Thanks for your work, time, effort and your cool positive attitude. Love your channel. Cheers from Sweden. 🍻😋👍‍‍

Interesting vid. In the U.K. it cost £1.20 for the same journey on renewable electricity. So an EV is a quarter the cost in winter and 10% the cost of an ICE in the summer. Your country is doing something wrong somewhere, or ripping you off. Love my EV.

Yep, the ID.3 is not the most efficient car for short distances during winter, I’ve experienced it myself, preheating takes a lot of energy you your car is not at a nice temperature. The building where I live has an underground garage, so the average temperature is not horrible during winter, but if the outside is really cold(below 0) it can drop to 5c… if I want to preheat the car I’ll use a lot of energy, If I don’t preheat it the car will use that energy just to heat up the battery, but instead of doing it before I leave for work it will do it while I drive. From my experience, if the outside temperature is above 10c or so my commute will use less than 15kwh/100km (about 30km per day, mixed driving, both highway and city driving, but mostly highway, as long as I don’t use heating), under 9c it will be higher, up to 18kwh/100km… but if the temperature drops below 0 the same commute can be as high as 23-24kwh/100km (with heating). Most of the difference will go to heat up the battery, as the consumption is really high the first minutes, after a while consumption drops like a rock, the first minutes it can be as high as 30-40kwh/100km even at low speeds, but once the battery is hot (it usually takes less than 10m) consumption will be much better. VW needs to improve that, perhaps the target temperature is way too high, or they can heat up the battery slowly… in any case they have to find a way to improve winter consumption, i’m certain that they will manage to find a way.

Great setup with camera. Perfect framing for us.

Good observations/comparison. I have found that in cold temperatures it takes longer to charge the battery. This is a pain for me as I try to charge for free at the supermarket where parking is limited to 2 hours! Ha ha. I also agree that a heated steering wheel is wonderful. After working outdoors in wind/rain all day I find this a welcome luxury.

Hi all! In Ireland that same journey will cost you 2 euros. 8 Euro cent per Kwh off peak energy rate. I am also with a 100% renewable energy supplier.

I think a lot of people fail to understand the energy requirements for an EV in winter. I have exactly the same "problem" with a 2021 Model 3 (with heat pump) - Pre-heating also heats the battery, and as i'm also doing only short trips right now i am using more energy heating than actually driving. Our temperatures are lower here though: -5 to -15C. Interestingly, Tesla only seem to use the energy used whilst driving in the efficiency number the car quotes. The energy used pre-heating is not used in any calculations, so i have a big difference between what the car thinks is the lifetime efficiency and the calculation of energy_charged / km_driven.

Another good video, surprise to see this, i like so much my Kona 64Kw.

Wow, that is expensive for electricity! In the UK there are lots of night rate options, 5p/kWh for 4 hours 00:30-4:30. Tesla also have a special rate of 11p all day if you have a powerwall and if you have a powerwall and a Tesla ev it’s 8p/kWh all day every day.

In the UK we can get very cheap electric that is 5p/unit at night. Which means that in summer I pay about 1p/mile to run my car, in winter I get about 1.2-1.3p/mile - mine does not have a heat pump. This compares to 10p/mile cost for a VW Passat that did about 60mpg in summer, and 50mpg in winter. So it is much cheaper to run an EV in the UK even in winter. I totally agree about getting the car warm - even if just jump in, it is warm in 1 minute, but preheating is wonderful - since we have cheap electric at night it is 3x cheaper to preheat on battery in the morning when it is normal rate (15p/unit). My T-M3 has very hot seat heaters on level 3 you cannot leave them at that level without cooking.

Great video 👍 In Portugal I pay 0.18 € for renewable energy, I could go on bi-hours and pay 0.12 € but that does not work for me. I have solar panels so I pay less in reality.

