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Hi Hypermiler. The BEV I have is a Hyundai Ioniq electric. A brilliant car that costs me 2p/mile to run in summer, and 3p/mile in winter. The ICE never cuts in because it hasn't got one, and the car even drives itself to a point, with Adaptive Cruise and Lane Keep Assist etc. But I have taken...

Thank you. That's good enough for me. That's the sort of stuff I like to hear - thanks.

Thanks for your replies, chaps. @Trex Yes, a fair while in fact about two years ;) . Good to see you still active on the forum! I don't believe I will get the chance to test drive, plus I'm a bit of a softy when it comes to putting dealers through the test drive process knowing full well I...

Hi guys. I had a 2015 4H for two years, but defected to a full BEV at the end of that lease. The BEV has been fantastic, but replacing it with a longer range BEV is just not practical at the moment, and new circumstances dictate that I need an SUV but cannot go back to a full ICE because I'm...

I already am, lol. But seriously, my PHEV just about manages my round trip commute on a single charge. Just under 20 miles, and instead I get ICE anxiety. I hate the ICE cutting in. It is a shame that Mitsu have not yet increased the EV range of the Outlander, because that would have gone a...

Please don't think I didn't look at Tesla ;) - they were between £800 to well over a grand... :lol:

On a 6+23 12k/year the figure was £335.00 - this is on a P11D value of £31,305.00 GX4h models at the time were coming up at between £468.00 and £506.00 for a similar deal. I also save on the BIK owing to lower P11D as well as the Ioniq being far more efficient than the Outi in EV mode, which...

It makes a big difference doing a back to back. I would never before have described my PHEV as sluggish, but that's exactly how it felt having got back into it. I am moving to a Hyundai Ioniq Electric when it finally turns up - it's stuck on a boat still, somewhere between here and South Korea...

So today I took my MY14 (March 2015) GX4h in for it's 2nd (24 month) service. I was expecting a compact car of some sort as courtesy car, but instead was given late model (66 plate for us Brits) PHEV. How surprised was I to find how much better the drive was. First off, the pickup from...

I think you are referring to (what Mitsubishi term) one of the 'position lights'. Side lights, to you and me. As far as I am aware, these lights are on all the time if the light switch on the stalk is in any position other than 'off'.

I too ordered an all-electric Ioniq back in December, to replace my Outlander Phev when the lease expires next month. Tried the Kia Optima Phev as well before I ordered the Ioniq, but the Kia had stupid boot space (battery encroachment), no folding rear seats, no pre-heating and no Apple car...

Just took a low res pic from the office... (zoomed in somewhat!) The tower nearest is Perrott's folly, the other being the tower of the Edgbaston Waterworks. Tolkien grew up within sight of these (he lived for a time near my house later in life...), hence the supposed inspiration. 8-)

I got into Oxford quite easily last just last year. Did it by parking my Phev at one of the Park-n-Ride carparks and got on a free bus... :lol: :lol: :lol: By sheer coincidence, Tolkien had resided for some time just a few hundred yards from my house. And as I write this (at work), I can...

March 2015 here... Car needs a wash, but it's too darn cold out there for that! The ridges in the plastic make it even easier for the algae to persist. Yup, design fault I'd say.

The only review I am aware of that Robert did on the Outlander was two years ago, when motorway charging was free. The Oultlander is unique amongst plug-in hybrids in that it can accept rapid charging, and this has caused a few issues with pure EV drivers that arrive at a charge point only to...

You aren’t going to get much above 34mpg on a long motorway run at the legal limit, but running up to 20 mile round trips wouldn’t use any fuel at all so you would be quids in. Today, as an example, I did about 40 miles total of local driving and hit save mode after about 4 miles. the car...

I can 100% advocate not bothering with a public charging cable. I purchased a type 1 to type 2 32A cable shortly after acquiring my Outlander, and have never used it - not even once. When charging is free (much rarer nowadays), you run the risk of upsetting pure EV motorists who might...

I think you messed up your quotation tags there karl, as that was discorduk who said that, not me ;) - I never leave it in B5 !! I think I can see your logic there, because at higher B settings you don't need to lift all the way of the throttle to experience deceleration. I don't agree...

Personally, I believe driving in B5 would be far less efficient. The car will not be accelerating against friction because the 'friction' that you feel is, as Jaap points out, only present when the motors are acting as a generator. You are however, losing momentum each time you lift of the...

For me, it is a simple case of physics. Physics fact 1) No form of energy conversion is 100% efficient, so you are never going to put back in what you take out. Physics fact 2) It takes a lot more energy to increase speed than to maintain it. So, (on flat ground) anything above B0 will reduce...