Thanks for the replies. It seems that the heater shouldn’t burn through too much fuel, which is good.
My wife isn’t a very economical driver, not that she speeds, but tends to always be accelerating or braking, rather than judging and predicting what might happen ahead. I think the only way I’ll be able to tell if the engine will kick in in EV mode while going up hills, is to see if I could have an extended test drive.
A couple more questions –
1. Does air-con (cooling) work without engine idling?
2. Can I use a smart plug to set charging times, or is it simply done via the vehicles App (read that Kezo was having issues with the App charging schedules).
3. Is there anytime that charging away from home would be beneficial (i.e. a maximum pence/kW)?
4. Am I correct in thinking that longer charging cables results in some “loss” of power, resulting in paying for more kWs than what’s actually going in to the car? If so, do you have any idea/formula of how much per metre? (don’t spend much time on this question – I’m just being lazy and not Googled it yet).