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@Graham Butcher He went on about colder weather & the battery and charging. What is the point about talking AC and getting in a car and a 'Bloody sauna'. You say AC. Well yes AC can be needed to stop cars steaming up, cars with passengers etc. I am not using AC in my MINI, and did not in my Corsa, and will not in various cars ICE or EV if they have good Heating / Demisting systems. EV,s are very different from ICE vehicles & there are so many types different vehicles as to how they need set. Single drivers in cars doing round trips are totally different from put people and an animal or 2 in a car and set off in wet, cold weather. 30 or 40 mins, steaming up cars, and the next times iced up glass inside.

@carefreego work in that kind of establishment, maybe you do. You can get very different outcomes by getting the employees on your side. They are not all acting like Gate Keepers and as though it comes out of their pockets. They are acting as your agent and will do the work as long as they are getting paid or their employers are. Plenty a Master Tech will support you when some non technical person at Skoda UK knock back a valid Warranty claim. Some person in Warranty who has no qualifications in mechanical engineering, body work / repairs or anything like.

@Graham Butcher that would likely be me that pointed it out in the comments. No point pointing out about driving in ECO. I have driven the 3 Niro on the different flavours. Did at least 500 miles in demos. No point on the motorway with cars with 200 ps sitting in ECO. Get a move on and on downslopes you are coasting. Especially with the EV. As so 21*oC on the heating. I would be cooked. Even in the coldest winter days 19 degrees is the max setting I ever have. In an EV you will see the difference of heating even in cars with hear pumps. The 3.2 mile kWh is pathetic as is the 2.88 miles a kWh in town from a Niro. But then that is how some might roll. Car reviewers and not that clued up. Never checking tyre pressures etc.

Because they are 6 speed. & see my edit on the EV cost. He says 34.5 kWh home charge, but has set off with a full battery which is 64 kWh. AS SAID IN THE VIDEO, "Completely topped up. Full tanks, full batteries". 34.5 kWh would have been just about 110 miles before he needed a charge, maybe sooner. These guys can not do basic man maths let alone EV man maths. Doh! 86 kWh for 278 miles. 3.2 miles per kWh 64 kWh @ 30 pence £19.20 22 kWh @ 75 pence £16.50 = £35.70. Then it happens that the electricity left in the car cost 75 pence a kWh. & When he did the town run he only got 2.88 mile a kWh. *It was £7.88 if it was the following day because he had paid 75 pence a kWh on the previous trip.*

EDIT. What surprises me is that Niro PHEV,s & Hybrids now have an 8 speed automatic / dual clutch gearbox and no longer a 6 speed, or is that an error from the What Car Journal. @Graham ButcherMaybe surprised you, good simple stuff as a comparison. but not a surprise to EV drivers who if paying out their own pocket will not use Instavolt. I have used Instavolt about 6 times in over 60,000 miles. Emergency only. Too expensive. So no the cost is not the same. Also ecause yes they are saying the 30 pence a kWh home charging tariff, not a off-peak tariff. Truth, not all have home charging available so might not be even getting the 11 kWh PHEV charge at 30 pence a kwh, or the BEV charged at 30 pence. Don't get an EV if you want to for economy if you are going to be rocking up to Rapid or Ultra Rapid chargers and paying over 50 pence a kWh & as much as 79 pence or even higher from your money. Even 45 pence a kWh can be too much compared to an efficient ICE vehicle. 100 kWh @ 45 pence a kWh is £45 & if you get 3.5 miles per kWh that is 350 miles. 50 mpg = 7 gallons. / 32 litre @ 150 pence a litre, = £48.00

EDIT. Strange. 280 mile round trip and he must have done 200 miles from the home charge which he says was 34.5 kWh. Well he got the car with charge in it. It is a 64 kWh usable battery. 64 x 3 miles a kWh = 192 miles. so he was getting better than that. Because he pays for 51.5 kWh @ Instavolt for the 80 miles, to have 150 miles for safety. 51.5 if you was getting just 3 miles a kWh is the 154.5 miles. (64 kWh @ 30 pence was / is £19.20 before ever going on a public charger, someone pays to charge it, even if it was KIA that supplied the car. ......................... That is the cost for you, me and another makes 3 who pays for their private vehicles and travel. For the business driver it is can be a very different mater of cash money from their or the companies pockets.

Welcome. Looks like you need to go to someone to find out what is wrong first. Has the AC ever been serviced? Is it just the fan speed that has stopped working?

A FOI request regarding the Energy Saving Trust is probably in order to find out how much each grant application costs as far as their administration or mis-management. & How many have applicants have to cancel applications because they can not complete the deal because of the time scale. Public money being spent here.

That is France & Italy then, if that matters to those going there. You need to look at other EU / European countries though if you are going to them. Plenty threads on that subject in Briskoda regarding Chains and the requirement to carry chains, and if you need to carry them then you need to be able to fit them if the Notices posted tell you to.

What a weight is getting lugged about with the PHEV,s.

I can cause a fight in an empty house. I like an argument as much as anyone, or a discussion or just here for the banter. The issue is Location location location and the Governments. Westminster / The UK Government as so out of touch it is unreal. Energy, Net Zero and all the rest, reneawables and much more. The Scottish Government is pretty crap, but there is no getting away with Scotland having resources per capita and the ability to generate electricity aplenty. Discussions about EV,s in England is also regional as far as infrastructure goes. The issue is not going away though. business and commerce and utilities need to be reducing emissions and reduce costs and even reduce road miles of products and staff and the pollution from that. There is nothing new on the horizon, just the vehicles the manufacturers have developed and think that they are going to manufacture in the next decade. Before a decade they need to start building the Euro 7 emission ICE vehicles.

