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Seen 3 this morning and i was only 1 mile down to Tesco and a mile back. It was not the same Roomster 3 times. It is a Location location location thing. Plenty were in this area because 3 Skoda Dealerships not that far away when they were on sale.

^^^. The EV,s i see in the main are on tyres totally hopeless for snow or ice and even to get into charger bays. I expect mayhem on the A9 and in the region of with Storm Bert coming in tonight / tomorrow. There will be many out ignoring any warning in cars totally inappropriate and on tyres inappropriate even if the roads / snow gates stay open. Likely they will be open until the first vehicles / drivers can not cope. Then once help comes shifting / clearing them is the issue. Luckily not forecast lasting long.

Skoda Main Dealership Servicing and trust needs taking with a pinch of salt. If they do not even look at the Air Filter each Service. If they do not even tell customers the important stuff, VAQ diffs, Haldex intervals, not changing filters. Says wheels off, yet not so with many. Up-selling and saying 80% worn pads or discs the norm. Offering Fuel Cleaners / Additives, saying AC service is at 2 years etc. @3 years then each 2. Much not done at enough Main Dealers in the UK. Charged for though.

@Yogev Good that you get a service book, they stopped then in the UK about 2012/13. Every Main Dealer visit to a Workshop or Service even if just a Oil / Filter service should have a Free Health Check / Inspection, look see and report. Free Brake Check, that is visual.

Yesterday my efficiency at -3*oC in the MINI, 55 miles into Dundee & back was the same as the day before at 1*oC and last week at 7*oC and as in the summer. 3.3 miles kWh going in and 3.6 kWh coming back, without AC on and heating set at 17*oC. Driving a bit easier because ice, un-gritted. Except when the Yaris was up my arse and then past. But realised a GR Yaris and somehow Icy corners were not a worry, or staying on his side of the road. Started with 106 miles range, got back after 55 miles with 60% range and showing 58 miles. Fully charged now and showing 104 miles. 00.00 am - 7am offpeak, 7 hours charging 3 pin, 16 kWh @ 6.7 pence cost £1.14. Minus 3 - minus 4 overnight and minus 2 now. PS Lots of EV reviewers / Blogger / Vloggers go on about heated seat up full. They must have asbestos underpants, i can not have any car heated seat more than at the lowest heat if staying on even in the coldest weather, if i put them on full before getting in or get in my arse can not stand the heat. When on low and hot i might put the heat off for the rest of the trip or until i think lets heat my back...

Let's remember that with a BEV just as with an ICE that before going how ever far and where you fill up in winter you prep the vehicles. Check the Tyres, the pressures, the wipers, the screen wash level and strength, prep the door and hatch seals for winter conditions, and generally be sure the vehicle is winter ready. The tools / spare wheel, or if no spare your emergency kit, or recovery / emergency breakdown cover. With an EV are you carrying charging cables, AC & 3 pin, just incase. Hi-viz vests, maybe food / drinks, warm clothing, blankets etc. If you are not really going out of town and can walk home or get on a bus then maybe just stick to the car being suitable to be getting in... TESLA Drivers & others, **Do not lose your mobile phone, or have it stolen or run out of charge. ** Carry a Battery Bank for the Mobile Charging for when you do get stuck for days in the snow and you have no way of charging the car or the phone. Unless you walk a bit to local habitation where they have no electricity either because the named storm caused black outs.

Good that you have to take over control of the car in adverse weather conditions. Drive with due care and attention on possible changes in road conditions. Snow / sleet on sensors or leaves, dirt or even just H20 is going to have an affect of their effectiveness.

I was thinking as well to get a V90 if an Antique Dealer.

@zachvaughan123456 Welcome to the forum. Are your lights like these?

Real world perfect condition, under 50kWh battery 4 miles to the kWh so 200 miles, maybe, not 5 miles to a kWh. under 40 kWh battery, still a heavy car 160'ish miles. But probably not. Best way to know is drive one for 4 hours...Simples. Bigger than a MINI 3 door hatch, is a MINI 5 door hatch. ICE vehicle.

Welcome. Best stick to posting your qustions in just in one section. Someone will be along to help hopefully.

Or, Bombard the editorial staff @ Autocar / What Car owned by Haymarket Media Group, deaf dumb and blind to their customer for advertisements, car launches etc., or to Auto Express. BBC Watchdog as well.

