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Smallest I see are Renault Capture. Taxi or private hire, school transport etc.

@Graham Butcher ok, so you said Skoda BEV,s and you just mean electrified cars not Battery Electric vehicles. You are including PHEV,s.

@@somean49 is your car actually a 1.4 TSI?

Sorry, now I see, so Skoda Enyaq taxis, or is it Citigo iV,s?

@Graham Butcher really a few Skoda BEV,s doing last mile deliveries in your area. Citigo or Enyaqs, amazeballs. I thought you posted about there being few EV,s about. Good to see that the few are there then. The first million are someplace if not scrapped then even if there are only half of the next 200,000 out and about there are EV,s on the road a plenty. ? Which council was it that got electric vans for maintenance workers but hills were an issue for them for range? You give with one hand and take away with another.

It was free power for many years. I stared a thread after the cheap years were ending. It is just you were not aware apparently of much that went on before you started posting in this section, and even after you started. What I was posting about early today was you not seeing many EV,s means jack sh|t really. As it is you appear to miss many things. Like the point people make. Pictures I post are mostly at chargers. There are electric cars that are never near public chargers, there are fleets of cars in Scotland not first registered in Scotland. There are many many EV,s or ice vehicles in any price range on Personal Plates. Many of the Premium Vehicles are in private plate be then leased or owned privately. Taxi fleets run personal plates in many places.

No I am saying that since 2010 and Charge Place Scotland there was many EV,s going on the roads because of the availability of Public Charging, free rapid charging. Then 6 year interest free loans had private buyers, and Motability lease ev,s then the Fleet vehicles and councils, health boards, utilities and others putting EV,s on the road. Early adopters and not just home charger drivers. That is what I am saying. And Arnold Clark and others First Registering EV,s in Scotland. Not only loans for private buyers, grants and loans for business users different from the Westminster system. Easy enough to look at 10 to 12 year old used EV,s for sale and see how many were first registered in Scotland from taxi fleets and hire companies.

@Graham ButcherMany many cars in Scotland are not first registered in Scotland as is obvious by the registration plates. As is the case in England. See just how many cars in the road have a first registration in Scotland. Also fog sale. As to the population and vehicles per capita you might see how many vehicles are owned and used and where do the more premium models are sold. Just open your eyes and you might see. See pre green flash EV,s that were on the roads before the green flash was introduced. Sons EV,s like the Stellantis ones are not just as easily spotted. Edit. I had a quick Google of petrol and diesel registered cars in Scotland. Interesting on cities in UK with EV,s as to London . 8 3 million people, or Scotland 5.3 million and the area of these.

He is good, but makes random statements and assumptions and also has 'Click Bait' titles. The Autotrader and Auction sites are good. As to private to private sales, they wish they actually knew what went on. Then Traders, people buying and selling car, Nod is as good as a wink to a Blind Inland Revenue / HMRC, Just a hobby, honest mister. I know what he looks at. But there are statistics and damn statistics. He mentions going to a filling station to fill up every night. Well that is high mileage drivers or people that stick in a fivers worth. How many Private EV owners, early adopters so older EV,s are selling private to go buy these 'Cheap As Chips, brand new BEV,s with 3 miles or clocked up to 3,000 miles. Clocked UP BEV,s are easily found out when plugged in. Plenty Hire / Courtesy / Lease cars are being caught these days, an extra 2,500 miles up just as much as down in a day. Or change the Tyre Circumference in the ECU and have it register more or less miles. It has been all my time involved in the car trade that Demonstrators were clocked up for the break from HMRC. Channel Island brand new Fords supposedly hire cars with still Wax and Plastic on back in the 1970,s.

How many EV owners are there that are selling privately? Who is compiling the figures / statistics among these sellers of cars that they own?

34 million cars registered, 1.2 million BEV,s end August 2024. 3 4% electric cars. Registered that is. (Maybe cars and light commercials.) Maybe do a Google and check that as I am on phone while charging at an empty charging hub. Going to Dumfries House later. KC3 seems to not have got EV public chargers there. Plenty in the area around about, not sure how many add working though. PS. 1.2 million was how many VW said vehicles in the UK were affected by the Defeat device scandal out of the 11 million globally. Surely a Turbine or 3 and Solar & EV chargers are something KC3 should have at Dumfries House.

There are lots of falsification of figures of vehicles sales compared to first registrations. Stored cars, runways of vehicles, dockside compounds. @Graham Butcher please stop thinking where you drive and go to is representative of the rest of the UK as far as his many EV,s are on the road. As you point out the EV public charging in your area is pathetic. Go north young man. Look for green flash registration plates. See just how many there are. In cat hire car parks, in NHS staff car parks, in airport car parks, in forecourts and on the roads. The total number in the UK first registered was only over a million earlier this year. If 30 million cars registered then what do you expect to see, or 50 million. I have no idea how many new or nearly new cars are In Trade, but car dealerships have millions of the cars in the UK sitting about.

