VW ID.3

33000 km on ours. It’s going in this morning.

We are thinking of bringing it to France. Are we mad? the Q5 has done all the family trips up to now but it’s 13 years old and I’d be worried something would go.

There's already been at least one poster in here who brought their ID3 across France and had no issue. Another few who brought their ID4. All said it was a very straight forward trip.

We Charge card also works for the vast majority of charge point operators in Europe so no need to have loads of charge points.

The UK have a very good charging network now so what you saw a few years ago is probably a far different experience to your time there.

Half the time I think you just create these issues in your own mind so you have something to give out about 😁

When I was down near London in September I never even thought about charging. Just let the car tell me, via Superchargers. However I used the much cheaper Gridserve which are literally at every motorway services. But I suppose I did have the Tesla SuC to fall back on had the Gridserve been busy or broken.

Coming home via Oxford and Birmingham It was almost confusing with the number of options. The UK is certainly easy now even in a non Tesla.

This is the key to a successful international trip. You need to sign up to the providers that have multiple high-power chargers on site and not using a mish mash of operators with SPOF.

Just signup to the large providers, pay the piper, and plan your normal stops around those charge sessions. It wont delay you, because you need to stop anyway with kids, but you do obviously need to plan it.

Perhaps I am an oddity, but most times I am on a longish run I like to stop for at least 30 mins to stretch the legs, get a coffee etc. 60kW does me fine, usually not needing much more than 30kWh. The Supercharging is nearly too fast at times, especially seeing my LFP battery still charges at over 40kW at 90%. Tesla overstaying is rightly expensive, have nearly been caught out more than once. Bit of a pain if you are half way through your gourmetious MackyD..😁

Just for you though! 😀

I get 100kW (as advertised by VW) nearly every single time I charge on a HPC. As stated you need to be at a low SoC and battery at 20C+ and then you get max rate. Works fine for me.

Let us know when you’ve made a determination. Anxious to know if 3.0 fixes it.

Your setting a tough bench mark there Mad_Lad, not many know how over engineered the i3 was, battery cooling, heating and chemistry that was better than anything else out there of that time period and still better than many new ev’s on the market today, and a faultless i drive system.

I found I was taking the id3 more in the early days but now the i3 is the go to car, except for early morning and nights when the matrix system turns night into day.

The Id range high speed charge criteria isn’t great but it’s not too bad either, I’ve seen 100kw’s on rare public charging occasions, 135 kw’s possibly for the Tours with the comfort of the big battery softens the blow. The new leaf is still on chademo 🙈, ac42 Zoe’s now defunct..

Your work charging system allows for one of the best set ups imaginable, way more positives than negatives.

Imagine back in 2017 thinking you could have a car that could accept and hold 60kwh of energy, let alone 77…from the early leaf days it seemed we would never get to where we are now, albeit having to shop savvy for Tours knowing the public charging system is still total pants. . .