SEAT Mii electric city car review - DrivingElectric
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The SEAT Mii and its Volkswagen Group siblings (the Skoda Citigo and Volkswagen up!) were among the best city cars of recent years - so how does the SEAT fare when the power source is switched from petrol to electric? With a pretty long range for such a small and affordable model, the Mii has the potential to be a real EV bargain. Grace Webb finds out more...
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Aww Yay, my Mii is being delivered on Monday 😁
Nice. We hope you enjoy it!
Grace is such a great presenter. Congrats guys!
Thanks Skap!
It’s not just a city car. I’ve had mine since July 20 and I live in rural Devon, it’s brilliant for our sort of roads. Biggest downsides are the factory settings for climate control, ac charging rate and lane recognition. 32A charging and setting the car to remember last used is easy with an OBD dongle. See Tedo Nash on CZcams.
We’ve had a Peugeot ion for a few years - brilliant on country lanes here in Cornwall.
32a pro Phase? Also statt 7,4 14,8kw?Ich weiß nicht ob das die Hersteller bezüglich Garantie so gut finden😂
@@DobermannJeff My German is not good but I think you were querying ac charging. Factory setting on mine was 16A. To get 32A you need to get the garage to reset the car for 32A or do it using OBD dongle. And you will need a 32A rated cable.
She does this in a great Way. Good job.
Thanks Jorgen!
Very professional, well presented
Thank you kindly!
Thanks for the detailed and objective review! Good video.
Thanks for watching!
Such a charmer of a car.
Imagine if VAG just made a little bum extension and made the Mii a miini-estate. Imagine that added practicality, and it'll look like the og Polo
Oooh, go on then! We'll take two!
The full explanation of the gear selector to set the 4 levels of brakiing regen is a major omission. Sometimes think that testers forget that they are testing a car!
How do i start the Car if the Epc light is showing?
Comparing the Seat Mii Electric to a similarly sized automatic city car, like the Hyundai i10 1.2 Auto, typical leasing prices are about £25 more per month for the Seat.
But, based on the Hyundai returning around 49mpg, for every 150 miles, whilst the Seat costs approximately £5 to charge to cover that distance, the Hyundai costs around £18 in petrol - £13 more.
Plus, the Hyundai costs £155 per year - about £13 per month - in road tax, with the Seat costing nothing.
So, the leasing price is clawed back if you to only drive 150 miles in a month...!
The average private mileage for the UK is around 500-600 per month, so the Mii Electric becomes significantly cheaper to run :-)
Proof that there's more to running costs than purchase price!
After 2 months of ownership I have covered 1695 miles at an average 4.9 miles per kW. I charge at home on a 5hour Octopus GO tariff - this works out at roughly £17.30 for almost 1700 miles or about 1p per mile,
Here in the US I can buy a Telsa new for less than the price of this, crazy pricing
Great review
Thanks very much!
is the mii electric longer than a Peugeot 206
I wonder if now the id3 has been released if the VW group will keep making these or better yet remake them using a smaller version of the id3's platform which would be pretty cool
They have stopped recently. The only new in the UK now are whatever is left in stock
When did Grace start working for you guys? I loved watching “Grace’s Amazing Machines” with my daughter on CBeebies.
She's been with us for a few months now. Plenty more to come!
Are you aware of the charging issue that affects virtually all of these (triplet) cars-VW,Seat and Skoda. They only charge at 3.4kW or so and not the advertised 7.2kW when plugged in to a home charge point. Has this been sorted yet? Looking at the owners forums definitely not as yet. The charging software has been set up for the more common European 3-phase supply and not the UK common single phase. So car will take a lot longer to charge than advertised.
Get a 2 year old one that depreciated 50% and then you have a real bargain. It is ideal a a 2nd car/short trips car, and if you have solar at home it soaks up some of what you would export, so effectively costs 8p a KwH, or less than 2p a mile to drive. Apart from an early test to see if the DC charge port worked, i haven't paid for a charge.If you do a 120 mile round trip, you can charge up over the next 2 or 3 days at 3 hours a session, to soak up the solar excess.
I always liked the Seat version of these cars.
It only charges at 7kw at home if your home has 3 phase electric into your home. On single phase you can only charge at 3kw. Very few homes have this and the upgrade cost to get 3 phase is likely to be £3-5k.
