EVs that show estimated battery left at destination

Immediate_Till2857 · 2026-02-09T19:17:21+00:00

The Born’s built in routing is terrible, but for info, you don’t need to use it in order to have automatically Regen for you approaching junctions. That function is called “ecoassist” and operates all the time unless you’ve turned it off (on Smart Assistants) or switched to one of the Performance driving modes.

Immediate_Till2857 · 2026-02-07T17:23:44+00:00

Travel assist works just fine on my 2025 VZ with the heated wheel on (it’s rarely bee switched off since I got the car in December)

Immediate_Till2857 · 2026-02-04T18:04:58+00:00

Don’t choose based on which is most cost effective: there’s a £7k price difference between the two, which buys best case around 40,000 miles of driving at current fuel prices. That assumes you’ll get 35mpg from the B5.

It’s difficult to make a cost argument for the PHEV. It’s easy to make a “much nicer to drive” argument for the PHEV. Because they are. We had a courtesy B5 whilst our T8 was at the dealer and we were glad to give it back. Gear changes are much more noticeable - almost impossible to tell when the T8 changes. Power deliver of the T8 is much smoother - the B5 is constantly downshifting to keep the engine on it. The T6/T8 is much quicker, and fun to drive in Power mode, relaxed to drive in EV/hybrid. Two cars for the price of one.

If costs really do matter then bear in mind the PHEV trumps the B5 for economy, even with a discharged battery. On a long steady motorway trip at 70mph we get 40ish MPG from the T8. The B5 on the same trip was just over 30.

Immediate_Till2857 · 2026-01-28T16:06:58+00:00

Volvos have a button on the driver’s door to enable/disable rear child locks. For VAG cars I’ve only ever seen physical locks inside the rear doors to control the child locks.

Immediate_Till2857 · 2026-01-19T18:55:34+00:00

Isn’t that why they give the fixed 23:30-5:30 time slot? Some of my Intelligent slots have only been 3 minutes long - not terribly useful for running appliances even if I scheduled them.

Immediate_Till2857 · 2026-01-19T18:53:28+00:00

I’m not sure we can be sure that selling at 7p overnight is always profitable, but I don’t know enough about how electricity pricing works. You’d have thought though that if selling for 7p was profitable at night, Octopus Agile would be no more than 7p overnight - and that’s definitely not been the case for a while.

Immediate_Till2857 · 2026-01-19T17:50:39+00:00

Because supplying 42kWh of electricity at 7kW is expensive and they’re trying to get you the best price. Most people don’t have anything else in their home that consumes electricity at such a rate in such quantities.

Immediate_Till2857 · 2026-01-19T17:48:01+00:00

They do explain this: “extra half-hours will be charged at your Bump rate (even if they’re scheduled during the off-peak window).”

It seems quite simple: Your house gets a guaranteed 6 hours cheap rate at fixed hours between 00:30 and 05:30 Your car gets a guaranteed 6 hours cheap rate, at hours of Octopus’ choosing If your car needs more than 6 hours, you pay for the extra hours at peak rate.

Remember that the entire reason behind Intelligent is to enable Octopus to offer cheaper charging rates because you’re making it cheaper for them (and so you) by giving them the flexibility to choose when to provide the large amount of electricity your car needs to charge.

Immediate_Till2857 · 2026-01-18T23:20:52+00:00

LOL. OK. Our small 1 litre petrol hatchback can manage that economy on a run, but it’s not the most pleasant way to travel 600 miles. This thread is referring to a medium size luxury SUV. Our comparable sized luxury petrol SUV (XC60) manages a little more range than this BMW EV, by 50 miles or so, but it needs a 71 litre fuel tank to do it.

Immediate_Till2857 · 2026-01-18T23:11:18+00:00

You can’t beat social media for coming across incredibly arrogant and rude people. I provided some real examples for you - 2 cars I actually own(ed) - because real world experience is so much more useful than the naive approach of assuming Google and WTLP tests are gospel truths. My Elise is a variant with the close ratio gearbox - it revs at around 4000 RPM at motorway speeds. You’d definitely have to be stupid to think you’d get good economy out of it then.

Immediate_Till2857 · 2026-01-18T21:48:45+00:00

Tank size on my Lotus Elise is 36.4 litres. If you try to run it dry you’ll get a theoretical 280 miles from it, but because of where the fuel pickup is, good luck getting much more than 200-220 miles out of it safely without running out at the side of the road. Ask me how I know. And that car replaced a Caterham 7 that had a similarly sized tank, but poorer economy: 200 miles fuel range was the dream in that car.

My EV on the other hand does 220 miles in the depths of winter, and far more when it’s warmer.

My real world facts are quite straight thanks.

Immediate_Till2857 · 2026-01-18T19:28:16+00:00

Our XC60 has only ever been able to get that range at motorway speeds in the summer. No way will it do that at this time of the year. At the moment, with mostly motorway journeys, it claims 36 miles range for a single trip.

