Would an EV that has been sat around for months concern you?
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My local dealer has a number of low mileage one year old Enyaqs in stock at what seems a decent price…we could do a straight swap for a 3 year old Civic. We noticed that there was a bit of paper marked “confidential” in one of the cars and being nosey we had a quick read. It seemed to be a report suggesting the cars did a lot of mileage in the first couple of months, then have sat around for the rest of the year. We think it said 97% battery capacity remaining. Would that be of concern to knowledgable EV folk? Thanks
Hi
Wouldn’t worry me tbh
The battery has an 8 year guarantee.
An ex-Skoda employee car?, I bought one last year. Mine was the last of the outgoing Enyaq 80, but had loads of options & 33% off new price when 9 months old / 5k miles
The dealer will have the cars digital certificate, here is an excerpt from mine.
Can see that the car was used a fair bit, then sat around until I got it:-
Wouldn’t worry me tbh
The battery has an 8 year guarantee.
An ex-Skoda employee car?, I bought one last year. Mine was the last of the outgoing Enyaq 80, but had loads of options & 33% off new price when 9 months old / 5k miles
The dealer will have the cars digital certificate, here is an excerpt from mine.
Can see that the car was used a fair bit, then sat around until I got it:-
Check what the owners manual says about storing it for a long time without use.
I say that because for my iX, the manual suggests leaving it between 30-50% charge if you aren t using it for a long time.
Btw my car's battery is at 97% capacity but that's after almost 3 years of daily usage.
I say that because for my iX, the manual suggests leaving it between 30-50% charge if you aren t using it for a long time.
Btw my car's battery is at 97% capacity but that's after almost 3 years of daily usage.
Edited by raspy on Sunday 6th July 18:57
It really depends what level of charge they stored it with. Worst cases would be 100% or <10%. Ideally it should be stored around 50%, but anywhere between 30-80% would be fine really.
It’s fairly typical for EV batteries to lose a little of their capacity over the first year or two and then stabilise and lose very little over the next few years ie battery degradation is non-linear and tends to slow down.
It’s fairly typical for EV batteries to lose a little of their capacity over the first year or two and then stabilise and lose very little over the next few years ie battery degradation is non-linear and tends to slow down.
Probably ex VW group employee cars which are being drip fed into the market. Quite a common thing to do if more are being defleeted than they can sell as approved used.
Sometimes if they end up with way more than they can force on dealers they will do a deal with a supermarket or punt them all through an auction to dispose of them.
Sometimes if they end up with way more than they can force on dealers they will do a deal with a supermarket or punt them all through an auction to dispose of them.
The high mileage in a couple of months, then unused, doesn’t fit with the usual VW Group employee car - they generally have them for 6mths+ (been longer over COVID) and don’t usually do many miles.
I know of one fleet Skoda supplies where the type of use described would fit. And a neighbour works for a company that gets cars off another manufacturer, puts around 9K miles on them (which for him can be 3-4mths) then they go back.
I know of one fleet Skoda supplies where the type of use described would fit. And a neighbour works for a company that gets cars off another manufacturer, puts around 9K miles on them (which for him can be 3-4mths) then they go back.
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