EV Discussion thread

CKhalvashi

Can I just ask if there's anyone here with an Enyaq who could possibly share their experience? Equally, is there anyone here with 2 EVs doing reasonably high mileages sharing a 7kWh charger? My commute is about 90mi round trip, hers is about 70mi (but 130mi of almost all motorway 3-4 times a month) if that helps, but it looks doable to us, especially as I have access to work-based charging if necessary.

OH may be able to get an 18-ish month old '80' version at a price we're happy with to possibly replace the Yeti (this car hasn't been advertised and we know the history of it and there is a genuine reason for sale).

Thanks for any pointers anyone here can give .

thevilla

CKhalvashi said:

Can I just ask if there's anyone here with an Enyaq who could possibly share their experience? Equally, is there anyone here with 2 EVs doing reasonably high mileages sharing a 7kWh charger? My commute is about 90mi round trip, hers is about 70mi (but 130mi of almost all motorway 3-4 times a month) if that helps, but it looks doable to us, especially as I have access to work-based charging if necessary.

OH may be able to get an 18-ish month old '80' version at a price we're happy with to possibly replace the Yeti (this car hasn't been advertised and we know the history of it and there is a genuine reason for sale).

Thanks for any pointers anyone here can give .

I don't have any Skoda experience but you could also look here:

https://www.speakev.com/forums/general-skoda-ev-discussions.344/

michaels

Should be able to add about 70 miles in 10 hours on a granny charger at the same time as the other car is on the 7kw if need be.

silvercar

CKhalvashi said:

Can I just ask if there's anyone here with an Enyaq who could possibly share their experience? Equally, is there anyone here with 2 EVs doing reasonably high mileages sharing a 7kWh charger? My commute is about 90mi round trip, hers is about 70mi (but 130mi of almost all motorway 3-4 times a month) if that helps, but it looks doable to us, especially as I have access to work-based charging if necessary.

OH may be able to get an 18-ish month old '80' version at a price we're happy with to possibly replace the Yeti (this car hasn't been advertised and we know the history of it and there is a genuine reason for sale).

Thanks for any pointers anyone here can give .

No problem with 2 EVs and one charger. Our mileage isn't split evenly by choice. Just needs a bit of planning and thinking ahead. The simplest calculation is if you put one car on the charger overnight every night, could you manage?
You just move from the mindset of whether a car needs charging to which car should be charged that night.

For a 70 mile commute, you are looking at 2.5-3  hours on the charger, so worst case is someone wakes up and needs to charge before they leave. If you never leave the car on 0%, you should be fine.

Martyn1981

CKhalvashi said:

Can I just ask if there's anyone here with an Enyaq who could possibly share their experience? Equally, is there anyone here with 2 EVs doing reasonably high mileages sharing a 7kWh charger? My commute is about 90mi round trip, hers is about 70mi (but 130mi of almost all motorway 3-4 times a month) if that helps, but it looks doable to us, especially as I have access to work-based charging if necessary.

OH may be able to get an 18-ish month old '80' version at a price we're happy with to possibly replace the Yeti (this car hasn't been advertised and we know the history of it and there is a genuine reason for sale).

Thanks for any pointers anyone here can give .

I suspect you'd be fine too. Are you on a cheap rate tariff, thus limiting the daily charge time you'd prefer to stick too?

Looking at your figures, that's a potential combined mileage (for a day) of 160 miles, and a 7kW charger over 7hrs of cheap rate is ~50kWh, so 160 miles at 3.2 miles/kWh, worst case.

Tiny bit of planning getting charge up a day or two earlier for one of the cars should work fine. We can use granny charger and 7kW charger, but don't do the mileage you are asking about, plus (as you know) the IONIQ's are extremely frugal, so granny charge for 7hrs can add 60+ miles.

If you don't have any cheap rate restrictions, then you won't have any problems, you could charge one car from say 6pm to 10/11ish, then swap over before bed.

Just thinking, but the Enyaq 80 should be good for ~200 to 250 miles of range, so you have plenty of time (other days) to plan ahead and get the charge up.

CKhalvashi

thevilla said:

CKhalvashi said:

Can I just ask if there's anyone here with an Enyaq who could possibly share their experience? Equally, is there anyone here with 2 EVs doing reasonably high mileages sharing a 7kWh charger? My commute is about 90mi round trip, hers is about 70mi (but 130mi of almost all motorway 3-4 times a month) if that helps, but it looks doable to us, especially as I have access to work-based charging if necessary.

OH may be able to get an 18-ish month old '80' version at a price we're happy with to possibly replace the Yeti (this car hasn't been advertised and we know the history of it and there is a genuine reason for sale).

Thanks for any pointers anyone here can give .

I don't have any Skoda experience but you could also look here:

https://www.speakev.com/forums/general-skoda-ev-discussions.344/

Will do, thanks!

It's always good to know what you're getting involved with before handing a lot of money over.

michaels said:

Should be able to add about 70 miles in 10 hours on a granny charger at the same time as the other car is on the 7kw if need be.

