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I filled the petrol tank and that cost £57..
I also had to add electric that was on a fast charger.
Recommend to only go to 80% charge this took less than half a hour but it only gave about 40 miles range were as a full 100% would of been around 60 to 70 miles. This was around £15 I thought that was a little more than I thought it would be,
But with Petrol and Electric it gives over 600 miles range.
I think this will raise as I get a true figure on my mile to a litre.
Car say I get nearly 60 but that was without electric so that figure could be up to around 80. Impressive.
Skoda give you live traffic alerts free of charge for the first year.
The Infotainment system is a lovely large screen and is very clear and bright and acts to your instruction very quickly.
Seats are very comfortable, only negative is the passenger seat is manual, the driver is very good with three separate settings.
Gear lever is on a stork just behind the steering wheel. It does take a couple of hours just to get used to.
Kodiaq came with car mats
The model I have is the SEL Plug in Hybrid.
For those that don’t know you do not need to top up your electric on these you can if you wish just drive on petrol.
The car is extremely quiet even on petrol.
Also keep in mind this car come in Petrol and Diesel you can have them in Seven seaters but the hybrid is only available in a five seater version. Also because the battery’s are under the boot it’s not such a big boot as the petrol and diesel version.
It’s a big car and it can take 6 foot plus rear passengers.
All models have huge boots maybe the biggest in vehicles available on the MB options list under SUVs.
I would say all models car can take a winch and wheel chair with ease. But please have this confirmed by the dealer or company that fits them.
I moved from a Tiguan R line and Skoda is in my opinion a much better car.
If anyone has a further question I will try to answer.
Sorry for the long post.
Monty, did you get charger installed at home, from when you ordered i5?
No mate we did not..
£15 for 60-70 miles for electric charging? Is that not shockingly bad? Thats roughly what Im getting for petrol
Lovely car. I really like Skodas latest styling direction. Brave move getting black. I hope that you like cleaning cars 😂 Mind you, ours is dark green and seems to be almost as bad as black for showing the dirt 🙄
Did I read that right? A £15 charge that gave you 40 miles? If correct, that’s about two and a half times the price of driving those miles on petrol (assuming just 40 mpg).
Is it a PHEV? If so, it’s only really worth charging it at home, as the cost, time and few miles that you get mean that it’s a lot of effort and cost for a tiny return. If you can’t do that (or on longer journeys) just run it on petrol.
£15 for 60-70 miles for electric charging? Is that not shockingly bad? Thats roughly what Im getting for petrol
What do you drive? Most decent petrol cars would get over 100 miles out of £15 of petrol.
£15 for 60-70 miles for electric charging? Is that not shockingly bad? Thats roughly what Im getting for petrol
What do you drive? Most decent petrol cars would get over 100 miles out of £15 of petrol.
Tarraco FR4, 30mpg
£15 for 60-70 miles for electric charging? Is that not shockingly bad? Thats roughly what Im getting for petrol
What do you drive? Most decent petrol cars would get over 100 miles out of £15 of petrol.
Tarraco FR4, 30mpg
Gosh. That’s poor. We’ve recently handed back a BMW X1 2.0i 4WD auto that averaged 42.2 mpg over the 3 years that we had it.
£15 for 60-70 miles for electric charging? Is that not shockingly bad? Thats roughly what Im getting for petrol
What do you drive? Most decent petrol cars would get over 100 miles out of £15 of petrol.
Tarraco FR4, 30mpg
Gosh. That’s poor. We’ve recently handed back a BMW X1 2.0i 4WD auto that averaged 42.2 mpg over the 3 years that we had it.
Yes it is shocking, how ever on top of that you get a regeneration on breaking so the mileage will shot up.
Maybe because I am new to Electric I have chosen a expensive option without any discounts.
I have applied for discounted options that I am hoping will make a big dent on the £15
No mate we did not..
Thats a shame mate, considering the rather large battery. It takes 5-6hrs to charge my Tucson PHEV 13.8kW battery from a 10A granny charger, so not particularly practical for you.
However, if you can charge at home, I highly recommend you get a 32A (7kW) interlocked commando socket (CEE) installed for £250 – £300. Your charging costs would then plummet even on your standard electricity rate but, if you wanted you could even join the standard Octopus Go tariff at 8p/kWh or similar available tariffs.
