VW ID.3

Preheating, as in while connected to the mains ? and do you mean difference to consumption ?

I honestly don't find much of a difference between 20 and 23 degrees on consumption, I think all electrics, that I've been in anyway, seem to adjust the temp cooler the higher you have it set. I don't like the way in every ev i've owned where the heat heats up then cools off too much and keeping it that way requiring me to set the temp higher that I would in an ICE car. Electrics should rather than turn off the heat once set temp is reached just reduce the power to the heater rather than turn it off or turn it down lower than it should and also reduce the fan speed, in the id.3 I find it constantly blows cold air in my face, not good when I have the car set to 23 deg C so a lot of the time I end up manually adjusting the fan and air direction.

But I think even the 58 Kwh id3 has enough range for most people so there's no need to worry about heating, just set it to whatever is comfortable, gone are the days of 100 Km range electrics so there's no need to worry about it any more and there's no need for heat pumps either, in my opinion.

The 94 Ah (33 Kwh) BMW i3 is truly amazing, I didn't believe the specs Samsung provided at the time but I do now!!! After 4.5 years and 134,000 Kms the i3 showed no noticeable loss of range at all and even the reported battery Kwh was the same as when I got it, incredible for just a 33 Kwh battery ( 28 usable, less with the Rex)

Here's hoping the 77 Kwh id3 battery is just as robust. BMW did have a state of the art cooling system too not seen in any ev since and it baffles me why other manufacturers didn't do this, it's just so simple and efficient, it's direct AC cooled, no coolant and a heating element to warm it up ( only to 10 Deg C) don't think I ever saw the battery over 35 Deg C for more than a couple of mins.

Not charging the battery to 100% is always a good idea, there's more than enough studies, peer reviewed papers and actual evidence that using say 30-80% or better 30-70% is going to greatly improve cycle life.

My attitude is if you don't need to use 100% of the battery then don't charge to 100%, If I charged to 70% a return trip to the furthest site I have to go to in Ballycoolin ind Est in Blanch from just North of Carlow Town with the Tour 5 would see me get back to work with 30% charge around 170 Kms.

I remember the day in the 2015 Leaf with 21 usable Kwh where I had to charge up in Blanch shopping centre when I went there shopping just to get back home lol. 21 Kwh to now 77 Kwh is a massive leap, so too is the cost, the Leaf SVE highest trim cost 28K with 6.6 kw charger. But funny enough my repayments on PCP are just about the same with the same deposit........

When I'm on the Blanch site I always charge to 100% because I never know if I'll be back the next day and want to suck as much as I can from that charge point with the id3 11 Kw charger. It would be nice if it had a 20 Kw AC charger...... but the other site only has 3 pin plug, the previous manager was dead against installing proper charge points, the new manager might be more open to having proper charge points.

What battery ?

always helps when people mention that lol

I'll be going from Carlow to Clare around the same 235 kms, no problem in the Tour 5, I was looking at the charge point map, the coverage of high power chargers even 50 Kw is really disgraceful.

Don't forget that the id3 hides around 8-10% at the low end as I discovered via the obd app. At least that's the case on my car and I suppose with updates that can change. Though updates are very few........

Drove from home I to town this evening and after 6 kms when I got to town I saw 11.7 Kwh/100 km

sun kept the car warm and I actually needed just the fan to keep me at the right temp.

its amazing when you don't need heat or battery heat, never saw this low consumption.

I downloaded the update for the weconnect app on android and the updates are for 3.0 software versions and this is what it says.

*view your last parking position

*Check windows and doors are closed and locked and lights are off

*check vehicle is locked

*Temperature notifications in cold weather to prevent the cold from effecting battery performance

*log into infotainment via code scanner.

This is not very good translation "*Temperature notifications in cold weather to prevent the cold from effecting battery performance"

What does this even mean ? does it mean that it will give a recommendation if the battery temp is low to activate the battery heater ?

Most other things are checks, for example, check doors are open, no such ability to remote lock or close windows.

Baby steps......... I'm still on 2.2 software! 😕