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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
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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...
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.
. 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.
Is white a colour
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.
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.
You might be hard pressed to get a full charge in the 6 hour window of cheap tariffs on Octopus Intelligent Go.
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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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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.You might be hard pressed to get a full charge in the 6 hour window of cheap tariffs on Octopus Intelligent Go.
Pod | CUPRA Born (2022) Charging Guide
The complete guide to charging your CUPRA Born (2022), covering electric range, how long it takes to charge, how much it costs, and much more.
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 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.
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.You might be hard pressed to get a full charge in the 6 hour window of cheap tariffs on Octopus Intelligent Go.
Pod | CUPRA Born (2022) Charging Guide
The complete guide to charging your CUPRA Born (2022), covering electric range, how long it takes to charge, how much it costs, and much more.
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.
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.
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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