This is how much my VW Id.3 cost me over the 3 years 

Amazing, what software version do you have now? And are you able to do vl2 or. V2h? I am really considering buying a used one very soon after my test drive yesterday!

The actual charging loss according to my system is not that bad. My ChargePoint Flex keeps records and I know the size of my battery. It’s less than 2kW for a 50kW charge, or 30 cents. Preheating the car? 3kWh when it’s below freezing for a half hour warm-up, or 42 cents. I spend less than $40 a month averaged over a year to drive 10,000km in a coastal climate. That’s about 15% of our total energy bill, including heat and hot water. By comparison, we spend about $120 a month to put fuel in a VW camper driven 6-7,000km a year.

That does not include the price of the car itself, or it is ancient You have forgotten insurance, road tax etc.

@@jellyd4889 I've including everything, it's about $50 per month for tax+insurance.

It makes sense if you pay less than what it would be worth. There are Leasing deals to be had if a manufacturer wants/has to press cars into the market but doesn't want to lower official prices. The German incentives played a big role to offset the high initial depreciation. With leasing you can drive new cars and participate in the rapid advancements of battery technology without risk of costly failures due to lack of extended warranties.

in that case it would make sense, but thats just never going to happen, because then the leasing company would go bankrupt.@@abraxastulammo9940

It’s the same discussion with buying or renting. I just ordered a Id 3 via leasing for 220€ a month most of the other costs in the video you have to pay even if you buy the car. So I will pay 5280 to drive my ordered id3 with the move Paket for the next 2 years. After that I can get a new car with all the features that are standard two years from now without the hassle of selling my old car and possibly getting hit with high depreciation of ev vehicle value.

@@tomduke1297 the leasing company of the deals is mostly the manufacturer itself so they can calculate with different values because they know the real value of the cars. That is why they can sometimes offer big discounts. Also you often have to pay smaller interest fees. If I get a car loan for a Id 3 right now I have to pay around 3-5% interest, in the leasing offer I ordered they calculate with 0%. If I had to loan around 50% ~ 20.000€ for 6 years I would have to pay over 3.000€ in interest alone right now.

@@SuperWotmanAlso ordered this leasing-deal. Now I am curious... is the delivery/collection in dresden also included in this rate? If yes, then you got a slightly better deal :)

Not really, if you lease without a deal maybe but there are a lot of leasing deals. A lot of the cost in this video you will have to pay even if you buy the car. Additionally most people have to finance a car and can’t just buy it so you have to pay interest on the loan which is between 3-8% right now on a lease deal they mostly calculate with low interest the deal I ordered was o,1%. If you calculate that you have to cover around 50% ~ 20.000€ as a loan you will pay over 4.000€ in interest alone and the risk that the car depreciation is high is also yours and not on the leasing company.

@otman He paid half the price of the car for the lease. 23.000 for a 46.000 car. that car could be sold for 30-35.000 easily. So it would have been cheaper that way i think. And if people cant buy it in cash, than the cant allow to have that car. They should buy a 4 year old for 30-40% cheaper. My way of thinking is spend 6 month salary max on any car. That way you can afford any fixes, or addidional costs down the road.

Try factoring the carbon cost of manufacturing fuel for your 1.5TSI, rather than tailpipe emissions only.

@@davidcottrell570I did. The one liter costs 1.3 kw. I have also added that to cost of CO2 :-)

@@palusisko However, for every litre for the life of that car, it will continue to pollute. Maybe global warming where you live isn’t so bad yet. Where I live, it’s noticeably worse, year by year, so I bought a Belgium-built XC40. Doubtless in the coming years, there will be all sorts of variants to lithium batteries, but I’m equally certain that the oil industry will continue to spread seeds of doubt about them as they carry on polluting. It’s really about financial survival, not the benefits of one technology over another.

@@davidcottrell570 I just wanted to say that if someone drives 10000 km a year, it will be more environmentally friendly (for now) to buy a small or medium gasoline car than to buy a Tesla 3 (20 tons of CO2) or maybe a Volvo CX30 (18 tons of CO2). It's about living more modestly. Example - if you go on holiday by plane several times a year, no electric car will erase your CO2 footprint for the rest of your life :-) Conversely, if you live more modestly, you can have a Ford F150, but your CO2 footprint will be smaller :-) Within ten years they will come batteries without Lithium, easy to produce, then internal combustion cars will only have their place in special cases..

@@palusisko I’m unfamiliar with which part of mining and manufacturing a lithium-based battery carries this carbon cost, but given I bought an already built car rather than a factory order one, I don’t see how I’m adding to the problem - it would have sold anyway. As for flying, haven’t done that for years. I’m not trying to be preachy, rather I’m trying to save some money and not contribute to the significant global warming problem that’s setting our forests on fire. I mean that literally and it affects the Pacific NorthWest every summer now. We’ve got grandkids, and it’s one heck of a legacy, so splitting hairs about the merits of a cheap gas car vs an electric one doesn’t wash with me, and sorry, but I don’t buy oil industry marketing. I spend less than $40 a month to do 10,000km a year. Try that in even the most efficient ICE.

You can have my summer rims as winter rims. Back on the day they were available with the car. The black Leon rims I have for winter are different and I don't know if you can have summer tires with those.

@BatteryLife I mean in general. Even your current ID.7 rims. I'm not sure there's such a thing as a winter version of rims. They seem like the exact same rims, no different surface better withstanding salt or whatnot.

I was told the Alloy rims need a special coating for winter.

Yes, cool prices. If you are looking for a good, comfortable, reliable car at a reasonable price, this is a no brainer (given you have no special needs an ID.3 cannot provide e.g. pulling a trailer)

Just ordered one last week for 220€ per month it includes the move variant and service cost the duration is 2 years without any upfront costs

It's over. The price has gone up. I think the down payment was huge though...

I hope you appreciate the amount of toxic air pollution, noise and smell you are spreading.

@@unextro I agree that cities massively benefit from electric vehicles, especially after the experience of cycling in London. I don't drive in cities like that as they have a functioning metro system. If you're concerned about global pollution then me buying a new electric vehicle is massively worse than keeping my diesel going as I only do 500 miles a month tops and the footprint of pollution an EV has a huge.