Evolution13

Lots of Vehicles including BEV,s were manufactured in Hungary & Slovakia using energy that came from Oil & Gas from Russia and in Slovakia & Hungary nuclear from Russian Owned sites in their countries. Oil & Gas delivery currently not happening till when the pipeline is back up flowing.

Fantastic savings at home charging are neither here nor there for us paying from our own income to public charge at whatever tariff the chargers are at and go to. & a 15% VAT reduction is not going to really make much difference. Well not to those that bother about things, and real pence per mile. Anyway, Stay Calm and keep on rolling', it could be worse it could be the start of winter not the end. WWIII is averted, because the USA holds all the cards. Well they thought they did!

The UK is receiving petrol, diesel, kerosene etc produced from Russian oil right now, refined in other middle east, far east, Asian countries. That is what is probably what going to become short as others get first dibs on it. Sir Keir and government are playing at 3 Monkeys.

It is not just a 30 second press of the accelerator. But say what DSG you have. & best not mess about if there are issues. Get a proper reset with the car plugged in. As to the DQ200 DSG,s earlier than recent ones, there is 'Dynamic Driving'. Really the DQ200 can LEARN. Especially some sales car that has been going no place far for weeks. Or a car your friend / partner, anyone drove then feels crap.

It can with some DSG of different eras. DQ200,s. The thing is if you have a car, then try it and tell us if you notice any difference.

It is a very ickle decrease in the gas tariff. But mony a mickle maks a muckle. The thing is my heating is now off totally till maybe September or even October. Next winter maybe OK with my fixed tariff, just as long as the provider can actually keep the Gas flowing and the electricity on...

@lol-lol Where you get your prices to quote i have no idea. My Eon next Day tariff is going from 32.71 pence a kWh to 29.27 If the 9.5 pence night goes down to 7.12 pence a kWh that will be wunderba.

There are enough dealerships and workshops, just not enough competent Fitters, Technicians and Master Techs. If Skoda actually did not release vehicles with faults like with the Software, & the PDI,s were done properly then there would be less WARRANTY returns. Then the Service Desk Staff are more interested in UPSELLLING than getting vehicles in Serviced competently and the jobs that need doing to a schedule explained to the Customer. But then Service Desk staff and Service Managers have very little knowledge about Servicing and Maintenance and Schedules, recommendations, regimes, guidelines, etc.

@Scrounger No i am not waiting on a home charger. This is my 3rd EV with a small battery. First EV i did 60,000 miles for £500 using Public Chargers because most of Scotland was free. When i did start charging at home it was only a 32 kWh battery so some free or cheap charging and 7 hours offpeak Eon Next and maybe the odd hour at 30 pence or less a kWh. Now on 6 hours Offpeak and 9.5 pence a kWh. 3 nights charging after trips, or charge cheap locally on a Public charger if i need a full battery. Or just pay standard tariff for a few hours.

No idea about your car or your 3 pin lead. (I do not call it a charger as the AC charger is in the car.) So if the lead is set at 7 or 10 amps i get 1.6-2.1 kWh and at 16 amps near 2.3 kWh. I set at 10 amps though if plugging in at home.

& it is not just 1.4 TSI,s. 1.2TSI,s as well, and threads in the Mk3 Fabia, Rapid, Kodiaq.

I will see pretty soon just how much the new fixed tariff for 6 hours offpeak @ 9.5 pence a kWh & the standard tariff drops in April.

@lol-lol As i posted, that is you and that is Octopus. I understand that. But you posted Home EV charging coming down 20%.. Well maybe, could be, might be, for some.

There was a UK DVSA Critical Safety Recall on 2014 VW Polo. Possible fuel leak, but that was Filter Canister i think, and not called for the fire risk but handling. I suppose liquid fuel on rear tyre / discs....

Sorry, I thought i knew which thread in the Mk3 Fabia section had a post showing the pathetic reply the DVSA give, but my memory failed me, or i am just missing it.

@lol-lol Are we to take because your tariff is dropping by that then every other EV drivers home charging tariff is dropping the same with who ever their provider is? I think not so you are posting a falsehood. Maybe stick to The Truth about electric cars and not just your electric cars.

Is it still driving and going well 12 years on? Or has someone punted it because it is going wrong?

Its is XDS+ on the Octavia. It was XDS on the Fabia mk2 vRS and maybe some other models, then there was an upgrade.

If you have to plug in and get 15 kWh @ 65 pence that is £9.75 to get maybe 40-50 miles. So maybe some that can charge at lower costs, home, depot, overnight public at cheaper tariffs might. 15 x 30 pence £4.50. @lol-lol I am looking for an estate. Will look see Corolla,s. I had one decades ago that was an Import from Middle East. Champagne Gold with brown velour.

@lol-lol Are they actually plugging in and charging them before and during shifts? Taxi drivers will use any old crap if they running costs, lease, daily / weekly costs look low.

Just needs a charger giving out what it can and not affected by ambient temps low or very high or grid or transmission issues, and vehicles battery at optimum 30*oC or what ever.

Many many BEV,s Guestimate the Available range as charging or fully charged at the Figure WLTP quoted, 5 miles a kWh or like my MG which is always 4 miles a kWh. Even though maybe i was getting 2.4 or 3.1 miles a kWh. My MINI Electric quoted as 5 miles a kWh as the 32 kWh battery charged.

@Stonekeeper thanks, but things are what they are. Real world. i have been driving BEV,s for over 7 years and using all kinds of chargers and watching how poorly some charge. Be that small batter cars of big ones. 100 kW max charge speed batteries on 150-350 kW chargers that might only give 80 kW max at around 10% battery in idea conditions. Even under 50 kW. Then 50 kW CCS DC chargers giving from only 12-26 kW. PITA when there is a 40 or even 60 minutes max charging time.

That is quite a circumference / diameter difference you run. I see before you posted 215/60/16.

Predictions should not be necessary. Toyota has had 30 years of experience and development with hybrids. I know they can coc-k up, but maybe i need to check out what is the best of those from pre 2024. Petrol / hybrid & automatic.