I have just bought 2021 Octavia iV estate. All the info in brochures, dealers selling details etc say battery is 13kWh, but in the Skoda app it says 10kWh. Even when fully charged EV range only 30 miles which would fit better with the 10kWh. I had expected range at least mid 30s at least in the summer. Any thoughts?

13kWh of which 10kWh is usable.

Mine charges about 11.5kw from zero miles. As PetrolDave says your mileage range is only for the useable kw as the unusable is for when you are at zero miles but the car will still have some kw in reserve to tootle about.

4 hours ago, JirairD said:

I had expected range at least mid 30s at least in the summer.

35-40 is doable but depends a lot on roads and driving style. 3 kWh is a reserve to not discharge the battery completely, which would kill it.

Thanks all. I guess I was expecting a bit more. My 2018 Ionic easily did 30miles with an 8.9 battery. I appreciate the Octavia is probably a bit heavier.

Mine normally states 40 once fully charged and sometimes 44..depends on how cold it is.. 

That's what's worrying me. It never states over 30 even when fully charged!

I've only just got the car. Not sure if y needs or can change anything in the set up. I can't see anything obvious.

I don't think you need to worry, the figure quoted is a prediction best on previous use and (I think) temperature.  I ran a PHEV golf with this drivetrain from new, never should more than 30.  Now have a 2021 IV estate, gives better mileage than the golf, but prediction is usually 25-29 miles.

 

My journeys always involve 2 or 3 miles of fast A road.  I wouldn't be surprised if the people seeing 30 plus are mainly driving in town.

When I fill mine up to the brim I can do 600 miles before needing to pull into another refuel point.  And I won't need to replace the batteries after a couple of years, with all the CO2 that that will incur.

Edited 7 October, 20241 yr by avi4tor

@JirairD Welcome.

The Ioniq as an EV with a 28kW battery is amazingly efficient and can do 4-5 miles a kWh so i suppose your PHEV was as efficient running on the battery. 

I remember back a few months when it was hot and i switched the aircon on, my mileage said 38 as it had been charged at work and it dropped to 32 when hitting the aircon switch to the on position. Hasten to ass it was rapidly switched back of. Then went back to 38... Are you running aircon on all the time?

 

No. AC is switched off

charged mine yesterday from 9 miles showing to full. range said 42 miles. got home from town and it had dropped to 39 on hybrid and journey was 6 miles. 

^^^ Good stuff, happens with EV,s as well. ambient temperature might be higher than when you got the first guesstimate.

 

Really what is great is if you go drive 42 miles and it can do that just on the battery.

I rarely get over 30miles in mine even with the air con off. Mostly due to living in a hilly area. They definitely affect the range

@Novascape  surely if you are climbing hills to get places then you also descend them so regen and recharge. 

2 hours ago, Ootohere said:

@Novascape  surely if you are climbing hills to get places then you also descend them so regen and recharge. 

Charging a battery isn't 100% efficient so the energy taken out of the battery by climbing a hill won't be fully replaced by regenerative energy put back when going down the same hill.

 

Charging efficiency of a LiIon battery is typically 95-97%, much better than a lead acid battery which is closer to 80%.

😂 I wish it was that efficient. It hardly recovers a quarter it uses to go up hill

@PetrolDave Obviously it is not putting back in as much as is taken out, that would be perpetual motion.

 

But as with an EV like mine today it was 3 miles per kWh up into the hills and glens and 4.1 miles per kWh back. 

If you get it right you can very much improve the range out of a battery with the regen, maybe not taking the same way home as you leave, if a circular route is available, 

quicker and shorter to get high and a nice route were plenty regens gets you back.

Or if you live at the top of the hills then maybe not much chance of getting regen in if you start off with the battery at 99-100%.