We don't easily have that luxury sadly (rear driveway and Victorian house, to get the original charger in within the regs required a fair amount of creativity but we go there in the end. If we park at the front nobody can get past.

silvercar said:

CKhalvashi said:

Can I just ask if there's anyone here with an Enyaq who could possibly share their experience? Equally, is there anyone here with 2 EVs doing reasonably high mileages sharing a 7kWh charger? My commute is about 90mi round trip, hers is about 70mi (but 130mi of almost all motorway 3-4 times a month) if that helps, but it looks doable to us, especially as I have access to work-based charging if necessary.

OH may be able to get an 18-ish month old '80' version at a price we're happy with to possibly replace the Yeti (this car hasn't been advertised and we know the history of it and there is a genuine reason for sale).

Thanks for any pointers anyone here can give .

No problem with 2 EVs and one charger. Our mileage isn't split evenly by choice. Just needs a bit of planning and thinking ahead. The simplest calculation is if you put one car on the charger overnight every night, could you manage?
You just move from the mindset of whether a car needs charging to which car should be charged that night.

For a 70 mile commute, you are looking at 2.5-3  hours on the charger, so worst case is someone wakes up and needs to charge before they leave. If you never leave the car on 0%, you should be fine.

Thanks Silver! Mine is charged roughly every other night at the moment (180mi is fairly comfortable for the Ioniq for my driving style unless we're in the deep winter) so this would be the plan. OH takes mine a fair amount to work when I don't need to go into London (our warehouse isn't easily accessible from where we live by public transport and we're just within the ULEZ now)

The Enyaq on paper also seems to solve a lot of the shortfalls of the Ioniq on longer runs (we've made it as far as Poland with it without too many problems, but the main problem was charging speed) so at the price we've been offered (£30k for a '71' plate version with 19k miles, it looks well specced also) it looks a good deal.

I'll trawl the forums and get back to her with a recommendation on this one.

michaels

Martyn1981 said:

CKhalvashi said:

Can I just ask if there's anyone here with an Enyaq who could possibly share their experience? Equally, is there anyone here with 2 EVs doing reasonably high mileages sharing a 7kWh charger? My commute is about 90mi round trip, hers is about 70mi (but 130mi of almost all motorway 3-4 times a month) if that helps, but it looks doable to us, especially as I have access to work-based charging if necessary.

OH may be able to get an 18-ish month old '80' version at a price we're happy with to possibly replace the Yeti (this car hasn't been advertised and we know the history of it and there is a genuine reason for sale).

Thanks for any pointers anyone here can give .

I suspect you'd be fine too. Are you on a cheap rate tariff, thus limiting the daily charge time you'd prefer to stick too?

Looking at your figures, that's a potential combined mileage (for a day) of 160 miles, and a 7kW charger over 7hrs of cheap rate is ~50kWh, so 160 miles at 3.2 miles/kWh, worst case.

Tiny bit of planning getting charge up a day or two earlier for one of the cars should work fine. We can use granny charger and 7kW charger, but don't do the mileage you are asking about, plus (as you know) the IONIQ's are extremely frugal, so granny charge for 7hrs can add 60+ miles.

If you don't have any cheap rate restrictions, then you won't have any problems, you could charge one car from say 6pm to 10/11ish, then swap over before bed.

Just thinking, but the Enyaq 80 should be good for ~200 to 250 miles of range, so you have plenty of time (other days) to plan ahead and get the charge up.

EV Database suggests 185 for winter highway range for the Eniyaq and having driven an ID4 that sounds realistic to me.  Sounds like it is a bit of a pain for you to swap cars for charging if you have to move them rather than just swapping the charger over.

CKhalvashi

Martyn1981 said:

CKhalvashi said:

Can I just ask if there's anyone here with an Enyaq who could possibly share their experience? Equally, is there anyone here with 2 EVs doing reasonably high mileages sharing a 7kWh charger? My commute is about 90mi round trip, hers is about 70mi (but 130mi of almost all motorway 3-4 times a month) if that helps, but it looks doable to us, especially as I have access to work-based charging if necessary.

OH may be able to get an 18-ish month old '80' version at a price we're happy with to possibly replace the Yeti (this car hasn't been advertised and we know the history of it and there is a genuine reason for sale).

Thanks for any pointers anyone here can give .

I suspect you'd be fine too. Are you on a cheap rate tariff, thus limiting the daily charge time you'd prefer to stick too?

Looking at your figures, that's a potential combined mileage (for a day) of 160 miles, and a 7kW charger over 7hrs of cheap rate is ~50kWh, so 160 miles at 3.2 miles/kWh, worst case.

Tiny bit of planning getting charge up a day or two earlier for one of the cars should work fine. We can use granny charger and 7kW charger, but don't do the mileage you are asking about, plus (as you know) the IONIQ's are extremely frugal, so granny charge for 7hrs can add 60+ miles.

