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Completely agree...life is way too short to worry about things like this. The prospect of a techy geek sitting outside my house for several hours at night trying to break the WiFi code just so he can turn off the alarm and steal my pen, or that he will bring a low loader with him and lift my...

Not worth bothering about IMHO....why turn off a very useful feature, and deny yourself the convenience of it, just because of an extremely remote possibility of a problem ? Its cutting off your nose to spite your face in my view. There are risks in everything, and if you thought about it too...

True....but then you have to be within Wi-Fi range of the car to do it, and I'm pretty sure that if I was within 5 or 10 metres of the car I'd be able to see it ?

I don’t use the charging timer functionality at all. I just plug my car in every night and charge it up when I get home. If you have an electricity tariff which provides cheaper electricity during the night then I guess the timer would be useful, but I don’t have that so its of no value to me...

I think the good thing about the PHEV is that it caters for all tastes. I am, admittedly, a bit of a technical geek so I quite like watching the dials, playing with the regenerative brake settings, monitoring economy, etc. and all of that adds to my enjoyment of the car and hopefully helps to...

OK, thanks, I suspect I am a bit out of my depth here !! I guess what I was trying to indicate is that, at least in my experience, the high revving effect only occurs at lower speeds. I assumed that was because parallel mode was not available, but appreciate the clarification. And to put the...

So going back to my original post, is it reasonable to say that I was kind of correct in blaming the screaming engine scenario on the fact that the car is going too slow, and therefore cant use parallel mode to satisfy the power demand ?

Thanks both. So as a follow up question….and with apologies for taking this thread slightly off topic from the original purpose….why would the car choose to go into series hybrid mode (with the associated screaming engine) rather than just going into parallel mode ? (Assuming of course it is...

Forgive my ignorance…but my understanding was that series hybrid was where the ICE was running to provide additional power to the electric motors, and that parallel hybrid was where the ICE was powering front wheels directly. Your response indicates that the ‘screaming engine’ scenario is not...

I’ve had mine for 6 months now, and very happy with it. Based on your commuting distance, and ability to recharge at both home and work, it sounds like a perfect choice. I’ve not had any issues with the ICE engine starting when it shouldn’t. The default is to use battery first, so any short...

Fair enough, just not something that I would be bothered with the hassle of. Fine for an automatic light to come on and off, but IMHO life is too short to mess about setting up stuff like that every time I go to a car park.

Just out of interest, your post further up said "If a thief wants your car, it will be taken". Why then do you feel the need to go to the extent of putting that lock on when you are in a car park ? If someone smashes your window and steals the contents of your car then that lock does nothing...

Best advice is to forget what the estimated range says, and focus on what you actually get in practice. I drive the same 26 mile round trip every day and I get a very consistent performance out of the car, regardless of whether the initial estimate is 20 or 30. At this time of year I can...

Thats not correct unfortunately. The 'EV' in the map screen is actually a button that you can press to take you into the MMCS screens which provide info on your economy, estimated, range, etc. It always says EV in the map screen regardless of which mode you are driving in. As you pointed out...

Is it any different to the thousands and thousands of people who have similar tracker devices installed in their cars which allow them to benefit from cheaper insurance ? As you can probably guess, I'm not big on all that civil liberty stuff. If you ain't doing anything wrong and have...

True, but I guess if you want paid for it then they'll need your Bank account details at some stage ? And to be fair, they don't ask for them now, they will only ask for them after they have sent you the equipment and it has been returned to them safely. Maybe I'm too relaxed, but giving away...

Mine plays AAC files which I originally downloaded via iTunes, but it will only play the ones which are DRM free (and have the file extension .m4a). Any protected files from iTunes, from years ago before they relaxed their copy protection policy, have a .m4p extension and won't play. As for...

Thought so.....wouldn't mind not being able to change it if they actually used realistic figures to start with, but when using the 'fast' calculation for the route it still assumes that I can only do 35mph on main roads and dual carriageways !

Had my first experience of using the Sat Nav over the weekend, on a 300 mile round trip down to the North of England and back. Have to say it worked pretty well and I had no problems with it, despite the adverse feedback that it always seems to get on here. However, one bugbear was that I...

True, but then again shouldn’t they be upset the fact that huge numbers of drivers will not use their pumps at all, and therefore generate no income, whereas implementing a charge at a more realistic level (e.g. £1) would have resulted in significantly increased revenues for Ecotricity ? By...