What sort of mileage do you do regularly?

[Jim_mk7.5]

There's nothing full-electric at the lower end which looks good but that ID3 could be appealing.

Looking at peoples journeys, I think electric will suit a lot of people most of the time but decent looking electric cars are limited and expensive still.

I went PHEV purely for company car BIK reasons but I like the ability for a larger petrol range and electric round town as my commute when we move in a month (and when I go back to the office) will be 5 miles each way so the 25-30 miles range of my 330e will suit me well with a combined range of at least around 300 or so miles as and when required.

Plus I still have something that makes a GTI sound rather dull and boring... 

[fredgroves]

Yes I did mean pre-virus times really.

And in my mind I was kinda talking about the scenario of daily use involving charging at home while you sleep.

I am starting to think that a 200 mile range would probably be good enough for me.

Charging while out and about I think might be a bit of a red herring for now, which is why I discounted the trips to Warsaw ;-)

The choices of vehicles is probably another issue, but pretty soon that's basically the only choice, so tupperware milkfloats for all...

BTW this thread popped into my mind when i was typing another comment earlier about there being no Mk9 Golf. This is it, Mk8 is the end. Its all ID3 from here on out.

[Guzzle]

Where has it been said there won't be a Mk9?

https://www.vwvortex.com/news/volkswagen-news/will-mk9-golf-says-volkswagen/

[fredgroves]

VW themselves said it and that article doesn't really deny it either...

[Adam T7]

Mines 18 months old with 6800 on the clock, lowest mileage I’ve ever done in a car (used to do over x4 that pa in a previous role). I was made a homeworker 3 months after I bought it, so all journeys now are mostly just for the hell of it, which is sort of nice.

[Guzzle]

VW themselves said it and that article doesn't really deny it either...

Must've missed that announcement. Google throws out nothing either

[fredgroves]

VW themselves said it and that article doesn't really deny it either...

Must've missed that announcement. Google throws out nothing either

Try this one:

https://www.electrive.com/2018/12/04/volkswagen-to-stop-building-on-fossil-fuel-engines-from-2026/


from that:

“In the year 2016 the last product based on a combustion platform will be started.” He added that the corporation would see its future in the electric drive.

Yet this does not mean that VW will stop building cars with combustion engines that year. The company thinks in seven-year development cycles so when the engineers in Wolfsburg take to the drawing board in 2025, it will be the last time they may include a fossil-fuel powered engine.

This means the last ICEs by Volkswagen will probably be sold around 2030. It is a sort of holding out as long as they can because after that year more and more countries will begin to ban sales of such vehicles anyway.

The article goes on to say that hybrids aren't where VW is going either.

We know there won't be a Mk8 E-golf, so putting all of that together, 2030 will be the last Golf.

In 8/9 years there won't be a Mk9, I think you will see a Mk8.5 (facelift) and that is it.

Golf is the past ID3 is the future and thats exactly how VW framed it - ID1 was the Beetle, ID2 was the Golf, ID3 is the next peoples' car.

[Guzzle]

Hmmm I wouldn't say that was completely unequivocal about a Mk9 either. All it says is that VW will stop developing ICE in 2026.

The article I posted was written after that also quoted VW, and suggested VW hadn't made a decision.

Anyway I suppose we'll see.

[CookieMonsterGTi]

My wife uses our for work.  She works two miles from where we live.....

And she's been "working from home" for the last three months !

The car has done 1300 miles from new and we will have had it a year next month...!!

Almost the same here, just. checked 1284 miles since September last year.  Wouldn't have normally been this low.

[Hertsman]

Fred, is that at the moment (with some of us still working from home) or PC (pre coronavirus) ?

My daily mileage before (normally) was around 30 miles per day, and now I'm lucky if it's 30 miles per fortnight 

My GTI is nearly 26 months old and has just ticked over 14k miles, so maybe yes an EV is in my future.

However my worry, is when we all go EV, where does the power come from to charge them (we are already at almost max capacity as a nation)?

I actually have no qualms about moving to electric as having seen the performance that can be produced there is no reason cannot have an equal experience to now in an electric - however, this is not a country where we all have drives and can just pull up to house and plug it in - Have a nice house, on a nice street but thats where car sits at night as have no drive and sometimes have to park further down the street, no way can be charged at night unless there was a street point for every car which would be an ugly affair anyway.

Battery technology needs to get to the point where you can pull up like you do for petrol into a garage bay, spend 5 mins charging and off you go again, complemented by improved self charging from the moving parts and even super efficient roofs that double up as solar panels (have to be as light and as hard as present roofs)

Electric tech has come on a load, but it is still only usuable for a few in this country.