If you don't have any cheap rate restrictions, then you won't have any problems, you could charge one car from say 6pm to 10/11ish, then swap over before bed.

Just thinking, but the Enyaq 80 should be good for ~200 to 250 miles of range, so you have plenty of time (other days) to plan ahead and get the charge up.

We have cheap-ish charging at certain times of the day, working on solar+battery at the moment but due to external issues that's becoming quite a drawn out process. Paying even the higher rate should based on my calculations work out at a slightly lower electricity cost vs the diesel going into the Yeti, and that's assuming a worst case motorway drive in winter conditions. Using the EV database numbers we'd hope that it'd be about 40% cheaper.

That's also not taking into account that the Yeti is a 200k+mi car now so will probably need replacing at some point in the next few years anyway. We're not sure of our own plans longer term but the right car at the right price is worth the capital expenditure to us on balance.

We're not expecting it to be as economical as the Ioniq, but a car of that size is necessary for us for other reasons (mainly so I can use it as a van a few times a month) and it does look overall like it potentially fits the needs really well.

Martyn1981

michaels said:

Martyn1981 said:

CKhalvashi said:

Can I just ask if there's anyone here with an Enyaq who could possibly share their experience? Equally, is there anyone here with 2 EVs doing reasonably high mileages sharing a 7kWh charger? My commute is about 90mi round trip, hers is about 70mi (but 130mi of almost all motorway 3-4 times a month) if that helps, but it looks doable to us, especially as I have access to work-based charging if necessary.

OH may be able to get an 18-ish month old '80' version at a price we're happy with to possibly replace the Yeti (this car hasn't been advertised and we know the history of it and there is a genuine reason for sale).

Thanks for any pointers anyone here can give .

I suspect you'd be fine too. Are you on a cheap rate tariff, thus limiting the daily charge time you'd prefer to stick too?

Looking at your figures, that's a potential combined mileage (for a day) of 160 miles, and a 7kW charger over 7hrs of cheap rate is ~50kWh, so 160 miles at 3.2 miles/kWh, worst case.

Tiny bit of planning getting charge up a day or two earlier for one of the cars should work fine. We can use granny charger and 7kW charger, but don't do the mileage you are asking about, plus (as you know) the IONIQ's are extremely frugal, so granny charge for 7hrs can add 60+ miles.

If you don't have any cheap rate restrictions, then you won't have any problems, you could charge one car from say 6pm to 10/11ish, then swap over before bed.

Just thinking, but the Enyaq 80 should be good for ~200 to 250 miles of range, so you have plenty of time (other days) to plan ahead and get the charge up.

EV Database suggests 185 for winter highway range for the Eniyaq and having driven an ID4 that sounds realistic to me.  Sounds like it is a bit of a pain for you to swap cars for charging if you have to move them rather than just swapping the charger over.

That's at -10C, and I assume 100% of the miles will not be at motorway speeds.

michaels

Martyn1981 said:

michaels said:

Martyn1981 said:

CKhalvashi said:

Can I just ask if there's anyone here with an Enyaq who could possibly share their experience? Equally, is there anyone here with 2 EVs doing reasonably high mileages sharing a 7kWh charger? My commute is about 90mi round trip, hers is about 70mi (but 130mi of almost all motorway 3-4 times a month) if that helps, but it looks doable to us, especially as I have access to work-based charging if necessary.

OH may be able to get an 18-ish month old '80' version at a price we're happy with to possibly replace the Yeti (this car hasn't been advertised and we know the history of it and there is a genuine reason for sale).

Thanks for any pointers anyone here can give .

I suspect you'd be fine too. Are you on a cheap rate tariff, thus limiting the daily charge time you'd prefer to stick too?

Looking at your figures, that's a potential combined mileage (for a day) of 160 miles, and a 7kW charger over 7hrs of cheap rate is ~50kWh, so 160 miles at 3.2 miles/kWh, worst case.

Tiny bit of planning getting charge up a day or two earlier for one of the cars should work fine. We can use granny charger and 7kW charger, but don't do the mileage you are asking about, plus (as you know) the IONIQ's are extremely frugal, so granny charge for 7hrs can add 60+ miles.

If you don't have any cheap rate restrictions, then you won't have any problems, you could charge one car from say 6pm to 10/11ish, then swap over before bed.

Just thinking, but the Enyaq 80 should be good for ~200 to 250 miles of range, so you have plenty of time (other days) to plan ahead and get the charge up.

EV Database suggests 185 for winter highway range for the Eniyaq and having driven an ID4 that sounds realistic to me.  Sounds like it is a bit of a pain for you to swap cars for charging if you have to move them rather than just swapping the charger over.

That's at -10C, and I assume 100% of the miles will not be at motorway speeds.

We drove an id4 180 miles on mix of motorway and A roads at 55-70 mph at about 8c and stopped for a charge, it might just have made 220.  Had it been all motorway and zero degrees I suspect we would have made a fair bit less, especially as we did not use the heating to save range.