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CUPRA has confirmed models in its Born range will qualify for the Level 2 £1,500 UK Government’s Electric Car Grant 

CUPRA Born V1, V2 and V3 (all batteries) qualify for £1,500 Government-backed discount.

CUPRA has confirmed models in its Born range will qualify for the Level 2 £1,500 UK Government’s Electric Car Grant (ECG) discount. Announced last month, the new scheme allows customers to access a range of battery electric vehicles while enjoying significant savings at the point of purchase. It reinforces CUPRA’s ongoing commitment to making electric mobility more affordable and attainable for UK motorists. 

The Government’s confirmation of eligibility means that CUPRA customers can make immediate savings on the purchase price of its award-winning electric models. The Born V1, V2 and V3 (in all batteries) are all eligible for the ECG and benefit from a £1,500 discount. This will be automatically applied at point of purchase, with no requirement for CUPRA customers to complete any paperwork or take additional steps.  

All Born models qualifying for the ECG 

  • CUPRA Born V1 59 & 79 kWh batteries 
  • CUPRA Born V2 59 & 79 kWh batteries 
  • CUPRA Born V3 59 & 79 kWh batteries 

To qualify for the Government’s ECG, CUPRA was required to meet strict technical and sustainability standards – something the brand already builds into its manufacturing process.  Sustainability is also a key design feature of the CUPRA Born, with interior materials such as the seat upholstery made from recycled materials. 

CUPRA has also launched an impressive summer drive event, offering drivers a great opportunity to enjoy significant savings on a new car. From 15th August to the 30th September, customers can enjoy discounts across the entire range, with from £1,000 off and exciting charging benefits for both fully electric models – the CUPRA Tavascan and award-winning CUPRA Born.

During the event, customers can save £3,000 on a new CUPRA Tavascan, as well as receiving an Ohme home charger for just £99 and 30,000 free miles from OVO. The brand new, all-electric SUV coupe combines striking design with advanced technology, and is an important model in the CUPRA range, enhancing the brand’s EV offering.

As well as savings on the Tavascan, customers are offered further discounts on the CUPRA Born hatchback. Drivers can enjoy £1,000 off a new CUPRA Born, plus the Born is also eligible £1,500 off with the CUPRA UK Grant Guarantee. The Born also comes with a £99 Ohme home charger and 30,000 free miles from OVO.

With the discounts applied, the Born range is now available from £34,190 on the 59kWh battery and from £35,495 on the 79kWh battery. All V1, V2 and V3 models in the Born range are eligible for the ECG, across both the 59kWh and 79kWh batteries.

It’s not just electric models on offer either. CUPRA’s summer drive event also includes a £1,000 discount on the Terramar, Formentor, Leon, Leon Estate, and Ateca.

“At CUPRA, we’ve never followed the crowd and when it comes to electrification, we’re charging ahead. The enhanced Government Electric Car Grant is a powerful step forward, and when combined with CUPRA’s disruptive design, further offers, and flexible finance, it means more drivers can experience the thrill of electric mobility without compromise.”

Marcus Gossen, Managing Director of SEAT and CUPRA UK

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We have just made use of that offer and ordered an in stock Born V1 for Sept 1st. As usual our local dealer were useless and arrogant not used them for years either have not changed! However, I found one with 11K off in Autotrader including the charger thrown in for free 50 miles away. So there are some great deals out there, but V1 stock is running low but plenty of V2's. Glacier white or Auroa Blue were my wife's choice, this was an stock one is Glacier White. The same colour as my Ibiza and will also be the same as my daughters Ibiza as she ordered a brand new Ibiza Xcellence DSG end of July for October deliver having fallen in love with mine. We really will be all white on the drive...
 
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Is white a colour ;). Expect it was a chain dealer. Reckon the privately owned one keep an eye on their staff. Certainly I've been told that whilst the chains are less well managed since the inducement are less. I had one that was good where they had bought out the dealership. Purged some of the staff. The managing director told me... then subsequently it was sold back to a chain and went downhill. Perhaps the figures looked good after it was reconfigured. That was the guys description of sacking staff.
 

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Is white a colour ;). Expect it was a chain dealer. Reckon the privately owned one keep an eye on their staff. Certainly I've been told that whilst the chains are less well managed since the inducement are less. I had one that was good where they had bought out the dealership. Purged some of the staff. The managing director told me... then subsequently it was sold back to a chain and went downhill. Perhaps the figures looked good after it was reconfigured. That was the guys description of sacking staff.

Yep, Vertu, I have gone with Barlow motors and they have been great so far. The best dealers I have delt with have all been smaller family owned types not chains.
 
