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I know with pcp, which is the route I went, the mileage only becomes a factor if you decide to hand the keys back at the end of the agreed period. If you buy the car at the end by paying the balloon payment, or trade it in for something else at some point, you don’t pay any excess mileage charges, but obviously mileage will affect the vehicle value.

I think the stars aligned for me a year ago when I got this Enyaq. My Octavia had increased in value by £1000 from 6 months previously, I compromised and got a car from stock, and it qualified for the the government grant. A year later and my Enyaq would be £10,000 more to buy and take a year to build. Its a crazy situation. Personally, as a petrol head, I find the bit of extra planning for a long journey quite enjoyable. The main issue is the mess of charging infrastructure, requiring numerous apps and/or rfid cards. Ive done 18000 miles in a year and have zero desire to return to fossil power.

This is my reality from an InstaVolt a couple of weeks ago, £18.63 to add 105 miles. What does that equate to in mpg of a diesel ?

That Cleveley EV mobile servicing are going to be busy, looking at that pollen filter video and their other videos they actually do what needs to be done, such as stripping and cleaning brakes. If what happened at your Vauxhall dealer is anything to go by then a lot of dealers are lagging way behind. I think there is still a lot of mystery to EVs for a lot of mechanics. In fact you don’t need a lot of training to understand the basics of what not to touch and the systems in place to isolate the high voltage, and then be capable of safely doing service work.

Dealership servicing on any car is a rip off (I know as I used to work as a technician at franchised dealers). Brake fluid change is ballcocks anyway, it should be tested and if it’s ok, it’s ok. Pollen filter is easy to change and 2 years is probably a reasonable comprise on time/mileage. Everything else is a visual check as per what is done on ice vehicles plus looking at any visible high voltage cables, which could only suffer if externally damaged. The main thing the dealer can actually do is plug it into Skodas mothership and update the software. Dealers are going to want some way of making back the money they will be forced to spend on ev training and equipment. Personally I check tyre tread and pressures every month and top up the washers but realise not every one can or will do this.

The Enyaq brochure states 24 months and when I collected mine the service interval showed 730 days. This is from the brochure: Service intervals Your ENYAQ iV is supplied with a fixed service regime to ensure that your car stays in the best possible shape. A service light will show when the car requires inspection at 24 months. To keep your ENYAQ iV operating as it should we recommend the following work is carried our every 24 months: > Inspection – we’ll make sure all the components and systems work as they should. > Pollen Filter – we’ll renew the Pollen Filter to keep your vehicle cabin clear of dust and odours. > Brake Fluid – we’ll renew your brake fluid to maintain braking efficiency and function. One of the advantages of electric vehicles is reduced maintenance, I don’t see any reason why shorter intervals are required.

That’s great, thanks for sharing the pics. Always good to see vehicles working hard. 👍

I’ve been running a 60 since last July and I’d say the 80 isn’t worth the premium. An 80 would do your 210 mile round trip in one charge, but you can literally put a price on what that will cost. 15 minutes on a rapid charger somewhere on your journey in a 60 is the difference. Realistic range I have achieved is 200 miles in summer and 150 miles in winter. I do around 70 miles on a work day. Once you find out some convenient rapid charger locations on your regular 200+ mile trip, I don’t think you’d have any issues with a 60. You are literally paying for the extra batteries on an 80, the actual car is the same, and I believe it will also have wider, rear tyres.

It is notifications. You can drag down from the top of the screen where the number in the circle is and it will tell you something.

Hi, sounds like a nice car when it is eventually built. I got a car from Skoda stock last year so it was already built. The only packs it had was, chrome, 20” wheels, Light and View and Suite interior. I definitely wouldn’t have ordered light and view if I’d specced the car myself, but 12,000 miles later I have to admit the matrix led headlight system is really good. Enjoy, when you get it.

I wish it was me, but it’s not😁 The average ev driving person, including me doesn’t know (or care) what every different car can and can’t charge on.

I found them even more entertaining, 😂 I used to watch Stavros’s truck reviews then he bought an Honda E with a 28kw battery and started complaining it didn’t go very far…..

