With the car refusing to go into EV mode I took it to Vauxhall Eden in Wycombe. They had to get a technician out from Vaux Head Office and after three weeks replaced the on-board charger (under warranty of course). It's now working perfectly and the range is back up to 34-36 miles. I had put the pre...

A further update. The no-EV fault cured itself when the weather warmed up, and typically was working fine when it went to Perry's who admitted they didn't know much about hybrids. It continued to work until last weekend when it stopped going into EV mode again. Perry's suggested that all we needed t...

I just noticed that Moss5 had already nailed it with the first of the articles he linked to. Frustrating because I searched using every term I could think of and didn't come up with that website. As for the second linked article, I can't get excited about whether PHEVs achieve the claimed MPG or CO2...

I'm not sure about the oil suggestion - our car has only done 800 miles from new. I'm convinced it's a cold weather problem. We've had a long cold spell and over the last couple of weeks the car has refused to go into electric only mode. There have been two days when the temperature reached 10 degre...

We have the same issue with our Hybrid4. For the last few days it hasn't gone into electric only mode at all, and if selected manually it just goes back to hybrid. The battery is showing 90% charged (that seems to be the max in cold weather). Has anyone come up with a definitive answer? I tried hold...