Episode 3-2021 - Long winter road trip with our Skoda Citigo e-iV 2020!

We took a 533 km winter road trip in cold conditions with our Citigo and results were interesting! Useful info on charging for people, who have to drive a Skoda Citigo e-iV, Seat Mii Electric or VW e-UP! in winter conditions.

[@keithlegge6848]

Finland seems to be well equipped with charging points. UK take note.

[@ewheelerfinland]

Situation has improved many fold in the 3 yrs after our trip. No issues at all now, plenty of choice.

[@keithlegge6848]

@@ewheelerfinland the UK could learn a lot from Finland regarding charge points.

[@IrenESorius]

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[@richardh6756]

Great video's what make is your tyre gauge and where did you buy it I'm from uk can I buy it in uk.

[@ewheelerfinland]

I bought it from the Finnish Automobile Assosiation a few yrs ago. Just had a look and not available there anymore. But I did find the same meter with angled valve head, sold as "Grayston GE92". Looks exactly the same, I just have a straight head on mine. Sold in the UK by www.raceandrally.com online shop, price £12,50. You can search, maybe you can find a dealer near you also.

[@ewheelerfinland]

Incredible quality for the price. I have had mine calibrated twice and it's only off by 0,02-0,03 bar between 1,0-3,0 bar.

[@electricwhirl5175]

Didn't quite catch what was the reason to do this trip? Did you visit something on the end? I usually try to charge my distance to next stop-point + 50km to be on safe side :) The car usually goes into forced eco mode when reaches the last red part of battery gauge. At the eco heater is limited to 1A or ~0.3kW. In normal mode I have seen it topping up to 20A (or 21-22) or ~6kW. Afterwards it drops down to 5-10A, depending on weather. In eco+ heater is totally off. If I calculate correctly, it came out to 11,64€/100km?

[@ewheelerfinland]

The point of the trip was just to test charging during long drive in winter, see true cost of driving in winter and see how fast It's possible to travel during winter. We didn't have any place to go 😂 . Yep, I forgot to show the price per 100 km on the video, but you're right. It's more than 11,6 euros and that meant It's almost double the cost of doing the same trip with our previous petrol Citigo.

[@electricwhirl5175]

@@ewheelerfinland yea, EV, at least these small triplets are not mean't for travel - it's slow and expensive :(

[@ewheelerfinland]

@@electricwhirl5175 As long as you don't have to do it dozens of times per year, especially during winter, the overall costs are still well below petrol cars. Our car has done more than 8000 km now and still the long term cost per 100km is below €2,70. That money doesn't buy much petrol or diesel...

[@ewheelerfinland]

@@electricwhirl5175 Same trip with a Porsche Taycan would have been under €5/100km. Tesla propably even cheaper. They charge soooo much quicker. Just so damn expensive cars...

[@SandroAntonucci87]

@@ewheelerfinland Yeah but the problem here is the price based on minutes.

[@TILL_OFARIM]

Wenn du ca 125km gefahren bist und nur noch 13% hast, dann ist der Verbrauch deutlich höher als 17kwh/100km. Du musst den Verbrauch mit den aufgewendeten kwh verrechnen inkl. Ladeverluste 23:59 Geladen und Strecke ergeben 23,525 kwh/100km bei niedriger Geschwindigkeit und ca 62€! Mein Benziner wäre bei dieser Strecke mit 47€ deutlich günstiger, wobei bei diesen Geschwindigkeiten wahrscheinlich noch geringer inkl. Sauna und deutlich kürzere Reisezeit ca 1/3 davon. Im Winter hat das Fahrzeug kein Segen.