Eco mode isn’t some magic setting you still have to drive carefully too and I’m not convinced it’s much more than throttle mapping and turning AC power down think the rest is placebo.
Sport mode seems the better to use imho you get both motors in play working together so they don’t work as hard? Aside from lower aircon output everything else you can achieve manually yourself.
Always use journey timings esp this time of the year to preheat the car and battery
Driving anywhere at 76mph is going to eat any fuel unless you’re slipstreaming other traffic. Reduce your speed to 66mph and see if you notice a difference. Fact is over a decade of driving hundreds of miles a day as a field engineer has taught me, driving around fast, accelerating hard and speeding does not get you there quicker. It’s a cliche but slow and steady wins the race, not dangerously slow of course but sticking to speed limits, driving a little under, time junctions to maximise regen, using right regen level, all these eco driving tactics all add up. Gotta say I’ve lost count if the times I’ve been doing 60 on a B road and some numpty comes flying past and when you get to the next roundabout they’re right in front of you they got there seconds earlier. I wish I could go back and slap myself when I was in my 20s LOL
I’m no expert and I still drive like a fool from time to time but tbh I rarely speed anymore because it’s not worth the effort and worry of getting caught. Got a nice clean driving licence I’m quite proud of that.
We live in Norfolk and was doing long journeys to Birmingham and back I’d stop for 15 minute charge on the way home for comfort barrier spending under £20
You’re not really supposed to charge up like you would petrol on rapid chargers just charge what you need to complete the journey. Some people make the mistake fully charging at a rapid when they could save by just getting what you need.
Even on long journeys I rarely spend more than £30 on rapids, if an overnight stop you can often find cheaper 7/11kw chargers too or even sneak a granny charger pms
Even this time of year sport mode, preheat etc I’m still getting very reasonable mileage. Have you adapted your driving style for EV use?
Pottering around locally? What do you class as local? I’m happily doing journeys over 100 miles quite frequently, without worry.
Here to Alton Towers is about 160 miles we do that journey then back to Derby where we stay at Airbnb and charge overnight on 7kw charger at 50p/kwh was cheaper last year. Then back to Alton Towers then home no further charging.
Same with Thorpe Park oddly enough similar miles all the way there, day out then home stop at Royston McDonald’s to put about 20% charge in more than enough to get home.
We had an MG ZS last time with max range of 163 miles now THAT is tight lol. On that Alton Towers trip we had to stop at Grantham to top up.
Planning on going to Port Meirion in the spring i reckon that can be done without charging but I’ll probably stop for small comfort charge. 272 miles door to door
Sorry if I sound like a stuck record on here but the freedom this car has given me over even the MG we had before blows me away. We charge at home at 7p/kwh which gives all our home energy that price too which we wouldn’t have without an EV. The ZS was a good car but that range was hurting now the Enyaq I’ve got zero worries. I no longer worry about the cost of a journey I just go do it and enjoy myself. We also benefit from solar panels. Our electricity bill us £150 a month which includes
Car, heat pump (hot water and heating) general electricity, cooking.
We were spending in 2019 £200 a month on diesel. So between that saving the charging at 7p etc that all goes to subsidise the journeys where you might use a rapid. Remember true cost statistics are long term, picking out a few journeys in winter isn’t representative of the overall cost.
The way I look at it is all the dirt cheap charging at home subsidised the few times you need a rapid charge. Even adding those on over the course of a full year I’m betting the EV will beat that Polo like for like even if for certain journeys in certain conditions work out more than the Polo
Sorry for the lengthy post, tired, sleepy rambling. No offense intended to anyone if I cause any.