VW ID.3 PRO S RANGE TEST (motorway and city)

Let’s start with the first part of the test. I’m going to test the range at lower speeds in the city. I want to find out what the maximum range of this car is. Let’s take a look at my results.

I drained the battery from 89% to 62% during a test drive of 129 km in and around Antwerp. The temperature was between 12 and 13.5 degrees. The average consumption I got was 15.2 kWh.

The range based on this consumption in an urban environment at lower average speeds is 507 km, which is actually quite good considering the weather conditions. And actually that is not that far from the WLTP range of 549 km.

Now let’s test the range on the motorway. The purpose of this part of the test is to find out the minimum range by testing it at higher average speeds on the motorway. I will test this by driving at a constant speed of 120 km/h. Let’s take a quick look at my results.

During this test it was immediately a lot colder. The temperature was between 6.5 and 9.5 degrees and it was raining a lot. I drained the battery from 46 to 6% on a 139km ride. The average consumption was 21 kWh, so this means that the driving range on the motorway is 367 km.

If you also want to have an idea of the range in a more mixed scenario, the range I got from one charge from 100% to 5% was 433 km based on an average consumption of 17.5 kWh and with average temperatures between 6 .5 and 13.5 degrees.

Now let’s charge the car. As far as I could find, the charging speed of the AC on-board charger is 11 kW. The charging time would be around 6 to 7 and a half hours. You can also DC fast charge at speeds up to 125 kW.

With DC charging, the battery’s charge level can be increased from 5 to 80 percent in about half an hour, enough for the next 350 km, according to Volkswagen.

Most of the chargers in my area are AC chargers so I charged the car there. I charged the car from 5% to 100% in 6h40 min . The speed I got was 11 kw based on the ID.3’s 11 kw built-in AC charger.

As a conclusion I can say that the range of the VW ID.3 Pro S is somewhere between 367 km and 507 km, based on comparable driving conditions and measured at milder temperatures between 6.5 and 13.5 degrees. I suspect that in much colder temperatures you will probably get less range, but in warmer temperatures you will get more range.