Blighty

End of first week, now the real test: off to Blighty. Charged the car to 100% at work, only 360Kms shown on the screen. Far from the WLTP 425Kms…..My VW salesman tells me that this is predicted based on my driving to date. Who am I Jacky Ickx Or something?

Then I remembered there are several driving modes, I checked it out and sure enough I’d been driving in the sport mode, which is fine for short distances and frequent charging but from Paris to Tonbridge I’d need “grandfather” mode, so off we jolly well went, check out the screen as we set off;

110 on the motorway, 80 on other roads, but no matter I cannot express how comfortable a zero engine noise car is for a long drive. Now here is something I haven’t seen for such a long time:

We charged up 50 Kms in a low power (7KWh) charging station at the town hall in Dieppe using my new WE CONNECT card whilst we had a pick-nick , just in case. Did we need it? No…..

So here are the numbers, from 100% charge in grandfather mode, distance driven 269 Kms, 30% charge remaining. (124 Kms), so for 425 Kms WLTP in grandfather mode including 80 Kms on motorway yields (269+124-50)= 343 Kms, but we did have the a/c on: REAL LIFE NUMBERS

It was ok however for this target trip.