We drove the Volkswagen ID.3 until it DIED!

Hey, look at this, it's the new Volkswagen ID3, a really important electric car. Now in this video I'm going to drive it here from the Volkswagen headquarters in Milton Keynes to the motorway until it runs out because I want to see how. How far can it run on a full battery? What exactly happens when it runs out of charge? Does it just turn off and leave you stranded? I'm going to find out, although a Volkswagen guy over there isn't too happy that I'm doing this test, but in the interest of automotive journalism, I'll do it anyway and, of course, along the way I'll give the car a thorough inspection to let you know if it's good to buy a new car and then head over to car wow and my team will help you find your next car at a fair price car wow your one stop shop for car buying comparison this is a great time driving the new

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id3 for first time the car's battery has 94 charges, it's a 58 kilowatt hour battery and the full range, if fully charged, should be 260 miles, so based on 94 hoping to get 240 miles, the The car's computer actually says it should go 176 miles, but that will have been calculated based on who

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it before me.

We've reset all the trip computers, so we're ready to go and see how far we can drive this thing. We are ready for this range test. I'm just going to drive this car normally. I'm not going to get excited about the throttle. but I'm not going to be a babysitter either, these cars, if they're going to work, they're going to have to be driven the way you want. I will also have the climate control on as I normally would. Real world test, we'll see what this car will do in terms of range if I

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it like I normally do, joining the highway now for the long move, oh yeah, the classic m1, instantly on some roadworks, brilliant that It will help your reach. even though I'm still doing 50 miles per hour, I wonder if this car has cruise control on the limiter, let's take a look, yes it does, and it's also a smart system, so it uses radar to keep me a safe distance from the car that is ahead.

You should also have a lane keep assist, oh it will do that thing that will bounce you between the white lines so it doesn't really lock you in the center which is annoying, you can't get away with letting go of the wheel. This new system uses technology similar to that of your mobile phone, which can know when you are touching the screen so you can know when you are physically touching the steering wheel with your hands or not, and if you are not, yes. I will scold you and then the system will be disabled. Electric cars aren't actually more efficient when cruising down the highway at higher speeds, they're actually better when you're around town doing stop and go things because they don't have a running engine, they can really maximize their value there, so We should try this car in the city and I'm getting close to rugby so I'll head downtown and I can use the id3 satnav. to do that and it has voice command so I should be able to tell it to take me to the rugby center and I'll do that by having it head to the high street so here we go hey I'm taking the rugby to the high street right? do you mean sheffield or 12 high street, high street rugby please wait please stay on the street in northampton first? about just crazy cancel hey google take me to main street rugby look it comes to mind right away so we have to get off here now normally i would be running android auto through this car but for some reason these first editions i don't have android auto or apple carplay I don't know the reason and neither does the VW man anyway you will be able to adapt it to these first edition cars and anyone who buys a stock car that comes later in the new year will have Apple Carplay and Android Auto and that will be something well because yes, the voice commands on this, as you just saw, I'm very good, would you mind waiting and there, Louis, let's try it again?

Hey, I'll take you. to the main street rugby force boy, please say the name of the street, how did I say? Something like Stromness today, that would make me go to Scotland. Now voice commands are better for things like setting the temperature, for example, hey, I identify the temperature. What can I do for you? Set the temperature to 25 degrees. No problem. Yes, that's it. Thank God. We're leaving the highway. Now our energy consumption is 3.9 miles per kilowatt hour. Let's see if it goes up or down when I'm there. driving around town ah, I'm going to put this car in b mode, so what that does is increase the regenerative effect when you lift off the accelerator so that it slows the car down more without you having to hit the brake.

I like that because it gives you more control, it's not as pronounced as it is on a honda e, in fact if you click on the pop up banner up there you can see my full in depth video review of the honda e. It's entering a small tunnel, but that's it. It just allows you to not use the brakes as much and that improves your efficiency, which is good now the suspension doesn't feel as soft as in a Golf, it's a little bit harder because this car is heavier, so they have to increase the rigidity. the suspension to prevent it from leaning so much in the corners, but it is in no way uncomfortable, the light steering is quite nice and in fact this car has a really good turning radius, it is just over 10 meters, it is a bit Better than something like a Kia E Nero. and a Tesla Model 3.

