Welcome to Tech in the Car this is a brand new 2022 VW ID.3
so this is one of the standard charging systems that you'll be able to get
so this is at the vw dealer
so come around here
open up so this little flap here is for the rapid charging so if you have rapid charging
then you'll take that flap off but for standard charging you don't have to do that
so you slide that on there the light will flash it'll go green if we have a look inside
you can see it says here that it is charging and it'd be 3 hours and 40 for it to be fully charged
it is that simple to charge it you do have to have the key card that you might require
or you have to register or pay with your debit card so over here we have a rapid charger system
and with this what you would do is you would tap the card on here and then it will authorize and
then you plug that in and that will charge 80 in 30 minutes that is how the charging works
on the screen in here you can also see it now shows you 158 miles 79 percent you can see 80
recommended for optimal charging let's have a look around the vw id3 so you've got this really cool
design you've got these new headlights with a daytime running light actually goes across here
across through the vw logo as well and this has got a really cool design looks a bit like
an eyeball to me which is really cool we got this cute little front here and then above it on the
bonnet there's this little vent which helps with the airflow and you can also open this up there's
a frunk as well by standard it comes with 18 inch steel wheels this is the first edition as you can
see so it says first there on the side we've got these very goldfest mirrors and then we've got
the sporty side sills down the side here which look really cool and then i really like the way
that this is just it looks really sporty with a rear spoiler coming down there and the stickers
and then around the back here we've got these cool lights these again very sporty looking lights
and they give you a cool little dance when you turn them on and when you turn them off
i really find this very interesting here how the rear window looks very small from the outside from
the inside i wouldn't say that's any problem at all and then at the back here you've got tons of
space here and you have of course you've got your anchor points your 12 volt charger tether points
lights and then you get the charging cable here and then to bring this down
there's these little handles that you pull down which are a nice little feature there
and the other thing too is it's a typical vw logo you press it to open it but also
the camera is under here so when the car reverses the camera doesn't get dirty which is cool to see
so this is a very sporty interesting cool looking car
i i probably think it may even be the best looking car that vw make in the hatchback
range better than the golf it's got a very unique very cool design
and there's a lot to like about it as well so you want to buy a vw id3 well it starts
at just under 33 000 pounds for the first edition which is what this model is up to 42
000 for the top of the range tour trim car is 23 millimeters shorter 20 millimeters wider and 96 mm
is taller than the market golf make sure you check out my videos on the golf so there are eight model
trims all five door models the first edition has 260 miles of range the life has 263 miles
the business has 262 miles of range the style 261 the tech trim 260 miles the max 250 and the tour
which has 77 kilowatt hour battery which gives it 336 miles of range there is a smaller battery pack
48 kilowatt hours good for 205 miles range coming in 2021 the 58 kilowatt hours
has 261 miles of wltp range at 77 kilowatts three four two it takes nine hours to charge this model
the 58 kilowatt hour battery on a home plug with a hundred kilowatt rapid charge it goes 10 to 80
in 30 minutes which will increase the range to 260 miles or almost a full charge and as i mentioned
before it does zero to 62 miles an hour in 7.3 seconds let's have a look now inside the car
the vw id3 has cool ambient lighting that you can control from the infotainment system the steering
wheel has new touch sensitive controls and there's an interesting unique gear knob on the steering
wheel as well as a frameless mirror in the center there's a full guide to the infotainment system
on the channel so check it out if you want more information about how it works
in the center there's a net for your stuff there's two cup holders for your drinks there's a wireless
charging mat so you can put your phone on and charge it and there's also some ambient lighting
down there as well as two usb type-c ports to plug your phone in right let's look at the main
infotainment system so this is very similar to what you get in the golf 8 it looks the same
so looking at the screen here we have telephone radio media navigation vehicle sound help settings
driver assist and then we have our overview screen which shows you everything here this car has
wireless android auto and wireless carplay as well so let's have a look at the steering wheel now so
what's interesting about this is when i move the steering wheel the whole thing moves the display
moves as well if i move it back or forwards that you never have any issues with the steering wheel
blocking the display on the display itself it's got your parking information if your parts it's
got speed it tells you if the door is open or closed and it will show your navigation
system information also you can see you've got your drive mode and your regenerative braking mode
here it tells you to go up and down to change gear neutral and reverse and on the side here you have
your cool little buttons which do that and you can see that when i selected a gear the light changed
there we go so that id light gives you information about what is happening and what's going on
which is very very cool so these are the buttons on the side of the car on the door
if you want to adjust your mirrors you can do that and the lights light up to give you that
information about what you're doing you can lock it as well by pressing the little lock icon there
you can change it to the rear if you want to put the rear windows up and down like this when you
