Well its here our Glacier Blue Outlander PHEV, been driving it for a few hours now. A lot of about town stuff and then motorway drive home for 75 mins. First impressions: -
- Better than I thought it would compared to the test drive, now having had a chance to push it around some roundabouts and corners handles better than I thought it would do.
- Lots to learn with dashboard info, sat nav OKish, to start off a little distracting but something you would get used to.
- The screen showing the Energy Flow is quite useful, the manual could be made more user friendly, a quick user guide would not go amiss.
and then the all important electric / ice.
- Once started, or powered up might be more appropriate, simple as foot on brake put into drive and off you go.
- We had about 22 miles of EV range and used this up to and froing in busy Friday PM town traffic with air con on, nice and quiet. 4 people in the car and all had plenty of space.
- As we set back home we had only a few miles left of EV range and it quickly went as we went onto the fast A roads but ICE kicked in and seamless.
- For a while doing 70 just on electric, we only knew that from the energy flow screen
- Left it top run on ICE for a while and then halfway home hit the charge button. In 15 or mins had 8 mile range but I was doing 70mph on the motorway at the same time. I was impressed how quickly it charged and drove the car.
- Flappy paddles for regenerative braking, used these loads for braking the car coming up to traffic lights, using full force to start with and then lessen the force as we neared the traffic lights, its like going through the gears a bit but in reverse!
- MPG figure when we started off in the afternoon with 9 miles on the clock with 99mpg but when we got home it was 38mpg. I put this down to using the engine to charge the battery, I hope.
- Radio / sound system decent enough, radio seemed a bit more confusing that it needed to be, time will tell, probably me
- Driving up to our house got a strange look from lady at the bottom of the road seeing this silent car travel up the road.
And to note
- Only 13 amp cable for charging, when we went for test drive saw it had 2 cables, one for public charging and 13amp, mine only supplied with 13amp, assume other cable is optional extra
- No puncture kit, queried it bit forgot to followup at dealership
- Towing, manual is huge and stumbled across a strange comment about steep hills that the battery should be charged 20 mins before attempting the ascent. Given I am going across the alps in the summer with a caravan in the summer it could be a long drive, only slightly nervous.
First impressions
- Better than I thought, no real negatives yet
- Now plugged in for the night charging, night night phev
@aitchjaybee you really are very close, when is your due, have you got a date yet?