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@Graham ButcherPodPoint might be 28 pence for 7 kW someplaces, Tesco have Podpoint at 44 pence 7 kW chargers, 49 pence 22 kW & 62 pence on 50 kW and that can change at locations. Charge Place Scotland is not FREE, there are some of the 32 council areas still free. Rapid Charging , 50 kW can be from 35 pence to 70 pence. Wallyford , East Lothian council is 88 pence a kWh peak time 4 pm - 8pm. 50-150 kW charger. Edinburgh City Council is 55 pence a kWh 50 kW chargers.

Yes.

I would be 50 pence in Dundee till 16.00 & 61 pence 16.00 - 20.00 54 pence in Aviemore or 61 pence same times.

It does not matter if new ICE cars and vans were not to be first registered from 2030 or 2035 the UK Government and politicians know the Social Divide will exist and not just because more than half EV drivers in the UK will not be able to charge their EV car or Van at their home or workplace. EV,s are always going to be problematic for many drivers for their use or affordability and EV charging is going to be expensive any which way things go. That is my 'Truth of EV,s' So if people do not want one up to maybe 2040 and can get away with sticking with an ICE vehicle it seems that is what they will just have to do.

@Sam91 Did you check each of the Pre-gapped plugs were gapped correctly and had not been knocked and are you sure you got the plugs in without knocking one and closing the gap a bit? Recheck the Coil is seated well on the plug.

Get a TESLA until there are cheaper choices to charge. But there are cheaper choices. Business users are swapping, because it is different for them, there are the savings in Tax, the Grants for Goods Vehicles, & that is what matters most because the majority of mile munchers and run about town vehicles in the UK are BUSINESS Users. Not private vehicles.

Get on your bike! You talk some right sh!te. That is how it is so like it or lump it. You have lumped it. The only thing about cold weather that matters to me is some chargers that are hopeless when the ambient temp is well below freezing, i never give a 2nd thought to the battery temp when driving or arriving at a charger. I sit in the car and have the heater on when charging. The figures are in my head for efficiency same as when driving an ICE. I am not filming for Youtube just taking pics occasionally for my own records and to post on here. Tomorrow i will have the one card i could use the One that came from Mobility. But i will not. I will use a Credit Card to tap the chargers i want to start and pay then and there. I will use the CPS card to put the charge on my account, or charge free, or put on my account but if there is some error not pay. PS I almost forgot i might charge at a BP Pulse charger to use my £9 a month credit i am getting for 5 months. Today at this time in Dundee at the Tesla Supercharger as a Non-Tesla Driver i would be paying 50 pence a kWh.

Is it Ground Hog day? There is a big thread here, there are loads of other threads. Asking the same question and expecting different answers is fair enough because there are different answers. It is a Post Code Lottery in the UK as far as Charging Infrastructure but Public Charging in September 2023 goes from £0.00 to £1.00. Discount the free & 7 kW Fast charging, so you are going from about 30 pence to £1.00 a kWh for 50, 100, 100 + Rapid to Ultra Rapid charging. ............... This has already appeared on here. But here we go again. (Nobody is charging £4 a kWh) *** Where he sees or smells these SMELL FILLING STATIONS i have no idea, MFG or BP Pulse ones or any others. Is he hanging about the HGV pumps? Not that they are smelly these days of for many a year now IME.***

Skoda / VW recommendations, guidelines, maybe even specification or a schedule shows them to be changed at 4 years / 40,000 miles. Quite a good idea, they certainly should be checked and with a 1.5 TSI ACT i would be making sure they were and if removing to check replace them. Use your registration number on many of the Sites that sell Spark Plugs to see which you require. Your local Motor Factor will sell you the correct ones. ? Are you changing them yourself. Best have an Ignition Coil removal tool. http://www.opieoils.co.uk

@Graham ButcherI thought in my last post i set out for you exactly what it is about with a EV of any size. There are the circumstances of the driver / owner and the vehicle. The cost to charge range is there for you in the post. Free charging is not gone, it might be for many but in Scotland there are still a few Councils with no Tariff to use their chargers. It might not be for much longer but for 2 years these councils have been saying that. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/512925-skoda-enyaq-iv-60-reflections-after-1-year-of-ownership

@Graham Butcher Well what are you talking, about in the UK, 7 kW public charging from anything like 20 pence to 44 pence a kWh, or Rapid Charging from 30 to 50 pence or as much as 80 pence a kWh? Location location location and are you paying a subscription, driving a Tesla and Supercharging, or a Porsche or maybe a Skoda with a discounted tariff and less than 30 pence a kWh. Private individuals not claiming back VAT. Then we have business users and cars that the BIK makes all the difference and what ever charging structure they use.

