You don't get a refund on pre auth. As it never actually debits your account.
It just adjusts that £45 & debits the correct amount.
So you would just see a £30 debit on your account.

 

Thanks for your info' (a bit slow in replying). That did work with the 'Mer' charger, the £45, didn't appear on my card but the £43.76 charge for the charge did. On the Ionity charger I used (when down to 50 miles). I said scan the QR code: I did and it eventually said I had failed (?). Then a very nice chap in a very expensive Porsche Taycan EV, parked next to me helped me out. He put his hand over the QR codes I didn't want, and scanned the direct payment one. This 'Pre-Auth' £40 and I charged at a rate of about 120kW. When I checked my credit card there was awaiting authorization of £4.29 and the £40 to Ionity. Both were authorized - I have the feeling that the first QR code I scanned maybe a monthly charge! I tried to get a receipt from their website but it said there was no record of my charging... I got about an extra 200 mile charge (I didn't note it exactly). This, at about 79p/kWh (10 times my home charging!) could be about £40...
Back to the Sat/Nav rerouting. I have discovered that if you put a route in, then press the menu icon bottom right (see attached picture) you get all the delays on that route, with the distance and +time. it even said that it had rerouted on the last one...

Unfortunately I have to repeat this 700 mile journey on Monday...

 

Not used the Kia sat nav yet as have not needed to charge on any journeys yet so I use Waze where I have had diversions. Hope some one who has experience of this can comment.

 

Waze does allow search of Charge points.
So it would be a case of looking at your % & where you think you might want to charge.
Or as most of us would do.
Charge when you stop for a comfort break.

 

I have always used the inbuilt SatNav (Only just started using Google Maps, because it now displays on the HUD & seeing how I get on with it)
I use the SatNav all the time, even to work & back as on the odd occasion it will send me down the A5 if there is a problem on the M1.
There are times when it is showing red on the M1, but it still chooses to use that route as I suppose it has calculated its still the quickest.
I have also found that it is pretty accurate with the ETA, always within a minute or 2.
With regards to settings, I think all there is, is show traffic. I may be wrong, need to have a look.

 

 

Sorry if I have added two pictures to the post - Phone to PC problem...
Just another picture while charging: A Tesco EV lorry turned up to recharge and blocked off all the other chargers - upset a few new arrivals. Don't lorries have their own chargers somewhere?

 

Sorry if I have added two pictures to the post - Phone to PC problem...
Just another picture while charging: A Tesco EV lorry turned up to recharge and blocked off all the other chargers - upset a few new arrivals. Don't lorries have their own chargers somewhere?

I think some of the newer larger charging sites are having bays for larger vehicles included. But mind you there aren’t very many sites that can accommodate cars towing a trailer or caravan. Fortunately it’s not too much of an issue at the moment, but will escalate over time unless new sites are built with bays to cope with larger vehicles or trailers and the like.

This was at Rugby earlier in the year…