Video Summary
Findings of the video review:- This is a Volkswagen e-Up! electric car.
- A range test will be performed.
- The car is like the E-Golf's little brother.
- It's a tiny car, with a lot of space left when it is backed into a parking space.
- It has conventional doors.
- Seats are manual.
- There is little luxury, and the car is very basic.
- The manufacturer stripped down the features to make the car cheap.
- The doors do not have soft-close.
- The back seats are tiny.
- Back seats are tight, even for a person of short stature, making it workable for the city but not for long trips.
- The car has a "hump" in the middle of the back seat, an awkward cup-holder placement, and a manual handbrake.
- There is another cup holder in the front.
- There is a tiny screen for infotainment, if it can be called that.
- It does not have a touch screen.
- The gauge is manual and was forcibly mutated from a fossil car.
- The rear doors’ interiors feel cheap compared to an E-Golf.
- Rear windows don’t have motorized functionality.
- It has CCS plug and type 2.
- There is a small trunk with charging cables.
- The trunk is deep, and there is room under the trunk, where there is a tire repair kit.
- The tester wanted to do a banana test with the trunk space.
- Reaching 97% charge happens fairly fast.
- It runs at 90 kilometers per hour in its usual mode.
- There are buttons for “Eco” mode, including “Eco +”.
- This car does not have active cooling.
- The tester suspects it will get around 100 km of range during winter weather.
- State of charge is very inaccurate; state of charge gauge was the oil temperature in the gasoline version.
- Average consumption with these parameters is 1.2kW, probably the heater.
- Power meter monitors the car’s power consumption.