My i3 is the same with the heating, when it warms up it’s as if the heat just switches off so I turn it to 23 degrees and it’s fine, my 2015 leaf was the same and also the 28 kWh ioniq. When it’s cold enough the battery has to be heated to prevent damage. Electricity here in Ireland is 7.4 cent per KWh from 11 pm - 8am. A lot cheaper than any diesel to drive ev. :-) Ev makers absolutely need to include a function where the driver controls whether the battery heats for fast charging on DC. 2021 and still crap charging speeds in winter.

I'm really disappointed at temperatures below 8°C. My average consumption is due to the battery heater and not really sophisticated heating-solution at all now 38 kWh for my 16 km commute. That means only 150 km of range 100-0%. For comparison: My "german bratwurst wagon" e-tron "only" consumes 29 kWh for this short trip. IONIQ did it with 21 kWh. I hope, VW will fix it soon. Heatpump will not really help for this special situation.

Very interesting & l must admit surprising! Other commenters have already stated most EV drivers in the UK pay 5p per kWh, which very rough calculation here, is easily less than 0.01€ per km in winter. I do drive with low cabin tempreture 17°C & heated seat/stearing wheel which seems to help consumption & maintain comfort. Totally agree with you on heated stearing wheel, the very best thing l thought l didn't need, they are wonderful.

Also remember that oil is low at the moment due to the global situation. Once things return I guarantee you'll see prices at the pump return to pre-covid levels here in Australia it's about $1.22/L now but pre-covid it was about $1.50/L and I am seeing prices starting to climb slowly again. Maybe do the comparison to pre-covid fuel prices Chris and see if any difference.

Another thing to note is that the current software versions including 0783 will not heat the battery with AC power, even if the car is connected to an AC Wallbox. It will draw power from the battery as soon as you turn "ignition" on. Some say this is a software bug, I think it's intentionally disabled due to some compatibility problems with some wallboxes. Maybe they didn't have enough time to make it work well with the many types of wallboxes out there in the world. The battery heater takes a lot of power, 6 kW, and the wallbox might not offer that much power...Technically it shouldn't be too difficult to take all the power you can from the wallbox and supplement with the rest from the battery, but who knows what technical limitations there may be...

Nice video. I have, in my M3, also noticed that my consumption has gone up this winter, especially the shorter trips, where the preheating becomes a big part of the total consumption. But I like the comfort. My neighbours, with diesel cars, also want this comfort, do they idle their cars for 15 minutes before they leave. I guess they will take a similar hit to their consumption.

For my ICE Volvo and VW, I can adjust the temperature of the heated seats using the software (VIDA for Volvo & VCDS for VW). I just had a quick search, and other VW owners have used OBDeleven to also adjust their heated seat temperatures. Not sure if you can do this on the ID models yet but you can explore under HVAC, something with seat heater current level consumption... If not, you can tell the dealer to increase the temperatures the next time you bring Walter in. 😉

this morning i went out to frozen windows so i had to just put on the heating in no time all windows were clear there is no way that my old petrol car would have been any were near clearing the window as having to wait for engine to heat up. I went past a petrol station today £1.20 a litre just a few week ago it was at £1.06 they are clawing back lost income by rising prices to make up the losses. i hate these profiteering companies.

Heating the battery is a real pain in the ass if you only drive a short distance to the train station like I do. With just 10km a day the battery is pretty much heated just for fun and with absolutely no benefit at all. With a max speed of 70km/h and most of the driving in the city a consumption of 35kWh/100km is just abysmal. That's a range of 165km if the battery was charged to 100%!

My heated seats in the ID3 are actually getting warmer than in my Passat 🤷‍♂️. The Problem with the cold air I have only when I set the temperature to a higher setpoint and lower it afterwards. I actually set the temperature only to 19.5 in my ID3 without changing at all and I am totally fine with that while I always need 21.5 in every other car.

that coz Germany went silly and canceled all the nuclear power production. we have 40% of power from nuclear and price for 1kWh is 0,04€ at night. heck, the fast charger network we have charges 0.2€/min which would mean 0.27€ per kWh if the car averages 45kW.

