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@ Greggs / Starbucks Westhill Aberdeen. ESB 6 X 300 kW Dual Charger. 12 plugs. 74 pence a kWh. @ McDonalds, meters away, Ionity 12 350 kW chargers, 71 pence a kWh. @ Tesco PodPoint, Rapid 62 pence a kWh.

Well good Charging hubs are going up nicely around and about Aberdeen. Aberdeen By-Pass route to Airport / Inverness A96 route. Westhill has beside McD,s 12 Ionity 350 kW @ 71 pence, & 6 x dual Alpitronic 300 kW chargers (12 plugs on the ESB Network at Greggs 74 pence a kWh. PodPoint Rapid at Tesco 62 pence & not that far away the Park & Ride @ Kingswell 47 pence rapid and 4 or more hotels near with chargers installed or going in. including Holiday Inn. There are a selection pf places with AC chargers about as well. I did 55 mpg from the Turbo diesel, & then had the new old Style MINI Electric to drive for 50 miles and put it on an Ionity charger before handing it over to the new owner. I was getting 6 miles to the kWh on the OEM tyres which were at 45 PSI. 8.3 kWh to charge @ 71 pence was £5.90. Or would of been i was using a Payment card.

Diesel is a good choice. I am setting off to do 160 miles in a diesel. I will get 53 mpg on the route i am doing, 70 mph Average Speed cameras half of the distance. The thing is about the 800 mile trip in cold weather in an 03 V8 diesel Audi having put in 19.8 litres of fuel. (Top gear Magazine article said 19.7 gallons. Just for a matter of actuality.) Cold breath to show how cold.... Not letting heat out of the heater vents is for daffties. You really do not AC to stay warm do you, you can have 16 or 17 even 18*oC inside the cabin of a diesel and not be using fuel the can not be saved by going 1 mph slower. So if i do 400 miles in the BMW Estate i am driving today i would use say 9 gallon, less than the 50 mpg i can get. 41 litres. @ 160 pence a litre. £65.60. If i get 40 mpg like Jeremy Clarkson might, then 10 gallons. 45.5 litres. £73 .......................... If in a Tesla with it getting 4 miles a kWh then 100 kWh @50 pence a kWh. £50. 1 stop to Ultra Rapid charge. A Tesla having to use a BP Pulse @ 69 pence £69.00 @79 pence = £79. If the Tesla got 3.5 miles a kWh @ 55 pence charging Tesla Super Chargeing, for 400 miles. 114.3 kWh. £63. If i was in the MINI Electric i would need to spend 50 minutes each 100 miles to charge to do the next 100 miles.

@Graham Butcher the readers likely got the idea a long long time ago. You really are pointing out the obvious. Pages and pages of how EV,s are not as good as ICE vehicles, and cost more to run if needing to pay for public charging. This is a car forum, we know how many miles a gallon or litre cars can do and how bigger tanks hold more litres and efficient ones go further. The other day i was ready to stop charging before 50 minutes and went to help someone get charging and forgot about time, went back to stop charging and it was at 99%. Charger showed £17.20 & when i get home and check it is £21.20. I went to 54 minutes so charged £1 a minute extra. .......... 14 gallon tank not 19 gallons. 15 and an ickle gallon in. Heating, de-misting or AC used as needed. No radio on part of trip because you do not get it over The Lecht...

@Graham Butcher Rapid or Ultra Rapid DC charging all the time might well be an issue for people who BUY a ELECTRIC VEHICLE and will be owning it for many many years. But then if they own it and need to get the miles in between charging they might just do it. Those RENTING a car, Leasing,, driving a company / fleet car might not give a monkeys about the battery in 5 years or 10 years time. Those charging at home or charging with the car parked up will be charging AC and no more than at 22 kW, maybe 11 or 7 kw and might not need to be charging over 80% or even might charge to 90%. The 80% is about not RAPID or Ultra Rapid charging at a slower speed. If you have to charge to 100% then you have to charge to 100%. As to Hypermiling, and driving far with petrols or diesels then i can do that, have done that for decades. We never all got to be where we are being daft. Here it seems to be like people teaching Granny or Grandad to suck eggs (blow eggs.) having only watch videos on how to do it, @Graham Butcher it might be an idea to go drive an EV or 3 before trying to to educate anyone on them.

It is a very faulty car if it has a 76.7 kWh usable battery or even 71 kWh that can not do 2.5 miles a kWh, so 177.5 miles, even in the coldest of weather in Scotland or anyplace in the UK even if all motorway miles. Audi had their self in trouble 11 years ago over advertising and claims on MPG. Kia / Hyundai were caught out in Canada & North America and had to give Fuel Cards to owners for free gasoline. The WLTP and Electric cars is ridiculous.

@Graham Butcher I do wish you would stop repeating guff. If you have a 50 kWh usable battery and not charge above 80% or below 20% you are using 60 % of the battery and getting not very far. I have under 30kWh usable and get 100 miles, it can do the 114 miles EPA figure, *& not have the battery empty.* It could do the 145 mile WLTP i hear some mention & MINI and so others publish that is not the correct figure. That needs hypermiling or perfect circumstances, road and weather. (There is a difference simply from which size wheels tyres so trim level you have, as with almost all models of cars from manufacturers.) No way and would i only charge to 80% or not go below 20% and maybe not even get 60 miles even if i was doing 50 mile of a journey.

