VW ID.3

It's not going to get 255 km at 120 km/h on a bad day in the middle of winter. But how many destinations are going to have 255 km of motorway all the way? You already said that it's about 1/3 motorway. There is a big difference in consumption if the 255 km is all motorway or just 1/3 motorway and rest at limit of 100 km/h.

What you need to take into consideration as well is what you are doing the other end of the 255 km. If you are charging with a granny cable from empty it's going to take the bones of 24 hours. You haven't said if you buying new or secondhand but would always suggest getting the biggest battery that you can afford.

Charged to 100% yesterday and will run it to as close as possible to 0% over the next days.

Even the charging to 100% showed an additional kWh so it will be interesting to see what a full 100 to 0 cycle shows.

Has anyone else had the SOS dashboard error and managed to get it resolved successfully?

I’ve had zero issues with it other than the warning on dashboard.

I did check a brand new car back in 2022 and it showed 57850 for the max figure and about 56kWh at 100% SoC. Eventhough VW say you have 58kWh usable you dont actually have that usable as an owner unless you are willing to drive beyond 0%!

My own 3.5yr old car with 76k km's on it is showing 55160 max and 51600 at 100%

For sure but unlikely there would be much demand here for another few years until a significant volume of EV’s come out of battery warranty. At least it might remove an element of the EV fear that seems to be rife with our motor industry.

My car, typically does 340kms reports long term average consumption of 17kwh/100km 3.4*17 sounds like 58kwh that's good enough for me I feel no compunction to plug it in

Heating was off when I left, so it wasn't that for the first 1km. It had dropped to 97% without any heating and a mostly down hill start to my commute.

I normally leave at 80%, the first 4km will use between 1 and 2%. This is without preheating, which I don't tend to use.

It is odd, but only the top and bottom 5/6% of the battery. In between there it discharges as I would expect for the % it is reducing.

I was only charging to 100% and discharging to 1% to try get a more accurate reading on Car Scanner. I'll redo it over the weekend and see what the results are.

Was that the "Max energy content" OR was it the "HV Battery energy content" when it was at 100%?

If it was 50kWh as the max value means you were getting even less than that at 100% SoC. That is very poor alright. Maybe you had a faulty cell/module. Some cars were recalled for that.

I doubt it the facelift already a year early very much doubt they'll upset the apple cart again,the new one whenever it comes will I imagine get the new software and the fancy ones the new motor but at a price

New or used models?

I think I have a PDF of 2021 models and specs somewhere. DM me your email if that’s ok and I will send it on if I can find it.

It was easy in the early days. 1st. 1st plus. And 1st Max. Each added about 7k but increased the already fairly good spec on the base 1st.

After that I lost it so no help really..🤣

I asked because I seen a 2021 ID3 in the cars for sale forum, and it's a PRO.

Yet PRO doesn't appear in that 2021 brochure.