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dunno I just drive and like I said yesterday I got 5.2 m/kWh on the commute to work. sometimes you get better performance than the manufacturer suggests, sometimes not. Same was true in fossil cars. As for public charging, what do you mean by fair? Fair to whom? The CPOs have faced an over 500% increase in their standing charges this year. It now costs them over £1,000 just to have electricity connected to a single DC charger. Is that fair? Then they have to pay staff, office costs, maintenance, site rental, wayleaves. Shoudl they underpay staff to help keep things "fair" for the customer? Is that fair on the staff? There was a post on linkedin this morning by a land agent saying it's fair that they should charge CPOs for the future value of land at sites not what it is worth to them today, ie charge based on what a site will be worth in the future when every car is electric and demand is much greater, so they think it is fair they should max out their revenue now despite the fact that the CPOs are all loss making. They think it's fair that motorists should pay them because it's their land so it's fair you and I should pay for using it. You may think that's unfair of course. And then on top of all those costs they need to buy electricity on a business tariff - thiose aren't artifically capped by Government, in fact energy providers are covering the cost of your cheap oower at home by charging more to business customers .That's probably not fair either. Sadly life is not always fair and what's fair for you may be unfair for others.

PS in my 295 mile trip last week I needed to stop 3 times. The car didn't need to stop once. Unless you're wearing nappies / Tena for men then you will need to stop anyway so you can replenish the battery while you "empty your tank" 😁

glad they help, that'#s really the whole point. Youtube videos persuaded me that the Nissan Leaf was OK, so I am now doing the same for my current car.

even if I wasn't being paid £8.63 is way cheaper than petrol. Public transport for that trip came in at over £200 (train fare plus taxis from station to hotel). Don't forget this was a return trip. It was possible to get there for a fiver and would have been possible to get back for free, I happened to choose to public charge for reassurance (who want to live right on the edge) and for the purposes of the youtube video. I could have done the while trip for £5 and then been paid £146 in expenses. That's mileage at 24p a mile, whereas the official approved rate is 45p. I need to claim the balance back in tax relief.

No it's the 85. The 60 was my old one. Used to cover Edinburgh to Milton Keynes with no issues. This video was a trip I made with the 60 from Rugby back to West Lothian in foul weather when the A1 was blocked suddenly and I had to do somethign like a 50 mile detour. *spoiler alert* it was fine oops

I just did Kidderminster to Livingston. 295 miles. Averaged 3.9 m/kWh. On the motorway it was 4.2 average but when I came off for the last hour on twisty, hilly country roads it declined a bit. I needed three stops, two for toilet and one for food. I plugged in while I ate but stopped it after I had ordered and paid for my food (it's OK there were plenty chargers available) . In truth the car would have got home with 1% left after 295 miles. This was in November, with rain and 9 degrees. So not exactly summer weather. Autopilot set to the legal limit - it auto adjusts when it sees speed limits. I got paid £73 by my employer in expenses, charging cost me £8.63 ish from memory. The lasagna plus glass of sparkling water at Tebay cost me £13.57. Food is more expensive than charging. (it's OK work paid for that too)

that colour is stunning I managed 3.9 on a run from Kidderminster to Livingston last week, 295 miles https://youtu.be/mbMQA07ozW8?si=67B17aTSqogf9cHk

WLTP (which applies to all cars not just EVs) is not meant to show what you can get in the real world but to provide a figure from a standardised test so you can compare one car with another. So long as you realise that then it's a useful measure. But I regularly exceed WLTP on the Enyaq in daily driving. Was getting 5.5 m/kWh this morning

you've not found my video coming back up the M1 only to find they closed the A1 and I had to turn back at Cockburnspath and head back to Berwick and go inland to get back to Livingston? In an EV , th e shorter range Enyaq

I plan but the plan never works out. On the latest trip (Livingston to Kidderminster at 300 miles) I planned to stop at Preston, but by Carlisle my big mug of coffee 3 hours earlier meant I nearly wet myself by the time I got to the Tesla chargers at Todhills. Then the car was too full to charge at Preston and the traffic on the M6 was so bad that by the time I got to Stafford it was close to 2pm and I was ravenous (plus my bladder was urging me to stop). So my plan just went out of the window and I went with what the car told me was available.