I like the steering wheel heating also.

One of the things that should be worked on, is making renewable electricity cheap when it's plentiful. So if it's windy in the north, and you have lot's of wind power, it should be cheap to charge. If the winds die down, the price should go up.

Brw random tip for you. You can add different widget layouts on the home screens. Just longpress on any widget. There is a special widget layout where you can add Android Auto as a widget. So it doesn't always have to be full screen. Strangely the widget is only available at the right-most page of the infotainment menu.

Whoa that’s a lot of KWh! Just for the driving i use 10 to 12KWh in order to make 70Km daily. Those are including highways, hills, and extra-urban roads with runabouts. I have a M3 with heatpump. Batterywise in total i start from 85% and arrive with 65%

4:16 love it 🔨🤟 😁

Nice comparison! What would be your ID.3’s consumption if you don’t preheat the car before driving?

Nice info. Currently looking at a lease car for my new job. I think we’re still not up to speed with alternative sources (cobalt use for example). I will need to let go of our good old (2007) V50 5cilinder which is pretty much indestructable with a wonderful engine sound (I am sort of a petrol head🤣). Anyhow the ID3 is on the list for me. The Tesla is too expensive in lease. I don’t like the looks of nearly all electric cars. But I want to compare everything .... so following this channel gives good in depth info. Thanks! PS My main car is a 10 year old (much appreciated) Saab of which the interior heats up (with minus 5 outside temp) in 5 minutes after cold outside start. So your loaner (Fabia) sounds indeed like a bad “cold climate” car 🤣. The butt fryer (heated seat) warms up in 3-5 minutes.

280 Wh/km is the same as 2.22 miles/kWh, which is how my Chevrolet Bolt EV measures it. Just so happens that I'm getting around 2.3 mi/kWh with these -19C or -3F temps in Wisconsin, USA right now. We're in a relatively flat part of the state. Still, the local college has a free solar charger.

10kW for pre-heating the cabin and the battery? Sounds like the @nextmove heat pump / PTC comparison test was correct. My ID.3 1st Plus (finnish standard package includes heat pump) used about 10kW when it was -14°C outside and I started with a cold car (thanks to ID app failure when setting departure time). I stopped the car and switched off climate control and got ~5.5kW for battery heating. When the cabin is warm and climate control is on auto, the heat pump + fan need about 1.7-1.9kW to keep the cabin at 20-21°C.

As a Fabia owner I can acknowledge that the Fabia is very efficient ICE car. Also it is a B segment where the ID.3 is a C. Using an Octavia wil be a bit more expensive.

So does factoring in the purchase price, servicing, and any road taxes etc what is the actual value?

I drive ID3 as well and I will give you a tip When you drive set the fan to blast att your body directly you will feel the heat it’s way better than auto mode

How efficient is the ID.3 if you pre-heat the battery while connected to AC at home? People are saying not to pre-heat, but I am sure if you pre-heat while connected to AC then the car will be a lot more efficient when you start driving than just doing a complete cold start or pre-heating while not connected to the battery? I would have thought the most the power would be used on the initial heating of the cabin and battery, so makes more sense to do that while on AC than getting the battery to do it. I do agree that VW need to improve efficiency in the winter though.

Interesting topic Chris! It has to be said, in most European cases the EV is cheaper than the ICE If charged at home. Ok so Chris has a consumption of 41 kWh per 100 km.. That's insane. Commute more than 100 km in Swedish winter and have roughly 21 kWh/100 km. Speed? Heat pump? Who knows. Electricity in Germany and Denmark are the highest in Europe. So Chris's trip w a Swedish driver:) and Swedish power is roughly 25-30% of Battery Life's cost. Dont let thes numbers put you off EVs!!!!

