ianovic69,
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Is this your only car? (Sorry if I missed it in your post.)

If you’re concerned about range and charging, it’s worth remembering a PHEV doesn’t actually need any charge to run. Some drive less sprightly and others are not too affected.

If you can plan and integrate charging into the longer runs to work without stress, then a BEV is much better, especially when you consider that so much of our driving is short journeys. Longer personal journeys aren’t difficult to plan, there’s Zapmap and Google maps etc.

If you can change to Octopus they will sort everything for the cost of the charger plus install. Myenergy Zappi is about the best for only a little more than the cheaper Ohm crap.

The Octopus EV tariff is very cheap between 11.30pm and 5.30am, and covers the whole house. When you plug in the car, it makes a plan which can extend beyond those times if there’s excess renewables in the grid. When that happens the whole house benefits during those times.

If you need an underground channel dug for the cable, you’ll have to get that done yourself before they install.

Otherwise, I’m very happy with mine. I hope this is relevant and useful for you.

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