Li-Ion batteries degrade over time, more so if you treat them harshly (full discharge/100% recharge cycles, constant DC charging). I paid some attention yesterday, as I put the car on the Source London charger at 20%. Given that it was free after four hours (overnight cut-off), I charged to 90% as I...

Thanks! It depends on the region, in some regions snow chains are mandatory regardless of your tire I think?

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Andreas

Well if you read the Facepalm posts on all the ills of the ID.3 it is curious anyway. This weekend saw very heavy use of the car, including a roundtrip on Friday to the West Country (290 miles) and two football games in the frozen North (Barnet and Hendon) on Saturday and Sunday, seeing 70 and 50 mi...

The app let's you see the initial state of charge (SoC) and the one at end. Take note of it and then: "End SoC - Starting SoC * battery size / 100 = kWh delivered", e.g. (100%-21%)*77kWh/100%=60.83kWh

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Screen Shot 2021-11-21 at 1.19.36 PM.jpg Here's an Ionity charging curve from the summer that covers similar SoC ranges. It just isn't that stable. I could post others, but they never are. I'm just wondering if there is some control software difference in the charging unit, or what? All the best An...

As noted in the post, the order of charge was always Gridserve followed by Ionity. Chippenham the only one where I went for Ionity straight away as they were free when I got there. From memory, even at lower SoC the Ionity curves always looked like this, and never as straight as the Gridserve ones. ...

scott28tt wrote: ↑Sat Nov 20, 2021 5:24 pm Gridserve was at a lower starting SoC, go back and reverse the order in which you do them for a better comparison

All fixed and added the other three curves for good measure.

Thoughts, observations?

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Andreas

No sorry, just the way the pictures uploaded. Gridserve was first, and this was after driving ca. 60 miles at 70mph and with a preheated car (programmed departure but not on charger).

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Andreas

I did back to back charging on Gridserve and Ionity twice yesterday, as an experiment, and because I was hoping Ionity would charge faster (it's also a bit cheaper for me). Today I checked the charge curves, and in both cases (only one set posted here), it appears to me that grid serve has a much mo...

I understand that vehicles built from 1 Dec will have 3.0 installed as standard and that it will come as an OTA in the near future. Given the 'fun' we all had with 2.3, what are the bets that they will apply lessons learnt and make the update more straightforward this time (presuming they can)? Is t...

Thanks, awesome community service!

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Andreas

Morning Has anyone used the charger - is it operational, and does one need anything other than a credit card? Gridserve website indicates all is good, but I understand they are the old Ecotricity chargers, and have a history of issues in general (no idea about the specific one). I suddenly have to g...

scott28tt wrote: ↑Sun Nov 14, 2021 12:01 pm 3.6 is my long-term average.

Samesies.

No idea how people manage long-term averages >4

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Andreas

Splash-Man wrote: ↑Fri Nov 12, 2021 1:15 pm I noticed that the heat pump is standard across all models as well.
Always interesting to see what is offered into the different markets.

It's Austria. They do actually have real winters. Still.

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Andreas

Anduain wrote: ↑Thu Nov 04, 2021 4:03 pm

Andreas wrote: ↑Thu Nov 04, 2021 2:24 pm Thanks for that Scott. I noted this:

"The maximum charging power will also be increased."

22kW charging?

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Andreas

I'd imagine that's DC not AC. As I think AC is hardware limited.

Thanks, yeah should have figured that myself. Duh.

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Andreas

Thanks both!

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Andreas

Yes, we have the same. It's worse when the car is cold, and as you note on unimproved roads. Apparently it's related to the fixing of the HUD unit in the dashboard, so doubt there is much you can do.

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Andreas

Hive mind, go!

Also need recommendation for snow chains as I may be driving to an area of Italy where carrying them in the boot is mandatory.

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Andreas

Well it is built in the old Trabant works. Maybe going through left-over stock?

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Andreas

Some further observations. Short-range trips in cold weather are a killer due to the battery pre-heating overhead. Range drops to 3.1 m/kWh or below for me. Yesterday I took the car on a cross-London return trip (lots of traffic jams, max speed 40mph), and even at cooler morning temperatures it got ...