[Geo]

The bottom line - it charges as promised. Even on a 40 degree (5C) day, it did 5% to 80% in 38 minutes. The first 100 miles was added in 16 minutes.

Sounds good enough for me and my road trips.

Full article here:

How Fast Does The Volkswagen ID.4 Charge? Our DC Fast Charge Test Finds Out

We take a brand new Volkswagen ID.4 1st edition to an Electrify America DC fast charger to find out just how fast the car can charge.

insideevs.com

 

[FinleyFinn]

He also said he got 230mi of range driving at 70mph with temperatures in the 40s. That's really good!

 

[ericy]

Compared to the Kona I had before, this is a huge step up.

 

[SFiercex4]

These are some nice results, especially in light of the negatives related to EA's difficult connection with (their own parent company's) ID4. The highway range test is VERY promising, I am moving to an area in NJ in which I will be having to drive about 25 out of 30 miles on the highway for my commute. I was worried about the lack of efficiency for the vehicle, but I'm feeling better with this result.

 

[Id4u]

He also said he got 230mi of range driving at 70mph with temperatures in the 40s. That's really good!

Did he have the heater on? If so, this is impressive.

 

[NBCGLX]

Even on a 40 degree (5C) day, it did 5% to 80% in 38 minutes. The first 100 miles was added in 16 minutes.

Sounds good enough for me and my road trips.

Full article here:

How Fast Does The Volkswagen ID.4 Charge? Our DC Fast Charge Test Finds Out

We take a brand new Volkswagen ID.4 1st edition to an Electrify America DC fast charger to find out just how fast the car can charge.

insideevs.com

2% to 80% in 38 minutes. Only pointing out the correction because it's better than what VW is advertising!

 

[salant76]

Did he have the heater on? If so, this is impressive.

If it was me I would have set the driver’s heated seat to low with no heat. Maybe have the heated steering wheel on (not sure because I have never owned a car with a heated steering wheel).

 

[ChristophW]

2% to 80% in 38 minutes. Only pointing out the correction because it's better than what VW is advertising!

I am excited about these two new data points:
230/234 miles range in 40 degree weather at 70 mph. (Chargeway would tell you to expect 182 miles, based on whatever formula they apply.)
2% - 80% charge in 38 minutes.
Both demonstrate that VW underpromised and overdelivers, the first one especially.

 

[NBCGLX]

I am excited about these two new data points:
230/234 miles range in 40 degree weather at 70 mph. (Chargeway would tell you to expect 182 miles, based on whatever formula they apply.)
2% - 80% charge in 38 minutes.
Both demonstrate that VW underpromised and overdelivers, the first one especially.

Agreed!

 

[WandsMagic]

I thought it was interesting that the cost of charging at Electrify America was rather expensive.(About $20.00 for 200 miles)
If you had an ice car like a Honda CR-V that got about 30 mpg on the highway and at $3.00/gal, it would also cost about $20.00 for 200 miles.
The real savings is free charging at Electrify America for 3 years with an ID.4.
Also, it should be much cheaper to charge at home.

 

[WandsMagic]

Oh no, more math.

Using the video, he had charged about 65 kwh at $20.00 for about 200 miles.

If your electric rate at home is $0.15/kwh, then the cost is $9.75 for a 200 mile trip.

 

[YowVil]

More data here

Volkswagen ID.4 (82 kWh) In-Depth DC Fast Charging Analysis

Volkswagen ID.4, one of the hottest new electric cars on the market, is offering quite good charging characteristics. Let's check how good it actually is.

insideevs.com

 

[rchangek]

So.. 234 miles highway range at 40F on RWD ID.4 should translate into 210 miles for AWD ID.4 with an additional 10% hit. That's not too bad!

 

[salant76]

Oh no, more math.

Using the video, he had charged about 65 kwh at $20.00 for about 200 miles.

If your electric rate at home is $0.15/kwh, then the cost is $9.75 for a 200 mile trip.

DC Fast Charging isn't cheap and really is only required when travel to your destination. Here in the Northeast there seems to be a far amount of free charging stations around. My current hometown in Massachusetts and my original hometown in New Hampshire both have free level 2 charging.

When I was trying to justify buying my e-Golf I figured I was going to save around $60 a month of gas/energy over my 36-38 MPG Civic Liftback.

 

[gte574j]

Hmm I've done three tests so far and not been able to replicate this regardless of whether I was sitting at a 150 or 350kW charger. In each case I started at 25-20% SOC at 20deg C (72ish F), at 25% SOC I saw 102kW, but typically at 30% SOC I'm only at 90-91kW, drops of fairly quickly to about 80kW at 40-50% SOC, 58kW at 65% SOC-80%SOC, above 80% around 37kW. I wonder if the higher results are due to the lower NE temperatures. I would have guessed that any claim from VW would be done at STP so 20deg C and in that case I have always seen slower charging speeds and fairly long authorization times at EA sites.

 

[Andy at Ross-Tech.com]

@gte574j, that's similar to my experience as well but the lowest I have gotten is 24%. I'm currently running down the tank and will try to do a single digit SoC fillup at my local EA and will log and report the results.

 

[stealthg]

DC Fast Charging isn't cheap and really is only required when travel to your destination. Here in the Northeast there seems to be a far amount of free charging stations around. My current hometown in Massachusetts and my original hometown in New Hampshire both have free level 2 charging.

When I was trying to justify buying my e-Golf I figured I was going to save around $60 a month of gas/energy over my 36-38 MPG Civic Liftback.

Yea, it’s totally a convenience thing when it comes to DCFC. Just like gas is higher directly off of the interstate or milk is higher at the 7-11 than at the grocery store. I will save enough during normal driving that it won’t bother me for the occasional long haul trip.