Great video as usual 😊 Can the battery preheat be started on my 2024 Enyaq Sportline Plus 85x in the morning before leaving for a journey and then for me to go back inside my house for a long coffee ?
As of now I have plenty more charging done at ionity stations in Germany and Denmark...basically if you do not haver to share a charger you are much faster...we managed to charge in 22-26 Minutes. always and not matter if SoC was 5% or 25% we always hat peak power of 170-180kW until 50% SoC. Most of the time our break was longer than charging the ENYAQ :)
Hello Matthias, Nice to see the proper charging performance and the effect of pre-heating. However, I think charging performance is still not really up to the current level set by the market. My 2022 Enyaq iV60 reaches 130kW charging power when the battery is above 20 degrees and below 10% SOC. The power starts dropping after a few minutes in an almost linear line. In my opinion, charging for trucks should be solved the same way as is done with gas stations. Trucks should have separate charging stations where they fit and with ultra high performance chargers. In my area there is a large one that is optimized for trucks. Lots of room and many HPC’s. Cars have their own separate HPC area there. As it is now your ‘neighbor’ had no option but to block that spot. Fastned locations are somewhat rare outside the Netherlands, but often have a layout suitable for trucks to charge. I almost never see that with other operators. Good for cars, but bad luck for truckers.
Great review. Interesting to see the new upgrades for the Enyaq. I have an IV 60 for just over a year and it’s a great car. Might consider upgrading to the 85 or 85x in the future. Not sure if I’d consider the RS version as its limited power because of SOC doesn’t make it worth it. Would definitely go with the orange paint though!
There is a FastNed charging station in the north of England that has days where all 8 chargers are occupied with DPD vans. It's super inconvenient but there needs to be batter charging infrastructure that caters for vans and, in the future, HGVs! Not sure if DPD are going to install slow chargers for overnight charging at their depots but I'm pretty sure they should!! A UK telecoms fleet (Openreach) with 30000 vehicles will be converting to Electric vans... this is going to add strain on the charging infrastructure too. I think the figure is something like 30-40% of those vehicles will need to use on the go chargers and the rest will be home charged. At my work we need to replace our diesel van to electric but we sometimes use a trailer... Where to charge? Most chargers are car only spaces! People towing caravans too!! It's all a bit of a headache but hopefully solutions will be figured out! Thanks for the Video!
Dear Matthias, thanks again for this interesting video. I am driving first generation iV80 (2021) with ME3.0. Already driving with my tent trailer in summer from Netherlands to Austria for few years. Fastned is known for their trailer friendly chargers (not all but most if them). Length is not so long as a truck so usually possible to charge without inhooking. Most of the time I use Tesla where there so many chargers that parking rectangular and blocking 3 chargers is not an issue. I was wondering whether MY2024 has additional hardware for pre-heating the battery or this is just software. Preheating would be very helpful for the wintertime trips to Austria for skiing. Especially the first charge is always annoying due to low temperature of the battery. I am visiting dealer next week to update to 3.7 (noted no preheating as well).
@@ElizeVeldman2013The Enyaqs before MY24 will roughly have the same pre-heating hardware and it works. Problem that it is only activated (controlled by the software) to heat up the battery when temperatures are below zero. I have a 2022 Enyaq and my car scanner shows the PTC and the pump are activated when I charge the car when it is freezing. It stops when the battery reaches a temperature above zero. But it will never heat up the battery above 20 degrees to improve charging performance. Indeed 3.7 won’t fix that but who knows, if miracles do happen…..😉
The UK indeed needs many more chargers. Last year we drove from Hull to Scotland for our holiday and already in northern England we had to make good preparations on where to charge. Scotland is even worse. In the Netherlands and Germany I don’t have to plan where to charge. There is always an HPC nearby.
Hello Matthias, another great video :-) I hope you enjoy your vacation in Denmark, we ourselves are going to Jutland in the summer :-) not so long driving as you (we live near Copenhagen), but our Enyaq will be fully loaded with 5 passengers and the dog :-)
Thanks! We really have an awesome time in Denmark and fell in love with the country and the people. It’s a really great place to be and so much nature to enjoy with the dog. Sometimes I thought in the recent days to relocate up here, learn language and find a job 😄 Wish you great holidays and always enough energy in the battery😊 but what we learned up here is that charging is no issue. So many chargers everywhere
I love my 85X ❤ I was frustrated with VAG adding the SFD2 to the cars software security to the OBD2 so using OBDELEVEN is not working as yet. Hopefully soon. I watched ur vids b4 getting my Enyaq
I have a question that no dealership in the UK has been able to answer, nor have I been able to find out on any Skoda or forum page. The Skoda Enyaq 85x Sportline and the Skoda Enyaq 85x RS have the same hardware, battery & motors. (As far as I can find anyways) yet the RS is faster and has more BHP. Is this achieved through software or is there additional hardware to give it higher BHP, more power, and faster 0-60 time?? The other thing I wondered is, have you felt that there is a bit of lag with acceleration off the line? As I know it's a quick car, and I'm in no way complaining. I just feel that it has a little bit of lag. I was looking at a pedal controller, or throttle controller, pedal commander type of thing. Will they work with EVs or have you any other suggestions. Great work and I enjoy you content. Thanks for making them
It’s in the software, hardware should be the same in both cars as far as my information is correct and yes, a very small lag can be experienced I would say. I cannot give you any recommendations what you can do about this as I have no experience with tools like that. Sorry
Great video as usual 😊 Can the battery preheat be started on my 2024 Enyaq Sportline Plus 85x in the morning before leaving for a journey and then for me to go back inside my house for a long coffee ?