Visibility is pretty good. This extra window here really helps. You have a nice big windshield. The window edge is not too high. The only problem is that the view to the rear is not bright because the rear window is not very deep, that is my only complaint, yes this is easy to live with and easy to drive. I haven't hit the brakes yet. What is happening to the average energy consumption? It's not 3.9, it hasn't changed anyway, let's go north. Again, I'll give this idea another chance. Hey, he'd take me to Leeds. Did you mean Maidstone Leads?

No, I meant Leads Volkswagen. You need to fix this voice command because all I heard was a beep. Something must have happened. it's been censored at least it has a sense of humor we're on the road now done with the city section it made no difference to our energy consumption 3.9 miles per kilowatt hour based on that energy consumption the range of this car would be 226 miles , it's a little less than the 260 it's supposed to do, I somehow managed to put it in, that's the problem with these touch sensitive buttons. I've been noticing that I've been accidentally touching them when I touched the screen, so I'll just look if you want the emergency lights are like a real physical exam, I want to press this, I'm very sure about that, especially when the indicators, well, I Like, they're pretty quiet before you get back on the highway, which is there by the way, so you'll probably hear some cars speed by.

I thought I'd stop at this random parking lot to look at the layout of the id3. It's a very nice car, it's futuristic enough without being too aggressive about it, but you can tell it's an electric car and it has a real face, it doesn't and I want to show you this when you open the car and it's dark, I have to cover the light sensor there so you can see it, its eyes wake up and it looks around, look at this, can you see them? They're fine, you love me and it gives this car personality.

I also like this light bar that joins the two lights. He has a defined face. A smiling, happy and cheerful face. Obviously there's no big grill because there's no motor underneath that requires cooling, although there are vents down here that help cool the drive system, so if you use the batteries quite frequently, they'll get hot and need to cool down a bit to be so efficient. Possibly, let's go down the side to get 18-inch alloys as standard. These are the 19 that you can upgrade to 20. You have this black panel here that matches the contrasting black roof and you get 210 paint on all models and this shape as well. it matches the spoiler something I really like the creases on the doors give the car a very good shape and here you have some side skirts that look somewhat sporty moving back there is one thing I don't really like here this The decal now changes depending of the version of the id3 that you have, although they are all glued together and this one is already being removed.

Look, that two-tone effect really looks cool. It is not like this? You obviously have some sharp taillights. There are LED lights. It's a very nice car. I prefer it with the look of the Tesla Model 3, which looks a bit like a fish from the front, but what do you think? Let me know in the comments box below while we're at it. Back on the highway, let's talk about the id3 range, so it will be available with three different battery packs. There's one with 45 kilowatt hours that's good for just over 200 miles, this lot of 58 kilowatt hours in this car, which as I said at the beginning.

It's good for around 260 miles, then there's the range which tops out the 77 kilowatt hour battery pack which should be able to go 340 miles, then there are three different motor options, the entry level motor has 126 horsepower and ​It's good for 0 to 60 in about 10 seconds. there's a 150 horsepower engine that should be able to do 60 horsepower in nine seconds and there's this car's engine that has 204 horsepower that can do 960 in just over seven seconds, then the seven levels of different equipment with funny names, but you can't. Getting each motor or battery combination with each trim level is a bit confusing and VW hasn't confirmed what's what yet.

If you click on the pop-up banner above, you can go to car wow on our dedicated page id3 and us. We'll keep updating that as VW announces what's what so you know exactly what's going on and the prices of the cars and the different trim levels, but as a guide the range will start at around twenty-five thousand pounds after a government grant increase until the end. at forty grand for the all singing and dancing model now, if you don't want to click on that link at a later date, Google helps me with car wow and you can go to car wow, where my team and I are there to help you to choose the model. right car for you and make sure you get it at a fair price from our trusted dealers.

I thought I'd take a break from driving to tell you about the interior design of this car, so I really like the way it looks, it's smart and it's made better by the fact that you can get different color combinations for the steering wheel and the top of the dash. , which makes it look more interesting, but what I don't like as much is the build quality, so while this panel on top of the dash is soft and expensive, it feels like the rest of everything that It's pretty flimsy and cheap plastic, and then there's the build quality itself, fit and finish, which isn't up to VW's usual standards.

Look, this glove box doesn't fit quite right. This center console wobbles a little bit when I was removing our camera from here. I realized that it falls apart. Hopefully it's not broken, so leave it there. There is a little bit of felt in the door pocket to keep things from rattling around even though there is a lot of felt. there is less than in the door pocket of the old golf mark 7, in fact I think the interior quality of the latest

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cars is less than the previous generation versions, partly because volkswagen had to cut costs because received such huge fines for the whole dieselgate scandal and because they are running two model lines side by side, internal combustion engine cars and electric cars and that costs a lot of money, as a result the interior of this car does not It's as nice as a Tesla model 3.