No, you 100% don’t need 3 phase to run a 7kw charger mate. You just need a 32 amp single phase supply running to wherever you want to place it (32A x 240v = 7690w). Generally this just means running a thick armoured cable (how thick depends on distance) tapped into the supply before your current consumer unit, with a little consumer unit somewhere for the chargers 32amp RCD.
2 phasen
Will we see this across the pond in the USA state of Maine?
No since sear doesn’t sell here
No. SEAT isn’t sold in North America, but I think you can get some in Mexico. Just buy a SEAT in Mexico, and drive all the way to Maine.
Wait 25 years for classic import rules to apply?
US isn’t getting the VW ID3, Renault Zoe or Honda E. Sorry, but seriously doubt the US will get the SEAT Mii .
On the plus side, you can get the new Hummer.
* SEAT Mii. Škoda has the Citigo.
People say that these cars are " city cars " , well i have a nissan leaf 2016 model with the 30 kw 180km realistic range and this summer i drove 600km 1 way i had to charge 4 times. with the mii o would expect to charge 3 times ish since it has 50km extra range and 36kw batteri , so dont call these city cars they are perfectly capable of long range driving at a budget;)). And by the way the charging my car on my summer trip cost me roughly 60 uk pounds and that was driving 1200km the petrol cost would have been crazy seeing as petrol in Norway now cost 2uk pounds per liter:). Driving electric is good for wallet.
There is no traffic sign recognition!
My Mii Electric is just about to clock up its first 1000 miles - estimated costs at 5 miles per kWh and an Octopus tariff offering 5 hours charging at 5p per kW, and a 7.2 kWh home charger = £10.
Bargain motoring!
Hang on a minute, estimated cost, you paid a fortune to buy it, and you talking about saving money.
You could buy two brand new Vw Ups, and still have a lot of change in your pocket.
I was comparing the Seat to other EV’s currently on the market which cost more and have less range, not it’s petrol equivalent. These other fashionable EV’s are packed with tech and get mega publicity, while people loose sight of relatively cheaper vehicles, I fully accept that at present owning an EV is an expensive privilege, but I see the more expensive tech full EV’s clouding the issue of affordable EV motoring. I won’t ever own my Seat I have it on a 2 year lease for £179 per month, which is comparable to similar petrol vehicles.
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Are these cars available again ? I thought the Up, Citigo and Mii had ceased production.
The Skoda is no longer on sale, but you can buy a brand-new VW or SEAT direct from the manufacturer.
@@DrivingElectric thank you for the reply.
Good review but no mention of price.
Apologies, Steve. As we've mentioned in some of the other comments, we're hesitant to offer pricing info in our in-depth reviews. Prices are subject to change, and we can't retrospectively update our video content. You can find all the info you need on our website: drivingelectric.com
A starting price of close to £23,000 a total bargain.
No wonder you see so many of them on the road, their a total steal for that money.
City car = rural car 👍
The reviewer misses the car’s best selling point. It DOESN’T have any infotainment.
Grace touched on that. Thanks to the cradle, you can operate your phone and all its functions - just as you would a normal infotainment display!
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It’s just a VW with a Seat badging.
We can't really argue with that...
Aren't all of them?
Get a Nintendo Wii...
Good news glad they ditched the toxic petrol fossil burning fuel ice old technology 🌎💚🙏😊👋👋#buzzofftoxic
Two batteries are needed in the life of an EV with an average CO2 cost of 6 Tonnes per battery for the large batteries used today, so 12 Tonnes plus all the cost of steel in wind turbines and very energy intensive solar panel production plus the energy cost of the steel in the car and the fact when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine the vast majority of these cars even in Germany are charged on coal-fired electricity brought in from Poland and Hungary etc but are counted as "green" because the electricity doesn't originate in Germany. A typical ICE car on the other hand produces only 40 Tonnes of CO2 in its lifetime if it is run for say 150,000 miles or far less if it runs on LPG. There are some figures in this attachment that are along these lines but note no mention is made of using LPG which many cars in Europe run on and no mention of two batteries being required for the life of the car to get to 150,000 miles or of the actual CO2 cost of the wind turbine steel and concrete production or the solar panel CO2 production costs or the fact that neither the batteries nor the panels nor the wind turbine blades can be recycled and so have to be put into toxic landfills. This is a scam and a hugely environmentally damaging scam at that. Plus the EVs are double the cost of ICE cars despite the massive reduction in parts. What;s not to like eh! medium.com/@maximilian.zoller/ice-vehicles-vs-electric-vehicle-d16eb0d78487
Do you watch every ev car review and peddle this garbage?
