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Mk2 Estate in Black and data on left Mk3 Estate in Orange and data on right

The maybe someone should report them to the Monopolies and Mergers or other regulatory body. Oh hang on, maybe they don't need too . Tesla have recently laid off 15 -50% of their charging division (certainly in the U.S) and meanwhile Elon Musk (in another one of his incredibly sane moves) has gone and fired pretty much the rest of them. https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/inside-story-elon-musks-mass-firings-tesla-supercharger-staff-2024-05-15/

It’s all my fault. I made an off the cuff non serious comment

Yup that’s what I have always thought of as “winter” tyres but it does seem many people here (even Brits) have summer/winter tyre/wheel combos. seems a waste of time to me.

Until I joined this forum I never even gave thought to using summer and winter tyres in the UK and I’ve been driving since 82. in fact it’s never really come up with other car forums I’ve been on over the years. are Skoda drivers really that different or are the members here no representative of the wider population most of whom probably just use all season tyres in the UK

Quite possibly

Meanwhile elsewhere. intersting view

It’s probably trivial. I’ve no idea if this actually happens but presuming say the VIN (or other identifier) was recorded as part of the charging handshake then if the same identifier was registered on the home energy bill then you could have plug and pay charging.

And that’s likely due to the growth of EVs being artificially stimulated

Actually there’s a thought (thinking about market force pricing). why aren’t the energy companies installing publicly accessible chargers open to all but potentially giving preferential rates to their customers directly linked to their home energy bill?

Again though is there any such comparable maximum price structure in place for liquid fuels such as petrol?

It may have been the phrase "that there needs to be some form of regulation, especially over the price per kWh when it comes to public chargers," Apologies if I took that out of context as suggesting fixed (or regulated if you prefer) pricing Petrol & diesel prices are not regulated, it is simply market forces. EV Chargers should IMHO follow the same model after all the chargers (although publicly accessible) are not necessarily publicly owned eg by local councils. Again should even local council owned chargers be price regulated as that could be construed as being anti competitive when compared to privately owned publicly accessible chargers ?

I don't think there should be regulation on price per kwh for electric charging , after all there isn't regulation (that I'm aware of) of price per litre for petrol & diesel etc (other than the fuel duty escalator which is only part of the pump price) . Market forces determine the pump price. The whole EV market is already been driven to a greatish degree by artificial non market forces, do we really need to add price fixing to that? What may be needed is regulation to prevent monopolies (which technically already exist) and some sort of regulation to ensure that the charger are accurately metered (in the same way traditional fuel pumps are regulated)

Again the issue is that you are taking what the car says has been consumed as gospel, who’s to say that’s accurate? is there any independent checking or legislation around what’s recorded by the charge point as having been consumed? does the cars record take into account such things a maybe air con running or radio on which could be ignored by the on car charging system but would be classed as overall consumption by the charge point?

Btw completely agree charging points do need legislation (if it doesn’t already exist) to ensure they accurately measure how much is requested by the vehicle being charged.

I guess it all comes down to where the charging losses occur. if it’s onboard the vehicle for any reason then that not really the charging points issue, they have provided what the vehicle has asked for.

Surely for the distances being talked about any theoretical voltage drop would be negligible and hardly worth worry about trailing cables is a reasonable rationale. Me personally I would put the charger centrally located so can reach left or right equally and then you only need to think about parking Nose in or tail in

It’s not even standardised whether it’s at the front or back lol and why would it be ? Fuel filler caps can be in any location even under the seat if you have an old landrover (also some vehicles have dual fillers)

Don’t over analyse lol long and short is I’m not in the habit of using Neutral

And after putting it in neutral it goes into P lol

I only put my DSG in Neutral when parking

random musings When looking at BEVs which is (hypothetically) more desirable . a) Lower Mileage but older in years b) Higher Mileage but newer in years When it comes to ICE I would probably pick b

they were only looking at the worst deprecating in comparison to how much a 1 year old had depraced at this timelast year (and then comparing to their ICE equivalents) rather than all EVs

Just as well you only ordered a basic car and not some exotic item

Oh yes add vaping to the gas cooking and log fires