Someone at Skoda / VW UK is maybe reading this forum and realised 'Honesty is the best policy' They needed to stop leading people on. So back to treating as Mushrooms. 'Keep in the dark and shovel with poo'.

You posted in the Octavia Mk4 section not the Enyaq BEV section. Plenty threads there on the BEV issues and 12volt battery.

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/509740-thinking-of-buying-a-mk2-fabia-vrs Welcome. They can be great, they can be a nightmare. ? How many previous keepers? First is it actually a S2000, a model that came with a White roof and wheels and decals and is Green Metallic. Stickers still on or removed! Or just a vRS that the seller listed as a S2000? Is it a CAVE engine car not a CTHE? S2000 were the earlier engine cars. The issue to check are many, all covered in the Fabia mk2 section. Pinned threads and many over the past 14 years. ? Is it the original engine still fitted as it left the factory? The DQ200 DSG can be a concern. In the spare tyre well is there a Service Campaign Sticker showing '34F7' and a date and dealer stamp?

? Is this PHEV,s starting off having just been on a charger & has the petrol engine fired up?

Welcome. Leave the car well alone. Does your car have a DSG?

DQ250 6 Speed Wet Clutch or DQ381 7 speed wet clutch DSG,s service schedule is not by years. The DQ250 is 40,000 miles intervals pr sooner, (& the DQ381 according to VW Group / Skoda is 80,000 miles, you might well want it done long before that. ) DQ381,s are Fluid & Filter at services, or should be. PS VW Group / Skoda have had the Haldex Service as 3 years / 30,000 miles for a decade now. Volvo @ 20,000 / 2 years.

Plenty time to get used to it.

Not really for those charging Off Peak Tariff of 7 pence a kWh or less. 14 kWh needed to get 25-30 miles maybe with a hybrid on electric so £1.00 or so. or £1 for 6 hours and then 2 kWh @ 25 pence. £1.50. My EV last night 7 hours @ 6.7 Pence a kWh, 16 kWh, £1.12. , That gives me 3 miles a kWh so 48 miles or so for £1.12 If on a 6.6 kW chargers for 7 hours then maybe 45 kWh for £3.10, 45 x 3 miles a kWh is 135 miles. That is much cheapness.

No because the battery is above the ground and you have the Ground Temperature (Grass frost) and the Air Temperature. A heated blanket or hot water bottle is not practical. *Charge in a Heated Garage, maybe just not one attached to the house or under it.* You pre-heat an EV,s battery maybe before charging when driving so that it can charge quicker when you get to a DC charger. Like you pre-condition / pre heat before driving using the energy from your house / charger to have the battery using less energy once driving off. Also pre-heating the car / vehicles interior.

Grangemouth is not sad news, other than for the economy. Employment. It was and is so polluting as are the products produced in the Petrochemical side and the Fuel Cracking. It is such a high energy users. If not economic after all the money spent on Storage, Dragon Ships etc etc then best not operating. The Forties Pipeline will be closed very likely very soon. PetroInios can clear up the site, totally clear up other than the parts away to still be used. If they do not then they can pay from the huge world wide profits they make. PS Green Energy for England, just not in my back yard, compensate for Turbines, Pylons ,roads. tracks, convoys for months or years passing through with turbines, then transformers for Substations, battery storage etc etc. It was fine an is fine getting it now from further afield like Scotland, Wales, Ireland or Continental Europe, but stuff them, we want compensation and cheap energy. Frack on, Drill baby drill as the Donald says.

Is it charging for the full 6 hours, but because of the cold the battery needs more the 6 x 2.3 kWh or 2.1 kWh (13.8 kWh or 12.6 kWh ) to get to 100%. Take the meter reading for kWh used during the offpeak tariff. You have losses charging the cold battery / cold ambient temperature.

The EV connection to anything is where stuff comes from and who suffers. So there is the battery issue, the rare metals the materials, the energy used and where produced etc etc. The slave labour, maybe in China, or anywere. Just like the ICE vehicles, then. The Oil & Gas also taken from far off lands to the UK or maybe British waters and then taken away and bought back. These getting killed and maimed around the world in wars is about land, resources, minerals etc. Oil & Gas. Anyone in the UK waking up and switch on, running water, driving or riding and not hungry, dirty, skint are doing very well really. Nobody is going to drop a drone or bomb on them today.

I just wonder what you thought of those living near refineries, or nuclear power stations or those that lost their homes because of hydro? Or those next to motorways or airports where the goods get transported..