BYD Seal

Lads, on average, how much is the charge per kwh at one of these charge points ?

100% for the few times i use it its worth the premium

Hi, granted we do not have heavy mileage but it's working out great on Bord Gais once we are disciplined to plugging in one or other eV. €1.50 to charge for three hours at 7.07c per kWh to add 21 kWH is the best deal I can see. We just keep both topped up so we don't get caught out if a long distance journey is required at short notice. The three-hour window won't suit everyone. Using the Ohme app, in-car stats and esbnetworks.ie/myaccount (see picture) to verify stats.

So, related to above, what is the latest wisdom on charging to 100% (or less) for Seal battery as opposed to older technologies? Most appear to say 100%, a few die-hards still saying 80-85%. Tis was mentioned by Conor Faughnan on Newstalk today but it may have been in the context of time to charge on the public charging network.

After a few days of timing washing machine and dishwasher to 2am-5am, I went with the wife's receommendation of avoiding this especially after the fire service indicated that it is not a good idea even if the number of incidents is very low. Low frequency, high impact makes me reticent to be the 0.1% (or lower?) quoted.

Charge away. I run mine down to single digits once a month but otherwise if it's 80% or so I plug it in.

Have the same plan I think, some black Friday deal or other. I charge for 5 hours though. Not worried about the extra few quid and I only plug in once every few days.

Love to see it! Given the 2 EVs we have and the 15kw of batteries I'm not yet ready to switch to a smart tariff but the D/N is still quite competitive for now.

Just wondering if anyone is using the high option on the regenitive braking, just found the car really slowed down when you take your foot off the accelerator pedal when I tried it. Didnt really like the sensation

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I assumed that when you press lightly on the brake petal that it's regen braking slowing the car down, not the use of the disc brake pads, which only kick in under harder braking. That's why the energy consumption dial dives down into -20, -30kw when you touch the breaks.

I'm the same as you, came from a PHEV and I find high to be too much, I always liked to lift and coast so I even noticed the low regen at first. I'd probably get used to high if I used it all the time but I like it on low, on high it was slowing down going down hills, it just feels weird to need to accelerate down hill.

Yep, I have on High now for a few weeks but will look to change it based on previous comments in this forum. It is out for debate whether it actually saves much energy over and above the discomfort felt by some.

I've gotten up to 120kW regen briefly upon braking. I'd only use standard regen on long down hills where it holds the speed of the car or speeds it up slightly.

Exterior aerial has very little to do with it. My last three cars had internal antennas and all three picked up and switched no problem

Down to 15.9kwh now RWD coming up to 2800km on the clock. That's after doing a fair bit of the last 500km at motorway speed in the last week and a good bit of traffic. 10% pretty much per 50km.