If you need any more info on commando sockets, let me know.
No mate we did not..
Thats a shame mate, considering the rather large battery. It takes 5-6hrs to charge my Tucson PHEV 13.8kW battery from a 10A granny charger, so not particularly practical for you. However, if you can charge at home, I highly recommend you get a 32A (7kW) interlocked commando socket (CEE) installed for £250 – £300. Your charging costs would then plummet even on your standard electricity rate but, if you wanted you could even join the standard Octopus Go tariff at 8p/kWh or similar available tariffs. If you need any more info on commando sockets, let me know.
Thank you for that info…
I will continue trying to bring those electric cost down.
But we can’t have a charger at home.
We are waiting on a couple of different discount EV cards so things will improve on that £15.
The car itself is a lovely quality car to drive.
But we can’t have a charger at home.
Sorry to keep nagging, is it because you don’t have a drive, as there are options available if this is the case.
But we can’t have a charger at home.
Sorry to keep nagging, is it because you don’t have a drive, as there are options available if this is the case.
I live in a flat with allocated parking.
Our allocated parking space is probably the furthest away from our flat.
Would love to have opportunity to charge at home but it seems very unlikely?
Would love to have opportunity to charge at home but it seems very unlikely?
At the moment its quite complex living in a falt. Having designated parking helps but, only if outside your flat, Have you spoken to your landlord about it?
I don’t suppose you have any Tesla chargers local?
Yes we went to our very local Bluewater shopping center to try use there Tesla charger but it did not work. Do I need to join Tesla to use there charger as there did not seem to be any info just a number of chargers available?
The charger fitted my car but did not charge.
Not sure how Telsa works with free or charging chargers?
Tesla have opened 42 of their sites to other makes, you need to use their own app to get them to work, they don’t work with any third party cards or apps like Elli or Bonnet.
Glos Guy is right, there is no point plugging in at a rapid charger, the cost (unless you get a massive discount) far outweighs the cost of putting fuel in, at 79p per kw you are achieving the equivalent of 36mpg, better to refill the petrol tank, keep it in hybrid mode and get your already seen high 50’s mpg. Generally PHEVS don’t really make a lot of sense unless you can plug in at home.
In life, it's not who you know that's important, it's how your wife found out.
Just checked Zapmap, the Bluewater Tesla hub is open to all.
Search Tesla Public Supercharger on Zapmap to find all of the superchargers you can use.
In life, it's not who you know that's important, it's how your wife found out.
@monty I didn’t realise that you lived in a flat. I had assumed because you had got a PHEV that you could charge at home. As @Abercol and I have both said, PHEVs only make sense if you can charge at home. They don’t charge at the same speed as BEVs and the very limited electric range that you put in doesn’t make charging on public chargers cost effective or worthwhile.
It’s a shame that you weren’t aware of this prior to ordering a PHEV, but now that you have one you would be far better off just using it as a self charging hybrid. In other words, don’t fret over charging it as it’s pointless in your scenario. Just fill it up with petrol and you will still get a small degree of electric driving, as the petrol engine will charge the battery as well as propelling the car. You won’t get as good fuel economy as a self charging hybrid as PHEVs are heavier and you will be lugging around a heavy battery that you are mostly not using, but given that you have ordered the car you might as well just enjoy it rather than waste time and effort fretting over how and where to charge it when, in reality, it’s a complete waste of time, as you can drive the car cheaper on petrol.
To illustrate the point, I don’t have a smart meter and don’t have cheap electricity, yet my PHEV costs me £2.60 to fully charge, to get about the same electric range that you paid £15 for. To work out running costs with PHEVs you have to convert total running costs (charging costs plus petrol) into a pence per mile driven and then divide that into the cost of a gallon of petrol to get a fair comparison with a petrol or diesel car. Using this method, my PHEV, when driven solely on electric, works out at about 80 mpg equivalent (what the car computer says is nonsense as it takes no account of charging costs). Your £15 charge cost to get 40 miles works out at the equivalent of 16 mpg had you driven those miles on petrol. You would probably need to be able to buy a full charge for no more than £5 to even match what it would cost you to run those miles on petrol. Even then, what’s the point? All the faff and time of charging when it’s still no cheaper than petrol which you are putting in anyway!
