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I did a test drive and really loved it. When it comes to comfort and handling, I personally think it's much better the Model Y.
However, I did notice one odd thing. After I parked the car, I noticed the car was still using power. It kept creeping up to 1.8 kW (or "kWh/h" in VW speak) when I had to exit the car. It could very well be the power drain would have increases even further had I stayed in the car longer.
As you can see from the photo, the A/C was off, seat heating was off and (as said) the car was parked, not driving. Outside temperature was 50F (10C). I do see 74 and 70F underneath the seat icons, but I don't know if that means the heating is on. Even if the heating was on, 1.8kW seems a bit excessive. What could possibly be using 1.8kW?
I saw a video from an ID.3 owner in the UK or Ireland a while ago that showed the car always heats the battery to I think 13C, even for short trips, and that's why the ID.3 gets like a horrible 70 or 80 miles range when used in winter for only short trips (with enough time in between the trips for the battery to cool down). We were the first ones to drive the ID.4 that day. Could it be that the ID.4 was still pre-heating the battery from 10C to 13C after 37 minutes of test driving?
Has anyone who already owns an ID4 seen this behavior?
However, I did notice one odd thing. After I parked the car, I noticed the car was still using power. It kept creeping up to 1.8 kW (or "kWh/h" in VW speak) when I had to exit the car. It could very well be the power drain would have increases even further had I stayed in the car longer.
As you can see from the photo, the A/C was off, seat heating was off and (as said) the car was parked, not driving. Outside temperature was 50F (10C). I do see 74 and 70F underneath the seat icons, but I don't know if that means the heating is on. Even if the heating was on, 1.8kW seems a bit excessive. What could possibly be using 1.8kW?
I saw a video from an ID.3 owner in the UK or Ireland a while ago that showed the car always heats the battery to I think 13C, even for short trips, and that's why the ID.3 gets like a horrible 70 or 80 miles range when used in winter for only short trips (with enough time in between the trips for the battery to cool down). We were the first ones to drive the ID.4 that day. Could it be that the ID.4 was still pre-heating the battery from 10C to 13C after 37 minutes of test driving?
Has anyone who already owns an ID4 seen this behavior?