Citigo Electric

[Ootohere]

Once there are enough available and they are on the Motability List in the UK Motability will be having enough customers wanting them to buy them & SEAT Mii electrics.  They are the biggest Group buyer in the UK.

There will be waiting lists.  As it is there are enough leasing Smart, BMW, Renault & Hyundai EV's.

A £500 to £1,000 advanced payment and no fuel costs or just a few pence a mile on electric will appeal.

 

These leased cars will be at auction 3 years later or some even sooner and then on forecourts.

http://pod-point.com/guides/driver/motability-grant-electric-cars

 

[Emil]

If you order Mii Electric now here in Finland you might get it in February 2021. So even though Ronn doesn't want one, some of us surely wants it. 😄

[skoda1982]

skoda uk has stopped advertising new Citygo to order (petrol) taken off the website 

[Emil]

Nice Mii review. 

 

 

[Luckypants]

He keeps saying how they've made compromises to keep the price down, no chassis refresh, halogen headlamps etc. etc. So how the hell do they justify the price at £10k more than a similar spec. ICE model? How the hell do they justify a UK price of £23200 when Spanish price is €18k? 

 

Totally ****ed off at the rip off pricing. 

 

Looks like I'm keeping our ICE Citigo until prices come down to sensible levels. That £10k price hike will buy me a lot of petrol!!!!

Edited 17 November, 2019 by Luckypants

[Ootohere]

They priced in the UK on the fact that it is £19,300 that might be paid with the Government Grant (tax payers money.), or not if the lease companies get a nice wee discount.

 

A 6 Year interest free loan in Scotland and that is £3,217 a year (£62 a week) for the 6 years and the car will be worth money in 6 years time.

 

 

In Jan 2014 a VW e-UP! was £22.242

 

 

Edited 17 November, 2019 by Roottootemoot

[Emil]

Battery is quite expensive. Some say VW does not get any profit selling these little ev sisters. I don't know about that but they are forced to do something to get co2 figures down. That is probably why they don't offer petrol engines anymore in Europe. 

[Ronn]

I predict the Citigo EV will bomb in the UK. 

It will go down like a lead balloon. 

 

The styling is now very dated & the spec very poor. 

And oh that inflated price? 

My G*d. 

 

It will only appeal to a few loyal, cash rich pensioners in God's Waiting Room. 

 

[Luckypants]

Still sucks. What hope for mass adoption of EVs at these prices?

[Ronn]

This latest VW EV offering under the Skoda badge will get a lot of completion in the market place. 

It seems to me that VW have rushed these EV City Cars out (updated VW E-Up, Skoda EV Citigo & Seat EV Mii) to gain a head start on the other manufactures that they know are working on similar City Car EV projects. 

VW have done the absolute minimum required to their City Car range to turn them into EV. 

They must think the car buying public are barmy to fall for this prank. 

 

If I buy an EV City Car, I want it to have new head turning looks, a top spec, 200+ miles between charges & at a price that I can afford even if its more than the petrol equivalents. 

(I expect to pay more for it but I ain't going to pay more just because its EV with dated looks & Bog Standard spec). 

 

Tough look VW, you've fallen at ever hurdle with you 'new' dated looking EV City Car range at extortionate prices. 

Edited 17 November, 2019 by Ronn

[Miller73]

What sort of mileage would you need to be doing a year to break even say after 5 years of owenership when taking into account the vastly inflated price compared to the petrol model?

[Ronn]

I haven't a clue. 

Have any of the motoring press boffins ever told us? 

 

We could do a list creating by some smart arse national motoring Correspondent to poi t us in the right direction here. 

 

Chances are the EU Government's and maybe motoring manufacturers would supress it because if we knew, we'd never buy an EV Car. 😚

Edited 17 November, 2019 by Ronn

[Emil]

Go and buy a new citigomiiup! No wait! There is no such thing. 

 

I just can't wait my Mii Electric to arrive. This is going to be long winter. But in future no more freezing car. Mii Electric can be preheated (or cooled) by phone application. Also heated windscreen is very nice feature. 😊

[SurreyJohn]

Prices have been released

 

SE spec £16,955 (£20,455 before £3500 electric car grant)

Gets 14 inch wheels, climate control, DAB swing radio, remote central locking.  Charge from 7.2Kw or 2.3Kw home wallbox

 

SE-L spec £19,315 (£22,815 before grant) adds 16 inch wheels, heated front seats, rear parking sensors, ambient lighting, body coloured mirrors, and 40Kw fast charger compatible 

 

orders open 10 Dec

Edited 19 November, 2019 by SurreyJohn

[Luckypants]

Do you have a link please?

[Emil]

e-up! 2020 video:

 

 

[Zarch]

10 hours ago, Luckypants said:

Do you have a link please?

https://www.zap-map.com/skoda-citigo-iv-prices-announced/

[Zarch]

I think that leaves us with the following prices after government £3500 discount:

 

• Citigo E iV (SE) - £16,955
• Seat Mii Electric - £19,300
• Citigo E iV (SE-L) - £19,315
• VW e-Up - £20,150

 

So around £8 to £10k more expensive than petrol models?  Something like that?

[Luckypants]

5 minutes ago, Zarch said:

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So around £8 to £10k more expensive than petrol models?  Something like that?

Yes, almost double the price!

[BGB]

Wow, for once Norway have a cheap model. Citigo iV Style (UKs SE-L?) at 16800GBP. 

[Emil]

Not fair to compare electric version to cheapest petrol version. Take high spec petrol version and that's what you should compare. And still you can't get same performance/efficiency out from petrol version. 

[Ootohere]

The discontinued petrol Citigo that never got a TSI and had the auto discontinued. Priced to get them shifted before they stopped production.

The VW Up! also discontinued's last RRP's might be worth think of as when talking about the difference to the EV.

 

[Luckypants]

57 minutes ago, Emil said:

Not fair to compare electric version to cheapest petrol version. Take high spec petrol version and that's what you should compare. And still you can't get same performance/efficiency out from petrol version. 

Before the prices were announced and before the petrol Citigo was taken off the UK configurator I spec'd up a Monte Carlo with all the extras that come on the Mii. It came in at £14380 RRP. The Mii with an electric motor has an RRP £22800 before incentives....

[Emil]

Is it 60hp with manual transmission? 

[Ootohere]

Nobody in the UK is paying the RRP and saying i do not want the Government grant of £3,500, let me pay the full price.