emergency Parking Brake.

Automatic cars have D, R, N and P. P historically you manually had to put the auto gearbox into Park mode but you still had a manual hand brake. Modern cars now have electronic parking/hand brakes and pressing the P on the gear selector also puts the parking (hand) brake on.

You might find that the larger P button on the gear selector only works at slow speeds. The smaller EPB will be your emergency stop function in the event of brake pedal failure.

You would be surprised how many people haven’t a clue how to stop their car in the event of a brake failure.

For example our I-Pace has a P button for gear select but it becomes inactive over 6mph (10kph). If your foot brakes fail, you need to operate the EPB at your right knee (push, then pull and hold until stop).

On our C40 EV, simply press and hold the P button (it only has one) until the car stops.
 
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SkyTerran said:
I'm about to buy my first personal EV this weekend. Wonder what card/app do people use for charging at public chargers. I've ordered an Octopus Electroverse card, but are there better/cheaper options?
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Doesn’t everyone use touch and go these days?
 
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