VW ID.3

That would be cool, how would the charger recognise the car though for billing ?

We need a lot more Ionity chargers. Even if it costs 79 C/Kwh it was a pleasure pulling up today, 2 cars charging and then I plugged in and still one space free. Looked for charge in Galway yesterday and the 2 chargers were busy with queues.

Longest spin in BEV every since Friday, never checked total kms driven but on Friday evening after work drove from Dublin - Carlow - 17 Kms west of Galway City, drove around maybe 130 Kms around Galway and then drove back to Carlow today.

Charging much slower than expected caught me by surprise, I wasn't expecting it to be that bad, if the id3 even heated up the battery using the battery heater while charging it could have made a difference as I have yet to charge the battery at higher than 21 Deg C or yet to arrive with 15% or less, if you have to plug in at 15% or lower to get decent charging speeds for the duration of the charge then it greatly reduces the effectiveness of having an EV that is capable of taking faster charge rates but simply won't. I still need to figure out the temp needed for decent charging speeds.

I'm sure VW can correct this with software updates along with proper battery heating but they also might not and we might have to buy another EV to get decent charging speeds in Winter. Even in Summer one might struggle to get more than 21 Deg C especially when setting off early the next morning when away from home needing a fast charge, at he height of an Irish Summer ambient temps can get as low as 10 Deg C and always much lower than what a battery would need for proper fast charge.

One thing for sure, electrics have some way to go yet in relation to fast charging.

Overall though the experience was good, I probably fast charged more than what I needed, in fact I did just out of curiosity, I got home with 37% which is way more than I needed but I didn't slow down below 120 on the motorway and there were some stretches at 130, clock speed. The car itself is great, lovely drive, comfortable and the infotainment is good and I am super delighted I have so much range, getting the 77 Kwh was absolutely the correct thing for me.

Yeah, that sounds like progress, would be great!

Sent an email to we connect about the 2.3 update and this was part of their response.

"As we further checked in our tools, your vehicle has not been assigned to the campaign yet. Thus, it is not possible to determine in advance for which time-frame your ID.3 will be assigned."

So probably by next Spring I might get it, to say they are slow with software is an understatement. Might as well just download it on USB as having OTA is useless at this rate.

It's bad form really, the dealer should have updated it before I picked it up in the middle of October.

I took it handy going to work today, set to 107 Km/hr and by the time I got to work had used 18% to get 71 Kms, some 120 Km/Hr stints and some strong crosswinds. Temp set to 23 Degrees, the usual and seat on 2 bars.

I find that sometimes setting the temp lower causes the car to just blow cold air at me rather than ramp down the fan it seems to just turn off the heat or turn it way down.

19.5 Deg in the car for me would be too cold, the car has so much range I won't ever need to skimp on heat. If the sun is shining in then I might set it to 18 or 19 Deg C.

FFS I should have cancelled, I think they are changing things too fast already lol.