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@Graham Butcher Dundee Councils fleet of vans does very well, bin lorries, street sweepers as well. The thing is if you climb hills you then have to descend hills. So Regen. It's just common sense really. Their fleet was 233 electric vehicles according to their website when I looked. Which council in the UK had vans for the maintenance teams that found climbing hills and issue for range? Back with the early Nissan and Renault electric vans going 90 miles was an issue even where not hilly. I knew maintenance persons that could not carry much and did not carry passengers, and were allowed 3 hours in a shift for charging.

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It is not illegal to not wear a seatbelt on private land and roads like a logging road. That is not the Kings Highway and open to the public. These roads in Scotland are not GREEN LANES as there are in England. @Graham Butcher Point of the Trucking vid. Stay calm and carry on. Your country needs you. We have had in the threads already the vids on the Electric Trucks being trialled in Scotland where the journeys / locations suit them. So that guy and their trucks are doing a similar thing but where there is not the infrastructure or where they are forced to do anything different from how they have always done things. So what that is is just like you, run your diesel, get on with sitting about or driving and fill with diesel, petrol lpg or what ever when ever. DeJavu.

Caravan Sites in Scotland have EV charging at ridiculously high prices according to people i meet getting cheaper charging on Council Chargers away from where they are staying. (Maybe not all though.)

I will have 2 times 40 minutes charging time tomorrow, getting 25 kW of charging free at an Osprey charger as a gift from Eon Next. By the time i stop, get the charger working, maybe take some pictures and post on here or make a phone call or 3 it is time to go. Chargers that play up are a PITA but that is usually just ones were a CPS RFID card or app is used to start them, or BP Pulse ones that i have now stopped even going to. Yet to charge the car to 100% yet but will after midnight at 7 pence a kW, so a cheap 250 miles, 100 miles from my home tariff, then a Free charge after that @ 38 pence a kWh to 100% tomorrow. Then in the following days charges to full at 31 pence & 59 pence a kWh before i will be home to charge again. (not been able to get the cars Delayed charge starting at 12am yet and i have had to start the charging from the phone App remotely, i will see if it works tonight. Tried and tried and tried again just like the spider and Robert the Bruce.)

^^^ So do not get an EV, simples. Do not even stress about getting an EV, they are not for you. Time can be spent earning money / working for yourself or others and not going for meals or drinks. The saving on running an EV for business use can more than pay for time stopped charging even if the employee has a good salary. Maybe they make more than enough while not driving to make a couple of hours in the day not travelling worth while. The Time to refuel vehicles that can Ultra Rapid charge is not that long. Hence so many Tesla used for business use and Tesla charging. You keep missing that many reps or commercial travellers do some work while charging. The future for Log Hauling Trucks in the UK is already happening, and the Diesel / Electric thing as well. Different continents and different demands. In the UK the companies contracted are expected by the companies they work for to be reducing emissions.

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Surely / Shirley, the Stallantis cars did not and do not have enough regen for one pedal driving, as with some others. I can not turn off regen in the MINI but i have 2 choices and one gives less regen, but the neither allow coasting. Having to keep touch the accelerator to keep moving all the time because there is some regen and the car would slow is a PITA as far as i am concerned because the only way not to have to be pressing the accelerator is if in Cruise Control. Some cars have various levels of Regen you can choose while driving, paddles or a switch, some might have 2 levels. PHEV,s might have no choice of regen, do almost no slowing via engine or motor and have no gear selector, regen is by the brakes and a PITA if you are someone that likes coasting and not braking but uses engine braking. This is the issue really, if you are not trying or driving cars then you only know what others say and many Motoring Journalist only drive a car as handed over for a few hours. Long term reviews are different, but then still maybe not the same as a driver that keeps a car they buy and gets to know the settings. Getting a Demonstrator / Media car with Settings can be a PITA, but if you can choose 'Guest' then maybe the previous or regular drivers settings for heated seats and steering wheel to come on every time the a starts and the temp is 4 degrees or below, and the heating will not automatically go to 22 Degrees C with a high fan speed. These MINI Countryman hybrid central control buttons are joke. The tiny physical buttons that there are, no idea why not just chunkier and better marked, then the crap that shows on the screen and might well require a driver to have Bi or Varifocal glasses, and a long arm or finger. The GoKart Mode Screen was about as clear for info as any of them.

Those that have had an EV, and then another and maybe yet another surely want ones or are forced to have by employers. @domhnallIs on his 3rd EV, & has driven plenty, and others here have had 2 or 3, or have more than 1 now. Those that have had them and get shot and want away from them will have a story worth hearing. I am cramming up now on a 5 door 2023 MINI Petrol Auto ready to get one in 2026. (Used last generation, not a 2024 / 25 car.) Being up on the standard fitments and options i want to have a Keeper with the Old Tech i like, & the interior & controls i like. Maybe there will be an EV that takes my fancy by then, possibly the New Smaller Cupra EV, or i will buy a Mini Electric from 2023 as should be cheap as chips. I will start shopping a few months before the current car is due to be handed back. Probably not extend the lease by much as finance on a used one will be less even paying for insurance and maintenance etc. But Que Sera Sera. There is a very troubled world happening now and in the next 2 years. Can get knocked over tomorrow just crossing a road by a silent vehicle, but probably not by a diesel.

