What's IOG?![]()
Intelligent Octopus Go,one of the best tariffs for EV owners.
What's IOG?![]()
End of my Jag era happened today, with the iPace being inspected and driven away by BCA. Sorry to see it go as its a great car but not so sorry in some ways.
The replacement Polestar 4 DMLR was delivered yesterday and i've not had much time to play with it but somethings are a big improvement on the Jag, somethings are remarkably similar. It drives well, is incredibly quiet, rides very well , bloody fast and has a decent range and I hope a significantly better DC charging curve...The rear view mirror being a screen is a little different but becoming accustomed to it already, few software niggles but nothing major, speaker system is not quite as good as the Meridian but not far off. Boot is big and a good height, interior space is huge, seats are comfy and have a lot of adjustment to them and whilst they aren't the nappa leather they are still very nice.
Overall I'm really pleased with it and talking to my wife last night we both said the same that it feels like what the next generation of iPace would have been if Jag had continued developing it.
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They also forget about the £000’s in servicing costs to keep it on the road. Costs that are significantly lower with an EV.Used engine prices for anything remotely modern are LOL prices, a poxy merc 651 (2009 to 2015 cars) engine is £1500, add labour on top of that and you are into not viable repair territory.
What annoys me about the anti EV'er is that they never take into account EV's, have barely been on the market for 10 years in mass production/sale. The ecosystem for maintaining them is going to take a bit of time to mature. The fact is, car buying has hugely changed in the last 25 years, people in the main buy a car for 5 years then get another new one, very few will keep them going till they break and repair them. Its bored people like my dad that buy the cars with ****ed engines and repair them to make a quick buck or 2, they arent normal and arent people that keep the industry going.
Just because Barry in his battered Passat 1.9 PD doesnt like EV's is neither here or there thankfully.
Have they fixed the issues with the Tesla's yet? I hear they have a problem swerving hard to the right ?
no difference to the iPace to be honest, its a wide car, its tight in some parking spaces, but has enough cameras on it to see everything clearly. the drive is really good its significantly quicker than the iPace was, hopefully get some miles on it in the next few daysHow are you finding the width? I get mine on Thursday and that’s the only concern I have. Think it’s 16cm wider than my Model 3.
enticing munro video about the engineering aero / noise improvements on Juniper, chinese/BYD need similar publicity.Have they fixed the issues with the Tesla's yet?
Have they fixed the issues with the Tesla's yet? I hear they have a problem swerving hard to the right ?
Can anyone advise as a Google search is confusing me
I have a Rav4 Plug in that works well with my Zappi charger and Octopus Intelligent Go.
We are considering changing my wife's ICE car for a full EV. However, I cant work out how the Zappi will charge both cars separately on IOG. You can only add one car. I thought plugging in either car would "Just work" But what I have read does not appear to support that idea.
Can anyone enlighten me please?
Can anyone advise as a Google search is confusing me
I have a Rav4 Plug in that works well with my Zappi charger and Octopus Intelligent Go.
We are considering changing my wife's ICE car for a full EV. However, I cant work out how the Zappi will charge both cars separately on IOG. You can only add one car. I thought plugging in either car would "Just work" But what I have read does not appear to support that idea.
Can anyone enlighten me please?
I’ve got my IPACE set with Ohme to add 45% on a routing when I plug it in. I also now have an Evoque PHEV and I simply plug that in and the Ohme plans to fill an ipace 45% so it’s charges the Evoque just fills it up in about 1/3rd of the time as it will only take 15kWh max.
No issues at all, they have recently added a second car option but when you change vehicles it doesn’t change the routines so it’s pretty pointless in my view.
Excellent thanks. Both helpful and clear instructions.It does just work but you need to set up IOG with car with the largest battery to make sure you always end up with a fully charged charged car.
Say you have two cars, one with a 80kwh battery and one with a 40kwh battery, you set up IOG with the car with the 80kwh battery so when you put in the octopus app to 'add 50%, it will add 40kwh. If you plug in the 40kwh car, adding 50% will fully charge the car from empty.
EDIT: per @Jonnycoupe's real world example above
I took a chance but remembered something somebody said which was to slow down to 60 and cruise and by the time I got home I'd got 40 miles left.
Yes, that was likely me. 60 vs 70 is nothing in time savings really.