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This is very strange behaviour, charged the car to 80% last night, here on Park West site today with no charging, the car didn't preheat the battery, temp outside was 0 Deg C, see below pics of temp at start and temp when battery heater switched off, took all of about 9 mins to heat from around 5.5 to 12.5 degrees and probably wouldn't have much of an effect on longer range for commuting. Just puzzled as to why it preheated the battery the other morning and not this morning ?
This pic when I got in the car. Notice the times.
https://imgur.com/8rH3HEn
Galway plaza 150kW. I’ve had the ID.4 charging at 125kW there a few times when the battery was at around 17%.
No other 150kW after that unless Carnmore gets a surprise upgrade which would be a surprise.
Like I said in my post - early August
I think it was minus 1C when I was charging. Car and battery were nice and warm though. Think it was 37c per kwh.
When I had the 2015 24 Kwh Leaf I'd have been lucky to get 18 Kwh in 40 mins lol and if it was cold maybe closer to 50 mins! 😁
I used the ESB DC 150 charger at the Supermacs service area near Loughrea during the week. Pulled 62 kw in 30 mins. Though it might be more but more than happy with that.
I'll be doing a fair old spin Friday week, trip to work, trip home collect the family, head for Galway, total trip will be around 390 Kms.
Will probably charge somewhere close to Galway on the way down for a bit, will be my first charging experience at a public charger in quite a while.
I'll leave work hopefully with full charge so from full charge will be Blanch to Near Carlow Town then from my house to the place we're staying in Galway will be 218 Kms.
What's the best charger to use closest to Galway, preferably 150 Kw ?
Tour with 77kw and charged to 100%, was reading 411 on setting out.
bit of motorway and dual carriageway alright, about 80km i would say.
Athlone through Cavan then out to Lisnaskea, Maguiresbridge then out to the A4 and off at Dungannon and up to Toomebridge M22/M2 to Antrim and up to Ballycastle.
Oooh. I hope mine gets delayed in production by another week or so, then 😄
So seemingly these minor updates are from week 51 - or from the 20th of December to be more precise.
You can tell if you are this side of that or the other side by the 12 v battery - if its a 51ah battery - you are not getting these updates. Its a 49ah one, you are....
Sorry - you can tell this by looking at the Car Equipment details on myVolkswagen
what size batter do you have...Did you charge to 80% or the 100% for the trip.
Looks like you started with 390km in the tank ?
I was able to do my 120km round trip commute starting at 80% and getting home at 47% in August. The past two days I'm getting home with 34%😨. I wasn't expecting that kind of a hit to range when the weather got colder. I have the 58kwh Style.
Any motorway driving involved Alm?
Out of interest when did you order the car?
Trip complete:-
Distance - 316km (saved a few km's coming down the west side of lough Neagh)
Travel Time - 4h18m
Average speed 75km/h
Consumption - 18.8kw/h
Outside temp - Started at about 6°C dropping to 4°C
Aircon set to about 22°C and using travel assist most of the way sticking to speed limits.
16% battery and 74km's left on return so not too bad. No wind and rain as such so would expect a drop in range if conditions were worse.
Shame on me, I didn't read anybodys posts and just came in to say 'Hi'. 😲
Actually, on the ID.4 chat I saw comments that VW are planning several updates to models built later this year. If that is happening, then I'm crossing my fingers even more for the rumoured ID.3 updates (bigger screen, illuminated sliders) as I'm presuming mine has now pushed out to BW50 with the week-long pause at VW this week.
I never thought at the start of this year that I would become so familiar with automotive production, shipping and distribution methods. 😄
Chancer! 🤪
I did read it. I was referring to your reference to "yesterday I only preheated manually"... shame on you for not reading your own post! 😜
Wasn't manual preheat if you had read my post properly! 😛 Shame on you!
I had depart timer set this time to depart 6am.
I was just surprised it heated the battery while not plugged in.
Nope. Got part one on Sunday and part two today (Tuesday).
Mine was production week 45. I don't see my vin number in we connect yet. It's such a long wait. Ordered early August
Car now stuck in production for two months, losing hope of collecting this January 3rd!
Thats about right. In really cold temps, when cabin is pre-heating and the battery is heating it will use about 10kW.... run that for 20mins and that will be about 3kWh's used from the battery which is about 5% of the battery.
Plugged in and a departure time set, is the way to go.... if you can.
Got part 1 of 2.3 update on 12th nov. Sent emailto weconnect-support. Reply says i will get email for permission to get part 2. Anybody need to give permission a second time?
I preheated a couple of mornings ago without having it plugged in (just to verify that setting it in the app works) - think it was only for 15 minutes but that was enough to knock 5% off the battery. A full 30 minutes would take a fair chunk of it away.
So for those without home chargers (yet) be careful of setting recurring timers or you could be in for a low battery shock these coldish mornings.
Manual pre-heat is only 30mins max. Not enough time to get a -1°C cabin up to 21°C and also fully heat a massive battery pack. It helps but just not enough when its that cold.
Plugged in and departure time set is the way to go, so that it can turn itself on at an appropriate time, based on outside temp.
Hopefully done in about 2 hours, don't get too excited with all the changes...
And two days later I get the prompt for part 2. Installing now so let's see if it's done by lunchtime.
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