Thanks for the Video. Although we have solar on the roof it obviously does not help too much during these cold not very sunny times. Electricity or rather all the taxes on it are too expensive in Germany. And fuel still too cheap.

Hi Chris, I totally agree that the battery heater causes an insane amount of power consumption. My typical driving cycle from the underground car park with approx. 5°C, subsequent battery heating with 5-7kW for approx. 7min on a driving distance of approx. 5km results in a power consumption of 30-35kWh/100km. Without battery heating, the power consumption for the same distance back is approx. 18kWh/100km. Can you forward your questions to VW through your VW contacts? Nobody from the VW experts reacts via the First Mover Club.

Is Walther parked outside? My car parks in an underground garage, so even in winter it has 5-6°C when I start it.

I see no big need to pre-heating if there is no ice on the windows. The heat comes on so fast in an EV that it's not an issue for me. But heated steering wheel is a killer feature for sure, I wish I had that. You should get a bit better milage when pre-heating the battery though. More losses when driving off with cold battery, I mean.

In the U.K., doing short journeys in winter. It would be cheaper to run a Dodge Ram with flat tyres. People are reporting 50 miles on a full charge.

I drive one of the most hated cars on the planet. The 2012 Toyota Prius the reason most people hated it is because it looks different than other cars. Today i came home from work. And for the first time i saw a VW ID3 parked in my street. I was like oh wauw! An ID3! So I parked my prius next to it. And checked the ID3 and was thinking i would love to own this car. ( i also want to go to 100% electric) so i walked a way and turned around to compare my prius and the the id3. And in my eyes the id3 looks even weirder than my prius! My prius looks like a normal car next to the id3! But nobody would ever hate on the id3 like they did with the prius. Still i would love to have a id3 because i love weird

I generally feel that the economics of solar panels are very poor in the UK - but for you they might work a bit better except that your car is at work all day. I wonder if there is any way to make your garage slightly warmer so that the preheat is a little less draining?

If you set the charging timer to 5:30, would that warm up the battery enough to reduce energy consumption for pre-heating at 6:30?

How would the case be when you woud not preheat the vw? Or, how would the fabia do when preheat it?

Wow. Electricity is expensive in Germany! Also, are you considering charging losses? If I use 20kWh of battery I may use 23kWh when charging back to full. In Ireland with my Leaf 40kWh at the moment I’m using about 29kWh/100km (charge amount not battery drain) I do the worst kind of driving though, short trips ~20km, heavy load (family) and pre-heating. If I charge during the day it costs about €4.50/100km (€0.1531/kWh) and at night €2.21/100km (€0.0758). My previous ICE was about €7.80/100km. We’re obviously luckier with electricity prices here (don’t worry they screw us over in many other ways 😂) but as you said it’s still much better driving an EV than an ICE and even if costs went up we still save elsewhere and have amazing acceleration 😁

To my knowlage, Tesla is also heating the battery when preheating the car and if you dont preheat the car it will be heated while driving and consumption will be high on short distance

The current EV's are excellent for using around town and for commuting 20-30 km,In rest are irrelevant,you need to constantly to drive carrefuly to keeping it in ideal conditions and plug-in every 2-3 days.I drove the ID3 for a couple of days and if i droved it like an ICE car(speed 130 km/h, full heating,overtaking,heavy accelerating/braking) the range was 150 km,started with 300 km and drove 60 km,if droved like an EV(speed 80-90 km/h,heating from time to time,light on the acceleration/braking the range was 260 km in same condition.

57 km with a petrol car in winter will use at least 3.5 litres (6 litres per 100 km) x 1,75 per litre = > €6,12. But that's with the petrol prices in Holland... Germany should also just increase the tax on petrol and your problem will be solved 😁😁😁 (and electricity is also a bit cheaper here).

Does it really is only 0.25€/kWh? In all EU there are now distribution costs, service costs etc. So if I divide total sum of bill by kWh used,the price is around 0.35. The second thing is for trips, when you charge on highway at 0.79€/kWh for my Mii it costs more than 10€/100km, wiyh Ibiza I can get around 7-8€. EV is cheap when homecharging with offpeak tariffs.

