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Not a big deal for me as I only ever used Ecotricity once before they introduced charging, but I still don't understand their strategy. Our local IKEA has two points, and previously they were pretty much always occupied, but since the introduction of charging I haven't seen one car use them...

Sorry, have to disagree. For me personally, and I suspect a vast number of other PHEV owners (including the original poster who posed the question) the economics are way more important than any green credentials. Not saying there's anything wrong with a car being green, and if thats important...

I've had mine about 15 months, and have used 3672 KwH according to the meter on the dedicated charging point. I pay about 11p per unit, so thats a total cost of £404, or about £27 per month. As a very rough estimate, that works out at about 367 full charges of the car, and with each charge...

True, but the original poster asked 'Is it Worth it?' and is clearly looking for info as regards the economic case for or against the PHEV. The merits of it as a green car are an entirely different discussion.

Dont think thats correct, the Auto calculation always resets after 4 hours, and the Manual only resets when you physically press the button yourself to reset it. As far as I know, it makes no difference at all whether or not you are charging the car, its entirely based on the 4 hours. I have...

Not sure I agree, if you are doing 50k+ miles a year then I don’t think it makes a lot of sense to buy the PHEV given the significant initial cost of either buying or leasing it, when compared to equivalent petrol vehicles. If you are doing that many miles, and want an Outlander, then surely...

I got mine on a salary sacrifice company car lease scheme, and it makes absolute sense for me. With the low BIK, the overall net monthly cost to me (factoring in both lease cost and BIK tax) was about £100 per month cheaper than an equivalent diesel Qashqai, Mazda Cx-5, etc. That’s before...

I agree entirely, hence why I had originally pointed out that pressing the charge button as standard every time you drive on the motorway is not a particularly efficient strategy and should be avoided unless there is a specific reason / situation that warrants burning the extra petrol to provide...

OK, so my reference to more ‘power’ is technically not correct, but my point was that pressing charge on the motorway will result in more petrol being used than if the charge button was not pressed. The assumption from the previous poster seemed to be that as the engine is running anyway, you...

Yes, but charging the battery will require extra engine power (and therefore petrol) rather than just powering the wheels. Using the charge button is significantly less efficient than charging from the mains, and is only really recommended in certain situations (e.g. where you require higher...

A full charge is about 10Kwh, so you need to take whatever you currently pay your electricity supplier for a KwH and multiply by 10. Lowest current tariffs are probably about 10p (so £1 for a full charge) but others can be paying as much as 15p (so £1.50), but if you check your electric bill...

Must admit I’ve never actually paid attention to which screen (i.e Manual or Auto) is displayed first on start up, but if it always defaults to ‘Auto’ then all you need to do is press the ‘Manual’ button in the bottom left of the MMCS screen. This will then show you your overall mpg from when...

Only 2 problems that I can see with that plan….. 1) The initial cost of installing them is monstrous and it takes years and years to recover the cost…..unless you can now get them installed for free 2) I live in Scotland so solar power wouldn’t be my first choice !! :) :)

If you are currently paying 10p then you are on a very good deal. I’m in the process of looking to switch, and using the Uswitch service to compare all suppliers I’d say that the best prices currently on offer for electricity are in the 11-12p range per kWh. I agree though, that 15p per kWh is...

Point 1 is incorrect. There are numerous threads on here about the behaviour of the ICE and when it does and doesn't fire up, but it's not true to say that it comes on when going up a slight incline. Plenty of factors to think about, but provided you have sufficient battery charge, it will...

Heated steering wheel is OK, but not really worth a huge amount in my view. I understand that they put in the heated steering wheel so that you could potentially drive the car without turning on the main heating in the winter, but by using heated seat and heated steering wheel you’d be warm...

With a daily commute of 38-40 miles, she’ll be doing around 20 miles a day on petrol ( slightly less in summer, slightly more in winter). With a 10 gallon tank, and a realistic average of 35mpg, you have a range of around 350 miles so she’ll be filling up every 17 days roughly, assuming no...

Each to his own and all that…but are you really suggesting that a decision on where to spend £30k+ of your hard earned cash will be based on whether or not a car has a digital speedometer ??!! What’s your objection to a normal dial type speedometer ? Personally I much prefer something which...

My leasing company don't normally use main dealerships, and will book the vehicles into local garages, or places like Halfords. But when I booked the service for the PHEV, they said that they would also use a Mitsubishi main dealer for these vehicles. I can fully understand why, I dont think...

It should be on a credit card size piece of card in the folder which has all the instruction manuals. If it's not there you should go back to whoever you bought it from and ask if they still have it.