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[@georgepelton5645]

Good advice, and well presented. This video is great for new EV drivers. Great job Chris! 😀

[@SkyGodFromHell]

I have an ID.4 pro 82kwh 2021. Driven + 90k km since it was new. Three Swedish winters later I can say the car is fairly consistent even though 3.2 software improved quite a bit. Winter consumption is a real thing, at least up here with long periods of below -5 or below -10C , but it most notably during every day drives, not necessarily only the long drives. I have some 30min drive to and from work, 90% highway 110-120km. It is nice to preheat plugged in wallbox to de-ice the car, but at that short of a drive it doesn’t really makes much of a difference in the consumption. Since the car starts heating up the battery at full power while driving and stays that way pretty much the full 30min. The really cold days -15C or lower gets some epic consumption 270-300 wh/km. My winter stats on winter tyres over 10k km avg speed 74km/h is 230wh/km and the same distance and avg speed summertime on summer tyres are 180wh/km. Thanks for great content.👍

[@GTI_CHHA]

Awesome advice, very well explained!

[@Hunman79]

Good tips thank you.

[@dadys31]

Thank you for your great advice, very useful,much appreciated Chris, keep it up mate 👍 At least I'm UK we don't really have -10 that often in the winters,some winters are really mild,some others not that mild but definitely not as cold as in Germany,we're getting away driving with summer tyres on 😂

[@basedw]

With cars like Tesla you can use the heat from the battery for cabin heater. Thus increase range. Preheating the battery makes sense.

[@basedw]

Also, an ICE car in Stau will use 0.7-1L/hr. That's way more energy than any EV.

[@abraxastulammo9940]

How does this work?

[@Evans_Man]

@@abraxastulammo9940 they share the same cooling/heating system.

[@TheDM3002XTuber]

ABRP on android auto is useless for me. The GPS location was about 400 meters behind the actual position...(Waze, maps did work fine)

[@bjornmu]

Pre-heating the battery saves you time, but it costs you in energy. So if you don't mind that it takes longer to charge you may as well not bother.

[@basedw]

The car will heat the battery anyway from the charger.

[@MrTyger11]

Or... just buy a deisel...job done.😊

[@rabidpb]

There is no way the cabin heater uses more energy than an idling ICE engine if you are stationary in traffic. Typical idle consumption is 1L/hour, that's a whole lot of wasted energy compared to 1kW of electric heating, and the fossil car may even run dry before the EV.

[@oijhhytdirhrbru]

The problem is that electricity is way more expensive is Europe on the range basis, and the whole energy available in the battery is way less than the gas in the tank. With the same heating power, the ice can stand 50 hours, and this id.7, probably 15 hours. Most electricity is generated by fossil fuel, and it will still last for decades, even until none of us are present

[@rabidpb]

@@oijhhytdirhrbru The ICE could only run for 50 hours if it started with a full tank. In the same conditions, the ID7 would last for 70 hours (1kW from a 70kWh pack, the maths are rather easy.) In Europe as a whole, less than 40% of electricity is generated from fossil fuel, and that number is only trending downwards.

[@oijhhytdirhrbru]

@@rabidpb So you believe a 1kw PTC can heat up the cabin? Actually 3kw(ambient temperature depended) heating power needed to achieve similar result as ice

[@eddewhurst7662]

@@oijhhytdirhrbruYes 1KW is quite a lot to heat the small volume of a car. Even better use the heated seats and less cabin heating.

[@oijhhytdirhrbru]

@@eddewhurst7662 Oh, 1 kw is quite a lot heat, why not try really drive an id model which displays the power consumption realtime in winter? Then you will park the car, and set the power consumption to approximately 1 kilowatt, and feel it yourselves. Even the AC pump consumes more than 1kw in mild conditions.

[@abraxastulammo9940]

3:05 I hear another negative with the VW CO2 heatpump system is worse cooling at charging, so you get a drop in the charging curve at about 50 % - is this true? 🤔

[@tonycoleman4610]

When you say navigate to the charger for pre heat, does that mean you have to use the cars built in mapping? can I still use Google maps?

[@oldfort222]

Sidste vinter, min første i ID.3, kørte jeg til SoC var 5-10 %, DC lade 5-7 minutter, eller nok til næste lader. Derved varmer bilen batteriet, så jeg resten af dagen kunne lade med p mod fuld speed.

[@urkadurka]

How often do we need to buy new tires for a expensive, heavey and powerful electric car? How many km do tires live? 5000? 10000? I want to know how the YoYo trick affect tires, the winter ones with metal stubs.

[@abraxastulammo9940]

Why should it affect tires? Acceleration is not very strong so you don't get slip and skidmarks.

[@Evans_Man]

@@urkadurka wth bro?!

[@oldfort222]

​@@urkadurkajeg købte et sæt "Continental AllSeasonContact 2" til min ID.3 i november 23, og nu september har den lige været til 4 års service, har de kørt Ca 15.000 km, og værkstedet har målt 6 mm. Jeg ved desværre ikke hvor meget der var da de var nye.