Interesting! We will be picking up our 24' RS suv this week. Our first EV. We will also drive in Denmark from Norway this summer :)
As of now I have plenty more charging done at ionity stations in Germany and Denmark...basically if you do not haver to share a charger you are much faster...we managed to charge in 22-26 Minutes. always and not matter if SoC was 5% or 25% we always hat peak power of 170-180kW until 50% SoC. Most of the time our break was longer than charging the ENYAQ :)
Hello Matthias, Nice to see the proper charging performance and the effect of pre-heating. However, I think charging performance is still not really up to the current level set by the market. My 2022 Enyaq iV60 reaches 130kW charging power when the battery is above 20 degrees and below 10% SOC. The power starts dropping after a few minutes in an almost linear line.
In my opinion, charging for trucks should be solved the same way as is done with gas stations. Trucks should have separate charging stations where they fit and with ultra high performance chargers. In my area there is a large one that is optimized for trucks. Lots of room and many HPC’s. Cars have their own separate HPC area there. As it is now your ‘neighbor’ had no option but to block that spot. Fastned locations are somewhat rare outside the Netherlands, but often have a layout suitable for trucks to charge. I almost never see that with other operators. Good for cars, but bad luck for truckers.
Great review. Interesting to see the new upgrades for the Enyaq. I have an IV 60 for just over a year and it’s a great car. Might consider upgrading to the 85 or 85x in the future. Not sure if I’d consider the RS version as its limited power because of SOC doesn’t make it worth it. Would definitely go with the orange paint though!
I play Shinedown while driving too😂
There is a FastNed charging station in the north of England that has days where all 8 chargers are occupied with DPD vans. It's super inconvenient but there needs to be batter charging infrastructure that caters for vans and, in the future, HGVs! Not sure if DPD are going to install slow chargers for overnight charging at their depots but I'm pretty sure they should!! A UK telecoms fleet (Openreach) with 30000 vehicles will be converting to Electric vans... this is going to add strain on the charging infrastructure too. I think the figure is something like 30-40% of those vehicles will need to use on the go chargers and the rest will be home charged. At my work we need to replace our diesel van to electric but we sometimes use a trailer... Where to charge? Most chargers are car only spaces! People towing caravans too!! It's all a bit of a headache but hopefully solutions will be figured out! Thanks for the Video!
Thanks for your feedback! Sounds really annoying what's going on at that charging station
Dear Matthias, thanks again for this interesting video. I am driving first generation iV80 (2021) with ME3.0. Already driving with my tent trailer in summer from Netherlands to Austria for few years. Fastned is known for their trailer friendly chargers (not all but most if them). Length is not so long as a truck so usually possible to charge without inhooking. Most of the time I use Tesla where there so many chargers that parking rectangular and blocking 3 chargers is not an issue.
I was wondering whether MY2024 has additional hardware for pre-heating the battery or this is just software. Preheating would be very helpful for the wintertime trips to Austria for skiing. Especially the first charge is always annoying due to low temperature of the battery. I am visiting dealer next week to update to 3.7 (noted no preheating as well).
@@ElizeVeldman2013The Enyaqs before MY24 will roughly have the same pre-heating hardware and it works. Problem that it is only activated (controlled by the software) to heat up the battery when temperatures are below zero. I have a 2022 Enyaq and my car scanner shows the PTC and the pump are activated when I charge the car when it is freezing. It stops when the battery reaches a temperature above zero. But it will never heat up the battery above 20 degrees to improve charging performance. Indeed 3.7 won’t fix that but who knows, if miracles do happen…..😉
The UK indeed needs many more chargers. Last year we drove from Hull to Scotland for our holiday and already in northern England we had to make good preparations on where to charge. Scotland is even worse. In the Netherlands and Germany I don’t have to plan where to charge. There is always an HPC nearby.
@@RicoD5PTC heater will only activate when at the DC-charger and will stop at 23 degrees. Tested this in winter a few times.
Hello Matthias, another great video :-) I hope you enjoy your vacation in Denmark, we ourselves are going to Jutland in the summer :-) not so long driving as you (we live near Copenhagen), but our Enyaq will be fully loaded with 5 passengers and the dog :-)
Thanks! We really have an awesome time in Denmark and fell in love with the country and the people. It’s a really great place to be and so much nature to enjoy with the dog. Sometimes I thought in the recent days to relocate up here, learn language and find a job 😄
Wish you great holidays and always enough energy in the battery😊 but what we learned up here is that charging is no issue. So many chargers everywhere
@@electrifiedspeicher enjoy your stay :-) Hopefully we get real summer next week :-) Yes, were are more or less flooded with superchargers :-)
I love my 85X ❤
I was frustrated with VAG adding the SFD2 to the cars software security to the OBD2 so using OBDELEVEN is not working as yet. Hopefully soon. I watched ur vids b4 getting my Enyaq
I have a question that no dealership in the UK has been able to answer, nor have I been able to find out on any Skoda or forum page.
The Skoda Enyaq 85x Sportline and the Skoda Enyaq 85x RS have the same hardware, battery & motors. (As far as I can find anyways) yet the RS is faster and has more BHP. Is this achieved through software or is there additional hardware to give it higher BHP, more power, and faster 0-60 time??
The other thing I wondered is, have you felt that there is a bit of lag with acceleration off the line? As I know it's a quick car, and I'm in no way complaining. I just feel that it has a little bit of lag. I was looking at a pedal controller, or throttle controller, pedal commander type of thing. Will they work with EVs or have you any other suggestions.
Great work and I enjoy you content. Thanks for making them
It’s in the software, hardware should be the same in both cars as far as my information is correct and yes, a very small lag can be experienced I would say. I cannot give you any recommendations what you can do about this as I have no experience with tools like that. Sorry
What driving mode you are using? I have 80x and for sure car is more responsive to accelerate with sport mode than normal mode.