Morning everyone, Ordered myself an IV Estate with an expected delivery of Feb. Im in the UK. 
 

can anyone offer a bit of advice on the real E range?

 

my commute to work is 9 miles about 6 of which is dual carriageway. I tend to travel in at off peak travel times. Is it likely that I could get there and back on the battery? 
 

I was also told I could tell the car to warm up when its charging is that true? Sounds very useful for a winters morning.

 

JC

I get 35 miles on battery alone. You can also use hybrid and either 'X' auto or set it to hold charge. Yesterday in hybrid I did 34 miles and obtained 110 mpg in hybrid. Set regen to maximum (no 2) and you'll hardly need to use the brakes.

Brilliant thanks, would be nice to do work and back on the cheap. 
 

first time owning a Phev for me.

@Jim2015Is that actually 110 miles you can go and if you started with a full tank and full electric you could not get 5 litres into the tank from a can?

That is the best way to actually see how far 4.546 litres will take you.

 

After doing 110 miles on a gallon what does it show the MPG as?

16 hours ago, 2793Jerry said:

Morning everyone, Ordered myself an IV Estate with an expected delivery of Feb. Im in the UK. 
 

can anyone offer a bit of advice on the real E range?

 

my commute to work is 9 miles about 6 of which is dual carriageway. I tend to travel in at off peak travel times. Is it likely that I could get there and back on the battery? 
 

I was also told I could tell the car to warm up when its charging is that true? Sounds very useful for a winters morning.

 

JC

My round trip to work and back is 32 miles. 14 of those miles are dual and I do 70mph min for those 14 miles. then the rest is 40mph. I usually run out of electricity 2 miles from home. 
 

yes u can get the car to warm up and defrost windows while plugged in, you can also tell it to use the batteries if you want. 
 

 

Fantastic, Sounds like I'm onto a winner. I often work nights and have to admit I have been envious of my colleagues car being de iced when we get back at 6am and he whizzes off whilst im defrosting. Hopefully I can join the comfy club

I have a commute of 27 miles each way, and it is a combination of country and congested motorway or duals, based on my chosen route, so plan to use hold charge at 50% to cover outward and return legs plus tge regen braking option to assist my OCD detailing fetish.

 

Also, mine was ordered Friday, delivery claimed End of April ,,,,,, so far!

@2793Jerry

Will your car be plugged in and charging when you are ready to come out to it from the end of night shift?

38 minutes ago, roottoot said:

@2793Jerry

Will your car be plugged in and charging when you are ready to come out to it from the end of night shift?

No but on the rare occasions I am defrosting I would have no issue sacrificing some battery/economy for comfort 

21 hours ago, roottoot said:

@Jim2015Is that actually 110 miles you can go and if you started with a full tank and full electric you could not get 5 litres into the tank from a can?

That is the best way to actually see how far 4.546 litres will take you.

 

After doing 110 miles on a gallon what does it show the MPG as?

I will clarify my comment. The 110mpg figure was displayed in the data after a 34 mile drive in Hybrid mode, when the battery was providing much of the power (the left-hand dial shows when e-power or IC is being used and a lot of the time, other than when I was travelling fast, the battery was in use). The long-term mpg, based on the measured amount of petrol put in the tank, is 92. I can go for around 700 miles between refills. On battery alone with a range of 35 miles, this costs about 6p/mile at present. When we get Octopus Go off-peak at 5p/kWh, the cost will drop to about 2p/mile. The next section might interest 2793Jerry, so here is a more precise set of figures I copied from one of my other threads and is based on actual electricity and petrol usage.

I've been able to calculate more accurately how much electricity is being used to charge the iV. I have been comparing bills for now and 12 months ago. This is based on our electricity use being fairly constant but does not include for the fact that the electricity was slightly cheaper last year. At the last refuel the car had done 2630 miles and cost £162.34 for petrol and £96.88 for electricity or 9.9p/mile. When the cost goes down from 16.66p/kW hr to 5p/kW hr with Octopus Go off-peak electricity, this will reduce to £29.07, or assuming a 50/50 split between IC and e-power, 2630 miles for £191.41 or 7.3p/mile compared with £335.20 on petrol alone or 14p/mile. Our Karoq cost 17.8p/mile for fuel.

 

 

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1 hour ago, 2793Jerry said:

No but on the rare occasions I am defrosting I would have no issue sacrificing some battery/economy for comfort 

If you manage to get SkodaConnect or the MySkoda app to work, you can set the aircon on from the comfort of a warm building. (I cannot access either but Skoda UK is 'working on it'). Alternatively, this can be programmed in advance in the car's infotainment unit..

@Jim2015Thanks for your detailed breakdown of cost doing shorter runs with a charged battery. 

So you can do 34 miles and get the equivalent of 110 mpg of petrol but you could not actually drive 110 miles and use only a imperial gallon of petrol unless it was mostly down hill. 

Thanks everyone for input excited to get my hands on it and give it a go now

16 minutes ago, 2793Jerry said:

Thanks everyone for input excited to get my hands on it and give it a go now

Our Octavia iV Combi is the best car I've ever had and I absolutely love everything about it. It's restored my enjoyment of driving. The shape is lovely and a big improvement on the Mk 3 estate.  The acceleration from a combined 202 bhp is stunning and the roadholding is excellent, particularly welcome here in our twisty windey part of North Yorkshire. The boot is huge and with the seat down it's enormous.  There were some irritating glitches, but non prevented us driving the car and all but Skoda Connect is now working. I'm sure that you won't regret your choice of vehicle.