[Blue_IDA]

Left the house this AM to golf w friends. Course 35 miles away, w climb uphill at the end. 160 miles available says ID4 in my driveway….drops to 90 in 7 miles getting on hwy….Still Ok I think……nope.
21 miles left at the course. Not enough to get home.
currently sitting at a level 2 charger, paying for it mind you, in the middle of nowhere for a few hours.
This car is not for me.

 

[TPG]

Left the house this AM to golf w friends. Course 35 miles away, w climb uphill at the end. 160 miles available says ID4……drops to 90 in 7 miles….Still Ok I think……
21 miles left at the course.
currently sitting at a level 2 charger, paying for it mind you, in the middle of nowhere for a few hours.
This car is not for me.

Sorry to hear that. This is why the ID4 should show the remaining battery charge (to 1% precision) on the steering column display and its navigation system should predict remaining charge using distance and elevation to destination, like ABRP or Tesla.

 

[Blue_IDA]

Yeah. Currently sitting in a parking lot eating a Circle K hot dog. Thinking of ditching the car. Luckily only 95 degrees out….

 

[wtatun]

Yeah - not for everyone…..But twice for my family!

 

[JimmyVW]

Didn’t carnet show you the remaining percentage?

 

[heavyt]

The range dropped 70 miles in 7 miles of driving? Something is not right.

 

[Nai3t]

That sounds similar to an issue regular ev dad reported in a video of a recent road trip. That doesn't sound normal, which is good -- better a problem to be corrected than expected behavior.

 

[bluedanube]

Don't know what kind of hill it was (elevation) but you can regen quite a bit of range coming down.

 

[jwaters943]

Don't know what kind of hill it was (elevation) but you can regen quite a bit of range coming down.

I am wondering the same thing. It is normal for most EVs guessometers to show a sharp decrease in range very quickly when climbing steep grades. I’ve learned this the hard when when estimating how much real range I had on my old 93 mile EPA rated 2016 Soul EV.

If this person was coming home back downhill the range should quickly recover.


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[VW TECHNICIAN]

Yeah. Currently sitting in a parking lot eating a Circle K hot dog. Thinking of ditching the car. Luckily only 95 degrees out….

What was your SOC ....not GOM estimate on your prior driving efficiency....also you should know that you will gain energy going down . Ask some fellas who are living in Colorado. ..Wyoming.... or any other state with a lot of climbs. There is learning curve how to use EV and it will be your decision to learn or go back to ICE.

 

[VW TECHNICIAN]

That sounds similar to the an issue regular ev dad reported in a video of a recent road trip. That's doesn't sound normal, which is good -- better a problem to be corrected than expected behavior.

His issue was related using EV Notify that have caused high noise on ID4 gateway...
Using badly developed app and not good dongle...and even if you use good dongle.
.with badly developed app it will cause all types of issues. Not just on ID4 but on any other EV

 

[VW Dave]

Did you turn on AC in Max mode? That will cost you significant range.

Significant elevation change low to high seems to affect my range by about -15%. Naturally the car can’t predict this until you start climbing.

 

[VW TECHNICIAN]

Did you turn on AC in Max mode? That will cost you significant range.

Significant elevation change low to high seems to affect my range by about -15%. Naturally the car can’t predict this until you start climbing.

That is great advice regarding GOM reaction.

 

[Nai3t]

Naturally the car can’t predict this until you start climbing.

Actually, yes, it can, but it doesn't seem the ID.4 does this. My i3 takes the destination I set in nav and looks at the planned route -- at the elevation gains, temperatures, expected speeds, including traffic delays, and it adjusts the estimated range accordingly. It's the first in-car nav that I've ever found useful and use constantly. It also picks battery friendly routes. I wish all EVs would do this. That's an example of maximizing use of the car's data connection.

 

[Nai3t]

His issue was related using EV Notify that have caused high noise on ID4 gateway...
Using badly developed app and not good dongle...and even if you use good dongle.
.with badly developed app it will cause all types of issues. Not just on ID4 but on any other EV

Was that it? So the dongle caused the car to display bad SOC? Dang.

 

[VW TECHNICIAN]

Was that it? So the dongle caused the car to display bad SOC? Dang.

There is his video he posted explaining what really happened....i only had chance to look historical traffic data from his ID4.

 

[Blue_IDA]

The range dropped 70 miles in 7 miles of driving? Something is not right.

It did…..

 

[EVone]

Left the house this AM to golf w friends. Course 35 miles away, w climb uphill at the end. 160 miles available says ID4 in my driveway….drops to 90 in 7 miles getting on hwy….Still Ok I think……nope.
21 miles left at the course. Not enough to get home.
currently sitting at a level 2 charger, paying for it mind you, in the middle of nowhere for a few hours.
This car is not for me.

Not Possible unless something is broken ...35 miles + 21=56 miles and GOM says 160 miles. ...thats an extra 104Miles


Absolutely 100% not possible even with AC on , heading uphill in a headwind into tornadic winds at 90 mph ... to only have 21 miles left after 35 mile drive


Something is wrong ..entirely possible you had a cell go bad(considering you lost 70 miles range in 7 miles) ..otherwise. .just not possible ..


Please post Picks /video ...filler up go for a drive and show us your setting ac etc..

 

[ericy]

All I can say is that I am glad that I upgraded VAG-COM so I can scan the car. If this ever happened to me, I could start looking to see if any weird codes were being thrown.

I remember the similar thread from @RegularEVDad - I don't think they ever reproduced anything, but he was using EVnotify while driving, and the theory was that it was flooding the bus with a lot of extra queries that may have caused the issue. In his case, the range just started dropping, but after a while it sort of started going back up again.

 

[jgoodnough]

I also think something is wrong with this ID4. I made a 180 mile round trip last week with four hill climbs totalling 3600 ft of elevation gained and lost. When I arrived home my GOM was off by two miles for the entire round trip. This was on mixed secondary and multi-lane highways, with rolling hills in 90° heat. My average speed was 44 mph according to the trip computer but my normal road speed was around 60-65. I would have turned around when the first 50 miles dropped off that GOM after traveling 7 miles. Something was wrong even at that point. You should go back to the dealer (if the car can make it that far).