Haha same. My long term average on motorway journeys in my Kona over 4 years was 3.7-3.8 also, would get over 4 in summer sometimes. City driving I've had it in the high 5s again driving regular Joe style.
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IO uses an API to control the cars charging but power consumed in the cheap period is measured by the smart meter using half hourly meter readings.
If you are checking the smart meter displays, they will be wrong when calculating the cost. They simply can’t handle calculating costs when the price is changing at half hour intervals like it can with IO. You’d need to check your account in the website.
You don’t have to use the intelligent charging every day, just once a month to stay on the tariff. All power consumed in the standard cheap window is 7.5p. If IO decides to charge your car outside of this window, all power consumed in that window is also at 7.5p. You’ll notice they are all in half hour blocks to fit in with smart meter readings.
When using intelligent charging you shouldn’t set a schedule on your charger but as I said above you don’t need to use the system daily and you can just rely on the cheap period most of the time.
The Ovo version of the tariff is very different, that measures the power delivered by the charger or via the cars API and effectively gives you a rebate for that power only (down to 10p). The power the rest of your house consumes is still at the standard rate. The fact they only count the power delivered to the car at 10p is why they can have lower headline day rate but it can work out more expensive depending on your consumption profile.
Not efficient at turning electric into power though. They are tiny cars. Any power train will do well…
They have 200hp so not what you’d call slow by normal every day ICE car standards, particularly in that class of car. Nero isn’t what is call a small car, sure it’s not a huge SUV but it’s not tiny either. The skinny tires is what makes it more interesting
For how old that platform is, and it’s a hybrid platform, they’ve done a good job with it.
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Its a Niro whilst you are correcting stuff 
I blame auto correct and I’m sticking with it.Its a Niro whilst you are correcting stuff
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Yes pretty annoying tbh
Not on IO but just normal octopus tracker and there’s no simply way to work out how much I’ve spent in a day
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Have you got Octopus Compare app. It’s great.
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They have 200hp so not what you’d call slow by normal every day ICE car standards, particularly in that class of car. Nero isn’t what is call a small car, sure it’s not a huge SUV but it’s not tiny either. The skinny tires is what makes it more interesting
Not going to lie, the grip is pants
Sport mode is basically pointless - if I put my foot down it will just spin, even at 30mph, and that's with decent tyres (Primacy 3 all round), but then it's not exactly built for chucking round twisty roads...
Just a shame they haven't really done much to improve it for the new version :/
Yup... They actually reduced (limited) the torque compared to gen 1 because of the exact issue you describe hahaNot going to lie, the grip is pants
Sport mode is basically pointless - if I put my foot down it will just spin, even at 30mph, and that's with decent tyres (Primacy 3 all round), but then it's not exactly built for chucking round twisty roads...
Just a shame they haven't really done much to improve it for the new version :/
Cupra born v2 58kWh in Vapor grey
9000 miles in. Average 3.3m/kWh Great car to do everything like the commute. Plenty of room in back seats etc. 230mile range in this weather.
And it feels like a really quiet and smooth normal car. Especially after coming out of a model 3.
And it feels like a really quiet and smooth normal car. Especially after coming out of a model 3.
My trip to mid France today:
520miles, £43 fast charging. Left home full, got here with 1/3rd. Literally just put the destination and the nav worked it all out. 14 minutes charging waiting for the train, 50 minutes when we got some food and 20odd minutes later.
520miles, £43 fast charging. Left home full, got here with 1/3rd. Literally just put the destination and the nav worked it all out. 14 minutes charging waiting for the train, 50 minutes when we got some food and 20odd minutes later.
Nice
Done about 3500 in our v1 so far. Really like it as a car but infotainment infuriating. Not surprised the VAG CEO got fired tbh lol. Constant pop up messages about settings resetting and then other times the parking sensors or climate will choose not to boot up
Wife’s car and she still loves it though
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was that an after fit by you, thought they had had nexins oem - did you consider michelin multi-cross-climate ?
(with recent tyre price hike the basic 'premiums' like efficient grip I use have gone up disproportionately nearer mid market 'premium')
high torque ev, electronics have to respond faster as level of grip is established, so making that grip more predictable with a tyre that works at lower temps may help.
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new May publication by centre of policy studies on ev road pricing
suggesting adoption of new zealand plans - tax per mile, with some standard number of free miles per year for rural/urban owners.
wish they would do this for ICE, bloody road tax ~£300/yr this month, but only doing 3-4K per year.
Nope, that's what was fitted when I got it (I'm not the first owner)
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Seems Gridserve are upping the number of Ultra-rapids at Exeter services with a further 12 due to be completed within 4-8 weeks. So that will be 24 Gridserve units and 16 Tesla Superchargers at Exeter.
Now the only issue they need to solve is why it takes so damn long to get served at any of the eateries, or indeed end up queuing for the bathroom!
Now the only issue they need to solve is why it takes so damn long to get served at any of the eateries, or indeed end up queuing for the bathroom!
Cullompton is my go to southbound. Plug and charge and IONITY is cheaper. Exeter is the backupSeems Gridserve are upping the number of Ultra-rapids at Exeter services with a further 12 due to be completed within 4-8 weeks. So that will be 24 Gridserve units and 16 Tesla Superchargers at Exeter.
Now the only issue they need to solve is why it takes so damn long to get served at any of the eateries, or indeed end up queuing for the bathroom!
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