VW ID.3

193 km on 20% is not possible. That's over 9km per 1%. Best I have gotten is 4km per 1% with an average of 3km per 1%. 58kwh ID.3

Hi Folks,

What general range are you getting on the 58kw ID3?

Wife has the 52KW ID4 and only getting around 300-320km at full charge, fine for her as its mainly around town driving.

The few times I brought it to work (50km each way, Normal A Roads) the consumption seemed very high even with nothing on, and in B Mode.

From what I can see I would barely get 2 days driving out of the ID4 so just wondering if the ID3 is much better.

Cheers

B mode is counter productive on national routes.

It was always dead slow to boot after the car was standing for a while. Happens every morning, on a bad day a light blue colour also appears:)

Really? when I drive the ID4 I tend to have it in B mode the entire time as its so much easier to drive with one pedal.

Personally i find a 25% improvement in summer weather.

So woke up at 4am to my ID.3 car alarm going off (family edt), thankfully nothing wrong and no one around so a false alarm, but kinda scratching my head as to what set it off. My security camera shows no one in/around the driveway - I know it was raining and maybe windy, cats might have been around too. Other than that the only slighty not normal thing was my panaramic roof was off so maybe the internal 'saw' some reflection from the glass there?

Basically grasping here, anyone a samilar experience? I read in the manual the 12v being low can cause this, my battery is at 45% it's been sat in the drive dooing nothing for about 3/4 days, before than a nip around town and back.

Happened us a few weeks ago too. Thought it was the fire alarm in the house initially! Not sure what set it off here either but cats are regular visitors.

this exact thing has happened us maybe 5 or 6 times in the past 14months. Calm day, no cars or anything, nothing on the car seats etc - it just decides to go off.

sometimes we don’t even hear it outside the window for those first few seconds, until we get the app alert and look out.

Id be checking the 12V if the alarm is going off for no reason. It could be triggering because it sees the 12V going low and interpreting that as someone trying to disable the car.

Having the car idle for a few days can also cause it to go low. Charging the HV battery will charge the 12V too so that’s worth doing.

If it’s not the 12V and it keeps happening, it’s time to call the dealer.

just remembered… if the key fob is in range it can run down the 12v battery by repeatedly activating the lights. That happened to me with keys in my pocket watching TV!

Forward momentum is desirable in an electric car. Driving in B mode, you're either giving juice to the motor or scrubbing off your forward momentum for regen. D mode in the ID cars allows you to keep forward momentum and only scrubs it as needed (when there's a car in front of you, for example). It's really very clever and I don't think there's any reason to ever use B mode, save perhaps when descending a long, steep hill. I don't believe it's more efficient.

Same here, I started off using B but now only use it in traffic and for slowing on motorway exits.

Apparently it's more efficient to coast and not have to get back up to speed than it is to regen. Plus, when you're lifting off the accelerator you aren't necessarily always braking, sometimes you're just rolling along with slow traffic i.e city centre, village main street etc and just feathering the throttle to keep the car rolling and the brake is there if you need it.

Also it's complimented by that smart regen that will regen near junctions/roundabouts. Not 100% certain but I believe the radar will also smart regen coming up to traffic even if ACC isn't on?

Do other EVs generally have always on regen? I know some have paddles to change the level of regen but do any others just coast?