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I am a week into driving my new car and wondered if anyone has come across a way to add a stop or a via route to a destination?

Correct, Lexus, rather than the dealer.

I will be picking up my NX 450h+ (MY24) this weekend and when chatting to the dealer last week he said they have taken steps to prevent the wheel arch related attacks.

If you want help with the calculations, I will post a file one here then you would just have to obtain your consumption figures (should be available form your energy supplier), paste them into the file and it will give you what the costs of using the agile tariff would have been, to compare against your actual bills paid. Of course nobody knows where energy prices are going so there is the trade off between potential gains / losses when compared with fixed rate tariffs and how comfortable you are with that scenario.

On the subject of tariffs, I have just been looking at the Octopus Agile tariff (historic half hour p/kWh prices available online) and the calculations based upon my electricity usage from Jan 1st this year to present day, show that I would have been better of by *£85 being on Agile (variable p/kWh and and 41.61p/day standing charge) than on my standard variable tariff (currently 25.92p/kWh and 47.4p/day standing charge). My average cost for the year to date is 30.12 p/kWh. Agile peak prices of around 34p/kWh are between 4pm and 7pm, but can extend up to 8pm or 9pm and occasionally the peak price throughout much of the day (as the tariff is based upon grid demand, during cold snaps and in the winter months.) Conclusion: If I manage to avoid using high use appliances during the peak evening periods and charging my car in the off peak times, (which occasionally go negative p/kWh - which means being paid to use electricity!) even assuming my *£85 saving will be eaten up by the November & December longer peak price periods, I may just try the agile tariff.

Big thank you Thanks David that is really useful info, just what I was looking for.

Thanks to all of you who have kindly taken the time to repsond, I appreciate it. The standing charges on the availbale Octopus tariffs are all the same 49.77p/per day except for their Agile Octopus February 2023 v1 which is 41.61p/per day, cheaper however this tariff has variable half-hour charging based on wholesale prices (capped at 100p/kWh (Other suppliers are available). Does anyone have a rough idea of how much electricity it takes to charge the NX450h+ from "flat" to "full" and how long it takes to charge? I have a Ohme wallbox 7 kWh charger installed. I hope to find time over the next week to draw up a spreadsheet and do the calculations based on 2 or 3 of the available octopus tariffs I will share it.

I am about to take delivery of my NX450h and was wondering if anyone has any experience of the cost benefits or pitfalls of the special tariffs for charging EV charging?

I did contact Lexus regarding security updates for the car and their reply was "we want to assure you that we take this matter very seriously, looking at other methods and measures to protect our cars from vehicle thefts, which have risen rapidly in the past few years across the whole industry, for a variety of reasons. These include software changes at vehicle production and we can also confirm that our newer models do have a different global architecture." My car has just arrived in this country.😀. Ordered in April, so not as bad as some of the long waits reported on these forums. Looks like I will be buying a Disklok steering wheel lock this weekend, Do I get the Silver one - to nearly match the Sonic Titanium of the car, or the more visible Black & Yellow - which goes with Mayor Andy Burnham's new bus fleet?🤔

Thanks Marc, I was hoping that mine would have some kind of protection from this type of theft. Finding this forum has been a real education for me. I cannot thank everyone enough for the help and advice I have found on here. I hope I will be able to add some useful information once I get to play with my car.

Hello all, I have joined prior to my new NX450h premium Plus pack arriving in the UK, it is currently sailing through the Mediterranean Sea. Thanks to all who have contributed regarding the security problems with Lexus vehicles, something I was unaware of when ordering my car, until finding this forum. Does anyone know if the model MY2024 is able to be stolen by accessing the wiring through the wheel arch? Or if it will arrive with a security plate fitted? I am contemplating possible additional security measures or the nuclear option of cancelling my order which is not what I want to do😬