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Manufacturers are now copying Tesla. If you buy a new Enyaq you buy it from Skoda direct. The dealer is just a conventient location you go to when it's time to collect the car. The dealer gets paid an admin fee. My experience of owning a tesla for 14 months was enough to put me off for life. A poorly built car riddled with faults and Tesla couldn't give a toss once I'd paid them. In 14 months it was back more than 14 times. I spent as much time in old dirty model S loan cars than anything else.

there's ionity at Stranraer and new ultra rapids going in soon at Cairnryan. On Skoda you need to be below 15% to get the fastest charge. People who fill up before then need to put their big brave pants on 😉

tht grid fee is £5000 per charger, per year

prices of the power may be going down but the grid connection charges are up 500% in the last year. Now several thousand pounds per connector just to have power to a unit

I've been averaging 4.1 or 4.2 most days on my commute the last couple of weeks. Heating on, heated seats on, heated steering wheel on.

so happy with it I made a video previously I have had numerous Skodas (1 x estelle, 2 x favorit, 1 x Felicia, 5 x octavias, 1 x yeti, another octavia) then a Nissan Leaf, Renault Zoe and finally a Tesla model 3. The Enyaq is the best of the lot. I have o

I've not had any luck coding the enyaq with VCDS, I had to use OBD eleven to make any changes 😞

best colour

£800k will only go so far, a rapid charger is roughly £50k, you have £2k for the grid connection for a 50 kW unit, CPs charge 25p per transaction, then you have the cost of the civils to get it all installed. THere's a reason the likes of Gridserve, Instavolt etc are not making any profit, same with any infarstructure rollout, you need to invest a lot and wait years to make your money back.

don't forget you're using rapid chargers that start at around £38,000 (max £1000 at home) and then you need to factor in VAT at 20% (5% at home), grid connection charges (zero at home), back office and telecoms charges (zero at home), and card fees (zero at home) and also commercial electricity tariff (a lot higher than residential tariffs). That's why most charge poiint operators have yet to make a profit.

if you've not got one I will PM you

out in a referral code now and you will still get transferred but they will give you £50 credit on yiur bill

ah right, we're 100% electric house, heating is ASHP paying 29p peak and 7.5p off peak. For 7 months of the year we are 100% solar or off peak, the rest we are largely off peak. Today for example because I plugged the car in this morning we had off peak through to 11am which means I was able to refill the house battery and we're still runnng off that at 8.30 pm

I pay 7.5p per kWh why are you paying so much?

the thing to avoid os leaving your car at 100%, that's what sresses the battery and causes faster degradation. I'm at 27K miles and not seen any noricabel drop off in range

https://www.motortrend.com/features/you-are-wrong-about-ev-fires/#:~:text=With an average of 16,in 1%2C300 chance of fire. if we're serious about tackling Vhecile fires then we probably need to eliminate the use of flammable liquids

noworries @toot

10.2p per kWh here on thelast bill but it was down at 9p the month before. The joys of solar and home battery storage. We are all electric with an ASHP so usage goes up in the winter but it still costs less than gas used to cost us because of Intelligent Octopus

pffft they took 3 months to process mine in 2020

I don't think you can - it is locked down with security protections

the loft looks really nice in real life, I have a lounge and really like it. Of those you've shown I would go with the grey one, it's a stunning looking colour

yes if you have the percentage on the dash you are on some 3.x variant. In the wild now we have everything from 3.0 to 3,5 on the very latest cars

you can be updated from 2.4 at the dealer. There is no charge. If you're already on 3.x then there's no dealer update offered

80 seems to be a lot less efficient than the 60, I tried an ID4 before the Enyaq, smaller boot and didn't like the interior at all. You can't see the heater controls in the dark for instance. No thanks

around town I get around 3.8 in winter and 4 to 5 in Summer on a long trip in winter again 3.5 is typiucal but in the summer around 4 is normal - heat pump 60