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I generally don't bother charging the PHEV outside of the home. Usually too expensive for the range. On longer trips to the Highlands or England I get around 40-45mpg on petrol. My regular work commute is well within battery range - so I usually get there and back comfortably on the battery- thus I haven't filled up for ages (car was saying 1600miles ago). This makes the iV much more economic sense for me.

I used to granny charge my PHEV. Never caused me any issues but I was never really comfortable with it . We got a tethered Zappi installed which I think is an excellent charger and saves getting the cables out the boot - it's mainly for my wife's EV but is great for the Octavia. I've been using a Garmin 57 dash cam connected to the port behind the mirror which I think is a decent camera.

42kWh is a fair chunk of most EVs batteries (50/60kWh) and you'd need to do a fair daily distance to be not able to keep it topped up at a home charger for cheap rate. Public EV charge costs have gotten ridiculous in some cases; when I first had the PHEV, I was charging for free at loads of places, which was unsustainable and a host of issues. I now won't charge in public unless it's around the home price. In Canada and the US I had a Tesla on rental and the network of supercharging was great, dead easy to use and cheap (compared to UK rates). In terms of my PHEV I tend to get 30-35 miles in summer and 25 miles in winter. My commute is hilly and stop start which is terrible even in an ICE (the Karoq gave me awful economy at times) and I think the EV has saved me a good chunk of cash.

Most hybrids will do that. My previous Kia was pretty aggressive with it when battery got low.

I tend to keep my PHEV charged as much as possible so to avoid using petrol. Sometimes I have 0 miles on the battery in morning and it will run the engine to heat up and fuel economy suffers. For short hops around Glasgow 30mpg isn't uncommon but if it's cold like now with heating, lights on and I'm sitting at traffic lights, it can fall around the low 20s for mpg and sometimes worse if it's stationary traffic. The 70mpg is amazing from the diesel tbh. When I had the diesel Fabia I struggled to get anywhere near that at any time - perhaps only a sensible cruise on the motorway. I had to drive from Haymarket once to near the City Council offices at rush hour and got 14mpg in the petrol Karoq!

I have the PHEV. For short commutes (circa 20-25miles round trip) it's a no-brainer if you can charge at home or office. I've taken it on long trips around Scotland and it's fine when not charged.

I've seen it down like that, but usually it forces me to log back in which seems reset things.

Google maps turn indicators are a bit hit or miss for me in the virtual cockpit. Do work for the ones in the middle of the rev counter however.

I think it flashes to say you are moving the key and it is in communication with the car

So after a trip to the dealer for this they removed the fuse (not sure which one sadly) which reset it. All working as it should now.

When I updated the iV, I had it on ignition on as it was processing. After 5 mins it warned me it was turning off due for eco purposes. I then started the engine to avoid that! Not sure if I should have done that...

@varooom if you could ping me the link that would be appreciated.

43 miles is the WLTP standard test range which all cars get tested to, so Skoda will quote that like other manufacturers do for EV range. Like quoted MPGs for petrol and diesel cars, in real world driving with a number of variables, this is often a hard figure to achieve. Indeed WhatCar magazine tested 10 EVs at Millbrook and all had a shortfall on quoted range - https://www.whatcar.com/news/range-test-how-far-can-electric-cars-really-go/n24836. This is likely why a dealers will say things like "expect 24 miles" as they want to make people aware of real life range. Nevertheless, if you were doing 25 miles EV driving in the car in the past and getting back with plenty of charge left, but now can't achieve the same journey on EV in similar conditions then that seems strange.

My electric mileage readout doesn't seem super accurate - I think looking at % charge is far better. I've ended journeys with more miles than I started. Indeed the petrol one is not much better. Overall I think 33 miles is a decent estimate of where things are for electric only range of the Octavia in my experience. Hills, speed and traffic mean I have some journeys where that is optimistic and in the winter running heaters etc.... If you were able to make it there and back on electric in similar conditions before and now can't unless something is wrong with charger/battery not clear why that's the case. I wouldn't however give a jot what the electric readout says.

To anyone else who had this fault, my car was due in for a service, so I thought I'd go through a reset and see how I went. Nothing changed and I then had to do all the new user crap again! To dealer it is.

I never actually sorted this. I just can't be bothered doing a whole system reset at the moment!

Ah, I thought the post was more standard models which don't seem to be as quick as vRS

Seems to have been a while - there was a few in September?

This was my debate when waiting on mine - could I cancel and get something else. Issue was lead times on other cars become horrible as well, and for them I'd be at the back of the queue. Only option was to buy any dealer stock you could get. I do wonder, on a 3 year lease, when I should order the replacement- 12months doesn't seem enough now!

Given the delivery time for me ordering in 2021 was 13 months, unsure it will have improved much since then! I heard very little until my car was on the way to the dealer.

I mean that can't be right - £2.50 in electricity for 15 mins? A PHEV is only £3-£3.50 to charge fully at current home rates. PHEVs work if you do fairly short trips and can keep them charged up. I can't charge at home but do daily at work and if out and about. Can go over 1000 miles before needing to fill up with petrol. Freezing temperatures hurt range as you're running heaters and all sorts of other things. My last car was tragic in the cold weather- used to get under 30mpg!

I was hoping to avoid a full reset, but if that's needed...

2 full charges on the 3 pin. 2 partial charges on a public charger. Added a photo to better describe it. 13 mile range but in the red.

In the last few days my iVs battery charge indicator bar (the one to the left of the speedo screen and the opposite to the fuel indicator) is staying solidly in the red and lowest bar. This is despite numerous recharges and indeed the miles and mode screen screen showing the correct battery charge amount. It's not a huge issue as everything else seems fine but anything I should try other than speaking to the dealer?

You are in a similar position as I was. No other good deals, lease ending so I was committed. I ended up being 13 months from end July/August 2021. Wonder if I should phone a dealer 18 months before my lease ends next time!