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[SkodaIan]

Earthdweller said:

We frequently have power outages during the winter and bad weather .. we have a diesel genny for emergency use

That sounds like an ideal situation for an electric car. If you had one, there would be a 75kWh battery ready and charged to run the house off after a storm. Instead of having to run a noisy and expensive diesel generator to keep the fridge and a couple of lights going, you'd just need to plug the car in to the house. As long as you're not heating the house with electricity, it would keep you going for a few days and still have enough range left to drive 100 miles to the shops.

I'm not sure the Enyac can do that, but its certainly promised by Hyundai for the Ioniq 5.

[JamesyBoy1975]

rxe said:

£7 for 60 miles is a lot more than diesel. Even my 19 year old daily driven hard does 44 MPG, diesel is a fiver a gallon. I’m inclined to agree, the review reads like an ordinary car with much to much worry about fueling it. Stuff that I simply don’t have to worry about today.

so, 44/60*5 = £6.82, or 2.6% more expensive, is that really a LOT more? now let's say that the £7 has a rounding (perhaps up, perhaps down), I would imagine that rounding could well me greater than the 2.6% difference.

[JamesyBoy1975]

JonnyVTEC said:

Its like buying a round of drinks for your mates and saying your pint cost £12.

Strangely my craft beer does work out at about £12 a pint, however electric vehicles are much cheaper than ICE due to Denmarks crazy vehicle registration price of 150% for the stuff that burns dinosaurs.

[JonnyVTEC]

JamesyBoy1975 said:

Strangely my craft beer does work out at about £12 a pint, however electric vehicles are much cheaper than ICE due to Denmarks crazy vehicle registration price of 150% for the stuff that burns dinosaurs.

I was waiting for a post like that

[oop north]

ChrisCh86 said:

I drove all the way from London to Yorkshire (and back) at the weekend and enjoyed the ease of doing it in my ICE car (with a tiny fuel tank and mediocre MPG).

It did cost a fortune in petrol (£140 of super unleaded), but I managed a 5 hour trip yesterday (on the return) with a 5 minute fill up. No other stops.

There were no charging facilities either at my destination, at my stopping point, or at any of the places that I visited.

I drove 185 miles to Edinburgh last Wednesday, drove around 90 miles while there and then another 185 miles home again on Saturday. Charged my car for free in Edinburgh, ignored all the places I passed that have charging facilities (some of which are terrible but will be upgraded soon - Ecotricity Will by end of September all be replaced by Gridserve units) and then when I got home had to fill the car overnight which cost about £12. For 460 miles

In the last couple of months I have also had weekends in / around Malvern (350 miles that weekend) and Kelso (another 400 miles or so). I did have to public charge at a cost then, but less than £50 in total plus a £12 charge at home

[anonymous-user]

oop north said:

ChrisCh86 said:

I drove all the way from London to Yorkshire (and back) at the weekend and enjoyed the ease of doing it in my ICE car (with a tiny fuel tank and mediocre MPG).

It did cost a fortune in petrol (£140 of super unleaded), but I managed a 5 hour trip yesterday (on the return) with a 5 minute fill up. No other stops.

There were no charging facilities either at my destination, at my stopping point, or at any of the places that I visited.

I drove 185 miles to Edinburgh last Wednesday, drove around 90 miles while there and then another 185 miles home again on Saturday. Charged my car for free in Edinburgh, ignored all the places I passed that have charging facilities (some of which are terrible but will be upgraded soon - Ecotricity Will by end of September all be replaced by Gridserve units) and then when I got home had to fill the car overnight which cost about £12. For 460 miles

In the last couple of months I have also had weekends in / around Malvern (350 miles that weekend) and Kelso (another 400 miles or so). I did have to public charge at a cost then, but less than £50 in total plus a £12 charge at home

No, no you didn't.

You and your entire family actually died of starvation after being trapped in your pathetic EV by some god forsaken charger in the middle of knowhere which refused to release your car and your phone battery ran out.........


;-)

[theplayingmantis]

Max_Torque said:

No, no you didn't.

You and your entire family actually died of starvation after being trapped in your pathetic EV by some god forsaken charger in the middle of knowhere which refused to release your car and your phone battery ran out.........


;-)

i have no dog in this fight, and will get a taycan ct in due course alongside the current Giulia Q, but you come across as a proper EV blinkered fanboy. you cannot accept that they work for some but not others currently!

unless you have a personal investment at stake in the whole concept your fanaticism in an internet forum is a touch odd.

[ddom]

theplayingmantis said:

i have no dog in this fight, and will get a taycan ct in due course alongside the current Giulia Q, but you come across as a proper EV blinkered fanboy. you cannot accept that they work for some but not others currently!

unless you have a personal investment at stake in the whole concept your fanaticism in an internet forum is a touch odd.

Yep. He’s special.

[skyrover]

theplayingmantis said:

Max_Torque said:

No, no you didn't.

You and your entire family actually died of starvation after being trapped in your pathetic EV by some god forsaken charger in the middle of knowhere which refused to release your car and your phone battery ran out.........


;-)

i have no dog in this fight, and will get a taycan ct in due course alongside the current Giulia Q, but you come across as a proper EV blinkered fanboy. you cannot accept that they work for some but not others currently!

unless you have a personal investment at stake in the whole concept your fanaticism in an internet forum is a touch odd.

He's invested fully in the industry (it's his job) hence the relentless propaganda.

[Aust5]

Would I pay 41k for an electric car. The simple answer is no. The Skoda looks ok but demonstrator with no A/C due to bad technology. I had range anxiety just reading report so as go with Alice recommendation and next time take type R.

[Earthdweller]

SkodaIan said:

Earthdweller said:

We frequently have power outages during the winter and bad weather .. we have a diesel genny for emergency use

That sounds like an ideal situation for an electric car. If you had one, there would be a 75kWh battery ready and charged to run the house off after a storm. Instead of having to run a noisy and expensive diesel generator to keep the fridge and a couple of lights going, you'd just need to plug the car in to the house. As long as you're not heating the house with electricity, it would keep you going for a few days and still have enough range left to drive 100 miles to the shops.

I'm not sure the Enyac can do that, but its certainly promised by Hyundai for the Ioniq 5.

Well, maybe … until i need to go to work or well anywhere really

At least I can leave the genny running for the people in the house

[daytonavrs]

Owned a few Skoda but whoever this is marketed at, its definitely not myself and wouldn't have the remotest interest in one of these or the other SUV ev type range ( seems to be increasingly all they market at ). I must be a fossil.