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Yeah, the Volvo is a twin engine thing... petrol up front and electric on the rear. They can run together as a hybrid, or they can run as pure electric (low range of 25 miles), or as majority petrol (super long range around 480 miles on the motorway, enough for London to Glasgow without topping up).
I don't have off-street parking... and needed to run the granny lead out of the window and across the front garden and path (under an anti-slip thing).
I no longer do that at all since melting the socket and plug.
Instead I will just always hunt for chargers at destinations using ZapMap. In London I have a strong preference towards PodPoint (typically free in supermarket car parks) or Ubitricity lamp post charging (reasonably priced, pay as you go with credit card, works extremely well without requiring an app).
I seldom run in pure electric due to having no reliable access to charging infrastructure and for Haringey being particularly bad on this.
I've not had a lot of success with Source London (nearly always occupied) or Polar (nearly always out of service or has issues with the app that prevent charging).
The hybrid is a huge piece of mind given that I can just fill up and carry on. A pure EV would still work without off-street parking so long as you never went below 50% charge... but with a hybrid the low range on pure EV is too low to fully survive on electric alone given the poor infrastructure and high contention to use what does exist.
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I wasn’t sure if the home charging was just an issue with the standard leads or higher duty ones.
We don’t have off street parking, that’s one reason we went hybrid over electric.
Is your Volvo hybrid? We only got it yesterday and I have no idea best settings etc.