3,000 miles getting 3.7 miles a kWh is 811 kWh of electricity. @ a home tariff of 30 pence a kWh then that is £243.30. 3,000 getting 45 mpg is 67 gallons. @ £7.50 a gallon £500.

@J.R.Today if i charged at home regular tariff it is 30 pence a kWh, from the 1st October 28 pence a kWh. This month i have charged over 81 kWh for Free on public chargers & Tesco (7kW) and another 30 kWh at CPS chargers (50 kW) That 111 kWh getting 4 miles a kWh is good for 444 miles. In the next 2 weeks i will do about 800 miles. 200 miles will cost me 55 pence a kWh & another 200 will be @ 35 pence a kWh, and 400 will be Free charging on CPS chargers.

@Graham ButcherFIAT just another of the brands owned by Stallantis now. Off how people roll out the guff of old about manufacturers. It just happens that Stellantis needs to get on with vehicles that are EV ground up builds.

Bump for those with any interest in EV Commercials. Maybe Towing on and offroad. @Stonekeeperthere are threads on most subjects covering EV,s. Even e-Bikes /Scooters in the Biker section.

This was a post / thread in the Kodaiq section last week. I know it is a Kodiaq and a vRS you might think they will be much cheaper for a Fabia. Well ask the Service Desk receptionist, likely they know just crazy prices much like this.

They are all relevant even though light commercials. People have landed themselves with the MPV versions and some are hopeless for journeys. Then the commercials can be Crew Busses and will be converted to Campers etc. So there will be private / family or individuals as well as companies owning or driving them.

The truth of Stallantis is that Autocar, Auto Express, Car Wow or who ever need to get these vehicles out and run a variety of them and see how far they actually go on the batteries they had or the slightly larger ones an with an ickle more powerful settings of the motors. Ask the question why the Citroen C4 does better than the sister models or brands. They are over priced IMO and the efficiency is crap. Sadly people are getting landed with them by employers getting great deals to just take and run them.

Aaa the SMMT. Smoke and mirrors and statistics and fuddle not fiddle. They are never going to say that the Manufacturers are First Registering any and every EV that they can and getting them out there. Hire cars, cheap lease deals, to fleets etc etc. There are ones in demand and there are lots that are going to be very low use used cars. It is just what the manufacturers have always done to make models not look like flops or to have them in the Top 5 SOLD in a quarter, 6 months etc. Vauxhall, Ford, VW Group, especially SEAT, but VW & Skoda as well. Pre-reg.

@wyx087I will look see but really most of my research has been through the many educational video,s from MINI and others that cover really almost everything. I have never seen a car with Brakes looking so clean and fresh or had a new one that did after 6 weeks or so. I am using it as a dog transporter because my young lads BMW brakes are so bad and the control arms that they will need dealt with after my holiday so not taking it away. That will be a grand and a half in parts.

I cleared out my Picnic and tool box, deck chairs and other stuff that has been filling the rear as it is to be a Dog transporter for 10 days. So just enough room for a Hungarian Vizsla & her grub etc once she curls up.

That is not a problem. Have you actually looked at your car and the sump yet?

It is very common at a service that your tyre pressures are messed with / reset by someone who does not know how your car is used or loaded and you are not told. Always check tyre pressures and reset if needed after a service, tyre fitting or anyone else touching your car and reset the tyre pressures. (Barstewards let my All Season tyres down to a crazy low pressure on my last car at a service before hand back, i had just set them the day before it went in.) Always check the Oil level after a service and the coolant level. Never assume the correct quantity is in, they can underfill or overfill the oil and with coolant often top up to MAX and then it ends up resetting it,s own level where it eas before they touched it.

Almost certainly you will be quoted and expected to pay a ridiculous price at a Main Dealers to have them replace your brake pads. Just call where is near to you and ask. Are you sure you need new pads, and have you had the brake fluid changed at 3 years old? Is there an Independent garage near that can do them?

Yes you can do that if you have a way of doing that, but since it is of Variable / Flexible now i do not think you can do it from the available reset in the car so you need a device or someone with one. Someone will be along to tell you how.