Seems quick enough 

I did see an interior re-config in the videos I'm going to investigate in mine. 

VW are now making a "coupé" version of ID.4, to be called ID.5. Doesn't look a lot different.

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/first-drive-2021-volkswagen-id-5-gtx-prototype-review?fbclid=IwAR28L6alIVZgV-RDnH4lq0CpTSjrlPE5DSG-UikPoORSlC9r_1-6y0q6QA0

 

More Reviews / Tests showing EV's towing are needed. 

Good to see one here.  Towing and having the cars seats and the boot occupied would be more real world,

obviously there are singles that do go camping!

 

 

 

Zingy is a good thing.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

A quick revisit video of the R. Symons view of the ID.4
 

 

VW will eventually get there hopefully.  Vorsprung Durch Technik. 

 Get them out and registered and save on penalties for not meeting average emission requirements.

That was not with just the cars was not just with EV's Plug in or mild hybrids it includes full ICE vehicles.

 

Re miles per kWh and cost.

15 pence a kWh then 3 miles per kWh is 5 pence a mile. Nice. 

If a kWh costs 50 pence BP Pulse 100+ charging and you get 4 miles per kWh then that is 12.5 pence a mile.

3 miles per kWh is 16.6 pence a mile.

 

 

 

 

Edited 22 January, 20224 yr by roottoot

Looks good IMO and the best colour for dirty winter roads.

Wheel trims & steel wheel very practical but maybe Winter tyres would be 'Simply Clever'.  

 

 

Edited 6 February, 20224 yr by roottoot

A preview of the new VW MEB software shipping "soon" to existing models. For those that don't know, VW have announced a service campaign to replace the 12V battery with an improved one, upgrade firmware in several hardware modules to make the software updateable over the air (OTA) and install software version 2.4 into the cars. After this, software version 3.0 will arrive via an OTA later in the year.
 

 

One of the benefits of the new version of ID software will be faster charging on DC. For my car thats going from 38 minutes 10-80% to 30 minutes, so a useful improvement if I ever do that. More likely to benefit from higher charging speeds at higher SoC due to the new charging curve.  That's if the update ever appears......

 

 

I want to say how great the ID.4 is as a touring car. We have just spent 10 days in the Highlands of Scotland which totalled 1900 miles in the car. The car munched the motorway miles to get up there and back, sitting on the ACC at 70 effortlessly - it made the journey easy. Once we were at our rented cottage, travelling around was a breeze on the single tracks and smaller two lane roads up there. The large boot on the car was taken up by our two dogs so the spacious rear seat was utilised to carry our stuff. Everything fitted in without much effort even though we don't pack light.

The range has been exemplary and we have needed a break long before the car most days. We had a planned long leg on the journey up and journey back that tested the range a little but got to the planned charge stop with over 40 miles remaining each time, so really no drama. The first long leg up was over 3.5 hours of driving and I was well ready to stop, so car beats human need for a break.

Charging has not been an issue at all, even though prior to this trip we had done almost no public rapid charging. The coverage of chargers from Chargeplace Scotland in the areas we visited was very comprehensive. Every charger we used worked well. The only hiccup was with the charger at Uig needing a reset before charging started, which I could do by following the easy instructions on the screen. (press and hold the silver button for 20 seconds ) The cost of charging has been very low, 1900 miles has cost me £95.22 which is 4.66p/mile. A remarkably low figure by any standard, albeit helped by some free charging at CPS chargers and a Bonnet free charge on the way home. We had no free charging at our accommodations.

 

Overall efficiency was 3.48 mi/kWh for the trip. Running around the Highlands with two adults and two dogs plus coats + buggy (arthritic dog) etc regularly saw 3.7 / 3.8 daily averages. Fully loaded on the motorway saw 3.2 / 3.3. I'm happy with this.

Off street parking for EV's in Dundee.

http://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-63877236

 

 

 

Edited 6 December, 20223 yr by toot

On 20/05/2022 at 15:31, Luckypants said:

One of the benefits of the new version of ID software will be faster charging on DC. For my car thats going from 38 minutes 10-80% to 30 minutes, so a useful improvement if I ever do that. More likely to benefit from higher charging speeds at higher SoC due to the new charging curve.  That's if the update ever appears......

