Like many a new owner, I dare say, I’ve kept a careful track of charging and petrol costs as they relate to mileage covered (pics show a summary of my first three months use along with a general view of the more detailed spreadsheet).
As indicated, I don’t do much local running around and have filled the tank to full five times for long-ish journeys. Even though I can’t reap the fullest benefit from a plug-in, after less than 1400 miles the net benefits of combined electric and petrol power over petrol-only (for this car) are clear … and its proving noticeably better than my similar-weight aging LPG-converted SAAB 9-5 HOT could do (I do miss the acceleration a bit though!).
I should perhaps explain that these figures are derived from a little nifty jiggery-pokery based on an assumption of around 22 miles per full charge and a prevailing electricity cost of 32p+ per kWh (battery’s at 71.5% capacity according to Watchdog). That said, I’m comfortable with the results which seem to me to be sufficiently beyond computational error tolerances and so can be regarded as reasonably reliable.
How does this compare with others’ experience? Other owners’ opinion as to whether it’s good, bad or middling would be much appreciated.
Whilst I’m here ‘speaking’ … is there a way to share documents, etc., person-to-person with others on this forum without declaring email addresses for all to see, please?
Also, another motor group I’m a member of routinely sends out an email summary of “activity missed” to all members every few weeks, which is great for encouraging people to keep reading and contributing. I can also heartily recommend automatically emailing responses to all who’ve contributed to specific items, as they’re submitted, if that might be a possible development for this forum too. I guess these are background actions managed by the programs used and so don’t require much, if any, human intervention ... once set-up.
As indicated, I don’t do much local running around and have filled the tank to full five times for long-ish journeys. Even though I can’t reap the fullest benefit from a plug-in, after less than 1400 miles the net benefits of combined electric and petrol power over petrol-only (for this car) are clear … and its proving noticeably better than my similar-weight aging LPG-converted SAAB 9-5 HOT could do (I do miss the acceleration a bit though!).
I should perhaps explain that these figures are derived from a little nifty jiggery-pokery based on an assumption of around 22 miles per full charge and a prevailing electricity cost of 32p+ per kWh (battery’s at 71.5% capacity according to Watchdog). That said, I’m comfortable with the results which seem to me to be sufficiently beyond computational error tolerances and so can be regarded as reasonably reliable.
How does this compare with others’ experience? Other owners’ opinion as to whether it’s good, bad or middling would be much appreciated.
Whilst I’m here ‘speaking’ … is there a way to share documents, etc., person-to-person with others on this forum without declaring email addresses for all to see, please?
Also, another motor group I’m a member of routinely sends out an email summary of “activity missed” to all members every few weeks, which is great for encouraging people to keep reading and contributing. I can also heartily recommend automatically emailing responses to all who’ve contributed to specific items, as they’re submitted, if that might be a possible development for this forum too. I guess these are background actions managed by the programs used and so don’t require much, if any, human intervention ... once set-up.
[Of course, if petrol prices weren't so ludicrously high compared with just a few years ago, it wouldn't look so pleasing, perhaps, but the percentage saving would be just the same.]
