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The car was engineered to do what it is doing. No idea about the Mild Hybrids but is the engine still running and just the DSG disengaging and in coasting mode. I expect that the battery is getting generation even when the car is coasting yet no braking being done. There are almost certainly Youtube vids showing what is going on, maybe even from VW.

It looks like Angus Council will set the EV Charging tariff at 55 pence a kWh for 7, 22 or 50 kW chargers. 32 kWh then will cost me £17.60. If me or anyone was to get 4 miles a kWh that would be 128 miles. (4.5 miles a kWh, 144 miles.) Tonight locally diesel is 143.7 pence a litre, £6.53 a gallon. 2 1/2 gallons £16.32. Petrol is at 132.7 a litre, £6.03 a gallon, 3 gallons £18.09. *Running a PHEV and putting in 13 kWh would be £7.15 on a Angus Council Charger and you might get 30 miles on EV running. * There seems little reason for someone paying for their own charging to run an EV or PHEV in Angus when they need to public charge. Certainly no financial reason.

Different renewables from different wind farms. That is Offshore, these are onshore generated. The Pylons are from the already big and getting bigger substation at Kintore north of Aberdeen and going to Tealing north of Dundee via the new one not yet approved in the Mearns. There are other feeder Supstations taking in onshore to the West (Perthshire & Angus via Alyth & Coupar Angus) and from Offshore of Angus / Fife, these feed to Tealing, then off south the valuable product heads to where it can be cheaper to consume than near where it is generated. Re-routed now around Forfar. But then it was just about over the route of the Forties Pipeline on the edge of Forfar. Imagine if the pipeline was to go t!ts up and take out the power lines. Obviously someone thought of that. (The T In the Park Music Festival was supposedly moved from Fife because the pipeline was next to the site, there must be a hazard...)

@lol-lol InstaVolt Forfar. £0.85 a kWh. Costa Coffee Monifieth. £0.85 60-160 kWh. Forbes of Kingennie. £0.54 for 22 kW charging. It is not cheap. Angus Council is still 41 pence on any charge speed and likely to be going up, not checked. EDIT. This will be passed. 30% increase. Plenty STOP THE PYLON PROTESTERS about. Angus Council should be negotiating for cheaper electricity from the Grid & approving pylons but then they are going up anyway. The Battery Farm and Solar Farm applications should go through on the nod for the community not just EV drivers, but the council & the NHS are the people that have a large fleet of EV,s in Angus.

Montrose was not too bad for getting 50kW Rapid charging & Tesco or Lidl, or CPS / Angus Council chargers when working but the 105 kW charger at the Tool Station 'FOR:EV' (90 pence a kWh. WTF) or the EG Garage 150 kW will be a help to many. 'evpoint' 65 pence a kWh i think. Electroverse card / Octopus maybe cheaper, no idea sorry. Especially useful because once into Aberdeenshire it is pathetic at Stonehaven.

Unfortunates maybe. I would like to hear the reasons some give. Faulty fuel gauge and not familiar with the vehicles sounds OK. Idiot might be a bit strong as could be muppets. Just a Silly Billy, 'not the full shilling' , 'a sandwich short of a picnic,' Risking it for a biscuit or to save a few pence a litre to get to a cheaper place might be common. PS. I was driving a mate and towing a trailer to go collect a car. Meant to stop in Aberdeen to fill up with him paying, forgot as catching up on news. 30 miles north having passed a filling station by 1 mile the car spluttered and i was out of petrol. Dangerous bit of road uphill and he went with the empty can from the boot to a couple of houses, one with a gyro copter and beach buggy outside but no luck. So thumb out and he went and got a gallon and got a lift back to me. That was about 4 years ago, the time before that i just got to the pumps & that was 35 years ago taking a friend and horsebox trailer to get a horse and once the horse was loaded and heading south on the A9 i was getting half the MPG and Blair Atholl filling station was closed and it turned out she had no money with her and in Pitlochry they took my Family Allowance book as security and let me fill the tank. EDIT.

Glen Doll 3rd March. Great the disabled toilet at the Ranger / visitor centre is open 24 hours. (Heated to stop pipes freezing as best they can, sceptic tank. Toilets only likely to be closed in summer if a draught. A Dry closet being the answer to that one.) No EV charging there yet which is a shame as some more solar panels and battery storage would be simply clever for this and the building.

Welcome. ? Is it not time to go Electric for your Taxi, is there not Grants available for York? (Tesla Model 3 or if an Estate a MG5 Long Range.) Back when TDI,s had a DQ250 DSG (6 speed wet clutch Oil changes every 40,000 miles) then as long as having a car with a DPF being used as a taxi might not be an issue the DSG was fine. Now with a 2.0 TSI or TDI it will be a 7 Speed Wet Clutch DSG so a DQ381 and they might be troublesome. (Time will tell but early to recent ones are having problems.) If it is a 1.5 TSI ACT engine it is a DQ200 DSG & really it might need people using those as taxi,s that need to comment. Personally i would say no way. A Superb Mk3 iV is a PHEV with a 1.4 TSI engine and a DQ400-e DSG. So Plug in Hybrid, But the Engine Oil changes are Fixed Servicing so Oil & Filter changes every 9,600 miles or 12 months. The DSG is a 6 speed Wet Clutch & oil changes every 40,000 miles. That should be all good. PS No idea what is coming as far as the Mk 4 Superb. MY25.

