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I have set the departure time in CarNet and the delayed charging button is lit in the charging port on the car, but as soon as I plug in it starts charging immediately. The charging time shows it will take between 1 & 3 hours depending on how much I've used it and the departure time is set to...

Yes, that's the heated front windshield control. I don't recall if it's in the manual anywhere but my salesperson showed it to me when I collected the car because it's buried in that screen. It would be so much better if it was available on a physical button like the rear screen heater.

I can't see it happening. When has a manufacturer ever offered a power train swap for a 3 year old vehicle? They want to sell new cars - that's part of the driving force behind constant technological development. If good enough was good enough, we'd still be driving Model T Fords ;) Even for...

Well, the crack crept from behind the mirror into my field of view, so I called to get it replaced. Firstly, most glass replacement places don't seem to know about the e-golf and don't have it as a heated screen. I went with Satellite who based the replacement on the VIN so they did realize what...

Bad cable maybe? The power pins could be connecting but not the data ones? I know that with mine, if I'm streaming on bluetooth and plug into the MDI cable it switches to the cable input automatically.

I agree that it tends to shut down very quickly - it's often hit and miss if I can close my manual garage door before it shuts down. I was lucky this time I guess, or the key was still inside which may give it longer..? Despite what the LCD message says, I don't think it's really about...

I was told that D3 and B were the same thing and I thought I'd seen the brake lights coming on in D3 too. I'll have to look some more.

I've got the Schneider one and it's available in either hard-wired or plug-in versions. Plugging into a dryer-type outlet is not unique to the Chargepoint home charger.

I found some overly cautious programming in the car's electronics this evening. I pulled into the drive, put the selector into P and got out to go to the mailbox. When I got back in, I closed the door but it didn't close fully. As I'm only going the length of my drive, I didn't bother to...

Mine was being very temperamental this morning and I think I might have figured something out. When I get to the car it has finished charging, the charging light is off in the car socket area and the wall charger is in standby. When I press the unlock button the charging light comes on and the...

I think we're discovering the reason none of us are software engineers for EVs..! Energy can't be destroyed, so when the battery is fully charged, there can't be as much regen yet they need to keep the brake pedal feel as consistent as possible. I don't think we'll ever know how they blend...

Coming from a 2010 VW GTI I can say that this system, while not perfect, is a great improvement over the one from that model year. I'm pretty sure there won't be a software upgrade path to CarPlay for us - it'll need new hardware and a replacement head unit is around $1,200 - $1,800. Cheaper...

Maybe when VW changes the start / stop button button so that it doesn't say 'Engine start / stop' and when the dash display doesn't say 'Ignition is on' :D I agree with your assessment of the software side of things. "Coasting" is now a computer-controlled concept and once you get used to the...

Huh. It took a week of talking to them on the 'i' button and email to even get the Car-Net app to realize I was in an E-Golf and not a Passat and they never offered me a check. :cry:

I had geo-fenced IFTT to turn on the porch lights and it worked pretty well. The only problem for lighting is that there's no AND function in IFTTT so I couldn't have it trigger only after a certain time. You can have time based triggers, you can have geo-fenced triggers but I couldn't see a way...

That's how I look at it, only more so as I've leased the car for three years. If the next person gets 5 years out of it and then it's replaced under warranty, that's OK with me.

I'm in the Boston suburbs and mine did OK this winter. The range seemed to be slightly down on the window sticker, but for part of the winter I was only charging to 80% anyway, so not a well controlled experiment. The heat pump & resistive heater warm the car better on my 7mile commute than the...

The guys at Tested have posted a video test drive of the BMW i3. I didn't look at it because it was too expensive and ugly for me but I was interested to see the issues raised here. The firm suspension would be very annoying in what is basically a city car. I moved from a GTI to the e-Golf and...

I think it knows when I'm posting... This morning it took about a dozen presses to get it to release the cable! I tried single presses, double presses, quick presses, slow presses, re-locking then unlocking. I still have no idea why it actually worked the final time. It seems to be a bug that...

I've noticed something that seems odd coming to the car in the morning and it's somewhat related to the charging lock, so I'll post it here. I open my garage in the morning and the car is charged. The light in the port on the car is off and the fast charger is in idle mode. Because the cable is...