So fuel savings in the Octavia iV are likely, but how much you save will depend very much on what sort of journeys you’ll be doing. We already had a tree at our house but my elderly mum, who lives alone and, due to Covid-19, is insisting on spending Christmas Day on her own, did not — so the car’s first duty (after its photoshoot) was a trip to ma’s, where there tree was erected. I think it has made her Christmas. Skoda may not be seen as the most exciting car brand in the world, perhaps, but it definitely has a heart and soul. The stars and their cars Giorgetto Giugiaro, legendary car designer Gran Turismo star on fatal Nurburgring crash Duke of Richmond Q&A: 75 years of Goodwood › More here...

Bitkeeva, Aisa (2007): Ethnic Language Identity and the Present Day Oirad-Kalmyks. Altai Hakpo, 17: 139–154.ST 44, ST 34, ST 21, LI 4, CV 12, CV 13, CV 11; all clear Stomach Heat; LI 11 clears general Heat; all points reduced, except CV 12, CV 13, where even method is used.

Companies operating in the same business sector as Gemlo Co have an average debt/equity ratio of 40% on a market value basis and an average interest cover of 9 times. After that trip I filled up at the petrol station, and have travelled 146 miles since, almost entirely on electric. The petrol tank is still full, according to the gauge.

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A 77-year-old man presented with glossitis of 3 months' duration. He complained of burning in his epigastrium, excessive hunger, mouth ulcers, and a feeling of heat. There was generalized redness over his tongue, with patches of papillary loss (a geographic tongue) and scattered areas of purple discoloration. The redness and burning sensation were more in the Stomach area of his tongue. The tongue coating was slightly yellow. A diagnosis of Stomach Fire leading to early Blood Stagnation in the Stomach was made.

App connectivity issues: I’ve finally got the app connected, months after taking delivery. It involved having both key fobs inside the car, registering a profile for myself and setting it as the primary user, then logging into the app and “activating” the profile. It helps if you have both keys — journalists aren’t given both, so I had to make a trip to Skoda HQ to borrow the second — but I then had a hell of a time activating the car. The breakthrough came after deleting my profile, the app and starting again from scratch. Suddenly it all just worked, but it was painful. On the plus side, the app is now proving to be rather good.

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Further improvement was not forthcoming. On further questioning, he reported consuming sizable amounts of cashew nuts every day. This was stopped, and his recovery was near complete. Waking up infotainment: It takes a few seconds for the infotainment system to warm up, which means you can’t just jump in and set the radio to a particular channel straight away, for example. It’s a small thing, but I know it can work better — Jaguar Land Rover’s new infotainment systems are fully alert within milliseconds of you opening the car door. I’d pre-condition the car’s interior using the Skoda app, but I’ve had a hell of a time getting it set up (for a future update), and in the end found that you need both keys to do so. Which means I’ve arranged to stop by Skoda’s press garage tomorrow en route to another car launch, to borrow the spare key and get it sorted. Predictive regen: Regenerative braking — whereby the car recovers energy to the battery when you lift off the accelerator — is a good thing. In many electric and plug-in hybrid cars, there are two or more levels of regen, allowing the driver to adjust it — and the resulting braking effect — to their preferred strength. By default, the Skoda Octavia iV uses predictive regen, which is linked to the forward camera and sat nav. As you approach a junction or get closer to the rear of a car you’re following, the regen braking effect increases. Some people may like this, but I don’t, as it feels less predictable. Fortunately, you can set the regen from Automatic to High or Weak via the Octavia iV’s touchscreen. It also means that driving over a sleeping policeman doesn’t rattle your teeth or jar the spine, but you do find there’s more vertical travel at the nose and tail than some rivals (I’m thinking of the BMW 3 Series and Audi A4 estates, for example), and the springs continue to compress and rebound for longer than one might expect.

Skoda delivered the Octavia iV Estate on December 14 with a Christmas tree on the roof and a Christmas card inside (adorned with the lovely pun, “The holly and the iV”), which was a lovely touch. One of the surprising things about the Octavia iV is that, unlike other PHEVs I’ve driven, there’s no “Battery hold” button (that I’ve so far discovered, at least). These, as you’d expect, hold the battery level at a specific amount and switch a car into hybrid mode. This means that when you approach a residential area, you can be sure you’ve got enough battery to drive through emission-free. It’s especially useful when you know you’re likely to enter a zero emission zone (ZEZ), which have been proposed in areas of London. So what is the Skoda Octavia iV all about? Well, it’s a plug-in hybrid (PHEV), which means it can be driven on electric power for a number of miles before a traditional combustion engine joins the party, after which it works pretty much like a standard hybrid. In the Octavia’s case, it’ll go for “up to 37 miles” on electric power, according to the official WLTP test, though from day one the actual range indicated by the car is 25 miles, and that seems to be pretty accurate so far.

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Their language belongs to the Oirat, or western, branch of the Mongolian language group. The Oirat dialects are also spoken in western Mongolia, and in Xinjiang and neighbouring provinces of China. The home of the Kalmyk lies west of the Volga River in its lower courses, in an arc along… Coloo, Ž. (1988): BNMAU dah’ mongol helnii nutgiin ajalguuny tol’ bichig: oird ayalguu. Ulaanbaatar: ŠUA.