Surprised you don’t have them. I love my 58kwh 2022 model here in England. Get around 190-220 miles on a summer road trip and about 150-180:miles in the winter. My car has the optional heatpump.
Another really interesting video Chris - just to let you know there’s a crackdown on miming at live gigs right now - we need to hear your real singing voice 😁😎
We need to stop thinking of range as distance and as time. If a car can go 3h and only needs a sub 20 min charge to do it again, it's perfectly fine in my book. That's just enough to go to the toilet and grab a drink. Then I'm off again. I don't care if it can do 250miles or 500miles. I personally can do 3h. And in the up 3 hours you'll be lucky to do 180-200miles.
that's fineif you live in a country with good charging infrastructure. Not all countries are the same. The charging infrastructure in my country is terrible so people opt for larger battery vehicles to compensate for poor infrastructure.
@@GreenTorque Then the issue is not range but lack of infrastructure. The same would be true if you had a ICE car with limited availability of fuel stations (unlikely in many countries).
@@StephenButlerOne This, IMO, is exactly the right way to think about it. People have different long distance driving stamina at different stages of life, but from a safety perspective the fact remains that stopping once every hour or two is a good idea. With charging stations ever more well-distributed, the optimal human stop interval should fuse with the convenience of charging within ten miles of where you'd have wanted to stop anyway.
As always, very careful test! 110kmh indeed makes a lot of sense (outside Germany, where "freie Fahrt für freie Bürger" seems to be the equivalent to the Americans' Second Amendment :-) )... It seems quite thirsty at nearly 210 Wh/km but indeed 19'' make a difference (although the ID3 seems to have rather slim tires (215 compared to 235 for a Model 3) which makes probably more difference than the size (so should be in favour of the ID3) and especially the weather. Overall, I think it is a substantial improvement over the former version in many aspects (I like the interior e.g. a lot better now). The small battery means that one can do a maximum of realistically 2.5hrs before charging and that would be a tiny bit short for me (doing lots of very long trips of 800-1200km) for business. But for 99% of drivers, that is totally fine because most trips are 200km or less and stopping a little bit earlier or one time more during a holiday trip 1-2 times a year is really not an issue.
Maybe you already explained in formers chapters, but if you live in an area more warm than cool, essentially air con will be extensively used, then it is worth to buy the car with heat pump? If I recall well, you mentioned that in summer range can be highly affected because heat pump implies that air con is less efficient. Thanks.
Thanks for another great video Christian. The 110kmh test is useful to me as it’s almost the UK 70mph national speed limit. 👋
Man - I *wish* we could buy the ID.3 here in the USA! It would be as close to perfect size and design as I can imagine.
you won't gonna see any new product other than Tesla when your orange president is in the office ;) jokes aside I hope it gonna be better!
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Actually, I think you might be right. He’s a moron that doesn’t understand how tariffs work. So much for free market economics…
We need a variety of good, small and affordable electric cars in the states. It’s what the world needs right now
@bluedog9935 I could not agree more!
Surprised you don’t have them. I love my 58kwh 2022 model here in England. Get around 190-220 miles on a summer road trip and about 150-180:miles in the winter. My car has the optional heatpump.
I think you put up the summary table intended for your German channel, it was in German, and no miles conversion
Another really interesting video Chris - just to let you know there’s a crackdown on miming at live gigs right now - we need to hear your real singing voice 😁😎
110kph good choice, the 90 was supposed to give an indication of general driving not just motorway
Thanks for the video! When are you sharing the charging curve? Thanks
Does this ID3 have a heat pump?
Not very efficient, but I think this is the one to get. Bigger battery models are far too expensive.
We need to stop thinking of range as distance and as time. If a car can go 3h and only needs a sub 20 min charge to do it again, it's perfectly fine in my book.
That's just enough to go to the toilet and grab a drink. Then I'm off again. I don't care if it can do 250miles or 500miles. I personally can do 3h. And in the up 3 hours you'll be lucky to do 180-200miles.
that's fineif you live in a country with good charging infrastructure. Not all countries are the same. The charging infrastructure in my country is terrible so people opt for larger battery vehicles to compensate for poor infrastructure.
@@GreenTorque Then the issue is not range but lack of infrastructure. The same would be true if you had a ICE car with limited availability of fuel stations (unlikely in many countries).
@@StephenButlerOne precisely.
@@StephenButlerOne This, IMO, is exactly the right way to think about it. People have different long distance driving stamina at different stages of life, but from a safety perspective the fact remains that stopping once every hour or two is a good idea. With charging stations ever more well-distributed, the optimal human stop interval should fuse with the convenience of charging within ten miles of where you'd have wanted to stop anyway.
No range test of the Cupra Born VZ?
As always, very careful test!
110kmh indeed makes a lot of sense (outside Germany, where "freie Fahrt für freie Bürger" seems to be the equivalent to the Americans' Second Amendment :-) )... It seems quite thirsty at nearly 210 Wh/km but indeed 19'' make a difference (although the ID3 seems to have rather slim tires (215 compared to 235 for a Model 3) which makes probably more difference than the size (so should be in favour of the ID3) and especially the weather. Overall, I think it is a substantial improvement over the former version in many aspects (I like the interior e.g. a lot better now).
The small battery means that one can do a maximum of realistically 2.5hrs before charging and that would be a tiny bit short for me (doing lots of very long trips of 800-1200km) for business. But for 99% of drivers, that is totally fine because most trips are 200km or less and stopping a little bit earlier or one time more during a holiday trip 1-2 times a year is really not an issue.
Raining and winter tyres. Results came to 206 Wh/km (3.0 m/kWh).
Maybe you already explained in formers chapters, but if you live in an area more warm than cool, essentially air con will be extensively used, then it is worth to buy the car with heat pump? If I recall well, you mentioned that in summer range can be highly affected because heat pump implies that air con is less efficient. Thanks.
I have nissan Leaf, and Air conditioning takes much less of range compared to heating winter time . But in UK we hardly even go over 30c summer time
ID3 is a minimum of 10k overpriced
My 2025 model year Match Pro costs £145 a month on 0% finance lease. Doesn’t seem expensive to me.
You are trying very hard to help VAG, problem is VAG can’t understand today’s carmarket. 2 years warranty is thing of the past.
Mine has 3 years.