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I wasn't expecting VW to cover it under warranty, although maybe if it's happening a lot it is a sign of a problem. That happened with early MINIs in the USA. I was just thinking that third party installers might not have it yet if it's different from other current Golfs. If it's back ordered at...

Ron, I think that's a typo in the Car-Net app. Although it says over the slider 'minimum battery charge level', below it the text says ' The system will charge to this level when the charging plug is connected'

There is a way to limit it with the Car-Net app: Go to e-manager > Departure Time and tap the gear icon in the top corner. This brings up a slider that limits the maximum charge globally, whether or not you use the scheduler to have the car ready at a certain time. I was running mine at 80% max...

A friend who rode as a passenger the other day pointed out to me that I've got a crack in my windshield. From the driver's seat it's mostly obscured by the interior mirror so I don't know when it happened. It's pothole season around here, so it could easily have been from debris thrown up, but I...

Mine went down slightly when I replaced a 2010 GTI. No issues with the insurer (Mapfre) recognizing the car.

From a Green Car Congress report written after a visit to the Wolfsburg plant ahead of the US launch: "The power electronics module controls the high-voltage energy flow between the e-motor and the lithium-ion battery (between 250 and 430 V depending on the battery voltage). The power...

Back when I first had a MINI, owners would wave and flash their headlights to each other... It'll be odd for an EV to be waving to an F-350..! :D My e-Golf is sliver, also becoming more white with salt. I'll keep an eye out for you around town.

I know you're right Ron about training. My dealership said they'd sent two sales and two service personnel to specialized training and when I needed to take my car back for an issue, it had to wait a day until a trained tech was in the shop. This could be an issue for me as I'm considering a...

Hello fellow MA EV drivers. I haven't seen another e-Golf in the wild yet, so I'll keep my eyes open. I'm usually in Bedford and Billerica with some excursions to Cambridge. My MOR-EV timeline went as follows: Leased the car; Dec 22nd Submitted online application; Dec 22nd Follow up from MOR-EV...

Exactly! You can have the A/C on and the temperature set to 78F. When the A/C is on, the air is passed over cool coils to take it below its dew point thus removing the moisture. Then it's heated to the desired temperature or left cold in the summer. Car engineers and HVAC engineers have learned...

I haven't measured the range of the sensors to see what those two marks on the side bar represent (or read the manual to see if it's in there) but it happens as soon as anything is in range of the parking sensors. I would guess they first trigger at about 3 or 4 feet. Not an unreasonable...

There's the difference: car manufacturers are not software or data services companies. Aside from Tesla, their relationship to customers is indirect, through dealerships. I'm sure they'd be happy for any and all of these issues to be reported back to them through the dealership network. There...

I turned off the automatic parking sensor activation the first time I drove in heavy traffic - what an annoying "feature"..! Yes, I realize it's hard to distinguish between driving in stop / start traffic and parking amongst other parked vehicles, but that just makes me wonder why they even...

A classic example of Betteridge's Law of Headlines with the title of this thread :D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines Car-net won't be reading this thread because the software and communications services are done under contract by a division of Verizon. Their client...

Similar here with NStar. The variable rate would be much more expensive, even after they jacked their rates 60% I've switched supplier and when the snow melts, I'll be looking at solar. We'll need to remove a large tree but that's worryingly close to the house anyway, so it should go. It would...

I bought mine in Medford where they have two sales guys who really know their stuff on the eGolf. I looked at Minuteman in Bedford first because it is MUCH closer to my house but they were clueless about the car. I knew more than the salesman after half a day of online research. Medford actually...

I don't see the point of it if the infotainment system has to be on to receive destinations. Surely you'd only want to use the phone or desktop to send destinations to the car when you're not in the car... I can see that it has to have power to function electronically, but the car is never...

I've had this happen. When I've backed out of the garage and then gone back to close the door (no remote here) the car has shut down. The info screen says it has 'shut down to protect the battery'. I can sort of understand that but it happens very quickly. I don't know if it's related to whether...

Not wishing to completely hijack the OP's thread, but it's not a net $35K car. There was $7,500 federal incentive, $2,500 state incentive and the trade in from my old car which was already paid off.

If I was in the situation where I could have chosen a Tesla, I would have..! I got an eGolf because it was 1/3rd the price of the Tesla I would want (P85D) and it's half the price of even the base Model S. The way I look at it is I'll take the inferior eGolf for 3 years and then see what the...