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yeah I am very familiar with charhing the tesla is my third EV. I take it you are aware of the factors that will slow your charge rate? (ie the battery is already too full or the battery is cold) those ionity prices are crazy, 70p is higher than you can get paying contactless

My Tesla has the same range as the 60, I manage just fine doing trips like Edinurgh-Belfast and Edinburgh Northampton (this one is 327 miles each way), so there is zero point for me in buying a bigger battery than I need. The days of driving for 6 or 7 hours non stop are behind me. I tend to stop for a short break after 2 to 3 hours. The 60 will do that with ease, same as the Tesla.

it's a really powerful and amazingly efficient car, but they keep redesigning the interface so it's like they change the dashboard layout in your car. I will miss it, but I am really looking forward to being back in a Skoda

literally nowhere you can charge outwith big cities ;-)

@TheWanderergranted out on the middle of the moors there's not too many, but then there's no petrol stations either, doesn't look too bad from what I can see. The Lowest Spec enyaq will do 250 miles, similar to my current Tesla, more like 200 in the dead of winter but you'll usually be within 200 miles of a socket of some kind or other.

Enyaq 60 Nav Lounge in race blue with heat pump 100 kW charging, climate basic, srive sport basic, Assisted drive plus and HUD Now does anyone want to buy a Tesla Model 3? ;-)

Ordered an Enyaq 60 Lounge with heat pump to replace my Tesla Model 3, this will be my 12th Skoda and the Tesla my shortest lived car at 12 months and only 6,800 miles driven. Just could not get on with everything being touch screen controlled and no ability to use Google Maps instead of their open source system that's still using 2019 maps.

Just placed my Order - now I need to work out the easiest way to sell a Tesla ;-)

I traded my 2015 Octavia 1.4 Tsi for a Leaf in July 2018, put 16,000 miles on it and it cost around £28. But that was using public charging which back then was mainly free. Now I charge at home overnight it is 5p per kWh. My battery is 47 kWh so that would be £2.35 to fill at home. That will do me 180 miles at this time of year at Motorway speeds. In the Summer 250 miles. In winter I get around 4 miles for each kWh in Summer it can be up to 7 miles. Out and about the cost will depend where you fill up. Just with petrol the price varies. Tesla superchargers vary from 22p to 31p per kWh so that's up to £14.57 for a complete fill up on Tesla. But they're quite expensive. Most of the time I fill up for free at supermarkets / stations etc while the car is parked. Superchargers are mainly for long motorway trips in England. A hell of a site cheaper than petrol that's for sure. Currently looking at trading the tesla for an Enyaq though.

have you seen one? where? it looks pretty much like most other Skoda SUV to my eyes

oh there is no way I would ever buy another petrol or diesel car, they're so slow and unrefined and frankly less fun to drive. ANd you have the significant cost of driving a fossil car too, higher tax, extortionate fuel and expensive servicing and maintenance. No, not for me thanks.

charging network is perfectly adequate right now, it is just that people are lacking in basic education and consideration for other drivers. For example the petrol network in this country would be said to be inadequate if people parked at petrol pumps and then went off into town for the day or pushed off for a long walk and came back hours later. My nearest rapid charger (which the Tesla refuses to charge on) has a 1 hour max time limit on it like all the Scottish Government chargers. And yet regularly a VW E Golf is left plugged in and blocking the charger for over 10 hours. The driver plugs in, goes home for the night and then collects the car in the morning. It's just inconsiderate usage and is the biggest issue we are seeing people engage in with electric chargers.

that's all based on manufacturer info which as we all know in any car is not related to real life. What sort of energy consumption are you seeing right now (and in what sort of driving and weather conditions?). I am trying to work out whether the 60 kWh is enough or whether I need the 80. My tesla is a 47 kWh battery but it is very efficient so I am wondering whether the 60 would be roughly the same capability as my current car.

that's OK I can speak German ;-) due to covid I'm not allowed to leave my home and garden other than for an essential purpose so a trip to Mlada Boleslav is not an option. I did drive my 1993 Favorit there though. The guys in the museum were astonished to see a right hand drive favorit visiting

really poor build quality, software is bug ridden (auto wipers that don't work so you have to continually press a button to wipe every 2 seconds, auto high beam that dazzles all the time so you have to disable), 2019 maps (can't use google maps or waze), no smart phone integration, poor voice commands, sat nav that routes you very odd ways and often to wrong destination. Tesla looks great and is very efficient but doesn't do the basics well at all. As George has said not too many tesla chargers up this way and none at all i nNorthern Ireland where I go reasonably regularly, so in a Tesla I use the same chargers as every other EV out there. If I were doign long distance motorway drives in England Tesla would make more sense, but I don't do that very often. If I visit England I take a plane usually.

