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Condorlini
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Just back from a 10 day London -> Scotland -> Northumberland -> London trip in the id.3 in generally cold and usually shitty weather.
Generally fine, journey up was smooth, sat at <70 mph and lucky with chargers (no wait, high charge speeds). Journey down far less so - I hadnt expected the wind and rain to hit the range as much as it did (on top of the cold), so had to put in an extra stop. Every charging station we stopped at had problems and queues - Ionity Peterborough had six people all trying to get connected with issues. We eventually all did, but it was after 30 minutes of trying, only to draw 45kwh
It still all feels too hard at the moment, and will likely stay this way until EV charging is treated on par with petrol as a piece of critical national infrastructure. Can you imagine rolling into service stations on the M1 only to find no petrol, no communication, nobody to give a shit?
The id.3 is going back in a couple of weeks. Its also generally fine, but it has a speed sign recognition thing on cruise control thats very dangerous - it wrongly recognises limits, say a 50mph on a slip road when you're staying on the motorway, or a 30mph from a minor road that crosses the dual carriageway you're travelling along. And then it hits the brakes hard, brake-checking whomever is behind you. Its mental really. Equally the side visibility with the A-pillars (as talked about above) is unacceptable - a real liability at junctions, twisting country lanes and zebra crossings. And the window wipers are set up for left hand drive, so dump the water from the left side to the right...
I wouldnt be totally surprised if there's a handful of accidents with id.3s as the become more popular, and some of these flaws becomes news.