The German electric car rental company Nextmove has been conducting great tests for a long time. In the latest one, she found one big inconvenience with the Volkswagen ID.3 and several smaller ones.
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Nextmove pros are currently taking the test new electric car Volkswagen ID.3, in the version without and with a heat pump. They found a critical drawback: the version with a heat pump is less efficient in winter than the one without it!
Concern Volkswagen at the same time, for cars equipped with a heat pump, it promises up to 30% higher range in winter. It’s just that, as they found out at Nextmove car rental, Volkswagen ID.3 electric cars with a heat pump actually have a higher consumption than the version without it. So it’s probably hard to reach a higher range – quite the opposite.
A nine-hour test of heating consumption at temperatures around 0 ° C showed that the Volkswagen ID.3 1st Max with heat pump reached a consumption of 18.48 kWh, while the ID.3 1st without a heat pump only 16.24 kWh. For comparison, Kia eNiro boasts a mere 10.24 kWh.
It is quite possible that this is about another of the many software problems of the Volkswagen ID.3 electric carwhich will be relatively easy to fix with future updates (or has even been fixed). Another inconvenience that Nextmove was able to find out was the way the battery preheated.
It always uses battery power – even when the car is plugged in / charging station. Conversely, the preheating function will make your range worse instead of improving it. Volkswagen again in this case Nextmove replied that the problem will be solved with the help of a software update.
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