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The Vectra unit has a different plug set 

The NCDC unit is identical.  It was only fitted for about 2-3 years when the Vec-C got a minor facelift and the "double digit" range of headhunts (with the CD70 being the replacement for the NCDC on the posher Vectras.

The difference, iirc,  boils down to the CanBus that the Vectra C used that the Omega didn't have, hence the differences in the wiring.

That's correct STEMO, the Catera was only available as a sedan (4 door) and only the 3.0 V6 and 4 speed auto. They are becoming hard to find in decent shape in my area. May have to find one to satiate my Omega cravings when not in Europe.

That being said, I am going to try and bring a few Catera parts to class up the Omega while I am there. 

The Vectra unit has a different plug set 

The NCDC unit is identical.  It was only fitted for about 2-3 years when the Vec-C got a minor facelift and the "double digit" range of headhunts (with the CD70 being the replacement for the NCDC on the posher Vectras.

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 or productivity drops because everyone is constantly having to mess around swapping cars around waiting for the charger to be available......

apparently that was one of the excuses at Heinz for NOT providing charging stations regardless of who was paying for it) Ironically, work tied in with  some lease company to provide leccy cars.

Good to see them using a bit of common sense  People are workshy enough without encouragement.

We have access to an EV scheme, but it's salary dependent, so even if you can afford to and want to lease something half decent you can't because of an arbitrary 15% of net salary cap because the payments come out of your pay. You don't even have the ability to top it up.

Which makes a mockery of the scheme being offered as it's effectively closed to 80% of the staff

Putting petrol into a car that's bought and paid for is still more cost effective than leasing a sitbox Chinesium EV... Even at £1.54 a litre and 21 mpg

It's still retarded thinking. The presumption is that everyone who works there lives within public transport range of the building. It's the same lefty idiocy that means new housing developments are built with less than one space for every three units

In the US where planners still have a brain, the building is put on top of the parking if space is tight.

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 or productivity drops because everyone is constantly having to mess around swapping cars around waiting for the charger to be available......

apparently that was one of the excuses at Heinz for NOT providing charging stations regardless of who was paying for it) Ironically, work tied in with  some lease company to provide leccy cars.

I will always prefer a powerful petrol engine to a glorified milk float, but free charging at work makes it work for me.
Doc Gollum. Dont choke on those sour grapes. 

I'm not sure that what you do counts as employment 

It's like an elderly aunt that gives you an allowance and in exchange, you visit periodically and consume all her tea and biscuits before having a nap on the sofa ready to head home again...

Whenever I see Camilla she reminds me of the ' batty mad aunt' who would have been locked in the attic and forgotten about in years gone by.

She reminds me of a third rate hooker who got lucky. 

I bet she was a goer in her day though!                                         

This only works, of course, if visitors/workers/residents can easily get there on clean, reliable public transport, and this particular area seems to have that.

My lad works in a new office/residential/leisure complex in Salford. A whole new area built over the last few years. No car parks.
Why would you want to use, say, 1000 square feet of land for a car park when you can build upwards on it. No brainer.
And I know you could have basement car parks, but the preferred option now is block paved areas between buildings so that pedestrians can move freely.

The Vectra unit has a different plug set