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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

the only thing I wouild say is consider whether a 60 would work for you. Even when driving my diesel VW the longest leg I did on a recent trip between here and Portsmouth was 190 miles (three and a half hours) . 190 miles is easy for a 60.The60 is also more efficient than the 80 it seems (lighter). Lots of good used exampoles out there now

0% loan from the government to buy it, government grant towards the charger, government funded charging network nationwide. Hard to see what more I could reasonably expect them to do. Biggest thing I wish they would do is change the regulatory regime so that they decouple electricity prices from coal and gas generation, that polus brexit and the Ukraine war have caused the prices to rise steadily fromthe start of 2021. That and changing the rules so they don't penalise power generation based on distance from London and sort out the grid connections to Motorway service areas.

thanks. Have you seen the video where I had to go off script, late at night when they closed the A1 and I had to do an 80 mile diversion at the end of a 350 mile trip from Rugby back to Livingston? Guess what? I had zero issues 🙂 If you do long distances then I agree it can be an issue but the lingest drive is my regular 350 mile trip Edinburgh to Milton Keynes. I don't even have the longer range Enyaq

theree's a new sainsburys site near there that has (I think) 6 ultra rapids. At the same time as there were long queues at the services there was only one car at the sainsburys site if it helps for context on my return trip from France last weekend I queued 20 minutes for diesel in Birmingham

I could have done the drive to Portsmouth (440 ish miles) just as easily in my Enyaq. Obviously I can't spend a 2 week family holiday in it or I would have been driving the Skoda not the VW

about 3.8

the heat pump is great and makes the car very efficient. If you have leather I'd say the heated seats are a must. I also have the travel assist (auto steer) which is fab for long drives and I have the head up display which was just an extravagance but I love it. Reversing camera is a must I woudl say, they're quite big cars. @george thank you for your relentless prmotion of my youtube channel 🙂

Skoda quoted me£299 for the basic service (pollen filter change and safety check). I got Cleevely to do a full service (strip and clean and lubricate brake calipers etc) for £216

I just drove my VW camper to France and back. Filled up as we left and then again at Winchester before we boarded the ferry. it whoed 559 miles of range (in the end it did 380 miles) Had to stop at Penrith for a pee, then on the M6 for lunch, then for diesel at Winchester and then for dinner before we got to Portsmouth. 4 stops. Longest leg we did was 190 miles which took 3 hours 15 minutes. My conclusion was that I could have done all of this just as easily inmy 60 kWh Enyaq. took me 15 minutes to fill up at WInchester but then was at the restaurant for an hour for dinner - they had EV chargers too. Lunch was an hour and again there were chargers. On the return leg we queued 20 minutes for diesel in Birmingham. I hated the drive of the diesel. Averaging 4.5 m/kWh in the Enyaq this week, 16 degrees today

You're all missing the point. EVs are much better to drive. Fossil cars are so rough and agricultural in comparison. I drove a brand new petrol Skoda recently - it was horribe compared with my Enyaq, felt like I was driving an old tractor. 🤨

5.1 is excellent, but3.1 software does supposedly bring greater efficiency. I'm achieveing more like 4.1 on my 2021 60 with 3.0 software. I can get 5.1 on my daily commute but that's 12 miles on a 50 mph A road with a long gentle slope

don't think you can

hydrogen will never be as efficient. Hydrogen is produced by burning fossil fuels. You can do it using renewables but you lose a lot of energy in the process of converting electricity into hydrogen and then using the hydrohen to produce electricity to power the vehicle. Rather than losing all of that energy in the process, it's much more efficient to jist take the renewable energy and power the wheels with it. The fficiency levels of an EV are staggeringcompared with hydrogen and ICE vehicles. As for Ford's concerns about using minerals it never seemed to bother them when using vast amounts of cobalt as part of the refining process for ICE vehicles. I thonk it is more to do with wanting to sweat the existing assets and protect their investment in petrol and diesel

I don't think being unable to get a smart meter is "very" common but I do know that it can happen.

Tesla say it is designed to do that, basically it will avoid collision if it can. They said it was a feature of the software and that since it is still in beta it cannot be expected to be flawless yet

33p??? I pay 7.5p per kWh at home but for the last 3 weeks it's been free on solar. Even in winter because I am on intelligent octopus it's 7.5p and then the car means I often get that off peak rate right through to 11am. So having an EV actually makes my home energy cheaper whether I use it to heat the house, ciook a meal or put it into the car. There's no reason to be paying 33p if you have an EV