I re-read this thread and realised I didn’t put much feedback about my weekend test drive, which was very thorough and my experiences might be useful for others.
I wanted to test the car and replicate a normal weekend to see whether the drive and the range would be an issue for me.
I got the car on Friday afternoon after work with a full charge and straight away drove a 40 mile round trip to get my son for the weekend. The plan was to charge it overnight but that didn’t happen as all the sockets near the garage door were used for fridges and freezers so couldn’t be unplugged.
Next day after a bit of local driving I plugged into one of my local councils 7kw fast chargers whilst shopping which gave a reasonable top up and cost £1.20 (usage fee for using Polar instant, no charge for the electricity).
After that we drove up to Solihull to look at the Alfa Guilia which was about 70 miles mixed a roads and motorways. At that point we had about 60 miles of range so not enough to get home but I had planned to visit the Bullring shopping centre in Birmingham and knew that they have a bank of chargers there.
Found a fast charger and went to use it and my polar instant app wouldn’t work! These are on a different network called Pod Point so another app to download but after a few (about 20) minutes we were fast charging again.
Here you have to pay for parking even with a blue badge so that was an expected cost but the charging was free.
On returning after about 3 hrs we were on about three quarters charged as I believe that the rate of charge slows as you get closer to 100% to save the batteries.
Anyway then it was back home for the night via the M5.
One excellent thing is that you can get the satnav to overlay a graphic of how far you can drive with your current battery charge so you can easily see if where you want to go is within range or not.
All in we did not far short of 200 miles over the weekend and the cost of electricity was just £1.20.