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How many current EV owners were among the 115,000 who put down $1,000 yesterday to reserve a spot in line to get a Model 3 I wonder. From the short reveal presentation the specs are impressive for a $35,000 car. We'll see if the competition is able to match or better it by the end of 2017.

Sorry if this has been asked before, but the search function won't let me search for 'service' and / or 'cost'... How much are people being charged for the 10,000 mile / 1 year service on the e-Golf? When I leased mine, the dealer talked about a pre-paid package which they offer for other...

So the emissions cheating spans nearly half a million 'Clean Diesel' vehicles across VW and Audi and could result in fines of $18bn... We all know that there will some kind of bargaining, so the fine probably won't be anywhere near that amount, but VW Group have really been pushing 'Clean...

I saw a dark blue eGolf heading into Chelmsford today as I was heading out. It had passed me by the time my brain registered that the DRLs were an eGolf so I didn't have time to acknowledge it but maybe the owner is on here... Nice color car..!

A motor that is being turned becomes a generator, this much we know. The e-Golf makes use of that for regenerative braking and for recharging the battery when you're in D1-B modes, but what happens in straight up D mode? When you lift off the accelerator, the power needle sits at zero but you're...

I am almost certain that before I took my car in to have the AC issue looked at, when I was coasting in D the instantaneous consumption in the dash display would always show --.- Today when I release the accelerator and coast in D I get a variety of numbers showing there. I can see how they can...

As of Friday, my AC has stopped working. The lights in the AC or Max AC buttons still light up and the fan still runs in auto as if it was trying to cool the car but only ambient air is coming out of the vents. Could it be a fuse for the heat pump that's the problem? If so, does anyone know...

I just got a letter telling me that there is another safety sticker recall. Apparently the vehicle loading information was not printed onto the appropriate certification label in production. Rather than sending a sticker, this time I have to go to a dealership to have them apply and overlay to a...

I saw my first fellow e-Golf driver on the road on Saturday morning... but I was in our CT200, so they wouldn't have known I was an e-Golf owner..! Just my luck. It was blue with a couple of dogs in the back and drove through Bedford to I-95.

I found some overly cautious programming in the car's electronics this evening. I pulled into the drive, put the selector into P and got out to go to the mailbox. When I got back in, I closed the door but it didn't close fully. As I'm only going the length of my drive, I didn't bother to...

A friend who rode as a passenger the other day pointed out to me that I've got a crack in my windshield. From the driver's seat it's mostly obscured by the interior mirror so I don't know when it happened. It's pothole season around here, so it could easily have been from debris thrown up, but I...

I turned off the automatic parking sensor activation the first time I drove in heavy traffic - what an annoying "feature"..! Yes, I realize it's hard to distinguish between driving in stop / start traffic and parking amongst other parked vehicles, but that just makes me wonder why they even...

If I was in the situation where I could have chosen a Tesla, I would have..! I got an eGolf because it was 1/3rd the price of the Tesla I would want (P85D) and it's half the price of even the base Model S. The way I look at it is I'll take the inferior eGolf for 3 years and then see what the...

Do we need to take care to cycle the battery charge to get maximum range? The reason I ask is that I only recently found out how to change the battery charge percentage and the advice on that screen is to vary it from the default of 100% so I put it at 90%. It didn't seem to make much difference...

I find the cooling fan in the radiator is running a lot in my e-Golf. Considering it's January and I'm in New England this seems excessive. I read that they removed the battery cooling between prototype and production, so I wonder what could be causing it to run. Does the heating system use a...

Has anyone successfully sent a destination from the CarNet iPhone app to the car? I tried it when the app thought I was driving a Passat and it didn't work, but I put it down to the app not really knowing what my car was. Now the app is straightened out, I thought I'd try it again yesterday...

I have a weird issue with the CarNet app on my iPhone. It shows 'My Passat' instead of 'My eGolf' so I don't get the right features and controls. I called the CarNet information line and they put me through to tech support when it first happened. Their best guess was that I hadn't set up my...