No. The Born won't do it so I'm assuming the id3 won't either I couldn't be doing that 100km/ no heating shite either.
I think so too but the killer for me is it only has four seats. Total deal breaker as my wife or I cannot use the middle seat to look after our baby in the car seat. Honestly VW need a kick in the ass for this.
77kWh version is the way to go if you can. You’ll even recoup an element of the additional outlay by rarely having to pay public charging rates.
So what is the verdict, will the id3 with a 58kWh battery do 255km in winter and now let's say all motorway driving at 120kph.
Based on what im reading above there is no way and you would panicking getting close to your destination.
Honestly I agree with a lot posters above, on a motorway there is no way im slowing down to 100kph.
My benchmark is the car needs to get from here to Dublin and back easily summer and winter without charging and none of this conserving battery business. The Tour does that easily.
Life's also too short to drive with the heating/AC off but don't tell that to the people who want to save battery for their 30km journeys...
Life’s too short for this nonsense of 100kph on the motorway, get a car that can comfortably handle such a journey. As the battery degrades, range will only go one direction.
Got my 2 year service done, wiper changed at my request, two rear tyres needed to be changed (where bridge, now cont. front still original bridge). Nothing else flagged, my puddle lights are going to be replaced under warranty.
Expensive, but definitely reliable. Cashel is a regular stop for me or the Mrs when going cross country. Always working and great speed.
Well I didn’t make it with one charge. That was mostly because I didn’t have time to charge it to 90% in dingle and I picked the wrong charger so only got a charging speed of 55kw/hr. I went to the marina but should have charged in Moran’s. I had to stop at 70% as needed to get to an event
anyway quick stop at Ionity Cashel sorted me out on the way home we could do with more of them! Expensive and all as they are
Just on the topic of size, I have a Mk7.5 Golf and a Cupra Born. Cars are more or less the same length and width but the ID.3/Born is taller due to batteries under the floor but you do lose headroom front and rear. I'm 6'4 and will bump my head on the roof of the Born if I'm leaning forward to put something in my jeans pocket, the electric seat base is tilted upwards similar to the sport seat in my old Golf, a lower tilt gives a bit more headroom as the cost of seating position. In the rear of the Golf my head was just about touching the roof, in the ID.3/Born it's touching to where I need to scoot down a tiny bit. The lack of a tunnel leaves a lot more room if passengers are storing a bag on the floor. I kept my mountain bike gear there when I had the seats down.
In the Golf there's zero room for a baby seat behind my driving position and smaller passengers can fit behind me but I need to move the seat for them to get their feet in. In the ID.3/Born I don't need to move my seat and there's a swivel baby seat behind my driving position with room to spare.
On top of the rear leg room the boot is also slightly longer. I can fit an Uppababy Vista V2 flat but the wheel needs to be taken off in the Golf.
So all in all, same length car, much more rear space. Slight loss of headroom. Keeping in mind the rear legroom of the Golf isn't much of an issue for drivers under 6'4 but the boot would effect anyone obviously.
What's your entire deal that you were offered? My trade in offer was about 18k less than I paid for the car (42k down to 24k) and it was under 2 years old which I thought was very steep depreciation but cost to change to a brand new one was only 12/13k due to price cuts on new models (37k now)
So take the whole cost to change into account, not just trade in amount. I don't think you'll do much better in private sale and a whole lot of hassle but you never know.
Has anyone sold an ID.3 privately recently? Considering a change but the trade in is lower than I would take.
Looks difficult to sell most cars currently.
Mine was renewed at the start of the month and it was the same as last year, €310. Fully comp, all the extras, step-back protection, legal and windscreen cover too.
A friend of mine recently said to me that his son is an actuary, and they will put up your premium after 10 or so years as the law of averages states that you are more likely to make a claim now despite being 10 years free of claims, so they need to protect themselves for when it happens.
Ya, i had the same with House Insurance, earlier this week. a few phone calls/online searches later, i had it almost back to last years premium with around a reasonable 5% increase.
Insurance renewal just almost doubled from €330 to €600 lol. Ridiculous.
VW should make your footwear a standard accessory
maybe not an issue if you wear slim Italian loafers
I wear these so I have no issue.
Agree with you on legroom - my point is there is more space at shoulder height if you will , from back to front
ID3 has more legroom, but negated by limited space under front seats, maybe not an issue if you wear slim Italian loafers but I found it an issue. Headroom is slightly less in the ID3 looking at VW dimensions above.
Dunno, i have been doing 220k motorway runs in an ID4 regularly and no problem making it with 20-30% spare.
I'd say you'd be fine.
Eh yes it will.
A lot of extra head space - longitudinally as well surely given extra wheelbase of ID3.
Indeed, zero chance of me doing 100kph on a motorway. Looks like it's not worth the risk, the id3 will not do 255km in winter at motorway speed :(
I was used to the two cars, I don't have the dimensions, but the ID.3 felt much roomier. Particularly in the back and also the front with the big windscreen pushed so much further forward.
The VW UK site gives the values. As previous poster said, not much in it. The iD.3 is 4mm wider in the back
Golf
ID.3
There is also alot of extra legroom space in the ID.3 due to the wheelbase (2619 vs 2770(ID.3)) and lack of centre tunnel. Thats where you will notice it most.
I’m doing a 612 km return journey tomorrow and Friday including about 250 on motorway. Plan to do it all with one charge. Will report back. Weather is going to get colder which might put the kibosh on it.
Not sure the dimensions agree with that - both Golf and ID3 have same rear width but Golf has more rear head room. ID3 loses the tunnel but overall nothing in them
One full discharge and charge should do it.
CarScanner is an app. It communicates with the car via the usual ELM327 dongles that have been around for years and it gives all the fine detail of what’s going on under the hood like cell voltages etc.