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Just ordered a V1 79kWh in Silver for late September delivery. Fantastic offer on at the moment with finance deposit, Gov grant, Cupra Event and cheap Ohme charger installation.
My first step into the EV world, it will be my daily drive, I frequently do 280-300 miles in a day - hoping this can be achieved without the need to charge away from home. Hope I don't end up regretting moving on from my Leon Cupra 290.

Fuel Saving (£5.50 to charge up vs £50 odd in petrol for 300 miles) plus electricity saving for home (I have solar and a home battery - will charge battery at cheap overnight on EV tariff cheap rate to power house when insufficient solar to charge it up) with planned 95% of the time charging at home should cover the monthly payments.
 

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You might be hard pressed to get a full charge in the 6 hour window of cheap tariffs on Octopus Intelligent Go.


Reckon you might be missing 3 hours for the full 300 miles if you were doing that daily. Over two days yes.

It's the old moto for electrics so it seems plug in where you can if you got cheap electricity. Would do my old work distance commuter trips of 120 miles.
 

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You might be hard pressed to get a full charge in the 6 hour window of cheap tariffs on Octopus Intelligent Go.


Reckon you might be missing 3 hours for the full 300 miles if you were doing that daily. Over two days yes.

It's the old moto for electrics so it seems plug in where you can if you got cheap electricity. Would do my old work distance commuter trips of 120 miles.
Yes, fully realise that one overnight window (7 hrs currently on Eon Next Drive, but they have reduced to 6 on latest tariffs) isn’t enough for a full charge from empty but typically these longer journeys will be once a week, with shorter trips around them so should be ok to build back up over 2 charging sessions. If I do need to head further afield right away then I’ll have to look at a top-up charge out on the road I guess but hopefully that will be pretty infrequent.
 
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Yes, fully realise that one overnight window (7 hrs currently on Eon Next Drive, but they have reduced to 6 on latest tariffs) isn’t enough for a full charge from empty but typically these longer journeys will be once a week, with shorter trips around them so should be ok to build back up over 2 charging sessions. If I do need to head further afield right away then I’ll have to look at a top-up charge out on the road I guess but hopefully that will be pretty infrequent.
Yes I'd be fine myself being retired with an EV just holidays where you'd be looking for charging points. Quite a few country hotels in Wales have low kwh charging points I'd claim a spot on them and the super fast charging elsewhere at a premium. Ireland trips. Those wild and windy coasts could be more tricky. Airbnb you'd throw a capable out of the window ?. Zap Map they like for location finding.

EVs and hybrids have really taken off round here. For county motoring EVs are fine if you have a drive. Hybrids if you dont or embark on cross country routes. Those light hybrids that dont plug in. You just have to watch you dont get run over by them when you cross a road.
 

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You might be hard pressed to get a full charge in the 6 hour window of cheap tariffs on Octopus Intelligent Go.


Reckon you might be missing 3 hours for the full 300 miles if you were doing that daily. Over two days yes.

It's the old moto for electrics so it seems plug in where you can if you got cheap electricity. Would do my old work distance commuter trips of 120 miles.
Don't forget IOG gives you slots earlier than the fixed slot after 23.30 as well. Most of my charging is done late afternoon/evening at the cheap rate due to how Octopus applies the schedule.
 

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Don't forget IOG gives you slots earlier than the fixed slot after 23.30 as well. Most of my charging is done late afternoon/evening at the cheap rate due to how Octopus applies the schedule.
That's because there was an excess of energy today on the grid due to wind and sun so everybody got a freebie of one hour unless on Agile.

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It clunked on your car charger as the bottom slide.

I did try a what if with my annual consumption profile in 30 minute intervals and solar generation and usage without and no EV using Octopus Watch... strangely it said it would be cheaper to be on Intelligent Go over Octopus Agile. It may have picked up the wrong tariff over 365 day period. Still academic since I dont have an EV and wouldn't get on that tariff.

I'd have to work it out properly if I was to get an EV using the downloaded data and database calculations against the tariffs. This is my one of whether casual charging is cheaper on Agile to EV tariffs if a regular EV user. If you really couldn't pick and choose a time of charging, EV tariffs may be better. Like today it was 1p or so a unit all afternoon compared with the 60 minute window you got. Being a mathematical modeller I'd have to model it ?.

Agile tariffs today... we like wind and sun ?.
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Footnote. If the historic Octopus Intelligent Go figures in the Octopus Watch app for the last 12 months are correct then why the Agile prices were higher was that the winter market figures which went a bit out of control this winter got absorbed by Octopus with the EV tariffs which don't reflect market volatility. See what next year brings. Interesting result if that's the case.
 
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