VW ID.4

Well if thats the case I'm off to buy a winter cover AND a universal OBD reader.

You would think the car would reboot itself once turned off and on wouldn't you!

A UK car media fella on twitter had a similar issue last week with the Cupra Bjorn he has on long term test.

The same 2.5 kW at home and 5.5 kW at public charge point.

Bit I don't understand is that if the car allows 5.5 kW on public AC - why doesn't it allow 5.5 kW at home.

I will find the twitter fella and see if he's updated since.

Edit

In response to the Cupra Born tweet - several EVers say this isn't normal behaviour.

James and Kate the youtubers put up something showing they put in 42 kwh into one of their EVs overnight at -6 degrees

I suspect this is another VW group glitch and were it mine I'd take it up with VW with a view to them going off and improving the issue.

Thank you.

I was talking to a few other fellow ev owners at the rapid charge station on the M7 this morning, in particular a guy with a porche ev.

I told him my problem and he laughed as he told me electrics and frost don't get along.

Another guy with an ID.4 said he too had noticed a drop in his charging rate but not as drastic as mine.

I understand the ID.4 is not perfect and there are some bugs in the system that still need to be ironed out but this problem costs me half a day's pay running around trying to get it fixed.

Anyway, at least we have this forum to help out cheers.

The car appears to have gone into some fail safe mode and is charging at granny charger rate which is 10A per phase so that’s about 2kW at home and 6kW on a public charge point, as they are 3 phase.

Or he has hit the reduced option

Guys just to let you know I put a 60% charge into the car last night at -3°C and it charged at a constant 7kw charge rate.....happy days.

I deleted all locations/ departure times and decided to use the zappy charger for scheduled charging instead of the ID.4's own system.

I'm hoping this was a once off glitch in the system that was triggered by severe frost and freezing fog.

Anyway for what its worth I sent an email to VW asking for it to be sent to the appropriate apartment detailing this problem with the ID.4

I'm hoping they might address it in they're next software update if needed.

On another note the postman was late this morning delivering the mail. He said he's electric van would not start!

One happy effect of upgrading to 3.0 is that the sending of a location to the car seems to work more reliably now, sent two locations this morning and they both arrived in a few seconds

Might have just been good luck so I'll try to test it where the signal is a bit worse

Maybe a stupid question… on mornings like this is using the heated windscreen to de-ice it safe so it won’t crack etc? I guess that’s one of the the main reasons for it anyway, never had one in a car and I’m used to the idea of not applying heat too quickly to a frozen windscreen.

Received the below email this morning, pointless as its still not clear when the update will be pushed to my car. I then click on 'read more' only to bring me to 'Sorry page is not available'

VW software and their updates really are a sorry case :(. Rant over

Received that email this morning too

Got that email this morning, will have to wait and see weather the ID 4 get it first or the ID31st, nervous going to download this over Christmas.

i guess this is more of an issue with an ev as you don't have the heat of an engine keeping it thawed in freezing weather.. last time it happened me was in 2010.. thought id run out but was frozen..

This is really pissing me off since last Friday!!! I will have to use the alcohol based screen wash going forward. Even when I put water on it the last few days, if I can't put the windscreen wipers on immediately, the water freezes. Major drawback.

I thought the washers were heated to stop that happening?

I always use screenwash anyway so maybe I just never noticed it. The Aldi stuff is generally decent and reasonably priced

Also there is a low pressure area on the bonnet and roof of a car, so you get a Venturi effect which increases the faster you go with a corresponding drop in temperature above ambient and indicated temperature.