Now who would have thought that Tesla would have better build quality than Volkswagen? In fact, if you want to see my full, in-depth video review of that car, click on the pop-up banner Anyway, let's move on to this infotainment. system so all cars have this screen as standard and it's quite nice, bright and easy to navigate, although I'm not that fond of the touch sensitive buttons for the audio so it's very difficult to get it to do exactly what you want . and the touch sensitive buttons for the climate control and in the end you just have to press that button and it goes into normal climate, so pressing too much is really frustrating.

I like this little digital driver's display, it's not big but it gives you all the information you want and you can change the views slightly depending on what you want to have bigger or smaller. That's good, what's not so good, are the touch sensitive buttons, so listen, they make a noise and vibrate when you slide them. but you canswipe them but also press them and they click and you're not sure which button to press you should do, it should just be a swipe with touch sensitivity or press, why can't you both complain about this? that's the gear selector, vw just copied it from a bmw i3, but it's in a brilliant position, also like this the way the instruments move with the steering wheel, speaking of which, the driving position, yes it is good and it is very easy to get comfortable, many adjustments, what is it?

Although not so good is the location of the lights here why are they there like in other Volkswagen cars you go for them and then you end up hitting the indicator you put them there it's a little embarrassing because otherwise this car is quite practical look it fits a big bottle the door compartment, then you have a little net there to store things, you have a big cup holder here, another big cup holder here, another storage tray down there and a specific place for your mobile phone with wireless charging, then underneath here there is more storage area and you can move this. splitter just the way you want it and it has two USBC inputs on there so if you have an old USB cable you will need an adapter but because of this aspect the armrest folds down on an electric model.

Family hatchback is kind of like what you get in a land rover, love it, yes small things please small minds. I'm back on the motorway again, although this time I've decided to stay in the back seat and let my cameraman Lewis drive now. Lewis likes a relaxed, relaxed driving position and is over six feet tall, but despite that I still have a decent amount of knee room here in the back, headroom is good too, even though the batteries are under the floor and that usually means you end up with the back seat quite high it doesn't affect this car, in fact even if I move to the middle seat it seems like I still have enough headroom there and there is also plenty of room for everyone's feet because the floor of the car is completely Flat, it is one of the benefits of it being an electric car and not a car with an internal combustion engine.

Well, it's also nice that there's storage space back here, so look, Dorben has enough space for a bottle. There are also some pockets on the back of the seat, so they are a little smaller. a little loose like an old nickel elastic if I fall, you have an armrest with a couple of cup holders in there, it's a bit annoying that the cup holders aren't covered so when you rest on it your arm ends up there, not very comfortable If I lower it, we have some loading so you can have two people on each side and carry longer items like skis, if you want to take your id3 skiing, then if you look here, we have some anchor covers to attach the ice for that you can fit in. a nice easy child seat and since you don't actually open these covers you won't lose them and there's enough room back here to make it easy to maneuver even a large seat into position.

There are a couple of USBs down here, but charging your mobile devices the last thing I need to check is this world. The rear window goes all the way down, not all the way I'm afraid, but at least the window is big so you have a good view and the window edge is quite a bit. low, so even small children should be able to see well and easily. I'm pretty impressed with the space back here. I think they have done a good job. I jumped back in the driver's seat and the car just issued a warning. lane change doesn't seem to work look lane assist sorry this feature is not currently available it's like why is it not available currently it was working before isn't the point of having safety systems that don't work every time the destination is programmed on your Sat Nav you have a light that flashes on the dash right up there to get your attention and let you know that you're about to have to make a maneuver and it will actually flash in the direction you need to go, it's probably gone bloody .

Do it now, come on, ID, don't let me down, maybe at the next intersection I'll do it. I can't even use the cruise control now because this system has gone crazy. Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. One thing I haven't done is see what. this car is like for overtaking on the motorway, it's actually quite good, in fact I'd better back up because I'm going quite fast now, I thought this light would flash to tell me to get off and follow the satnav. Someone has done, it's this car. It's a little glitchy and if you do it here at the roundabout a little warning popped up saying charge the vehicle because I have 50 miles of range left.