You really need to understand how the clima works. if you do as you do like set temp to 23-24 and turn off the "auto" and set the fan fixed and fix the air direction, it cant regulate the temperature to your setting. It sets the outgoing air temp from the system to your setting (23-24)but it cant regulate neither the fan or the air flow direction. Then the temp sensors in the cabin wont get a regulated air flow thats accurate for the complete cabin because you fixed the air flow and the fan. So depending on what air that eventually hits the temp sensor, it tries to regulate the outgoing air temp from the systems so that its according to you setting (23-24) and its going to be wery rough if cold air hits the sensor it might turn it to 27 to compensate, and if then the 27 air hits the sensor it might turn it to 19. Leave it in auto!! Then it will turn up the heat and the fan high, then it will direct the air flow all around so the temp will be even in cabin. Then when the sensor notice that its close to (23-24, what ever) it lowers the temp and the fan untill it reaches the setting. then if the sun comes out it lower the temp, or if you run in the shade or in a place where its colder outside it rice the temp and increse the fan. you cant beat the auto setting by setting it manually. of course you will feel cold at times and feel the cold wind. you disabeld the regulation functions by swith of the auto. and use the ac you breath is full of humidity and it will help removing the inside moist.

Although I agree ID 3 could be more efficient in winter, I think the elephant in the room is the cheap fossil fuel. If you would pay for the environmental impact of gasoline (say via a CO2 tax), then your EV will clearly be cheap to operate.

When you feel the cold air once the thermostat activates, is your setting on fresh air or recirculate? I suspect the former. You may be pulling in unheated air from outside. Recirculate setting may solve this problem. I really enjoy your reviews and laid back style. I live in Cairns, Australia, so I don't need a heater or heated steering wheel.😉

Are you sure you calculated correctly your price per kWh? In Italy it can be easily mistaken, since we pay a fixed amount every month, not depending on the consumption, and then a variable amount which is priced per kWh. In this way, if you calculate the average price per kWh of a typical household it is around 0.20€/kWh, but the marginal cost of a kWh is only around 0.10€/kWh. To calculate the cost of charging your car you then need to use the marginal cost, not the total one which includes the fixed component. Not sure how it is in Germany though... ;)

This mirrors our experience and I love the heating steering wheel. On another issue our ID3 alarm keeps going of and the charging lead will not always release. It with VW at the moment and they rang me tonight to say it is related to the latest software but that it the only fix is to wait till the final software is available. They can’t tell me when this will be! Very poor and no sign of any compensation from VW. Can’t help thinking should have bought a Model 3!

Doesn't the ID.3 have an option to enable auxiliary heater? I thought that was for preconditioning the battery. Renewable energy is cheaper to produce and also should be cheaper to customers, in a way you're subsidizing the fossil fuel based energy by making it cheaper and incentivizing people to choose the later option since it will save them money

Wie viel Tage kannst/könntest du fahren ohne nach zu laden?

my ID3 is great, I was one of the first people to put an order in so I could do an ID3 videos before Bjorn did. Being a beta version of the car, the software needs constant rebooting to work vaguely well. the 12 volt battery does not charge properly and leaves you stuck without a functioning car, and I have to keep taking it back to the dealer for him to fix yet another problem VW could not fix before release. In fact it is so unreliable I am forced now to do comparisons with ICE cars as they are the only ones reliable enough for my dealer to loan me. Oh and as a beta tester VW don't pay me.

Can you preheat when the car isnt plugged in? Doesnt work for me.