There is still a Tory Government 11 years on and the seemingly are Pro-EV,s so by now at least for England they should have everything clear to understand between Land Owners, Lease holders, Council,s / planning departments, Insurers and HMRC.

@JohnArm Even for Aberdeen Solid Grey cars is hardly the latest rage. NHS Beige very much is among drivers of some very expensive cars.

You have a deterrent, it is a Skoda Scala. They might steal the wheels. Does anyone actually steal a newer Skoda? Plenty early Fabia, Octavia maybe.

Ooop North there are Farmers, Fishermen and other business people registered as energy companies which is nice. Many a single or multiple wind turbine or just solar, even hydro power and the tax man / general public helps it all happen. Paid to have a wind turbine on their land and even get grants for EV chargers. There are those with cars in garages and using as a Battery Pack, there are more and more building off grid properties or renovating, sometimes in the pretence they are Holiday Homes. Nissan Leafs that could be used as storage were at a premium and now their daily or weekend cars can be a battery. None of it is complicated, people have been doing it for years pre BEV,s.

The social divide and the Worker getting assistance to run cars and private individuals. I am lucky as in have a Motability Lease, so around £10 a day to have a large choice of vehicles on lease. Others are in my position. But, not all will have a house where there can be charging, if there is maybe no smart meter or off peak tariffs, or Wall Charger, or Octopus incentives. Real world is BEV and maybe normal tariff at property if you use a 3 pin plug, or public AC charging slower or Rapid Faster. Real world might be unless there are going to be financial savings why run a BEV unless you actually like doing so. I like doing so, i do not mind sitting waiting to charge. I do mind ignorant people that where money does not matter to them they hog chargers, care not about £10 or even £30 overstay charges. Or even get to block bays and time so that they are not charging but getting away blocking / locked into the charger. It is very much a p!ss take and a have and have nots. I see people in big battery cars getting 40 minutes @ 35 pence a kWh and a £1 a minute over and they leave the car until at 100% as they NEED the FULL Battery in their big heavy / Large car they are travelling alone in. Company is paying, their company or someone else's.

Best get better tyres then, or better cars or maybe just drive to the conditions.

^^^ Are you going to the 1/4 mile strip or doing Grand ***** starts often? Lots seem to live in parallel universes where great driving roads and corners can be taken at high speeds and no sheep, cyclists, walkers or others around the bend or coming the same way doing the same.

I am not sensible. because i have been paying crazy prices for public charging regularly now and also paying nothing at other locations and this is working out about the same as around 50 mpg in a diesel. My new home tariff should for £7.70 or so take me 100-125 miles. Local Council Tariff while still @ 41 pence a kWh will be just under double the price. Then when we get to 69, 78, or 89 pence a kWh it is crazy.

There are EV Charging Hubs in Scotland not yet completed or open that were EU Funded. There are cheeky barsteward councils that not only sat years on the money but where EV Charging hubs funded by the EU are open they removed the signage saying where the money came from. 2020. No signs now though to mention funding. Many chargers were broken when i was there earlier. No signage locally to direct you to here or on the A90 which is less than 200 meters away to get here.

@Reeky Just read your update. So bettering what you have been driving is going to cost you if modding a Mk2 Fabia.

Are you doing the work? Not difficult converting a Mk2 Fabia estate and putting in a 2.0 litre engine for the likes of @thomasaspin Yes you will be better off just going and buying an already quicker car / estate that handles well and remap that if you must. You do not need to go big and lardy if all you are wanting is 200 bhp ot so. (Just buy a bit bigger / heavier 2.0TDI SEAT, Skoda, Audi or VW Estate maybe and then remap that. ) Or a Volvo / Ford etc FOCUS ST / estate/ diesel. *MINI Clubman John Cooper Works AWD.* But if you are doing a Mk2 Fabia, Look in the Fabia Project Section. There are fast Mk2 Fabia TDI,s there. Also in the Yeti Section for tuned TDI,s or the Ultimate Yeti, TTRS powered. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/386765-16cr-tdi-175-bhp-345-nm-big-smiles http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/276524-big-turbo-mk2-tdi-vrs-rep-070117-update http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/437057-amds-2-litre-304bhp-162mph-fabia-monte-carlo-tdi-6-speed-conversion

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Is that with the shifter in D and the gears shifting down automatically and not you doing manual downshifts?

Really. I take it that was the Contractors that do Customer Services for Skoda / VW group who seem to give any old answer. There are plenty threads here were members received written replies on the Guidance, recommendations or schedules on TSI cam belt changes that they issued end of June last year.

Actually you can reset some DSG,s with a simple pedal hold reset. Just from it being used in a certain way for a while by other drivers. DQ200,s that id of different years, and engines and ECU mapping. Like driving using a dynamic pedal action and getting quicker responses on part accelerator. Not a myth, just not applicable with all DSG,s. Not just a made up thing or a case of someone's imagination.

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@J.R. the person with the post about the BP top up was doing it in a MK3 Fabia. My experience was never with MK3,s. It was 70,000 miles or so of MK2 Fabia vRS and brimming and venting those to get as much super unleaded in before trips into regions north of Inverness where getting 99 Ron was and is not always readily available. So I might well be comparing apples and pears. But then I have run plenty other VW group vehicles and brim them and like to see how much fuel I can get in and range I have and hyperming or comparing using Coasting mode or other uses. Always DSG s .