get out the car it says goodbye it tells you if you've got everything it asks you if you
want the car to be online do you want the air conditioning to be on now do you want it to turn
on the air conditioning at a certain time and you want the alarm on and you can adjust that as well
if you want to this is the new vw ied3 this is the first vw group car based on the meb new electric
car platform it's the first of a series they've already announced the iab 4 which is coming soon
and so i'm really excited to get behind this car and drive it i've had a bit of experience
now driving different electric cars with the pole star and having been in the teslas so
it's really interesting so the first thing i would say about this car is and what i really like is
it's rear-wheel drive now i'm not somebody that gets particularly caught up on a rear-wheel drive
or four-wheel drive i think four-wheel drive is generally better but it makes it more fun because
you can feel you're being pushed from behind in this electric car and obviously being an
electric car it has loads of torque so it pushes you along very nicely so it feels really really
nippy it does 0 to 62 miles an hour in 7.3 seconds which is pretty nippy not as fast as a sports car
not as fast as other electric cars but more than enough to get you away from the traffic lights or
pull you out in front of a roundabout which is really busy which i just did back there it feels
very enjoyable to ride and the other thing too is when i got in i really like
the way it starts there is obviously a key there is a start button on the side of the
steering column but you don't need it when you get in pressure sensors in the seat the tech that
you've sat down and they automatically turn on the display turn on the driver information and then
when you then turn the gear knob to drive the car will then automatically start
you don't need to press any button you just need to put it into drive and go which is a really
cool thing it makes it feel very much like the future of not having to worry about that in fact
this car of course has keyless entry so this is the first edition that i'm driving now there are
eight different trim levels and they vary in battery size 58 to 78 kilowatt hours which is
the larger battery size and then there's a smaller battery size coming next year in 2021 as well it's
nippy it's fun to drive i've got dynamic road sign information it's telling me what the speed limit
is it's giving me all this information and it's quite cool how you have this little display in
the middle here which moves with the steering wheel instead of a traditional fixed cockpit
for the driver this moves backwards and forwards with the steering wheel which is really cool so it
feels very nice steering wheel feels very nice the interior here feels very up-market very quality
and because it's slightly higher than the golf i think you also have a better driving position
in terms of what you can see that's around you i think that also helps as well that's one of the
reasons why people like suvs but because it's an electric car because it has batteries down there
the center of the weight feels very well distributed it feels very even you don't
feel like you're driving a tall car as i go around the corner as i go with speed bumps
it's a really really nice car to drive there's no no question there coming to speed bump let's
check out the suspension so i mean that went over that speed bump very smoothly
it felt a lot like the m5 i was driving actually going on the speed bump so you know that's uh
that's the 100 000 pound car and it feels just like that so this suspension is really comfortable
right let's try out the adapter cruise control i can adjust my speed here so we want to go at 30
you can see the lane assist is seeing the road markings by the road and it's telling me where
i am and if i swipe to the side here i can make it smaller or bigger and we can see the assistant
settings on the big screen in the middle here and when i accelerate the adaptive cruise turns off
and when i slow down it speeds up so you see this feeling is 40 so i can go faster and you can see
the side of the road here if we turn this into the regen braking so essentially what happens
in this mode is when i lift my foot off the pedal it recycles some of the braking energy
but it doesn't come to a full stop now one of the things i didn't enjoy in the pulsar 2 was
on one pedal braking and you could turn it off i always thought it'd be better to have some
sort of regen braking that will recharge the battery with a bit of extra power but
which won't bring the car to a full stop because it's very hard to get used to that i would say
if you have the car you drove out all the time then it's fine but i think if you didn't you
would find it hard and so here in this mode i'm taking my father break and i'm slowing down i'm
not coming to complete stop i'm slowing down as if i was pressing the brake and i'm sewing down a
i would say relative amount of cars telling me to stay in the lane as well
that was good i got that lane warning so maybe in this scenario the original braking is stopping me
too much i want to glide a bit more so if we turn it back into normal drive and then i can just
glide along so i don't need to put my foot on the accelerator but i can still keep moving forwards
nice and easily this car has everything really i've got nothing bad to say about it at all
i think this is a fantastic car i think if you're
after a car that is similar to a golf but you want to go electric then this is a great car
to get you can't go wrong i think he'd agree that you'd be buying a car which has got
all the benefits of the golf and also it's good for the environment and saves you money
the only thing obviously you need to keep in mind is charging in your home and how long it
will take to charge the car from a standard wall charger but if you leave it overnight
then you should be fine it shouldn't be an issue at all so i recommend this car check
it out if you're looking for a new car i borrowed this car from volkswagen in eastbourne so please
pay them a visit they're really great they will help you with any of your car needs i
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