Morning All,

2025 March registered Kodiaq Sportline PHEV 5 Seat.

Just back from a family vacation where I put the Kodiaq PHEV to the test.

2nd July Trip from Glasgow to Newhaven Port England.

2 adults and 3 kids (12, 6 and 3 year old)

Roof box filled with clothes at shoes (480l) and the boot filled with all we need for 3 weeks at 2x Eurocamp sites. (4 litre airfryer included for my kids who only eat yellow food)

1/2 tank of fuel + 2x stops to 50kW DC charge. (1st stop Tebay farm shop, 2nd stop M40 South Services)

Got to Newhaven and topped up the tank at the local Sainsburys, no local DC fast charges, seems like a loss of revenue for them.

Overnight ferry to Dieppe, drove to nearest Total Energies station and fast charged, then on to Eurocamp, east of Paris (Le Chene Gris).

Drove in and out of Paris 3 times (Disney).

Filled tank before leaving the next day, no local fast charger.

Left Paris and headed towards the Vendee for our site at Chateau La Foret, stopped once to fast charge.

Only drove small amount at the 2nd site to the local Super U.

Filled car and fast charged for journey home.

Filled once more in South England and charged twice more on route back to glasgow.

Total Distance. 1932 miles

Avg Fuel Consumption. 53.7 mpg

Avg Energy Consumption. 13.1 m/kWh

Space.

Comfortable for 5 with all the kids needs in the back seats while still giving us adults plenty of space upfront, I didn't change my driving position, wife stretch out with chair slightly reclined. 5/5 Stars.

Purchased the sport seat media holders, expensive for what they are but thankful i bought them, well used.

For my last two holidays we have used a VW T6 SWB Transporter Kombi, I was a little worried about fitting it all in the Kodiaq, we did cut back on extras, however not by much and with the added roof box we had no issues.

Instead of suitcases we used clear packing cudes, 6 fitted in the box (5 clothes, 1 linnen with towels and trainers in the gaps).

We used 2 plastic boxes, 1 for food the other for cleaning products, my wee boy took his balance bike (front wheel removed) and my middle took her foldable skooter, everything was packed around these (including the airfryer)

As much as I love french wine, i also love bourbon, so packed 2x 2ltr bottles of Jim Bean and in the "lower boot" under the flap I filled this with pepsi max (48 cans), wife loves gin so remainder space was filled with tonic, kids colouring books and the required 5x hi-vis vests.

We also managed on the route home to bring back 57 bottles of wine.

All packed so i could still see out of the rear of the car.

This is a company car, I chose this (and the tax burden) over another kombi as I missed driving cars.

I've got it for 2 years handing it back March 2027 before the tax burden near doubles for PHEV's on my P11D.

This car never missed a beat, 1.5l engine is ore than capable, keep it hybrid and charged and it'll run supper efficient, yes it's noisey when pushed hard, but why push it hard, it isn't a SQ5.

ACC all the way to France and back, no issues.

Used inbuit sat nav over google maps.

Happy to answer any questions people may have as I've probably missed something important.

Also French charge 0.59 euro per kWh, the English charge 0.89 pounds per kWh. 50kW charge to around 80% then drops down to around 10kW for final 20%. average charge time 45min to full.

Salut,

David.

On 21/07/2025 at 11:00, CaptainPicard said:

yes it's noisey when pushed hard, but why push it hard, it isn't a SQ5.

I don't have the phev just the 1.5 e-tec but this sums it up perfectly.

It's no tarmac shredder but it's not meant to be.

Perfectly capable in everyday driving unless you drive like a nob.