@Graham Butcher The guy in the video said about most Tesla being AWD. But then there was he comment on EV,s and 1 pedal driving. Not all or nearly all Tesla are AWD and many EV,s are not One Pedal Driving, there are ones that have it, or that the setting can allow the driver to one pedal drive. Personally Tesla do not interest me, or many of the advanced EV,s with what ever controls and lack of physical controls, but that applies also to ICE / Hybrid ICE vehicles. Cars designed and with systems ad placements that suit Left Hand Drive and not Right Hand Drive. That has been the case for decades though with Automatic Vehicles, as in where the symbols are next to the gear shifter, which side the hand brake or indicators are etc. Hybrid Ford Vans for Global / EU, right hand drive and Charging Port or Fuel Filler at drivers door side.

@Krisb23 Welcome to the forum. Did you decide that it was best to have the DQ381 DSG serviced early @ 53,000 miles and not wait until 80,000 miles 128,000 km? Best get the car back to who did the service after speaking to the boss and telling them of the issues and finding out if the service was correctly done.

Great stuff. (& available with AWD. ) PHEV,s are going to make more sense for many compared to a Electric Van.

@Graham Butcher EV Haters is the term most often used by you in posts is it not. Most or all members here with an EV have had ICE vehicles or still have or will have.. Many like me think they as in what you talk about as EV Hater YT Vloggers actually take a stance or act as they are and use titles for videos and it is Click Bait. They are being sometimes making comments that are exaggerations on various points and often about stuff totally irrelevant to actualities. *They say something random and it requires comments from others to point out the inaccuracy or lack of being factual.* The thing with the Charging Infrastructure is that what ever the issues are some, many even that have no issues. They charge at home or work and use the public charging structure that suits them. Handy Tesla, Porsche, Ionity chargers and others. Social divide, have a charger or have not a charger, have the car for company / business use and pay for their own miles driven or not. Social, domestic, pleasure and pay for your own car and driving. Location location location, then class of car. Thousands in this country go to work and collect the car from their employers fleet. Nurses, Carers, Social Workers, Council Employees, Emergency Services / fire / police / ambulance etc etc. The car and even the charging is maybe none of their concern other than do their shift and drive what they are provided with, if they need to plug in during the shift or at the end then that is what they do. PS. 'Most of the Tesla are Four Wheel Drive Now'. Silly Comment. Like many silly comments in the Video. The Best Selling Tesla Y is not really an example of the tech in many EV,s, it is TESLA Tech and controls. The Drive in the Audi and selecting the driving mode took a bit of p!thing about and looking between the seats and a screen, much like i-drive with BMW,s, unless you are very familiar with the car and you can do it naturally, and a heads up display shows your choices.

So a 1.2 TSI with a DQ200 DSG. A mod can maybe move this thread to the Yeti section.

@superbskodafan Dunlop M+S, are they 3PMSF marked? Snowflake Symbol with 3 peaks in the background. maybe Dunlop SP WinterSport.

^^^ Great stuff. Where is the Fuel Filler? Being a PHEV and not a BEV. But then again Ford will have had to run mules. It will obviously not be ones Tesla have as delivery vans. Or could they be?

Somebody will run these.

My bad, i thought there was a Greenline 1.6 TDI DSG.

Or 1.6 TDI,s. The Yeti never got 7 speed wet clutch DSG,s so has to be a DQ200 DSG.

Lets not forget TESLA Super Chargers and the cost to charge, or Porsche Charging / Ionity or those paying 1/2 the price of Public Charging he mentions. Subscriptions / discounts etc, and nothing like 80 pence plus. Like many with the expensive EV,s might well use.

@Graham Butcher I was genuinely interested and curious as to what others are comfortable as a temperature when driving. I have my home set at no more than 18 degrees C, and have always set any vehicles interior temp low. Or at the temp outside if that is around 15-18 degrees C. Nothing to do with trying to get efficiency. & if i use AC to cool a vehicles interior or to keep it drier because necessary then that is until comfortable or the no steaming up, and not if a hopeless AC system and blasting air from the wrong direction and getting a cold shoulder or the likes.

@somean49 What is 'premium oil' ? & What is the other stuff offered? Does it come from some dodgy backstreet Engine Oil producer? The engine just need oil to VW spec 502 00 for fixed oil change regimes, 5w 40 FS. or VW 504 00 / 507 00 is going with Variable / Flexible Oil & Filter servicing intervals. Usually 5w 30 FS III (Long Life.)

It was i thought a simple question asked on what people choose their setting for the interior. Nothing to do with how far a liquid fuel car or an EV can go. ( I think increasing the temperature request in Summer so that the AC is not having to work hard might mean better efficiency with an ICE or EV. )