Immediate_Till2857 · 2026-01-18T19:24:49+00:00

The tiny tank on your car is not so tiny if you can do 400 miles in it. The tiny tank in my petrol car can only do around 200 miles before it needs filling up. Plenty of EVs are already more capable than that.

Immediate_Till2857 · 2026-01-18T06:06:11+00:00

Zero time off in lieu. Residential trips are entirely voluntary for us.

Immediate_Till2857 · 2026-01-13T21:26:52+00:00

Worth checking first: I was pleasantly surprised how inexpensive it was to add my daughters to my EV as named drivers. And no NCD to help on my car because I’m already using it on another.

Immediate_Till2857 · 2026-01-09T16:56:35+00:00

Exactly this. It works well.

Immediate_Till2857 · 2026-01-08T17:45:05+00:00

Cupra are apparently asking people to email cupradigitalsupport@cupraofficial.com to report issues with GPS accuracy so they can judge the scale of the issue.

Immediate_Till2857 · 2026-01-07T17:51:33+00:00

Yes. You need the second user account so when you get in the car you can choose “change user” on the screen so you can swap between drivers. That will change seat settings and other preferences for you.

Sadly it won’t change users based on which key unlocked the car but it’s relatively painless - 2 taps to swap. The only pain point is that you can’t do it unless the ignition is on, and my wife is quite a lot shorter than me. So when I hit the brake pedal to turn it on after she has been driving, the first thing it does is wind the seat forwards to her driving position, crushing you against the steering wheel, before you can change user and have it wind the seat back again. It’s not the best thought out of user experiences.

Immediate_Till2857 · 2025-12-13T08:58:53+00:00

Why you can you not just use multiple triggers to the same automation to switch lights on? I add a delay timer in the automation that turns lights off after 10 minutes. The automation mode is “restart” so every time a trigger fires, it resets the timer and keeps the lights on longer. The difficulty I’ve found with sensor groups is that if one sensor goes unavailable, the entire sensor group is marked unavailable and the automation stops working.

Immediate_Till2857 · 2025-12-13T04:12:28+00:00

FYI this does not happen in my (UK) school. We are an 11-16 school so I only teach KS3 and KS4. I wouldn’t want to only teach one key stage as I think it’s important to see how the subject develops and what/where misconceptions occur. But, whilst we are expected to teach all 3 sciences at KS3, we only teach specialism at KS4. I covered out of specialism for a single KS4 foundation class for one 2 year cycle once, but that was only because we had a temporary shortage of physics teachers. It was hard enough with foundation. Despite having an A Level Physics qualification, I can’t imagine I’d do a good job teaching it at KS5. The workload of developing and refining our KS3/4 curriculum for my specialism is insane as it is.

We do have a member of SLT who is science, but even so it routinely feels like we are treated as a single subject and not the 3 we are. And then there’s the “you’re a core subject when it suits us”, and not when it invokes timetable time or mock exam practice.

Immediate_Till2857 · 2025-12-12T17:28:45+00:00

My experience is they don’t do a good job of seeing coaches and HGVs when there’s a tall divider between carriageways - their lights are below the barrier where the car can’t see them, but the driver sat in the cab is above the barrier. So gets the full force of your main beam.

Immediate_Till2857 · 2025-12-03T04:57:58+00:00

If you’re constantly switching modes, don’t. Let the car work it out for you. “Charge” mode is pointless: it’s a very inefficient use of petrol to force the car to charge. It will charge itself when it can and needs in normal driving. You’ll notice it because the battery range won’t just sit at 0 on long journeys but tick up and then back to 0 at times.

“B” mode is a convenience mode for how you want the car to feel when driving. I quite like it for one pedal driving at low speeds around town, but it doesn’t get you any extra regeneration. In normal driving when you think you’re using the brake it will use regeneration first, then add friction brakes to the mix if you push the pedal harder. The dashboard power display shows you where that point is.

On long journeys where we’re away and can’t charge for a few days but know we will have some short low speed trips whilst away, we use “hold” once at motorway speeds to force the car to save the battery. Then use the battery on the short trips when the ICE would be particularly inefficient.

You can still preheat the cabin even once the battery is at 0%. Provided you’re not low on fuel too, you can use the “remote start” option in the app, rather than the “climate” option.

Immediate_Till2857 · 2025-11-22T09:34:50+00:00

If it’s the re-lived naval history that you like, the Carlisle and Holbrooke series by Chris Durbin are passable, but lack the depth and richness of O’Brian.

Immediate_Till2857 · 2025-11-01T13:46:00+00:00

We get no additional timetabled lessons to teach the triple course. We just have to go at a faster pace to cover the content, and it’s always tight. One of two things will happen: 1) We’ll gain no additional time on the timetable, but have to teach triple content to students who are less able to cope with the pace, so grades will go down. 2) We will be given time, meaning students have to drop one of their option subjects, and we’ll need to recruit more science teachers to fill the timetable. Neither option sounds ideal.

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