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

Be aware that if you have a consumption on 170 watt/km. You proberly have to add 200 watt/km thu your charger (minimum 10% charge loss, if it is cold, it heat up the battery during charging. And also if you preheat your car before driving)

These days I see advertisements for 150€ for ID3s.

My Kia EV6 had service recently, at 60k km: 180 euro. 🤩

You forgot the „THG-Quote“ in the calculation. Adds up to about 1000€ „cashback“ in 3 years.

i dont realy get leasing tbh. you pay about half the cars value over 3 years and then at the end you stand there with nothing. then you pay for another half car over 3 years, which means you payed for a full car and still have nothing. why not just buy the car with a loan and sell it after 6 years to get half your money back?

You had the ID.3 so long your beard went grey! 😂

Wow that’s expensive

to someone driving a 2003 diesel (and loving it) driving 500 miles a month (50mpg) that sounds like an insane amount of money. I hope you really appreciated it's shininess.

Its cost more to lease tan if you had bought it, and sold it, no? Why people lease instead of buying?

That's around 40ct per km for a new car. I had my BMW i3 (4 years old) for around 2 years and did came around 21ct per km, charging cheap then when maingau was 5ct per min. So I think for a new car this sounds about right. When I now look at my ID3 it consumes more, around 20kWh average summer and winter. The i3 was around 16 kWh per 100km. The i3 was weighing a lot less. For my 73k with ID3 I charged 14.700 kWh.

You might have also forgotten the battery capacity check you did.

I have no problem with cost ID3 vs e.g. Golf, I have problem with CO2 footprint :-) The footprint CO2 during production ID3 is 19.5 tons CO2, the Golf 1.5 TSI is 10,7 tons CO2. The Difference of footprints is 8.8 tons CO2(!!!) which means the ID3 will be more ecological after 120 000 km!! So if someone has a small annual mileage of their car, it may be more environmentally friendly to buy a Golf-sized gas-efficient car(but not from China where car's production is hardly non-ecological :-) )

Just wish they'd fix the battery modules so I could sell it tbh

Thanks for sharing this info, very interesting numbers to compare with my expenses. Verdict, owning new car it's a luxury challenge 😉

I bought my ID.3 Business (Heat Pump, 19“ Andoya, All weather tyres, Matrix LED, bike hitch) in 2020 for 36.000€ (DE incentives already included). I NEVER had ANY serious problem with the car. No breakdown. Only planned dealer appointments for software updates and 2 year maintenance. Minor infotainment issues during the first 6 months were fixed with software updates. ACC software works perfectly since the beginning. Love it. To me the ID.3 after 3.5 years and 47.000km is THE MOST RELIABLE CAR I EVER OWNED. It is fun, not pretentious, reliable and fits my use case extremely well. After testing some alternative EV‘s, I decided to just keep driving it.

Great summary!

That's insane. I own older ICE golf-class for few years, it's about $150-200 per month (depending on amount of driving) including oil services and can sell it more or less with the same price as it was bought. No range anxiety, no where-should-I-stop-to-move-on trip planning. But changing tyres by myself.

Thats very low milage per year, i think the "average" is like 10000-15000km/year and i guess that milage would increase the cost even higher.

I find 17kwh high. With my id.3 in get average of 14 in summer and 17 in winter. But do not exceed 100-105km hour in highways.
In The Netherlands speeding does not give you significant time advantage