Recent content by Chrisdy

As an IAM member, I have always judged separation distance by time. The three distances settings are equivalent to 1.5, 2.0 & 2.5 secs. 2 secs is the 'normal' separation distance for the majority of conditions. The reason time is better than distance is that the time remains the same...

I live in the country so traffic, particularly for my local journeys, is not a problem. Many of the journeys were in the evening when there was very little traffic on the roads. I also found that the use of lights had only a small impact on range, compared to doing the journey when the evenings...

Mine's an Ice Blue one, in Dorset. Although our 'local' garage (Poole) has sold about 15-20 in the past few months I have yet to see another one on the road.

Having now used the car for a week after getting it back from the garage, the range has gone back up to 26 miles. Clearly temperature and other external factors have had little impact, since in the South of England we have been having very mild weather so far. The journeys have been the same, so...

My PHEV does this regularly. I will drive a certain distance and the display will say I have, for example, 13 miles remaining. After a gap of about 4 hours without being charged, when I start it up again it will often initially say it has about 3-4 miles more range than it displayed when I shut...

My car has now been into the garage twice due to decreasing battery range despite driving in Eco mode with no other electrical items on. Range on full charge was down to just 19 miles. This time the garage has had the car for 6 days. I have just been told that Mitsubishi don't think there is a...

There is a short hill up to the place I work, but then it's downhill on the way home, so should even out. Majority of the journeys are 40mph or less, but I do a couple of 20 mile round trips every week where the roads are 60mph. However, I tend to use the adaptive cruise on those journeys, which...

That's what I thought when I first got my PHEV nearly 2 months ago, but the range has actually reduced over time. I am aware of the load put on the battery by A/C and the other toys, so I deliberately turned off all the electrics apart from the stereo, incl turning off the A/C and fans, etc. I...

It was a neighbour who enquired about an electric charging point and got a local company to come and do a survey. As his house is an identical design to mine, my neighbour invited me across and I was able to question the guy who did the survey. My neighbour then changed his mind about getting an...

I've had my car for just under 2 months, but it's going to be a while before I use a full tank of fuel, because most of my journeys are less than 30 miles, with the longest journeys being about 80 miles so far. As a result I topped up the tank just to see what the figures were and how accurate...

BG also failed to turn up on my first installation date with no explanation. I sent them a formal complaint, which was initially handled appallingly. I wrote again, telling them that I intended to keep a record of how they handled the complaint. It might have been coincidence, but from then on...

Although I only have a 2kW PV installation due to the size of the space on the roof, I always try to charge the PHEV during the day in this weather. Although the charging point supplies 3.7kW, it means that all the PV power is being used, with nothing exported. Since we get paid on the...

The Govt are changing the rules for electric charging points from 1 Sep, and you will have to own, or have use of, an electric car under the new rules to qualify for the 75% Govt grant. However, the 25% subsidy that the main installers have been adding (to make it free) is being phased out so it...

I connected my iPad app this evening. It took about 4 attempts with the key fob presses before the Wi-Fi registered, but once it did I got the 'you need to update your software..' msg. Just be aware that it does mention if it fails to complete and sits at 99% for some time, it may have dropped...

It is if you have solar panels. In fact you get paid to generate the power which you use to charge the car. Imagine the Govt paying you to put fuel in your ICE CAR....!! :D