VW ID.4

Agree with the contributions here, have 18k completed and overall very happy with it:

Good:

• Very refined and quiet
• Nippy (as per most EV's)
• Well build overall - I've got no rattle or shakes
• Great high SuV seating position, v comfortable
• Due to height and space its very easy to get kids in and out of
• Great boot - its not just the size in liters is thecshape. I can fit all sorts of bits and pieces in. The ev6 for instance wouldn't work for us in this regard
• Wireless android auto is a gift
• Looks well - its a subjective thing but I like the design. The iconic5 for instance looks futuristic but may not age well

Bad:

• Software is too slow generally and a little buggy -release velocity is disappointing
• App is poor feature wise
• One loose door seal, easy fix
• Winter range is disappointmenting (possibly common to a lot of EV's)

In fact, hope to get a GTX this year

Would you have been as happy if you'd paid EV6 money for the ID4 though?

Good question

A year later there's much more choice. I needed a car at the time and the ID.4 fitted the bill, and was immediately available. The prices of everything have increased since then as well as the crazy build and delivery dates, how much would a similar spec ID.4 cost now, 55k+? Would I pay that now - no as I wouldn't be able to afford it atm, so wouldn't be able to buy a similar spec EV6/Ioniq5 either.

If the EV6 was available for 45k last year would I go for it over the ID.4? Not sure, I didn't like it when I saw it in the flesh, sat too low down for me, a bit cramped for my liking on the inside, boot felt too small, no wiper on the rear window, but that's my personal opinion. Didn't really like the Ioniq 5 either when I saw it recently, I was looking for something a bit smaller then the traditional SUV size I was coming from and find the ID.4 somewhere in-between, a bit shorter and a bit narrower then the EV6/Ioniq5 but without any compromise internally. The tech in the Korean cars is attractive but I don't think it would change my choice as I need the practical side of things more. There's room for all 3 in the market now and I hope the new cars do well, competition can only be a good thing.

Hindsight is a great thing, there's always some first mover advantage and all the risks that brings. I've been lucky to have the chance to drive the car for nearly a year already, and am a bit jealous of the fun the new Kia/Hyundai owners will have.

What range would you get on a highway trip in winter?

I hope mine is in the same build, was meant for last summer , eventually ended up being built in the 15Dec but missed that

have you ordered a 52kWh?

WeConnect ID app update for iPhone adds widget for battery and range

We use wireless apple CarPlay 100% of the time now, loading by default when either of us sit into the car, so we literally never see the VW interface unless changing a climate setting or something, and if the Hyundai and Kia don’t have that it’d be a big turnoff, which I didn’t realise

i live in prime EV Land and I’m starting to see EV6’s and Ioniq5’s about. I’m definitely warming to the ev6 more than the ioniq - in the flesh the proportions of the ioniq 5 look bloated.

Did 240km in January without charging, no bother to the car

I can't remember what my starting and ending SOC were, but I think overall consumption was around 21kWh/100km

So a little over 300km range. That's at motorway speeds with family and luggage in the car

One thing to note is that your consumption will go up when you're doing a lot of short journeys in a day. This is because the car is cooling down between journeys and has to heat up again

You'll need to charge more often in that case, but if you've home charging then it's not really much effort

I was the same - the initial pics of the ioniq5 looked great. However it’s a BIG car, which you don’t see in pictures, but in the flesh it looks ‘fat’ more so than ‘big’.

V3 of the software should (Somewhat) address winter range issues.

I think the offer only started last end of August or start of September so was a short run and wasn't around when you got your car. You were in before the offer started and at the time anyone that already had an Id 4 got €50 instead of €625.

You should get it so if you ring your dealer. I know when my father was picking up his car at the end of September he was the first person in the dealership to get the deal and the first person they had even filled the forms out for. That might have been because very few iD4 cars arrived into the dealership in the previous month or so and also there was close to zero promotion of the offer.

Beating me by a month. I ordered on July 7th

edit: just off the phone to my dealer. The car left the paint shop yesterday. So should be nearing assembly. Which doesn’t take long. Reckons it’ll be in country in 4 weeks

Hi

My car was also registered on the first of July and i signed up for the sse deal on that day for €675 free credit. It took 3 months for the credit to come through . There was very little information on the offer and no t & c and sse were hard to deal with and kept sending us back to vw.