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I got to test the Elroq and to see it without camouflage at the weekend in Mlada Boleslav. More to come soon on my youtube channel but in the meantime here is a taster

I'm going to be in Mlada Boleslav in the next week for an Enyaq focused meeting and I am told there will be a chance to have a discussion with "Skoda management". Are there any Skoda EV related issues that I should raise?

I owned an estate for 3 years, switched to a coupe in July, love it, no major diference other than if you pack the boot vertically in which case there's less space

Ionity stranraer, instavolt at Bannatynes Ayr, lus BP ultra rapids at BP north of Ayr, lots more than there used to be on the A77

I don't see why anyone would buy the explorer, just an enyaq/ ID4 in disguise with a smaller boot

auto steering does all the hard work , plus what you can't see is my left hand on the bottom of the wheel

In my 2 months so far yes I reckon it really is. I did a quick video to show how to get the best efficiency in day to day driving (A roads only for now). before @Ootohere promotes it for a change https://youtu.be/lFhOh1MAMWE

No free electricity here, no sunshinebhere this weekend either though, plemty of windf and liquid sunshine though. Doesn't take much elecvtricity to make my sandwich at lunchtime anyway It would be handy for the central heating though as that uses more power than the car

The edition models of new cars have it

thanks for promoting my videos George 🙂 Three months later West End made me an offer I couldn't refuse and that car in the video is now mine. I do miss the HUD from my 60 but the power and efficiency in the new car are very impressive.

@ColinD late to this post (sorry) but I can say that having owned a Tesla Model 3 it was plagued with faults both software and physical build, their customer service is abysmal. I switched to an Enyaq 60 in 2021 and now have an 85 Edition. WIthout a shadow of a doubt the best car I have ever owned. I have a friend who got anEV6 in 2021 at the same time I got my ENyaq. He's had a host of electrical problems and they are ongoing to this day. I have numerous friends who have had Teslas and not one has had a fault free experience. Some are fanboys and love the cars but none has been fault free. The Enyaq 85 is my 13th Skoda. The 60 had a broken droplink and the skoda badge projected by the puddle lights went wonky but that was it. And that was more faults than all my other Skodas combined.

I think this is not the best decision. We never had the 50 in the UK, just the 60 and 80. Now they have decided to stop the 60 and bring us the 50. From what I can see it's a 52 kWh usable battery so you'relosing 6. My 60 averaged 3.6 m/kWh over 3 years so that meas just over 21 miles reduction in range. In real world driving I never ever got less than 180 miles and that's roughly 3 hours of driving in real world traffic conditions. I tend to take a break after 2 and a bit no matter whether i'm driving petrol,diesel or electric. I'venow got an85 edition because I got a great price to change and a deal on a pre registered car but for most people the 50 will work. Personally I think it's aimed at keeping the Enyaq below the expensive car supplement which will add £390 VED per year to the 85 from April 2025.

the update is not chargeable, it's a recall programme they are running.

Yetis are great - I had one from 2011 to 2014. Welcome aboard

the front ones were on my 60 so the dealer swapped them to the new car, the rears I had to get new as the 85 has different sized wheels front and rear unfortunately.

swapped my 2021 Enyaq 60 for an ex Demo 2024 Enyaq 85 Edition. Much more powerful, more efficient too in my couple of weeks with it so far

the Skoda system is now very good, I can do pretty much all the things which until now I have used ABRP to do, specify what level of charge I am hap-py to arrive with, filter by networks that I might prefer, eg Ionity or only chargers that are ultra rapid etc. It's so good I am now cosnidering whether I actually need to use ABRP at all. Travel Assist is much better than Tesla's autopilot, nowhere near as irritating and I've had no issues at all with any of the assist systems (touch wood)

no, the tesla only uses Tesla chargers for plannign so it is far from the best. In Northern Ireland for example it told me to divert 100 miles to a Tesla charger, but the return trip (200 miles) would have meant I was back at square 1. The Skoda system in my new Enyaq is much better

my point is you can see from the driver's seat the availability of "fuel" ahead of you. You go to the places where there is availability (plenty of it along that route) and avoid the places where there is limited availability. Sadly not available on petrol cars as I know from turning up at forecourts to find those yellow covers on the nozzles of the pumps.

My car has a notional range of 240 miles but realistically it does 215 in the summer, 200 in the winter. That is fine because my regular trip is just Livingston to Milton Keynes which is only 380 miles. It takes 6 hours by train or 7.5 hours by car (including stops). I stick by the Army's rules on driving which require me to take a break every two hours. In those breaks I plug the car in while I wander over to the loo. Like I said recently, the last trip back needed 12 minutes at Stafford for the loo and to grab a coffee to go, and 24 minutes at Tebay for dinner. I simply would not drive a whole day without a break as it would be foolish in the extreme to do so.

who mentioned apps? My car shows whether they are available. As for ICE I have turned up at petrol stations plenty of times to find covers over the nozzles saying they are out of fuel. On the way back from France last year I called in to Costco for fuel in Birmingham, we wueued half an hour for fuel. If I had been shown in advance the state of play then I would have gone elsewhere just as I do in my Skoda. as for the covers, MSAs were built without the grid connections to support EV charging. The government has promised funding to provide grid upgrades but it is running roughly 18 months behind schedule - it's not Gidserve's fault, it's the UK government.

videos like that really **ss me off. You can tell from your car before visiting those sites how many chargers there are, whether they are in use / broken/ available etc so why would you go there and then say "oh this is rubbish"? I mean it's like if I read that a petrol station was out of action (Like my local Shell garage was recently) and then went there and said "the petrol/ diesel infrastructure is rubbish". Done to get clicks and engagement nothign more.

also made this quick video review of the car

Just did Edinburgh to Milton Keynes and back. On the return leg I paid attention to the times we speant charging. We set off at mid day, the car wanted us to charge at Manchester but by the time we were nearing Stafford my son said he needed the loo. So we stopped at Starbucks and plugged in while we emptied our tanks. We then bought a couple of drinks and took them with us. Spent a total of 14 minutes charging by which time the car said we could get to Gretna. But by 5pm we were passing Tebay and given a choice between Burger King at Gretna or Tebay we stopped and paid a premium for their chargers (64p versus Ionity's 43p). Going to the loo, ordering and eating food and then going back to the car took 24 minutes. By which time the car was at 92% which was more than enough to get home to just outside Edinburgh. And this is the shorter range Enyaq. I can't actually see that there is a pressing need for longer range cars.