Thank you, i will check it out and try to get on-board. This week i have had 20 kWh from Podpoint at Tesco for free gratis. Somehow with the MINI on the 7 kW post i get 2 kWh in between 5 & 10 minutes. Very strange but better than when i was plugging in every 15 minutes 2 or 3 times as i did with the Corsa when they stopped giving away free electricity and it went to 15 mins limit before being cut off. I could easily go and plug in and pay 44 pence a kWh for the sake of a voucher, but really the tariff is a rip-off. My Podpoint account shows i used my app / account Oct & November 2022 but then not again till June 2023 when i used up my credit. Between times i paid by card a few times at a PodPoint,s at LIDL. I used a PodPoint Rapid @ Tesco on the 25th August and it was too expensive. I had planned on using LIDL Podpoints when away later this year if they are still below 50 pence a kWh.

Many Multi Storey car parks will be not fit for purpose in this day and age other than for smaller / lighter vehicles. Demolishing and recycling the materials and buiding back on the same site or elsewhere might be simply clever considering the changes in communities, work, shopping etc. Times change. There are terrible ones around, and ones that have been mothballed for years before ever being developed. There are ones that are considered to be ionic. Ironic more like. Monstrosities and not fit for purpose. http://insider.co.uk/news/plans-europes-largest-ev-charging-28543029

No doubt there will be enthusiasts, speculators / traders and collectors putting in orders & down deposits. How many will ever see use offroad or in competition will be the question.

Ps. Thriving businesses have been clocking cars for decades, and now clocking up for the sake of cars getting tax breaks as demonstrators that have done over 3,000 miles. Or hiding milages on lease / hire cars. There is nothing new in the motor trade, taxi business or organised crime. The only people behind the curve are the police, the government and the general public. @PetrolDave I have had many mileage mistakes at MOT,s over the years. We are now entering a brave new world. As parts of the world want. Cars plugged in at tests. ECU read. Modifications , weights, efficiency monitored. It is EU and the UK government that has held back. They keep kicking the can down the road. There are government plans on the Modification of vehicles and prohibition going through the motions though.

Edit. Double posted. This is what can happen on mobile devices. And typos.

@Graham Butcherobviously we have adverts about VED, have ANPR, have vehicles getting clamped. Also have those driving about without and VED, mot,s or insurance. I thought you were on about some amazing new regime and system of policing the UK and the use of electricity by the wording you used. Funnily the Government Agencies say many things, and fail to deliver.

Manufacturers have a Fleet Average co2 figure to meet and are using partners with EV,s to achieve this figure. Legalised cheating. The EV Manufacturers & the ICE manufacturers would be stuffed if the EV,s registered were checked at 3 years to see their average kWh efficiency. There are too many inefficient EV,s about and manufacturers more concerned on selling them on 0-60 (62 mph) 100 kph etc. Big fat big battery cars that people are buying for there sportiness even though they are never taking them overseas. As it is the Manufacturers are on a bit of a fight back. German ones going to side with British. http://autocar.co.uk/car-news/electric-cars/industry-calls-ev-grants-build-demand-zev-mandate The UK Government backing JLR and a Battery factory is a pith take when you look at the weight of their EV,s and Hybrids the batteries are for going in.

All vehicles once over 3 years old have the mileage taken at a MOT so the cars registered keepers can be billed annually from then on at MOT time for Mileage covered between MOT,s, or when change of Registered Keeper happens and that mileage is given as it should be even now, but is not.

Welcome. If you read here you will see that the 5 year Cambelt replacement advice / recommendations / guidelines / schedule in the UK was dropped by VW Group from the 1st July 2023. Likely a salesperson might point that out to you when asking about a cars Service History & has the Cam Belt been replaced.

You can ask nicely & politely if they can have the person responsible for warranty claims and inspections to check what your issue with the car / component is and if it is a Warranty issue have it repaired. If you want to tell them to fix it and it is not a warranty item then be prepared to have to pay to have them do it if Skoda / Warranty provider is not. Fixing it yourself might be cheaper though.

No more manuals with the New Generation MINI Cooper. http://www.topgear.com/car-news/electric/rip-manual-mini-cooper-officially-dead Manual production had been suspended for a while anyway with the current MINI. http://autocar.co.uk/car-news/consumer/mini-stops-production-manual-cars-due-supply-problems http://discover.mini.co.uk/new/manual-transmission-cancellation

@Graham ButcherWhere are the DVLA saying there will be no hiding place, and hiding place from what? (Driver and licencing agency.) Is it not the DfT or HMRC or the UK Treasury that that make such statements. But what is it in reference to. PS Taxation on Vapes & especially disposable vapes is going to have to increase. In Scotland the Disposable ones might possibly be banned from sale. There is Lithium and copper wires just getting dumped willy nilly and ending up with fires at recycling centres because they are just in general waste and not into the system to be handled by hand at these centres because they were not disposed into the proper bins. The same issue exists with e-Scooters and many other products that are not being processed / recycled correctly at end of life. Having been dumped or disposed of. So many things become issues in no time and the waste disposal / recycling industry needs to act as do local authorities and governments. http://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-66432021 .............. This is how so many Business Users in Rep Mobiles be them ICE or EV use them. Family sized cars with no Family or Passengers in for work use, NSL in UK of 60 MPH and Max Speed limit of 70 mph. Some go far for work and some go hardly anyplace much of the time.

Nothing lost in asking.

I don't think the cars 3 years manufacturers warranty covers that up to now. Have you only spotted that now, almost 36 months on from first registration?