What about the CO2 cost of the fuel used in an Ice car? I don't just mean what is produced at the tail pipe, I mean the emissions of extracting the oil, refining the oil, transporting the oil around the globe, and eventually to your local fuel station. The naysayers conveniently forget to include any of that. Plus they also ignore the positives of moving emissions out of the cities.
Almost every EV comes with a separate battery warranty - often up to eight years or 100,000 miles. So even if your comment were true, it's unlikely to affect many new car buyers.
You actually talk an incredible amount of drivel! Requiring two batteries to travel 150,000 miles (the article you link to refers to km but we’ll gloss over that) would suggest each battery will only last 75,000 miles which just isn’t the case. Do you really think manufacturers would warranty their batteries for 8 years / 100,000 miles (or 10 years / 625,000 miles in the case of the Lexus UX) if they knew that had to replace every single one of them within that time?
Here’s an example of how long the batteries should last: Drive-green.co.uk purchased a 30kWh LEAF back in 2018 that was 3 years old at the time and had covered 120,000 miles yet still had 87% of its original capacity. This was despite it being almost exclusively rapid charged during that time (4,224 rapid charges vs 10 slow charges) and the 30kWh LEAF being the worst of all EV’s for battery degradation.
The article you posted, clearly to back up your argument doesn’t even say anything about “6 tons per battery”. It says an eGolf creates 8.8 tons of CO2 to manufacture and the ICE equivalent is 5.6 tons, so a 3.3 tons increase. A petrol vehicle getting 40 U.K. MPG will create 3.3 tons of CO2 within 12,571 miles (3,300 kg of CO2 divided by 10.5kg of CO2 per gallon of fuel)
So if the EV version of the Golf was powered with 100% renewable energy then the carbon debt would be paid back within 20 months based on the U.K. average monthly mileage of 650 miles.
If being powered by 100% renewables isn’t possible then if we look at the average U.K. energy mix which has a carbon intensity of 0.233kg / kWh then the eGolf would emit 58.2g of CO2 per mile whereas the ICE Golf getting 40 mpg would emit 262.5g of CO2 per mile (excluding the energy used to refine the petrol). Based on that the eGolf would pay back its Carbon Debt within 16,152 miles.
You maybe want to re-educate yourself as what you’ve learned so far is clearly wrong.
Jacqueline, i feel embarrassed for you after reading that. Surprised you didn't also include some garbage about kids mining the precious metals required for battery production. ICE dinosaurs just love that one. You must have shares in Ford or GM. I'll stick to what an electric car can offer me. Enjoy staring at miserable faces on the petrol forecourt as I glide effortlessly by in my Tesla.
What was the POINT of this Video ? This car ( And the VW UP & Skoda City-Go ) are No Longer Available to Buy ! ! .. And Good Luck Finding a Used One ! ! !
Only available as electric.
That isn't true. The Skoda Citigo-e is no longer available, but you can still buy the Volkswagen e-up! and SEAT Mii Electric brand new.
@@DrivingElectric My wife is about to collect her Mii electric, and it's the demonstrator that she test drove on Monday, brand new, because they say they are not making them any more. So technically you could buy one barnd new two weeks ago, but you'll have to be very quick to find any left in the UK now.
We were told the reason is that there are plans for a new small car on the MEB platform (the basis of the VW ID series)which Seat will be developing, so watch out for that...
I hate videos like this which don't tell you the price. No thanks, not interested!
List is 20k. Takes a few seconds of googling to find out.
Sorry Tymes. While we do offer this info on our first drive videos, we tend to avoid pricing in our in-depth reviews as they're subject to change. You'll find everything you need at: drivingelectric.com
Why not just say this is the price ‘at the time of filming’. We all know stuff goes up plus it doesn’t seem to bother other car review sites.
£167 a month pcp.