VW ID.4

I feel like it's more of VW's crack team of accountants at work. Less covered storage makes it easier to manufacture and saves cost

I just find it very frustrating, and I feel like it's all brands, not just VW. My 2007 Toyota Auris had more storage than my 2016 Leaf and the ID.4 has the least amount of storage of all

Tray

What the hell are ye all storing. There's plenty of storage in the centre console and door for me. The glove compartment is a joke though.

I decided to try the Travel assist on a country road recently. Was a decent quality 80 road but had several sharp bends

I just about needed fresh underwear when I got home. The car can handle a lot of the bends but when it came to a reasonably significant bend it just lost track and I had to take over steering

I found setting the speed lower improved it, but still not great

Maybe the swarm data update will help things but I won't benefit from that in my 1st edition

Needless to say, I'll be sticking to motorways when using travel assist

Hold on, do you mean you were using the travel assist to drive without steering?

I was holding the wheel if that's what you mean, I don't have a death wish 😜

Travel assist does follow the lane, so it's basically like autopilot. I was mostly curious to see if it "knew" about upcoming bends and would adjust the speed so make it around the corner

It seemed to try, a bit, but then it would start to lose the lane markings and I had to take over

To be clear, it's fine for motorways and main roads which are relatively straight. Just not quite capable of sharp bends yet. At least from what I've seen so far

If I ever get to 0% it won’t be useful to know how many more millimetres I can go 😂

I rang my dealer and booked in for it next month. I'd say they'll be dealing with those booking in first then will get to everyone else eventually.

You can use your phone's "Google Wallet" (and assume Apple Pay) with Ionity which is a lot easier as you do not need to be bothered with the 2FA process with your bank every time you charge.

Tried booking in for 2.4 update but there's no availability until September

Oh well, guess it'll be after the road trip before I get the update

In a word, inverters

Batteries are DC, your house needs AC, so you need an inverter to convert one to the other

You've already got one attached to your PV system, so as you know they cost several thousand for a decent power supply

So the next question is where to put the inverter, in the car or external

VW have taken the external approach, so you'll need to take DC electricity from the car to an inverter in the wallbox

The advantages are that you make the car simpler and cheaper, and because space and weight aren't as big a concern you can have a bigger inverter and pull a lot of power from the car. VW V2G wallbox will apparently be capable of supplying 22kW to the house, although I suspect that'll be only on 3 phase. This opens up the possibility of feeding back power to the grid and being paid to have your car plugged in at certain times for grid balancing

The disadvantage is that the wallbox will likely cost several thousand, so it's a lot of investment to basically just have a bigger PV battery for your house

The other approach is to have the inverter in the car, like what Kia & Hyundai are doing. The advantages there are that your car is essentially a portable power station and can provide power anywhere, so no expensive wallbox or external inverter needed

The disadvantage is that you're adding complexity, weight and cost to the car, although you can offset this somewhat by making it an optional extra

The other tricky part for both options is local grid regulations. You've probably noticed that ESB are a bit uptight about how your PV array is properly isolated from the grid in the event of a grid failure.

Same rules apply for V2G, and despite Brussels best efforts, almost every country in Europe has their own set of rules for this. Which means that a V2H system has to be adapted for every set of regulations, which is a bit of a nightmare scenario for any manufacturer

True, my only issue is that the standards seem different in many EU countries

Ireland in particular chose to have a different standard for mains disconnection, which means that many models of inverter aren't compatible with our standards

some interior shots of MY23 changes here: https://www.reddit.com/r/VWiD4Owners/comments/wtnq2g/my23_new_center_console/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

and

https://www.reddit.com/r/VWiD4Owners/comments/wtnoyr/my23_pro_tourmaline_blue_with_black_cloth_interior/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

What about the impact on the life expectancy of the car battery, which is the most expensive part of any electric vehicle. It can't do it a whole lot of good to add charging cycles.

It's worth keeping in mind that the rate of degradation depends on the depth and rate of discharge

For example, the ID.4 has a 150kW motor, so can discharge 150kW from the battery at any one time without damage. Most Irish houses have a 16kW grid connection so even powering the house entirely from the car you won't be anywhere near what the car is capable of providing

Then there's depth of discharge. I think my house would use a maximum of 30kWh per day in the depths of winter, typically less. So again if I was powering the house entirely from the car I'd be able to go 2.5 days before the battery is discharged

In a more normal mode of operation, I'd be charging the battery overnight, using the car in the morning and afternoon, plugging into during the day to use as much solar PV as possible and then discharging in the evening when the sun is gone

So I'd likely be taking only 10kWh out of the battery, similar to a days commute

So there probably would be a very slight impact to the battery's lifetime, bit driving the car around will remain the biggest source of degradation

Anyone else have their sos alarm come on? Our started beeping today... Was driving so I pressed the sos button and it started a call. Spoke to someone asked was the car ok and I said yes and that was it..false alarm it seems.. no warnings etc on the car

Car has gone offline since yesterday. Cannot get it to connect to the system.

Anyone finding this?

I think Elon wasn't to enthusiastic about the idea as well, keeps saying it causes too much degradation

I think he probably doesn't want to create any competition for Tesla Powerwalls, ideally he wants potential customers to buy both a car and a PV system with Powerwall

Also the free leccy is definitely a reason, although realistically how much could they lose on this considering there's a limited number of those older Teslas around

Today sat into the car and it didn't come on.. nothing on binnacle or screen... Rebooted the centre console and it came on..was a little disconcerting to say the least! Driving around Scotland at the moment so don't fancy being stranded

Just a quick update as I'm here in France with my GTX and I must say being able to turn on the air conditioning remotely is a life saver....coming back from the beach and hopping into an ice cold car is just amazing and a life saver. I'm here a week now and I have only seen one ID4 while here and not too many other EVs to be honest.

Charging the car using the granny cable off the mobile home . I was able to discreetly park it next to the wagon and only have a little bit of the cable showing...😎😎working a charm. Not doing too many kms over here so its working a charm

Oh not costing me a penny either!