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Thats a somewhat bold statement, yet you make it out as if it is an undeniable fact that a diesel is more efficient than a PHEV. I guess you are referring to the Australian video where they compared two cars over a certain journey in which the diesel came out on top. That's fair enough, and in...

Wow, there’s a surprise, a petrol car consumes more fuel than an equivalent diesel, who’d have guessed ??

Unless you are paying an extortionate amount for electricity, it should always be cheaper to charge up at home than pay for petrol. An average of 35mpg when running on petrol is realistic. With UK petrol prices around £5 per gallon, and a full charge costing c. £1, you only need to be...

I dont even think thats necessary. When the battery guage shows empty, the main traction battery still has c.30% capacity left. That is used to top up the 12V battery once per day (if needed) when the car is not running so two weeks is absolutely no problem. Youd need to be leaving it for at...

Quite a few similar threads where this question has been asked before and the short answer is no, absolutely nothing to worry about.

Had my car since February, and have only ever used a public charge point once. Having read some of the horror stories on here about things going wrong if you dont follow the correct procedure I was very wary of attempting it at a motorway service station, so I tried it out at the local Ikea...

I'm pretty sure that if I start the car in cold weather, and the ICE starts up to provide heat, then the blue arrow from engine to battery shows up, even if I am still parked and even if I have full battery capacity.

She just gets in the car, presses the power button and drives. She doesnt play with any settings or look at any information, so there is zero chance of her figuring out how to go into the MMCS menus and set a timer. I have to admit, when she told me what she had done, I would probably have...

I guess thats the nub of my question. She doesnt have the app, so she went out yesterday to the car, pressed the power button (while pushing the brake pedal) and turned on the heater manually to warm the car up. The charging cable was still connected, so she assumed that it would draw power...

I thought I had read somewhere that as long as you have charge in the main traction battery then it is not possible to flatten the auxiliary battery. Clearly I am incorrect, maybe I am getting mixed up with something to do with a once a day procedure whereby the auxiliary battery is topped up...

Mitsu guy has arrived, and apparently it is because the auxiliary battery is completely flat. Not quite sure how that has happened, I thought that the main traction battery provided power to charge the auxiliary battery ? For some reason it seems like whatever my wife did this morning has...

She says that she did push the brake pedal, and turned on the heating to defrost the car. Charge cable was still attached, so the warning message came up, but she ignored it and went back into the house. When she left it the fan had started operating as normal. When she went back out, the fan...

Apparently dash lights up as normal and then everything goes off so it is blank. Lights are flashing, as is the park light (the green light beside gear lever) but these wont go off even when power switched off. Have called Mitsubishi, they are on their way, hopefully nothing too serious.

My wife has my car today to drive to Yorkshire, but cant get it to start. Pressing the power button makes it start up as normal but it then goes off again. Wipers operating randomly and lights flashing as well. Plugging in the charger doesn’t work either, no click or charging light come on...

Fair enough, I hadnt realised your post was directed at one person only, I thought it was a general question to all the contributors to the thread.

Whilst a pure EV would work for my daily commute, it would be no use for longer journeys that I make from time to time. At the moment, I see pure EV cars as being suitable 'second' cars for a family, and potentially I could see my wife using one given that she never strays too far from home in...

I wondered about that too, as last week was the coldest it has been since I have had the car and it did sound a bit worrying when I unlocked the car and the mirrors folded open. I’m not sure that pre-heating would make much difference anyway given that the mirrors are outside ? I think there...

My commute is 13 miles each, no charging facility at work. Very heavy traffic generally, mainly stop start but a 2-3 mile section of free running dual carriageway. In the summer I can easily do it all the way to work and back on EV, but at the moment I’m getting about 18 miles range in total...

I dont think its as simple as that. If you are starting with a full battery and driving out of battery range, then (assuming you want to end up with a flat battery at your destination) you will ultimately be using up all your battery and some petrol. All that 'save' does is help to decide...

Still coming from a BMW X1 4x4 diesel ... economy on motorway was not bad at all .. as well ... in a video with a real test done with an outlander diesel and a PHEV ... with 60% motorway and 40% urban ... it end up that diesel is the most efficient between the two. /quote] I have seen that...