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can anyone help ? What is the best app/website to locate 7 kw charger ?
We stay in East Lothian Scotland and I cannot find many around at all.
Pick up plug in hybrid in almost 2 weeks & can’t get home charger.
Can we possibly get an outside power socket and run this down our alley way to the car (public don’t use this) using 3 pin plug ?
Only other alternative is using charger at work ? Daily mileage is only around 32 miles. Can any one with Tucson Ultimate petrol hybrid 4×4 help that does small mileage on how often you may need to charge also ?
many thanks in advance
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I have the N line S and @Glos-Guy has the Ultimate!
Yes you can use a outside power socket, with the granny charger, which will charge the car in around 5hrs. Do bare in the mind the supplied 3 pin charger is only about 4m long and I’d recommend you buy a cheap cable cover in the event someone walks down the alley. Given the price of electricity, one of the many off peak taiffs, such as EON Next drive will allw you to charge from as little as 7p kWh.
You’ll find plenty advice in the Hyundai Tucson test dive questions topic
As @kezo says, I have the exact car that you are getting. PHEVs only make sense if you can charge them at home after every use. Once the battery is depleted, the car isn’t very economical due to its heavy weight and its insistence on using the petrol engine to recharge the battery as well as drive the car.
The good news is that you don’t need a home charger and a granny charger is all you need. Hopefully you can find a way to charge the car at home, as this is essential with a PHEV. Charging a PHEV away from home is pointless. PHEVs charge at a much slower rate than EVs, the EV range that you get is minimal and it will cost you more to get that tiny bit of range from a public charger than it would cost to just drive those miles on petrol.
In all honesty, if there is any doubt about being able to charge the car at home after every single use, I’d cancel and get a self charging hybrid. As @kezo has mentioned, there is a very long thread that covers his and my journeys from testing the car, ordering it, first impressions and running costs over the past 7 months. Interestingly, neither of us are entirely convinced about the whole PHEV experience. Through choice, I’d go back to a petrol.
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