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Boom..! Now it's 11m vehicles worldwide. Still more shoes to drop I think

Yes, the VW group as a whole is close to being the biggest car maker in the world by sales volume, it's a close contest between them and Toyota, but that's not to say the VW brand in America is safe from the fallout of this. The Bugatti Veyron was a halo car so the losses on that project are not...

So the emissions cheating spans nearly half a million 'Clean Diesel' vehicles across VW and Audi and could result in fines of $18bn... We all know that there will some kind of bargaining, so the fine probably won't be anywhere near that amount, but VW Group have really been pushing 'Clean...

I had the same thing and had to go back to the dealer to get it fixed. They were a less-than-impressive shop when it came to the technicalities of the eGolf and basically tried to tell me that I must have run the battery down to zero for it to get into this state. I hadn't done that and told...

It's not just EVs. A lot of cars are coming with run flats or goo & compressor these days.

I saw a dark blue eGolf heading into Chelmsford today as I was heading out. It had passed me by the time my brain registered that the DRLs were an eGolf so I didn't have time to acknowledge it but maybe the owner is on here... Nice color car..!

Yes, I've found that one out-of-character drive can throw off the range estimate for the next time. It must average over a short timeframe - which is probably necessary for it to avoid saying you've got plenty left when you're actually out. I've noticed turning Max AC on cuts 10 miles from my...

A motor that is being turned becomes a generator, this much we know. The e-Golf makes use of that for regenerative braking and for recharging the battery when you're in D1-B modes, but what happens in straight up D mode? When you lift off the accelerator, the power needle sits at zero but you're...

Was it the dealership where you'd bought the car? It was my understanding that every dealer who is selling the e-Golf had to send two sales and two technical staff to training. That's the situation where I got mine, although I think one of the technical guys was a supervisor who probably doesn't...

Also, why would you need it? The Tesla superchargers add about 170 miles range in 30 min and our cars only have a 90 mile pack. It would be charged in no time. That might be a neat trick, but it's a but unnecessary..! :D The car already contains circuitry to rectify 240V AC into DC, so why pay...

I leased mine from Medford, even though there's a dealer in the same town (Bedford) for the same reasons! I got a level 2 charger from Home Depot, the Schneider one, and installed it myself as we already had a 220V line going through the garage. It's been great so far (8 months). Hope to see...

As far as I recall, they said they'd be making a decision on whether or not to increase their stake in Quantum Scape around July. I don't think they promised any public announcement in July. We might have to wait for VW's next legally-mandated financial filing date (quarterly report etc) to find...

My guess is it's partly due to fragmentation in the Android market... http://opensignal.com/reports/2015/08/android-fragmentation/ Car-Net are not going to be able / willing to test all combinations and I expect by cutting off tablets, that simplifies their test case set greatly.

I think it was something to do with the fan / AC being on. At least when the numbers were changing and I shut the climate control off, it went straight to --.- The numbers still seem to roll down slower than they did even when climate control is off, but maybe I'm just imagining it...

Good thinking! I was so glad to have the AC back I didn't think about it being correlated to that running. I'll try turning it off (briefly) on the way home.

I am almost certain that before I took my car in to have the AC issue looked at, when I was coasting in D the instantaneous consumption in the dash display would always show --.- Today when I release the accelerator and coast in D I get a variety of numbers showing there. I can see how they can...

That's interesting Frank3, maybe I'll follow up with them and see if they checked the 12V battery control module. Something must have told the climate control to shut down and since I didn't drain the main pack, it could happen again.

I just picked up the car after it spent two days in the shop. The dealer doesn't have a lot of experience with the e-Golf yet, so they were on the phone with VW Tech support to try to figure it out. The dealer told me that it wasn't only the AC that wasn't working, but the heating as well. I...

I'm taking it in on Friday and they can sort it all out. I'll get them to apply the latest sticker update too :roll:

Thanks Unbeliever, I'll call the local dealer today and see if I can get it checked at the weekend. Why do they send out letters over stupid things like information stickers being missing or wrong, but don't send out letters for things like this which could affect people any and every day...