[EricM]

I used to own an e-Up! Mine was first registered in March 2015.

We intended it only as a 'shopping trolley' but soon found that for most of the time we didn't go further in a day than its fully charged battery could cope with. Like many other EVs, the predicted range indication truly lives up to its nickname on this site : the 'guessometer' ! Fully charged it would always claim 90 miles but that would steadily drop during the day. We never actually ran out but I guess true range was more like 60 miles.

It did have a CCS charge port but that could be a bit temperamental ! In particular when I drove it home (200 miles) on day 1 it failed to connect to first few EH 'pumps' so I had to spend a couple of hours on a 'fast' charge lead at each one then limp to next and eventually stop overnight at my sisters where I used granny lead. Luckily, it connected OK to two more EH 'pumps' next day.

We upgraded to a Leaf after a couple of years so that we could become EV only. Would have bought an e-Golf but VW salesman didn't want to sell one (and in any case they were on a long delivery time).

HTH

 

[EricM]

Oh and it was designed from the ground up to be an EV, even back in 2008-2009!

Not entirely sure that's true ? Parked alongside its ICE brother, an e-UP! looks identical (even the exhaust pipe of the 'ordinary' one is very discrete). The UP was really only a facelift of the Fox (and ISTR with another name in between)

 

[EricM]

If there's an outdoor 13A socket they'll let you use all day, you can pull around 16kW with a granny cable in an 8-hour shift.
That's around a 50% charge for the e-Up!

@EricM - You may be thinking of the VW Lupo?

Indeed yes, in europe the Lupo ('wolf' as in Wolfsburg) was replaced by the Fox in 2005 then the Up! in 2011. The e-Up! (allegedly) arrived in UK from early 2014 although I don't think I ever saw an older one than my March 2015 model.

BTW a 'standard' granny cable will supply 10A (or approx 2.3 kW) so an 8hr shift would give 18.4kWh (100% capacity for older models, 50% for later).

But you can get 13A grannies which will supply 13A or 3kW hence 24kWh in 8 hours