VW e-UP! battery degradation after 60.000 km / 5 years 

Driving the new citigo ev, loving it!

It seems like nobody has read the E-Up! manual. The battery has no cooling system so fast charging is not a good option. The manual tells you not to do consecutive fast charging. This applies to any car without battery cooling. Also you shouldn't charge to 100% unless necessary and you are planning to use the car immediately after charging.

Very nice small car (it doesn't feel small though) for city traffic and (short) stretches of highway. The only downside for me is the support of the front seats. Standard camping chairs offer more comfort than these "plates with raised edges". But it drives really good, even in eco-mode.

Colin Furze and Sebastian Vettel have a lovebaby driving an E-Up apparently.

I’m pretty sure the wind is playing a big factor. My 2014 E-Up has done 55k miles and can still get 70-85 miles range.

Thanks for video! :) You need upgrade to newest one if you really wanna go highway.

I have tested ours after watching this video. I’m pretty sure we get all 16kWh. I don’t know if it is eating the buffer as well, but it seems to be correct. Car is 7 years old with 70k km. It’s always been charged to 100% daily with the included 10A charger. Doesn’t seem to have done any harm. We’re now using a 32A charger (Up can only handle 16A) so it’s faster, but doesn’t seem to hurt. We’ll be using the car more often and for longer travels further ahead, so I’ll probably limit charge to 80-90% so it’s averaging 70% charge.

Nice Video, your VW E Up it's still running?

Also in city it is a useless car, charging for every 80km is realy bad. Maybe it even get worser if you turn on ac or heating in winter or driving at night.

Have you contacted VW for battery warranty? 8 years / 160000km, and was the limit 70% or 80%?

Does the eUP have a fluid cooling of battery?

Never go above 80kph, drive in eco mode and you will get more useable range, EV is a way of thinking and living .

Utterly useless for most people. BEV technology still lags way behind the need yet we're being legislated into using these cars ( *if we can afford them * ) whether we like it or not

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I think that you overcame a bit. Why to drive at 100 km/h for degradation test. You build up much heat at this velocity as well as you did by DC charge the car just before driving it. Not optimal. Then you did a run to one point, you should drive halfway somewhere and back again to minimize the wind parameter. I assume you could start with full charge by charging at home. Then you should keep running the car as low as possible. I think you miscalculated the whole thing a bit. Your degradation is not more than 15-18% according to what I see. You should do the same by driving at 70 km/h as this is a city car.

so much cons wit evs.. And Eu want to replace gas/diesel cars.. sigh

4kwh ≈ 25% there

Merci pour cette vidéo. En tant que propriétaire de cette voiture, un petit retour d’expérience après 2500km. C’est une voiture merdique, 5 fois en panne !!! Les mécaniciens de VW sont complètement dépassés et désemparés devant ces véhicules électriques qui leur posent énormément de problèmes. Les responsables commerciaux et d’ateliers m’ont avoué que VW avait en projet de réparer ces futures voitures à distance depuis Wolfsburg, comme de vulgaires ordinateurs !!! Bref, les consommateurs vont bientôt être pris en otage, techniquement, mais surtout financièrement !!! J’en fais actuellement l’amère expérience et je tiens à vous conseiller vivement de fuir ces voitures pour l’instant. Je suis pourtant convaincu que c’est bien l’avenir...c’est bien pour cela que j’avais franchi le pas. Pour info : ID3, Zoé,...même bazar.

VW guarantees battery degradation of less than 25% in 10year. You might me elegible for a free replacement.

What a useless range 😂