Plugging into the OBD port is not going to charge the High Voltage battery that needs a Type 2 socket into the cars charger type 2 port.

The cars might well run well run on 100 + maybe 102 ron Race / Track fuel. Especially if mapped to. Twice the price in the UK, but then no daft additives / detergents, you know every time what you are getting. In Italy near the factories or tracks there is Shell V-Power 102 ron available at pumps. (Which is where their advert / vid of a F1 car running on pump fuel came about. A bit sneaky really.) There used to be pre 2010 102 ron BP Ultimate available in a few filling stations in the UK near to tracks.

@Gerrycan i was typing the wrong numbers, but you have waste. But my numbers were my error. EDIT. I edited it to 7 hours. As PodPoint says '6 hours' & 6 miles an hour. But 6x6 is 34 miles which will be lovely. If you get 2.3 kW from the plug then good. You pay for more kWh than the battery size. My 32.6 kWh battery, 29.2 usable can with 10% battery left take over 31 kWh or more to charge. 15 hours with the 3 pin cable.

@TheWanderer are you talking about charging the 12v battery that too many have issues with going flat. As to the cable from a 3 pin plug charging the 13 kWh battery, 11.7 kWh usable, is it charging at much more the 2.3 kWh max (10 amps max set) so about 7 hours empty to full. 6 miles in an hour charging. 7 x 6 is 31 miles.

@Warrior193 With 1.4 TSI (& they do not have ACT) they get the 8 speed. Not with 2.0 litres.

A rainy & misty warm May Holiday.

Quite an issue for a fair number of them pre timing chain and tensioner upgrade in 2011.

@lol-lol I know you do. But then it very much depends on the shifter the car has, and then you are happy doing that, where as i have never ever ran Autos in neutral.

@HenryNZ Did you get a vRS with a DQ381 DSG?

Regen is exactly like 'Engine Braking' in far as retarding your speed into corners. Setting up a car for corners. Just by lifting off the accelerator with the BEV though as he said. Depending on which there might be just a couple of levels of regen retardation (same ax braking without the brakes being used) Some vehicles with flappy padels for the level of regen are very much like flappy paddles and an automatic and engines that can provide 'Engine braking'. Manuals different. The reason i am so aware is that for decades with only one foot i very very seldom use a brake pedal in 2 pedal cars, even with very spirited driving. BEV,s are easy, but too much regen like with the MINI electric even on the lightest setting is a PITA because it is not with a shifter or paddles it is a toggle switch and high or low regen and coasting is not possible.

Welcome. Does it get driven a few times a week or more and how many miles? Have the dealership deal with it if the battery requires replacing, they are your agent and the Warranty Providers, Skoda Assist are not replacing and coding the battery if that is what is required. Talk with the Service Manager and the Master Technician (both of them there at the same time.) not just the Service Desk Receptionist or a Salesperson.

Is it not Rear parking sensors and Autobraking that is happening, like when you reverse towards, fences, bushes, walls etc? If turn off 'Autohold' & keep it in R not N is no good then i have no idea. . If it is Hill Hold Assist that is the issue that is different, but i doubt it is that when reversing downhill.

So Stirling Park and ride and card not Authorised. Tried 2 CPS accounts. Tried cards and app. Tried 3 chargers while phone was ringing. Guy starts off asking email address or address,s. Names and address,s. I told him as earlier take the card number and charger and remotely start it. He says the account is closed because no STRIPE completed. I told him check charging session earlier, earlier this week and the errors on the money taken already. He apologised and started the charger. Anyone that has to put up with this nonsense should rightly be pithed off. Personally I am still quids in from their errors over the years that have gone my way. PS. Charging at 49kW so that is ok. Not busy here. Maybe to do with the tariff now. PPS 51kW.

Messages are not mixed. Government taking the pith. It is what it is. Do not cry over others spilt milk. They are going to take the pith out of those using liquid fuel as well. Eventually. Clean air for London and all that. Take public transport.

5.30 am I was at the charger within walking distance for me. Not far. Rapid broken. My card denied access to what is supposedly a 22 kW AC. I have had 11 kW from it. 11 x 11 being 22. Denied access with phone app. Got through to Broughty Ferry in 2 minutes even though answer machine says very busy etc. So the young Dundee guy who has helped me many times get chargers started took card and charger number and started charge. I was @40 % and car says 8.00 am til at 100%. This is to get less than 20kWh. Ok though. We dealt with broken charger next to it. Never reported. I reported twice this weekend. We dealt with him passing on to Admin my account issue. Nice lad. Near end of shift. CPS / SWARCO can be nice. But patience is required in Scotland with CPpS chargers. If full at 8.00 I might only need one charge and 180 miles might be only 3 1/2 hours to cover. But it could be 4. Or more. Depends on next charge stop.

That would be because not a single owner that has reported issues has one near or over 80,000 miles covered. Some are under a year old. Many in manufacturers warranty. Ones have been having faults in Australia and New Zealand that have posted on here and with different models of Skoda. The issue is in models in other VW Brands. Vorsprung Dutch Technik. Eventually the motoring press will ask VW group WTF are you doing?

We know who thought it a cunning stunt to require the ID for voting. Then the mop head Wally that was in power when it was introduced turned up without ID. Stunning unct.