VW ID.3

42 K for 58 Kwh ? that's utter madness, I paid less for the tour 5, so what does the tour 5 cost now ?

This is a direct result of the E.U's rejection of Russian Gas without thought or considerations for the impact on it's own citizens and I won't be caught paying a lot more than I should for a small hatch as a result of the E.U's failure to ensure it has it's own energy supplies because it's more concerned about installing solar panels and wind turbines as if that's going to replace Gas and Oil.

I can't see anything else either, the prices are too expensive, not sure if other electrics have increased like the VW's, this could be directly related to the gas situation, the Ioniq 5 is over priced, the EV 6 is over priced and I'm not a big fan of those cars, Tesla model 3 long range is too expensive.

I just hope the id3 is reliable after the pitiful 2 year warranty, the battery and motor are covered longer of course but the rest of it isn't.

The Megane is interesting but only has 60 Kwh meaning probably 53 usable ? I wouldn't ever again have an EV with less than the range of the tour 5 but even that is a bit disappointing in the fact that after a year I have 14 Kwh of battery I have no access to buffer or not not interested, I pay for 82 Kwh, I never even had access to the 77 Kwh.......

Anyway, the megane looks interesting but it's front wheel drive with 200 odd HP and having experienced the E-Soul, Kona and even the Leaf 150 Hp wheel spin I would never dream of FWD EV as I know it would drive me insane especially on damp and wet roads, there's no real excuse for having FWD ev.

I believe it has 20 odd Kw charger built in ? now that's very useful but still not enough to make me buy a FWD EV on top of that it's a pretty noisy car from watching Bjorns video, interior is decent for a Renault.

It doesn't charge very fast on DC like the id3 either, 30-40 min charge times in nearly 2023 is unacceptable, worse with cold batteries.

The Ariya is too expensive so is the Ioniq 5, EV 6.

Ariya is FWD unless you pay even more.

The MG looks interesting but don't know much about it yet.

I was a big fan of the original Renault 5, I did not like the updated version they released in 1986 was it ? the original was a fantastic car for it's time, tiny though but presume the new gen will be a little bit larger, gone are the days you could fit 2 Adults and 8 Children in the back of a Renault 5, with child seats, seat belts and of course it's now illegal to throw Children in the Boot "pity" 😁

Hard to make it out without a video to be honest.

I always drive in D and have it set that when I lift off there's no regen, it's much better on icy roads than the BMW id3 which had no option to turn off regen when you lift off the throttle, the only thing I could do was to use the throttle to adjust the regen, it was a pain mostly even with no ice because your foot had to be on the throttle all the time so I'm quite happy I can turn it off on the id3.

I got 160 Kms from 60-7%, starting off preheated interior and then later preheat with no mains to head out for lunch then another preheat no mains to get home, and that's driving decent speed yesterday up the M9 and semi decent speed on the M7 and then slow enough on the N7 because People have to pretend to be cautious in such terrible road conditions, which is overdramatic of course because the road was good enough to do at least 100 Km/hr but typical overreaction by Irish drivers, anyway, Speed was a lot faster home on the N7 as I left around 2pm and M7 around 120 and M9 120 all the way.

Efficiency was around 21.5 Kwh/100 kms for that charge. I suppose I would have driven a further 30 - 40 kms because when I hooked up carscanner it showed BMS display as 10% but BMS as 15%.

I'm just puzzled about the dramatic loss of power at 7% ? I'm not actually aware, maybe it even reduced the power at 10%, has anyone else noticed this ?

+ I now got the loss of 4G again, this is p1ssing me off..........

Have you experienced this power loss before ? I'm surprised it kicked in at 7%, prob 10-12% actual.