Chris, 23 degree pre-heat and your complaining that the heated seats are not warm enough, seems like its not the car but where you live thats the problem

Interesting test, altho even with your consumption and electricity cost, it looks like very similar cost to 6-7L/100km ->(7x1.2EUR*0.56 = 4.7 which is indeed 20% less) , driving 110km/h for most of the trip, I don't know many ICE that can have this low consumption. But it is true that more cost even with home charging, not to mention fast chargers does not play well for making EVs more popular, petrol tax would need to go up and electricity made cheaper.

Go solar and/or buy electricity from sun and wind sources, best of both worlds! 24 degrees settings is like a fireplace temperature right? 🥵

The price is the one - but what really shocks me, that you practically say the reach of the car is about 100 km!!!!

It would be nice to have the same test with the heat pump. Hello to Walter ! :)

Sorry but something is wrong here: you say that you use 40kwh for 100km (inclusive preheating). Please do the Test without preheating to see how much the car needs and how much the heater.

Here in Austria i can change my electricity supplier ever year. This leads to a price of 11-13ct/kWh which would mean that in your calculation the ID.3 is cheaper than the ICE car. You are wrong when you say that there is no off-peak-pricing available in germany. Awattar.de offers hourly prices directly from the epex spot market with an 24 hour forecast via web API.

Wow. High electricity price + current low petrol price + high wither demands on the car... all adds up to the worst case scenario for you atm. Summer will be different of course. All that said, never thought any EV could manage to cost more per mile in fuel that an ICE, that’s surprising. All the battery pre-conditioning is prolonging it’s life, so switching that off could be a short term saving, but potentially costly in the long run.

Question to Battery Life concerning Preconditioning. My leased bare bones Life id3 has no way of scheduling preconditioning. Is this in an update? U can use or rather try to use the app though. Sometimes it works Sometimes it does not. Its 100% unpredictable. Comment: for. the range not to be negatively affected by Preconditioning you need a wallbox. Otherwise the car will have to use the battery to make it work get sufficient power. I guess? Chris, will stop moaning about generous German subsidies at least our juice is cheaper up here in the wilderness.

It's a VW problem this waste of energy for small drives. On the other hand the car doesn't coldgate like Kia/Hyundai. In both situations it's a problem that could be solved with a stupid button...

40% for 50kms 😱 This car is not efficient. I love my ioniq 38kWh When i see this. In your condition I'm at 15kWh at 115km/h by 8 degrees

You should get solar! In Sweden you pay less than half for ”green” energy.

I don´t know why people preheat their BEV. ICE need al long time until the car gets warm, but the BEV needs only 5 minutes. But preheating is startet 30 minutes before starting time. SO you preheat 25 minutes too long and just waste energy. It is forbitten to start an ICE an let it run without driving until it is warm. You are allowed to install an seperate heater, but this needs additional fuel.

The fact that you can produce your own fuel (electricity) for an electric car is from my point of view a big advantage over the ICE cars. So in some circumstances, if you have what it needs at home, you could run any electric car for free. Strange that you somehow said you pay more per kwh because the electricity is from renewables :-? My humble mind would think that it should be the opposite, burning coal or running a nuclear plant is more expensive than catching the wind and sun energy :D

Wow. 10 kWh to preheat!? Worst I've ever seen my Ioniq do was 1.65 kWh. 25 cent rate. Omg?! No dual rates either? What are they playing at? I get 6 cent overnight I think, in Ireland.

much too expensive everywhere! i will never by such a car...

I buy id3 now after Nissan leaf 40kwh and i hope that i will get a more Clever car.but this stupid preheating battery take so much energy that i Can only hardly make the same km with id3(58kwh battery) than with the leaf....plus screen IS freezing, light assist IS not that good, lane assist always on, seats are not so comfortable.i whant me leaf back

A heat pump should have been standard for all northern European countries. This is very typical of the VW Group, to maintain a low 'sticker price' for the car. Unfortunately, such a strategy gives EV cars a bad name for winter driving.