my VW transporter has the filler cap inside the passenger door opening, you need to open the passenger door to open the filler

ACC is very good and I would say well worth it if you do many longer runs

you should be able to generate a certificat efrom the app that shows you everything

it was removed when the software went from 2.4 to 3.0 sadly 😞

Get yourself a one month sub for either Tesla or Ionity when you're doign a big trip (whichever one has sites along your route). You can cancel after the trip and one charge will save you enough to more than pay for the sub.

welcome to the Enyaq, I am on my 2nd, best cars I have ever owned. I think the USB thing is because most people don't do that any more, they just stream everything, I must admit I have an SSD from my Tesla days with all my music on it. Do I use it? not really. Can't help with the other points as I haven't encountered them before. If you want some tips on how to get better efficiency then check out my youtube channel www.youtube.com/@enyaq_gorm I did a couple of videos recently whcuh seem to be very popular with people goign by the viewing figures.

I do indeed stay in Livingston which is why I didn't correct you, it is hard to correct someone who is in the right before you point that out too. The A702 is not a route I have been down for many years so I cannot claim to be familiar with it. I am indebted to you for pointing out the Shell station, I wasn't aware of its existence either, though I suspect like most Shell stations it is significantly more expensive than the £1.29 a litre which I paid at costco. And when you're buying 75 litres the difference ammounts to more than the few coppers to which you referred earlier. I wasn't aware that it was there because it is not by the side of the road i was on. It's all very well saying if you divert off the route you're on there is a PFS but if you don't know which diversion to take then you're not goign to take it. Costco was the first PFS of which I was aware other than the much more expensive Sainsbury right beside Costco. Does that better satisfy your pedantic needs?

I don't imagine the floridians will be oumping much gas without the power being on either and yes some EVs can indeed charge other EVs just as phones can be used to charge other phones

I only made the point about the time taken to fill the VW because you were suggesting that it takes longer to make a journey inan EV than in a fossil car. I merely jumped into this thread (and boy do I regret that) to explain as an owebr of both a fossil and an electric vehicle that my experience is the opposite. Because the fossil one seems bizarrely unable to fill itself whiel I am havig lunch etc, it actually takes loner to complete a journey. I have no idea how long it would take to go from 5 to 100% because I am not in the habit of waiting for my car to charge. I plug in, go to wherever I have to go (work, coffee, toilet, for food or whatever) and when I am finished I unplug. So the process of waiting for the car takes maybe 30 secinds while I unplug. In the fossil you reckon 5 minutes, I reckon longer, but then I have 80 litres to pump after all. Although at Costco I only had to put in 75 litres.

precisely, if I had known the esso one was open again and decided to use it I would then have been trying to make a right turn across a bisy trunk road rammed with the rush hour exodus in a VW trnsporter which is not quite as quick off the mark as my Enyaq. @Graham Butcher keeps querying why my enyaq didn't flag up the Esso PFS when I was trying to find somewhere to buy diesel but there's no way I could see my Eyaq screen while driving a vehicle that needs diesel . It's a bizarre thread this one.

au contraire, as I have told you before I was not in my Enyaq (which bizarrely does flag up petrol filling stations complete with operator logos for the oil companies). I was not aware of it because that is not a road I have been on for years and last time I was there the PFS like so many others was lying derelict. Even if I had been aware of it I would not have gone there becasue I wpuld have then been on completely the wrong trnk road with no easy way to get back on the correct route without a very hard to make right turn in heavy rush hour traffic. The one I did go to was a couple of miles away with roundabouts to ease my way back on to the bypass. I thought my profession was plagued by pedantic nit picking but it seems electrical engineers are every but as bad. 🤨

the lack of infrastructure is perception, nothign more. A lot of the stories out there are just mischief making and stoked by the people who have an interest in being able to keep as many folk as possible dependent on their expensive liquid fuels.

yes and the then PM big bonking Boris announced a fund to help break the logjam. Still hasn't paid out a penny

blooming SNP council doing things that make sense. Where on earth will it all end?

ummm.... my charging away from home largely does go to my electricity account, I just use the one RFID car from Octopus, I get a discount off the price of charging and it just goes to my home energy bill. That's not the future, it's the present.