Very handy outside Girvan on the industrial site. Rapid CCS at the harbour still broken. 11kW AC cut out at 80,% and £7.00 if I had started again I would have been £5 minimum to 100%,. This shows on ElectroVerse at 53 pence a kWh. It is a 22kW and I am getting 11kW. Started with ElectroVerse card immediately. Wind turbines very near.

As to BUYing and owning a first edition of a new EV while the Manufacturers are still not getting fixed models that are now going to 2nd generations, that is a very brave, or stupid move surely.

But people will lease ones, and Skoda UK / VW UK need to get as many as they can get into the country first registered in 2024. So dealers are getting out cheap adverts, getting social media coverage like here now. Cars will be in the showroom and in the dealers fleet. Some out and about in the brightest colours. Just the same old Kidology as usual with new models. This year desperate manufacturers need the 22% EV,s first registered.

I hope nobody actually just turns on lights because their is a daylight time published someplace for their area, and actually knows what visibility there is and drive to see and be seen. Actually as anyone with their eyes open can see there are many that seem to let the car decide when head lights and side lights are needed and have probably no idea what their vehicle has on. I just drove in the pith rain with very poor visibility and many d!cks have on just DRL,s or not even DRL,s or sidelights.

A DQ381 7 speed wet clutch or a Dq250 6 speed are lemons and pears different from the OP,s DQ200 DSG. The DQ200 can be forced to change up in manual when put in 1st and not changed up. Preservation. And be 6 speed not 7 speed in Sport. As to manual request of a lower gear most ignore too low a gear. Then with some DSG and a Diesel it might do that 3 gear down change and near put you through the windscreen. No point comparing a 250 Nm or less petrol or diesel engine and a 2.0 TDI or TSI and their AUTOMATED manual gearbox. (exception 2.0 TDI 115 ps have a DQ200 DSG)

There is a Recall Action / campaign on various Skoda vehicles which is a software update. Apparently to stop keys being locked in the car. Check with a Dealership and see if your car is part of that. If so and your car is in, maybe you will not get charged £115 or more for a diagnostic on the fault you have.

No PDK,s get fitted to a Skoda. They are fitted to a Porsche and you get more engine braking with them than with DSG,s or S-tronics in Audi,s VW, seat or Skoda be then wet or dry.

No harm in doing early. When done correctly for a DQ381. The procedure followed and the oil to the correct temp and run through the gears etc. plenty videos on the correct procedure. Sadly too many do as with a DQ250. Totally different. PS. It is sad just how many are having issues with DQ381 and MCU failures. VW group as they did with DQ200,s are still head in the sand and costing many owners lots of hassle and money after the vehicles are out of the Manufacturers Warranty. And time without their car while in warranty.

Hopefully someone will be along to help. DRLs to the front only do not make sense, but then neither do they to the front and rear in poor visibility. Put on the cars lights. Side position lights front and rear and headlights. If not bright daytime / sunlight and do not trust Auto lights to do it.

Actually if you put to manual and then choose a gear it does not like as in drop 2 gears of r 3 at whatever speed the DSG might ignore you. Self preservation. Or if you select Manual 1st and floor the accelerator and not shift up it might shift automatically. Preservation again. It is an Automated Manual. Then there is accelerator position. I do not mean the Kickdown but 1/3 rd pedal and how driven. Dynamic driving and how the DSG reacts. Play about with it and see how things are. You will not break it.

Welcome. You have 7 gears and it is set to try and use least fuel. It will be out of 1st by 10 kmph and in 7th before 100 kmph so it will be changing gear early. How long do you want it to be between changing up? Put it in S if you want it holding gears to a higher rpm.

Ps. When I towed for gain or reward and did not require a tacho as I was the same as some long distance recovery drivers. Running a vehicle that ran on LPG and no alternative fuel. No petrol no diesel. No need for a Tacho. The AA, RAC or Green flag used to use Companies that ran Recoveries that did not require a Relay. The flat bed, Van , pick up or what ever could get motorbikes or cars a long way with one driver.

So that Logging Driver had a doctor's note which can be an exemption from wearing a seat belt. I told the story before about when seatbelts became compulsory about me and my Driver delivering books to housebound customers and a police inspector stopping us as we pulled away from the shop from getting food and going a few houses along to deliver. He was told we had an exemption but he said that would not stop us going through the windscreen & he reported us to the chief librarian. Three weeks later when there at the shop and the driver jump out and ran across the road and stopped the copper as he was about to drive and shouted, better put on your seat belt because that uniforms not going to stop you going through the windscreen. Ps. That logging road is not a vehicular right of way. We used to have a winch challenge event in there with special permissions and insurance and there were warning signs for the public walkers and cyclists and we took care on or off the tracks. Not all vehicles were road legal at those events. Many were trailered there and back. At most events where road sections were involved we had to have a MOT, insurance, etc. some places we had to prepare for road sections, wash vehicles, tyres etc. others were just off-road except crossing one wood or moorland to another. At the big events the police just stayed clear so that see no evil hear no evil. Keep life simple. The problem event was the same weekend as T in the Park where there were road sections from Perthshire to the tank training ground near Stirling.