Charging my ID3 from home is 52% cheaper compared to diesel fuel driving a Škoda Superb before.

for comparison, my Kona with heat pump and preheating is only 190wh/Km

I can only agree about charging & electricity prices in Germany. As in Berlin and living in apartment building - only choice for me right now is public charging. It ranges from 44-50ct/kwh AC (at least my eNiro takes 11kw). With that said - I am having in current weather (lets say average temperature is around 0, when I was driving), consumption is ~ 18kwh/100km (with preheating, comfortable temparature, driving "fun" way, combined city & autobahn). Range I get with 80%down to 20% charge is ~220km. Costs to charge from 20% - 80% is ~ 18Eur. Thus my "fuel" price per 100km is ~8.50EUR. With this said - it is extremely close to price of ICE (smaller one though). It really really sucks how expensive electricity is here in Germany - and it doesn't make sense, when you read all the surcharges it includes - as at the end one kw costs maybe 5 cents on peak hours and sometimes even negative off-the-peak. At the end - I hope to save some bucks on maintenance e.t.c. In general - EV is definitely best and fun-to-drive car I had and do own for daily use.

This would be one of the reasons to go for the refreshed Model 3. The way Tesla has implemented the heat pump is absolutely amazing.

Hi Chris! Bin ich zu 100% bei Dir. Das preheating ist oft nicht nötig und verballert zu viel Energie. Stört mich auch und muss nicht sein. Gibt es denn in der 1st. Mover-Gruppe seitens VW schon eine Stellungnahme dazu? VG

Every home and business should have solar panels or access to community solar.

Evs are also expensive in Denmark, as electricity is really expensive. Evs are not great in winter.

Your videos are very informative and I enjoy watching them but please, please stop mixing up Energy and Power!

That is what holding me from buying an EV, they are expensive to buy, and expensive and not practical to operate. I use a Hyundai i30 with a diesel engine for my 230km daily commute, done paying for the car 3 years ago, I do the oil change myself as well as changing few filters, cheap and easy to do, and costs me about 300 Euros for diesel every month and tax is about 10 Euros per month, and full insurance for about 60 Euros, nothing to hate about that actually and I can not do it cheaper. Long live ICE cars, and long live our two diesel powered household cars..

Would cost me less than €1,7 to use the ID.3 here in Norway like in your example.

-3C...really. It does not sound winter at all. Very funny video, but maybe someone can get the point here.

Hmm, if you could only find some free charging....hmm....

So I take it you can fully fuel your Petrol or Diesel Golf each night for about $5AU? no? I thought not. well you can fully fuel your ID3 for that, and a lot less seeing as you probably have solar, if not why????? its bloody sunny there. But I suppose you have to click bait your titles to get traffic.

Have you considered wearing a jacket?

What is the point of comparing a car with preheating against a car without preheating and then complaining that the car without it is colder ?

I like that you trash ice cars at the stop light. People need to known electric cars are quick :), not youtube quick, but real quick.

Noooo, please dont make a button “ dont pre heat automatically", make a button "pre heat". This would be very easy. Just remove the automatic pre heating system and use a manual one. Let the mature user choose.

Get to the point!

Not to mention that Volkswagen ID 3 awful built quality, dodgy infotaiment. ICE Volkswagen are still better built in terms in build quality.

He lives in Germany. He likes his car warm before he sets off. This consumes battery charge or grid electricity. Electricity is 25c/KwH in Germany and therefore deemed expensive. He has no idea whether an ICE is more expensive than his ID3 because he doesn't know the price of fuel or how much fuel he used. But he does like his car pre-heated. Accordingly, it is more expensive to run in contrast to the Skoda ICE that was cold and less comfortable and therefore cheaper - he believes. There, I've just saved you 12 minutes and 22 seconds of your life that you can use to listen to something that is evidence-based rather than this click-bait. Sorry, Battery Life, but we need better quality videos than this.

its to expensive for an EV!! tesla is way more power eficiant. and whoever make solid-state batteries in to cars.. it will be most eficiant ev cars on market.