I'm not charging at 50 miles, that means 20 miles of battery, that's all. Well, that was interesting. See, the car knows there's a hill in front of me and a gear change, so it tells me to lift off the accelerator because I can just move forward. Everything is designed to help maximize efficiency. I have put the motorway service station on sat nav for two reasons one I want to turn this car off and on again to see if I can reset it like a computer maybe fix this problem too because I want to see if it does that with the light identification right at the top of the dashboard and it will tell me to get off, are you going to work?

It turns on the identification light so the satnav appears with the address there, where is my identification light? nothing absolutely nothing while the id3 is there to rest and recover, let's talk about its capacity in the trunk, so it has 385 liters of space, five liters more than in a normal conventional Golf, but it still fits the same five airplane-sized carry-on suitcases in your trunk. I've tried putting six suitcases in there, but it doesn't fit properly. You can actually fit six suitcases of this size in a similarly sized, non-electric car, to find out what that is, click on the pop-up sign up there for me. group test between a golf, the new a3 bmw one series and the mercedes a-class, if you don't like electric power, check it out anyway, let's get all this stuff out of the trunk so I can show you some of the features here with me, As you will see, it has a nice square shape.

There are some mooring points. You have a 12 volt outlet here and some hooks to hang your bags. Now I'm just going to remove the parcel shelf and I guess if you do that. You are a regular on this channel, you will know what is coming now if I fold down the seats which is easy to do, you will see there is a ridge there which is annoying, now you can get this car with the false floor which reduces the loading lip. and it gets rid of that crest, but this doesn't have it and that brings you to five annoying things about the id3.

The driver only has one switch to control the front and rear window on each side of the car, so he controls the front right, but he also controls the rear right. I just have to press this button to put it in rear mode and now look, I can make that one go up. Wouldn't more switches fit in instead of this stupid lava whose idea that was? Look how small. This glovebox is the reason because while Volkswagen moved the steering wheel to the right for the UK market, they didn't move the fuse boxes under there, that's the kind of trick Peugeot does, in fact, if you want to see my full index. peugeot e208 video review click on the pop up banner up there anyway continue if you have this car with a 77 kilowatt hour battery then it's a strict two seater here in the back instead of this three seater bench , it could be because the extra batteries take up space here, so you can't seat anyone there.

The brakes on electric cars can sometimes be a little harsh when you are manoeuvring, they are not in this, they are smooth, but occasionally they make noise when you stop hearing that the design of these pockets in the doors is a bit confusing. You see that they actually extend far beyond the opening, so you might think I lost my keys. What's in the door pocket? So you're looking. Are not. not there, look where it is, in fact, yes, they are right on the corner, not everything is negative, although here are five good things about this car, it has triplets and it needs to carry three baby seats, no problem, you have points of Fixed ice anchors, even here on the front passenger seat.

Are you pretty trashy at parking and have a lot of parking spaces? Well, don't worry, this car will automatically break down if it thinks you're going to hit something in the parking lot. Do you like the atmosphere in your car a little? the id3 has various light themes for the interior um of desire euphoria vitality the one called dysentery I don't know, but you can also choose it yourself and choose the different colors you prefer yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, oh, choose if you wish. When purchasing this car for environmental reasons, you will be pleased to know that the seats are made from 20 recycled materials.

Additionally, Volkswagen has paid to offset the carbon produced during the manufacturing of this car, so it is actually carbon neutral. This car has a proper keyless start system. so you don't have to do anything just have the feeling that you are there with the key, there is a pressure sensor on the seat when you sit down and then all I have to do to start the car is put my foot on I activate the I brake and go now, when I want to go out I just put it in park mode, go out and it will turn itself off, yeah look at that, now there's actually a start button, but that's there for old times sake, well.

I think the car has had enough time to reset. There is no front assistance. Availability is limited. Awesome lane error assist. It says a lot. Oh, aerodynamic cornering light and anything else while we're at it. No, let's get on with this before I run out. free of charge, I want to see what this car is like when driving it on a winding road, now it could be a lot of fun because the engine is in the back, it's rear wheel drive, so I'm going to put the car in sport mode, now yes. It has a sport mode that should sharpen the throttle response and, oh yeah, it's pretty agile, but what about the handling?

