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Completed a 160 mile journey last Friday in our 2021 sr Excite, motorway and A roads, fully laden with air con on coldest setting. Overall 4.8m/kWh but on the M1 section of approximately 60 miles consumption dropped to 5.1m/kwh. I always drive in the slow lane when possible at 55 - 60 mph, KERS...

21 plate SR; best I've seen is a little over 40kW but 36kW is the norm. Perhaps it would be nice if it were quicker but to be honest never found it a problem.

OK thanks, I've just found another page on the site that confirms this 🙄

If I read the Government web site correctly EV's will not pay road tax until 2030: Vehicle tax rates

Thanks for responding, we are on Octopus Flux and I'm considering moving to Octopus Go. Principly to charge the house battery at a cheaper rate.

Despite owning our 5 over 3 years I've never done a scheduled charge overnight, with solar panels and low annual mileage it's not been necessary. So a sort of beginners question: We have an older SyncEV charger which has optional pulse charging or 'stay awake'. Do I need either of these? Or will...

We drove back from Cornwall in mostly 3°C a couple of weeks ago, our 2021 SR5 averaged 3.9 miles/kWh with average speed of 46mph. That's the lowest I've seen on a long run, down to low temperature and, for me, I did step on it a bit up the M5.

Ours starting making a slight knocking when cold when about 18 months old. I forgot to mention it at the first two services and at the 3rd it was just out of warranty. It's weeping very slightly now. I wonder if Cleveley EV have an alternative brand shock?

We bought ours 3 years ago from Every Car Covered, wasn't cheap but works a treat; dead easy to fit even when it's windy and despite what people say has not done any damage to the paintwork. On the contrary it's stopped cats scratching it.

Just had our 3rd annual service at A. E. Wilcox in Wickwar, amazingly they had the genuine MG boot liner at £45 plus VAT. They have one more left if anyone is interested.

In my experience Octopus Energy's advertised industry leading support has major issues when it comes to money coming our way. I've not had your specific problem but getting excess credit back is like getting blood from the proverbial. In my recent case it took 3 weeks to get the money back and...

Perhaps what I really meant was Auto Hold ? Better have a look in the car today!

I frequently use Hill Hold in hilly stop start traffic, makes driving so easy. To pull away you need to press the accelerator pedal very gently initially for a very smooth take off.

Once I got a smaller 16GB usb key and formatted it FAT32 before putting it in the car the update went smoothly. I think the instructions are in the infotainment system manual on my early standard range 5.

I cast my vote for the SyncEV as I'm really pleased with it after about 2 years of use. I work from home and we generally only cover about 3000 miles/year so even in winter we rarely were drawing power from the grid. It's very easy to vary the charging current incrementally from 6 to 32 amps in...