VW ID.3

I use travel assist on the M50 and N7 all the time in the worst of traffic it's actually grand once you pick a lane and stay in it and just watch the road ahead it manages superbly in most circumstances and I wouldn't be without it now.

In the slowest of traffic 10 Km/hr or less I don't even need to touch the wheel. Though maybe after a set time it will bug you again.

I'm more used to what it can and can't do and it's designed for the M50/N7 gridlock kind of traffic too, yes of course you have to be watching because as I said earlier, it can't see the traffic ahead, only the car in front so if they brake very hard from say 100, then you might need to intervene, I think this is the only real situation where I was scared at first but I'm not scared any more because I know it's rather extreme for the car to slow down in time when traffic comes to a stop quickly because there is no way for the car to see the traffic ahead so I observe and prepare to intervene.

What did help a lot was to leave a good bit more space from the car in front, I had it set to minimum distance which is fine when traffic is flowing feely at speed without huge volumes but I think in commuter N7/M50 traffic it works a lot better setting the car further away on the adaptive cruise, it does annoy some drivers in the right lane though and think everyone should drive on top of the other car and will even undertake me to fill this gap all just to get one space ahead of me so they can drive up the rear end of the next car, some really big idiots out there.

Drover around 200 Kms today, have 50% left, the extra range is just incredible. Most of it was motorway speeds too, set off preheated and heat around 21-22 Deg. Really delighted I Opted for the 77 Kwh !

I discovered the ID3 Battery heater does not preheat the battery while plugged into the mains, when I got into the car it was at around 8 Deg C probably from charging last night and after around 3 mins I saw the battery heater kick in to around 31 Deg C max temp.

When I got to a junction I stopped and observed a whopping 9 Kw being sucked from the battery for cabin heat and also battery heating, on the 7 Km school run I saw a whopping 39 Kwh/100 Km efficiency lol, unbelievable.

Anyone can see the consumption when stopped just go in to Vehicle and it shows the power consumptions there somewhere in Kwh/hr or something stupid like that.

By the time I got home the consumption was around 31 Kwh/100 Kms for around 14 Kms trip, that's massive. Never saw anything remotely close to this in the I3, most it would have been would be around 21 Kwh/100 Kms.

I noticed high consumption yesterday also on a shorter motorway trip, something like 30 Kwh/100 Kms, was around 40 Kms round trip and doing full 120 Km/hr.

They really need to get to grips with the battery heating and I believe some earlier id3 heat to 24 deg C ? seems they plan to change the way the car heats the battery in version 3 but that will be end of 2022 I bet given the slow rate they update software, I still haven't got ver 2.3

I did not have a preheat schedule set which could have prevented battery heating but I don't know whether this would have made a difference but you're think at the very least that the battery would preheat while plugged in when you activate preheat and suck power from the grid.

There really needs to be a battery precondition option in the app and in the car so you can choose whether to waste all this energy for short trips or not and there should be an option to preheat more for fast charging.

I'm definitely glad I have the 77 Kwh now lol-

Did you preheat off the mains ? If so did you have a preheat timer set or set preheat manually ?

This morning I noticed the battery did preheat with preheat timer set and not plugged in, this morning I had a preheat timer set and this is probably what made the battery preheat. Consumption was around I "think" 21 Kwh/100 Kms by the time I got to Blanch starting at -1.5 degrees from home and 6 degrees by the time I got to Dublin, this wasn't too bad considering I drove 125 Km/hr all the way on the M9/M7 and then 100-110 on the N7 and same again on M50.

But here's the thing, if preheating while not plugged in I don't think the car adds this to the Kwh/100 Km so my consumption was probably way higher, I think it only calculates this when the car is switched on which makes sense.

Yesterday while stationary with cabin heat on and battery heater I noticed consumption near 10 Kw that's a fair amount of consumption when only doing short distances where there really isn't need for battery heating.