 

Most of the owners of older ID are still waiting for the promised over the air update to version 3.0 of the car's software. Seems VW are pretty poor at software and the update process is failing on too many cars, effectively bricking the vehicle. We await the promised improvements, hoping they arrive before our cars are sold, returned to lease companies or possibly die from old age!

9 hours ago, toot said:

Off street parking for EV's in Dundee.

http://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-63877236

 

 

 

I wonder how many headlines this would get if it were a Tesla. 

 

People mistake pedals all the time. As the saying goes, the idiot is behind the keyboard/controls. 

Recent articles in the local press will say an EV was involved. Sadly in the past couple of weeks a fatality with a motor cyclist had the Radio, TV and news papers first reporting that the Motorcyclist was in collision with a Electric car.   

 (I knew where it happened as it was someplace i drive regularly and less than 1/2 a mile from where my sister in law was killed while riding her motorbike in the 1980's. Floral tributes still get left at the location.)

 

When a car or driver does lose control like with the VW ID4 in Dundee they are going to say an Electric car in the same way they have always mentioned when an Automatic car crashes into other ars maybe in a supermarket carpark with maybe an elderly driver.  But never say a Manual Car if it is one of those.

Edited 7 December, 20223 yr by toot

If pedals get confused, electric cars will do more damage due to higher mass and quicker to get up to speed. But it's the same when moving from manual to automatic, the easier cars are to drive, the more lethal it could be when controls are misused. 

 

Problem is, whilst this happens all the time, small group people seems to get it in their heads that EV are more dangerous due to possible faults with control electronics. When these things happen, the driver usually blames the car. 

 

Not sure if this was posted on here, just like the above, this is clearly driver error: https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-fatal-model-y-crash-china-response/

Why do you say clearly driver error?

 

Having watched the video either he was a deranged killer (the motorcyclists and cars that he collided with) which is not driver error or could not stop the vehicle, that's my view but I'm interested to hear yours.

 

Re the Tesla statement, " vehicle’s accelerator pedal was depressed deeply for an extended period of time, even reaching 100% at one point" could be a faulty sensor or mechanical blockage, as could the absence of a recorded braking input, both sensors being faulty, more like a comms problem, what is more revealing is that the brake lights came on yet they claim the brake pedal was not pressed and that he pressed the park button several times, it sure sounds like a runaway.

EV brake lights come on when slowing down, I can't determine if brake lights ever come on after it began to accelerate (after the first angle).

 

There are a couple of reasons to say it's human error:

 

1. The first camera angle shows the car start to go crazy right at the exact moment when one would usually press the brake pedal to stop. If there had been a fault, the timing of failures of multiple systems are astronomically low.

 

2. In case of comms failure, the brake pedal has a mechanical connection to the friction brake system. I can feel the pedal being moving mechanically when autopilot brakes. Throughout the motor industry, brake has always been able to overpower any runaway vehicle power source. It should still slow down the vehicle or at very least has an effect on speed and not constant accelerating.

 

3. Tesla says there's "two independent position sensors" for accelerator pedal. Failure of both sensor at the exact same time is unlikely https://www.tesla.com/blog/no-unintended-acceleration-tesla-vehicles

 

4. It is still possible to put the car in Neutral and pull the "hand"brake should there be a total sensor failure. The article said Park button was press briefly, probably in panic, a constant hold will engage the "hand"brake as an emergency brake. Holding the stalk half way up will engage Neutral. This is a case of human didn't RTFM.

 

5. The first motorcyclist that the driver swerved to avoid would have gotten collision avoidance blearing. No inputs would cause the car to engage AEB. Only way to override it is to press the accelerator pedal.

 

People confuse pedals ALL THE TIME.

VW ID3 Facelift.reviewed by Thomas of Autogefuhl

 

 

Edited 1 March, 20233 yr by vrskeith