VW Id.3 vs Hyundai Kona - 130 km/h consumption comparison 

Not surprised. The Kona is very efficient at slower speeds, but at higher speed the air resistance is taking its toll.

I´m still amazed how little winter weather does to my kona. in -20c I can easily get 300km of range out of it on a highway and I never charge my battery to full 100%.

Colder air means (somewhat) denser air - so more drag; which is most important the faster you are driving. Aerodynamic drag goes up by the square of the speed, and so the faster you go, the greater the difference is for a given difference in air temperature. A typical car - with a frontal area of about 25 square feet / 2.32 square meters - like these two cars, for each mile / 1.6km that you drive - the car must push 4.5 TONS / 4.1 metric tons of air out of the way. Each and every mile / 1.6km ... that is a lot of weight! So, when the temperature drops, that mass becomes greater.

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Any chance of similar side by side e-Golf 36 vs ID3 test in near future? 😉

Did the ID.3 get any update during the last 6 months that made it more efficiant? If I remember correctly in the first ID.3 videos I watched several months ago, the consumption was higher somehow?

ID3 First Edition

Suprising result to say the least... I thought Kona would be like 10-20Wh/km less...

Nice conparison. It's a pity you no longer have the e Niro to do a 3-Way Comparison. The Niro is bigger and probably less aerodynamic, so it would have been interesting to see how much impact that has.

Kona basically has higher charging losses compared to the ID.3. Comparison of consumption only makes sense based on the amount of electricity charged. Kona has approx. 15% higher cx x A, which is the consumption compared to. ID.3 increased.

I do not understand why people think speed limiter will stop you going above a certain speed. They do not reason you may need to make an emergency maneuver which requires you to go above the speed. So there is some leeway in this. Normally you set the speedlimited before you move off But if you accelerated hard it deactivates. Why are you driving in eco mode ? What not normal mode like normal drivers make it real world as very few use eco mode.

Great job.do you know what's the difference between Kona Premium and the Kona Ultimate Trim please?

Must be downhill or a lot of wind in the back... 130-134 Wh/km is extremely low consumption..... Like slower country road driving without wind. Even if it a comparison test - if the low consumption is due to wind from the back it means that if one of the cars has higher drag it won't really be shown in the test as wind is more or less taken out of the equation.......

Mmmhhh, are this really good news for VW? Being as efficient as a BEV, that is based on a 5 years old ICE-platform? OK, from my pov the RWD is the ID.3´s biggest advantage - but price, quality (hw+sw) and long guarantee are big points for Hyundai.

Not the on-board computer; ... charging station speaks the truth. Tesla is not a good example.

interesting result... so the ID3 77kWh should be a better "Langstreckenbomber" than the Kona. the e-cannonball should be around the corner if i remember correctly, so im curious to see how the current lineup fairs against each other ^^

Have had a Kona now have a 77kwh id3 ...prefer the id3 but software is definitely glitchy

But the one thing that's really important: the kona is SMALLER! So the id.3 overall is more efficient!!!

ID.3 looks much fresher and more modern inside than the Kona

At 130, it's all about tire width and coefficient of drag.

ID.3 has the better drag coefficient, so...

ID3 in white looks just great. On the other hand the Kona looks terrible in red :P

130 klms an hour where I live would get you tickets every time you drove the hyw.

Kinda bad for the ID. 3 considering the car is a purpose built EV not like the kona.

Driving at 130 km/h without breaking the speed limit makes me so jealous.

I'm a bit surprised that the car doesn't has cruise control and other active systems when it is downloading an update. That is a really really bad designed software update system. Not acceptable.