First week review of Cupra Tavascan VZ1

[TheUkWizard]

Wanted to vent and ask others on their thoughts of my every increasing list of things i do not like so far, and its only been a week.

1. Brakes - they are aweful, now they could be bedding in still. but its almost impossible to come to a perfectly smooth stop. and when you need to do some serious braking, its not up to the job. hoping they are just bedding in though. so perhaps too early to tell.
2. Range - I lost 40% charge doing 60 miles? what the flip? Now i know cold and heated seats etc use power, but i antipate to get maybe 220 miles out of a 100% battery, and that would be to 0% charge. thats 100 miles less than the official figure.
3. The Cupra App: oh my lord its aweful. doesnt update, if you drag it down to refresh, you have no idea if it has (wheres the last update time and date display). and the remote air-conditioning is buggy as hell. you press to turn something on, or set the heat and you have no idea if its done it, doesnt refresh, doesnt confirm its done anything. you had to keep coming in and out of that screen to see if anything has updated. and the scheduling doesnt work for me, it was crashing every time you tried to change something. latest app update it now doesnt crash, but the on/off button doesnt work properly.
4. Charging/usage monitoring: You do not seem to have any screen that will show you a realtime view of regen, power usage etc. my last hybrid you could visualise the flow of power.
5. Charging Cost: Only charged it once so far, on a public charger. It cost £48 to go to 83%. cheaper to get a v8 petrol i reckon. shocking public charging prices. and it totally ignored my charge to 100% request too.
6. Drivers door: Intermittently it takes me anything up to three attempts to open the door to get out.
7. Ignition staying on: Have totally random times where it doesnt turn off when i have walked away, and even when its definately off (i check twice now), having the ignition stay on when you leave the car is mental. Its embarassing to be getting out the car, and the music is still playing like i have left it on. why.....

Rant over.
Whats everyones thoughts on theirs and any similar issues to the above? thanks in advance.

 

[Gbbeesls]

My experience is a little different to yours. I have a Tavascan V2 and I have to say I like it a lot. To be fair I don't do much public charging as the prices are such a rip off. I appreciate these companies want to claw back their investment but charging on public chargers is out and out daylight robbery. Charging at home only costs me £5.80 for a full charge with overnight cheaper rate from EON Next Drive. Have had to top up on a coupe of occasions when doing long journeys, but only charge to what I need and not recharge fully. In the summer I was getting 320 miles from a charge but in the colder weather this drops to about 280 on average. In my mind £5.80 for 280-320 miles is very cheap motoring, a petrol car will get on average about 40-50 miles on that kind of money. I agree a bit about the brakes and they take a bit of getting used to but overall they seem to perform well. Haven't had any other issues like the others that you write about. The only thing is that the pull down menu on the main screen, where you can save your favourite shortcuts, does not save and reverts back to the default each time the car is turned off. A bit of an annoyance but not the end of the world. I spoke to the dealer and apparently there is supposed to be a fix coming. The only word of warning I would give is that my wife curbed one of my alloys and they are the copper tint and it is almost impossible to get it repaired. Apparently even the dealers don't know the colour code or are willing to do the work. The only real option is to buy a new alloy!!! Perhaps this will change in time, who knows. I had a Formentor before the Tavascan and the software in that was really buggy and not very good at all. I don't think Volkswagen group and software are very good bed fellows, and this is a bit of an Achilles heel for them across the group. Overall I am very happy with my Tavascan and it is saving me a fortune in fuel. In a month I used to fill up once a week at a cost of about £60-70 a time, and now I spend about £8- £10 a week. So, there maybe some idiosyncrasies, trust me all cars have these, but when I am saving approx £200 a month I am not so concerned.

 

[Tell]

With the current range and pricing of electricity I regard the cars as "county cars". If you restrict yourself to 200 miles or so a day and back for home charging then no need for expensive charging, if going outside this range then you will be into the more pricey electricity. Round here that seems to be the use. Retired and going on holiday you would be fast charging as you go. Working away ditto. All do able.

 

[Rob66]

I charged from 0 to 80% at a Gridserve outside IKEA last week and was £14.97 for around 41miles range (unleaded would have been cheaper but wanted to get an idea of price using one of these). Was showing 86mpg after a 60miles journey (hybrid mode).

 

[Tell]

Well we can kick a few figures about. Normal electricity prices are 25pkw if not on a special car overnight rate. 65p or something jumps to mind for those commercial charging points. Well our heating oil works out at 7.5pkwh, thats a widely thought conversion figure, divide by ten and shift the decimal place of the litre oil, tallies with gas as well. Takes into account the boiler efficiency. Now that 7.5 is similar to the same overnight home EV charging rate. I'm currently on Octopus Agile with the dynamic pricing. I'd say the Government not getting on top of electricity generation means that the home unit price, the 25p is due to demand pricing. Overnight it goes down to 7.5 for car charging... but not for us on Agile although there are periods when we get paid to use electricity .

Basically they need to pump up electricity generation and delivery at the right price and those 65ps are covering their costs. A bit of supply and demand profit margins.