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Some routes make life tough for EV owners. If you drive regularly from London to the West Country at peak times you’d still have good reason not to buy an EV. For us, the regular big schlep is Sussex to the Peak District: 210 miles. We’re on our fifth EV now: some needed to divert to Rugby to charge; the others required us to steal the relatives’ electricity via an agonisingly slow three-pin connection if we wanted to get home.
Not the Skoda: a real-world range of 270 miles leaves us a comfortable 60 on arrival, and a new bank of a dozen 300kW Osprey chargers in Chesterfield means we can fast-charge en route. Our journey is now sorted: hope yours is too, soon.
Logbook: Skoda Enyaq Coupe iV vRS (month 5)
Price £54,155 (£58,800 as tested)
Performance 77kWh battery, twin e-motors, 5.5sec 0-62mph, 111mph
Efficiency 3.9 miles per kWh claimed, 3.5 tested, 0g/km CO2
Range 336 miles (claimed), 267 miles (tested)
Energy cost 8.7p per mile
Miles this month 582
Total miles 7454