I mean, this thing weighs 1.8 tonnes so it's a bit buttery for a family hatchback, you can blame the batteries for that, but since they're mounted low you've got a low center of gravity so it doesn't tip over. too much when you throw it into a corner, the only problem is that you can't really feel how much grip the front wheels have through this steering, it's just everything is remote, which is fine in a car like this, you're not one in A sports car and it grips the road quite well. The only problem is the fact that the suspension always seems a little busy, it's like it's constantly moving. on the rough surface you don't want to push it too fast because it just doesn't feel planted enough, that's fine, however, for the people who are going to drive this car, oh look, it just flipped over and it has 10 batteries left, says i Me 26 miles of range left, so I've covered 181 miles so far and am averaging 3.8 miles per kilowatt.

Still, charge your vehicle. You can search for a nearby charging station. I think I'm going to cancel that. Ah, there we go, look. I just went to five percent of the battery remaining. We have 11 miles of range left. You know, I'm not stressed. There's something about this car. It's just relaxing. It is pleasant, pleasant and comforting to travel. Alright. I'm running out of battery quickly. range, so I'll get off the highway here and head to a charger that I know is about four or five miles away. Oh, I have one percent of the battery left at two miles of range.

It doesn't seem to have any loss in power and I don't have any warning or anything on the driver display oh no it's just registered at zero percent battery so at zero I've done 203 miles no battery percent no miles of range yeah, I don't seem to have any loss in performance oh, there is no remaining range vehicle charged now 205 miles now, so we drove two miles when I have no battery percentage and there is no range performance restriction, check the vehicle wallet, we have the turtle, sign up now, not feeling as good fast as before 210 miles now oh here we go only maneuvering possible please charge check vehicle wallet oh no, I'm totally dying, it's really sliding constantly make a stop, it will be I better take my chances so the guys behind me know I'm about to fail.

At least I'm in town. What's going to happen now when I go this way? Will it stop suddenly? It's going to close I've stopped that's all that's my destiny I'm rolling backwards right? can I move? no, that was good, it slowed me down pretty gradually, warned me about the problems I was having and left me with the ability to use the power steering and push it, okay, so let's push it out of the way, just get on the curb. It's nice that they let you do this, they've obviously thought about it throughout the process of stayingwithout charge so 210 miles is managed on a 94 battery so it's about 220 if it had been a 100 battery, 40 miles from the claimed 260 miles but there you go, not too bad, what do I do now?

Oh I know the rac actually has a service where they come out specifically for affected EVs and they can charge them on the side of the road so you can get moving and you can get up to an appropriate speed. charger, so I'm going to make that call. I just realized that this car allows me to maneuver. Look at life on the old dog, but I won't give up until he's completely flat. I wonder if he'll let me drive. Here, come on, yeah, come on, there's nothing, there's no power, come on, come on, I'm definitely driving oh, 211 miles, oh no, this is definitely, this is the end, yeah, it's totally dead, but it's still rolling , let's roll towards there. off road safely and I think that's it now and I would say that's definitely the end of that so in the end we got 211 miles and when you adjust it for the fact that I started with a 94 battery it works out to 224 miles and really guys look I think this time it really is oh look the identification light is working now it comes to life.

Welding identification light thanks for finally showing up anyway, it's called racing team charging. I can actually drive to a proper charging station so the rac has plugged their truck into my car and they're charging it at three kilowatts, which is about the same as you get with a regular three-prong plug, so it's quite slow, but it's enough to give me a range of a few miles to be able to get to that charging point, obviously if I were further away from a charging point I just have to wait, but it's better than being completely stranded and at worst In most cases, they can tow the car, why don't we do what I want?

To get you to the charging point, they are actually working to improve the actual kilowatt output of their backup chargers to seven kilowatts, so it's the same as a wall box home charger. Oh look, the identification light also works for charging after leaving the car. Charging in the rac van for 30 minutes, I had enough power to drive with a proper charger, but remember I ran out of battery on purpose. The reality is that the real-world reach of the id3 is easy enough to meet most people's needs. The only real downside to this and other electric cars is that they take longer to refuel than a petrol or diesel car.

Now, as standard, this car can charge 50 kilowatts, but this particular model can charge 100 kilowatts and can charge from empty to 80 kilowatts in failure. half an hour, so charging at 50 kilowatts will probably take an hour to get to 80, you can even get the car with the 125 kilowatt charging capacity, although that would be useless most of the time, so what's my verdict final about the new one? volkswagen id3 you should avoid it if he considers it should he shortlist it or should he just go ahead and buy it i think you should shortlist it its not perfect but its still a very good all round electric car hello again its a new day change your clothes and the id3 has had a new life is the classic turn it off leave it for a long time and turn it back on and everything will be fine the error messages have disappeared the sensors are working the car is happy again oh modern technology eh