So, in summary, unless you can find incredibly cheap public charging at no more than it would cost to charge at home (others can advise if such things exist) then my advice is forget that it’s a PHEV and just use it as you would a petrol car. Hopefully you will still get half decent mpg.
Don’t Tesla do off peak charging at around 29p kWh @Jojoe
@monty I didn’t realise that you lived in a flat. I had assumed because you had got a PHEV that you could charge at home. As @Abercol and I have both said, PHEVs only make sense if you can charge at home. They don’t charge at the same speed as BEVs and the very limited electric range that you put in doesn’t make charging on public chargers cost effective or worthwhile. It’s a shame that you weren’t aware of this prior to ordering a PHEV, but now that you have one you would be far better off just using it as a self charging hybrid. In other words, don’t fret over charging it as it’s pointless in your scenario. Just fill it up with petrol and you will still get a small degree of electric driving, as the petrol engine will charge the battery as well as propelling the car. You won’t get as good fuel economy as a self charging hybrid as PHEVs are heavier and you will be lugging around a heavy battery that you are mostly not using, but given that you have ordered the car you might as well just enjoy it rather than waste time and effort fretting over how and where to charge it when, in reality, it’s a complete waste of time, as you can drive the car cheaper on petrol. To illustrate the point, I don’t have a smart meter and don’t have cheap electricity, yet my PHEV costs me £2.60 to fully charge, to get about the same electric range that you paid £15 for. To work out running costs with PHEVs you have to convert total running costs (charging costs plus petrol) into a pence per mile driven and then divide that into the cost of a gallon of petrol to get a fair comparison with a petrol or diesel car. Using this method, my PHEV, when driven solely on electric, works out at about 80 mpg equivalent (what the car computer says is nonsense as it takes no account of charging costs). Your £15 charge cost to get 40 miles works out at the equivalent of 16 mpg had you driven those miles on petrol. You would probably need to be able to buy a full charge for no more than £5 to even match what it would cost you to run those miles on petrol. Even then, what’s the point? All the faff and time of charging when it’s still no cheaper than petrol which you are putting in anyway! So, in summary, unless you can find incredibly cheap public charging at no more than it would cost to charge at home (others can advise if such things exist) then my advice is forget that it’s a PHEV and just use it as you would a petrol car. Hopefully you will still get half decent mpg.
Thank you so much for that info…
To be fair I am really happy with the car even using just fuel it’s great mpg.
Yes it be nice to top up using a bit of electric but to be fair I really don’t mind.
The wife loving the Skoda so happy wife happy life 😃
@monty Happy to help. PHEVs mostly appeal to company car drivers, as they attract a much lower rate of ‘benefit in kind’ taxation. Ironically, the majority of these drivers don’t bother to charge them and use them as normal petrol cars – it’s simply a tax dodge! For Motability customers who have the ability to charge at home (as I do) it’s well worth charging them after each use, as running costs are much lower in EV mode if you are only paying domestic rates, but it’s a job that I didn’t have to do with my previous ICE cars. In your case you can enjoy the car with just infrequent 5 minute stops for petrol. Enjoy the car. As I said before, I think it’s a really good looking car and of course it’s a very good size, unlike most SUVs available through Motability.
@monty thank you for posting, really interesting! We just ordered the same car in dark grey with the convenience pack and sunroof on it, will take delivery in a couple of weeks (or when the adaptation company can fit it in for an electric transfer plate).
Our friends here are right, charging on service stations is daylight robbery, if you can find somewhere else to charge (neighbours, some free charging still at super markets etc) would make a lot of sense.
For us, we are trying to take advantage of the solar panels and use the excess electricity for the car, we also have a battery for the evening!
For me it lacks a bit of power and i thought it was a bit noisy when i test drove it (used to my own fast Merc, this is the Mrs’s motability car) but we will get used to it and drive sensibly, and it will cost us almost nothing especially if we keep charging from the sun (at least 9 months a year).
But I can’t wait to enjoy the comfy sitting position, the massive boot (never had such a large boot) and all the tech on it!
I’ve had full EVs and also PHEVs in the past (Outlander, Renaults etc) and the battery tech has moved on light years ahead…
Can’t wait ! 🙂
Pick up date can’t come soon enough, enjoy your
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