I am currently in a RWD tesla, and we've had snow on the ground more or less every day since December 27th and so far it is no worse in the white stuff than my octavia was on summere tyres. Of course it would be better with winter rubber but I'm so fed up with Telsa that I plan to swap it for an Enyaq later this year so I'm not buying winter tyres for a car I plan to sell

oooohh I want to swap my Tesla Model 3 for an Enyaq so I am reall interested in this. What is the economy like in the winter? I once drove my Skoda Favorit to Mlada Boleslav from Scotland so maybe I can repeat that in an Enyaq one day. I have friends in Podebrady so want to go and see them some time! Interested to hear al about your enyaq @Masternet

"a half decent voice activation system" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

yes I meant that you can buy FSD in the UK but most of the benefits are disabled outside of the USA

My yeti and Octavia were both light years ahead of the tesla on all these automation things. Cruise control is just danegerous on the tesla.

the free ones, the expensive ones aren't allowed to operate in the UK anyway so , meh

tesla make clear that the cruise and autopilot are only to be used on motorway or dual carriageway so no way it should be in use on the roads Bjorn video shows :-) Mine did it again on the M6 last week, I was driving in lane 2 at 70mph and then bam, I was at 40 mph and a Mercedes Sprinter van had to swerve to avoid me. He was obviously a Tesla fan though as he was waving in a very excited manner as he went past me.

it's easily the most powerful and efficient EV on the market, but the rest of the tech is way behind most other cars. The cruise apparently doesn't use radar like every other car, instead it uses cameras and the camera tries to interpret what it is seeing - it's just not as good yet

So an update on the Tesla Model 3 Standard Range plus experience. Several software updates later they have fixed some niggles, broken a few things along the way and then fixed the things they broke. The fix they applied was (among lots of minor things) to finally make spotify sort music in alphabetical order so you can find it and they added playlist functionality, standard stuff on your phone but not in a Tesla until now. Unfortunately the update also disabled all audio output, radio, USB music, streaming you name it none of them worked. That lasted a week until they rushed out another patch. This is the joy of over the air updates. The other thing to report is my first proper long distance trip, Edinburgh to Northampton and back, around 700 miles. And this was easily done. The car is very efficient, much more so than my Nissan Leaf ever was. I set off around 3pm, stopped 2 hours later for some food at Tebay. The car was around 35% charged when I arrived. I plugged in and headed in to the services for food and by the time I had garbbed a delicious lasagna the car was back to 80% and I headed off. By the time I got to Birmingham I was desperate for the loo so again I stopped at a service area with a tesla charger and while I emptied my tank the car refilled itself. I spent 10 minutes watching some netflix wjile it finished and then headed to Northampton. There was a charger at my hotel in Northampton so I refuelled back to around 70% before hitting the sack. The next day there was a charger at our Northampton office so the car refuelled to 90% while I was at work. That afternoon I headed North again. After a couple of hours I had to stop for the loo at Charnock Richard so I put some juice into the car while I was at the loo and picking up a coffee. Then it was back to Tebay, this time for steak pie and chips while the car refuelled just enough to get me back home. So refuelling wise and range wise it was dead easy. In both directions the driver had to stop before the car had to. Bladder range / fatigue range is shorter (in my case at least) than this shortest range tesla. But what about the famed Tesla auto pilot? It has been very erratic in use, I've had quite a few cases where it tries to auto steer "for safety" and veer into the outside lane so for thsi trip I ojnly used adaptive cruise. Tesla owners often report a phenomenon known as phantom braking, typically this is described as the car hesitating as it overtakes trucks, or gets spoked by bridge shadows. I experienced nothing worse than a gentle slowing down as I passed trucks, easily overriden by pressing the accelarator. Bu then it got dark. Once night fell the car freaked out for no obvious reason - on 6 separate occasions it jammed the brakes on, a full on emergency stop would have happened if I'd not stamped on the power. Not a very comfortable driving experience so I switched off cruise and just drove manually. I raised this as a fault with tesla but after they scanned the car they said thwere was nothing wrong and this behaviour is a "feature" of the current software and they say it will get better as they develop it over time. So much as with my previous report, it's a bafflimg mix of the brilliant (range, power and efficiency) and the downright lousy (auto headlights and wipers seem to have a mind of their own and the cruise control is quite possibly possessed). One of these days they will have it up to the standard of my old 2015 Octavia in terms of the tech, but as before there is still no way I would go back to a fossil fuelled car.

wipers etc have feck all impact, heaters are fine if you have a heat pump, tesla doesn't but is about to get one for MY2021. I personaly can't drive 300+ miles non stop. I recently drove Edinburgh to Northampton, I stopped twice. I could have done it with one stop but I was getting tired and on both stops I was birsting for a pee. The key determinant is your bladder range and how long you can go without having to stop to have a leg stretch and take a break. There's no point paying for and then hauling around a bigger battery if you are only doing a big trip like that occasionally. The stops I make on long trips from Scotland to England are pretty much the same whether I am driving diesel or electric.