I reckon we’ve got 5 years until then.

Absolutely, and whatever anyone says about the cost of rapid chargers, they are on a par with fossil fuels cost wise and 20% of it is actually VAT.

Enjoy. I think overall you won’t regret it. Once you get your head around the ev experience, which with supercharger network will be fine, the whole thing is reasonably effortless. I personally wouldn’t go back.

Bjorn Nyland is the man to ask about Tesla or any ev. And, of course James and Kate

I’m doing 20k per year in an Enyaq 60, I rarely go further than 100 miles radius away from home so it’s working for me. I personally haven’t had any major issues finding and using rapid chargers, to be honest I have stuck mainly with InstaVolt for reliability and decent network. If you are doing reasonably regular long hauls I would be tempted with Tesla for the supercharger network, and fast charging even if there’s a few details you don’t like, in 3 years time there should be a lot wider range of other EVs to choose from and hopefully a better network. By then you’ll know what you’re doing with EVs and saved 90,000 miles of diesel smoke out of a tailpipe.

I’ve got to get ready for my Saturday job now anyway 😂

There will be some regrets from many I’m sure ! You are the voice of reason, not a miserable sod 😀 The trick is finding a happy point on the scale of life between being a miser living in a small poorly maintained property but loads of money and being a playboy maxing out your debt and running the hamster wheel until you die !

I fully get the point Dodgy but you could apply that argument to anything. Why get spend £13k on something reliable when you could get something reliable for £1300 ? Why pay more money for a house with a bigger garden or a better location? Why spend money on a holiday when you could invest the money instead ? It doesn’t make financial sense to spend £50k on any car, but I think if you’ve got to run on the hamster wheel then get something you want for the effort. I personally wouldn’t get an Enyaq coupe for the same reasons I never got an Octavia vRS. In any case if you have the cash money to buy a £50k car you would be better to finance the car and invest the money. I recently turned down an excellent property investment opportunity, which made total financial sense but would have tied up most of our savings until after I was retired. In the end I decided I’d rather enjoy the last decent couple of decades of life and power the hamster wheel faster while I still can. The car I run is a mode of transport which enables my income, it’s a cost, but a managed one. Once I’m retired there will be different criteria to consider. I’m a paid up member of the Dave Ramsey Fan Club but I’m going to enjoy life before they wheel me into the care home or morgue.

I’ve made a nice red one, no other option than red paint £52275

With all due respect, what you said was : “that is where EV's have a real advantage, the extra they consume gaining altitude will indeed be saved by no consumption when losing it.” I have added to that the information that an ev can also gain some energy by regeneration. “an EV will recover some energy on the way back down ”.

It will have used energy to gain the altitude but an EV will recover some energy on the way back down whereas the best an ICE powered vehicle could do is not use any by switching off and coasting.

I think if carwow did the same tests with the nearest comparable diesel or petrol vehicle, it would be more interesting. Over 80,000 odd miles my 1.4 Octavia averaged 42 mpg, maybe if I had rationed the Aircon or done 60mph on motorways I could have averaged 50mpg and saved some fuel. I guess a diesel would cope with a caravan better, the roof load tests would be similar and the everything switched on tests would be better for ice engines as they generate so much heat whether you want it or not. Longer range, better charger network and faster charge times would make this type of rest irrelevant as no would care, like they don’t with a petrol or diesel. I knew with the Octavia that if I had my roof box on or cycles I would use more fuel, but I didn’t care as it was a few more quid on the cost of that day out which I didn’t mind paying for. The cost with an ev is maybe an extra 30 to 60 minutes on a charger and the effort of working out which one. I don’t mind this, but I can see why most people would mind.

I’m not against hypermiling, I just personally can’t be bothered. I’m keeping it as plan C if ever I need to find a third charger miles from home ! Nothing sums up the weird motoring world better than when I pass a some M series BMW or powerful Audi doing 56mph for miles behind a lorry, whilst I’m simultaneously passed by a Fiat 500 doing 85mph….