Has anyone managed to get their credit from SSE Airtricity yet?
What are the on the road prices for the ID3?
Also is there any app like leaf spy to test the battery degradation.
That 8% degradation over 24k is savage degradation.
For the tour 5 it’s about 41 k I think. More for tour.
Still waiting. I was told to allow 60 days but that’s passed and no credit on my account.
I have 67,000 on a 30 kW leaf over 4 years and still 12 bars.
Limited enough fast charging, most on granny cable
I have my ID3 on the granny since yesterday: 26 hrs for 100% from 4%, heading off once its full at noon
Yeah I’m still waiting for our night meter too. Half considering giving up and just activating the smart meter.
I signed up to a night Rate with Energies around this time last year on their 41% discount plan and just got my most recent bill today.
Unit rate at night time when I signed up was 6.01c and it's now 8.27c (both ex vat). Time to shop around again.
I was the same. Just changed to Electric Ireland was the cheapest day/night I could find.
Dont go near smart meters. All far more expensive than the day/night plans.
And if you get a smart meter you cant go back to day/night meter, even though a smart meter should be well able to handle the same hours. Smart plans in Ireland are a total con, and only for the financially challenged I think.
https://www.volkswagen.ie/idhub/content/dam/onehub_pkw/importers/ie/models/product-guides/my22/ID3_MY22.pdf
Energia rip off their existing customers to pay for their new customers, have you looked to see if their EV rate of 5. something cent is still available ? Their day rate is a good bit more expensive though with their EV rate last time I checked.
For the last 12 months I've averaged 35% of my energy usage at night so need to balance that against a higher day rate.
I was going to check in case it was just me but probably just a backlog due high number of IDs sold.
I should've asked for a kit!
Is the battery 92% of 58kwh or 62 KWh?
as it’s a 62 with a useable of 58.
I don't have the Matrix headlights, just the standard ones on base 1st, but have a similar issue. Other cars are constantly flashing at me when I have the dims on.
The car was back with VW for something else recently and I have been told the lights were fine.
I've a Peugeot 3008 and I have the same problem. As soon as the days get dark early everyone is flashing me. Very annoying. I only have standard lights also.
LED headlights produce a glare and that is uncomfortable to a lot of people, even the led street lights produce a glare and it can be quite harsh. LED street lamps should have some kind of diffuser to reduce the glare. I often find myself using the sun visor at night due to this glare which no question has a harsh light compared to Gas Lamps. Of course the white colour of led Street lights is a lot better than the yellow or orange colour from the old sodium lamps which I found very depressing as everything was stained in this colour.
Yes we managed to get the credit. Id4 collected on 1st July, received my November sse bill at the start of the month and the credit was added to my account. You won't get any confirmation from sse it will just appear as credit on your bill.
That’s good to know thank you!
It did take a lot of pushing to get it sorted. The garage submitted the forms three times, I sent emails to sse and called. Eventually found out that once sse receive the correct forms from the garage it will take at least 60 days from that point, not the day you signed up to sse.
Is there something wrong with my ID 3? Left home this morning at 05:00 from west co wexford and belted it on the backroads to Carlow. About 75 Km. Then motorway at 120 kmh to Dublin but traffic bad enough so about 80 kmh for last bit around city to airport. Preheated car and a little heating needed for trip. About 7 or 8c.
Recorded 15.9 kWh/100 km which was far better than I expected.
A little p11sed atm in Istanbul excuse my ramblings….will be interested to see what the phantom drain is in a weeks time…
You're in Istanbul ? lol WTF
I can hardly manage to get less than 19 Kwh/100 km but short trips that I've been doing the last week and preheating not plugged in take their toll + using travel assist, or even adaptive cruise isn't the most energy efficient on long runs as it can't read the road ahead only the car in front. But don't care with so much Kwh I'm not at all bothered, nearly 4000 kms and has cost me 10 Euro's or less with work charging! 😁
+ I don't have the heat less than 22-23 degrees. You have it what, 19 ? lol.
I think I pre heated to 22c for about 20 mins, but car was too hot so set it to 18.5c which was comfortable for the trip up. I don't like too much heat, was the same with my petrol and diesel cars. Was impressed with the efficiency, don't think would have got much better with our Ioniq 28kWh. Perhaps if a bit colder the efficiency would not have been as good as the Ioniq.
The red light warning means "brake immediately" I got this a few times even with travel assist on the N7 where the traffic can go from 0-100 and back to 0 in a split second. Maybe it would have braked and maybe it wouldn't but not worth the risk.
In this kind of traffic I can see the cars in front brake hard and manually slow down where as the car can only see the car in front.
But, I thought this anti collision stuff was supposed to prevent rear ending cars and stopping accidents in general, I guess not.
Most of the time travel assist or should I say adaptive cruise control is a dream but this kind of driving where traffic goes from 0-100 and back to 0 I think is beyond the abilities of adaptive cruise control.
It would be nice to think that those stuck in their phones while driving and have cars with adaptive cruise or even car with emergency brake or whatever would be capable of preventing an accident but I guess not.
What we will need probably are cars that communicate with each other in some form so that your car knows the cars ahead are slowing down before it only sees the car ahead at the last second and throws a wobbler and turns on that red light warning.
I used to have the adaptive cruise set closest to the car in front but I backed it off a bit and it really made a difference because the car has more time to "think" and it doesn't what appears to lamp on the brakes as much as before, it's more gentle.
Looking at the image of the car on the salvage truck and comparing to this, I'd say the auto-braking had a pretty big effect. Look how far back the front wheel got displaced in the NCAP test - the one on the truck seems to have its wheels in the right place (this NCAP front collision test replicates a crash into a static vehicle so it should be comparable)
I thought the V2X was going to cover that scenario - but more cars on the road need to have this feature, I suppose.
If my Ioniq is anything to go by - doing a longer trip helps boost the efficiency figures.
Impact of heating and the like is absorbed much better.
This has even more significance on ID3 with the well noted battery heating behaviour.
That's impressive ID3 efficiency.
200 miles plus on a charge.
Is the fact its not terribly cold atm helping????
Yes, wasn't cold enough for battery heating. Pre heating the ID.3 makes a big difference as well, the efficiency of the Ioniq 28kWh with the heat pump is very good.
Another argument against converting old cars to electric, newer cars have better safety standards
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