⚡2022 VW ID3 EV
Channel: Car SpeedTV
Date: 2022-01-07

Against an official range of 260 miles, the ‘guessometer’ readout of this ID3 1st Edition, freshly unplugged and extracted from my garage into the frosty morning, can muster only 180 miles, which tumbles into the one-seventies as the heater is set just so on the grotesque double-chin hanging from the touchscreen. Mind you, ID3s we’ve tested in milder climes have barely promised more, and it's partly my fault. I haven’t pre-conditioned the heating to gently bring the stone-cold battery up to temperature. EVs, like teenagers, are grumpy about early starts on brisk mornings.