The car I drive is from Carvolution in Switzerland. Find a link to the car here: https://www.carvolution.com/en/cars/e-up

If you decide to get any car from Carvolution please use my referral code for 200.- CHF discount on your first invoice: XR28
Please also give my first and last name (Patrick Rütimann) when you book so that Carvolution can allocate the booking correctly.

About this video:
In this video I drive 650 kilometers from Antwerp in Belgium to Zürich in Switzerland on a hot summer day. The high temperature was 35°C. On the highway I was driving at a maximum speed of 100 km/h in order to have a low consumption and better range. I had to DC fast charge a few times on the way and used an OBD 2 adapter in order to monitor the temperature of the battery and the charging speed in kW.
At a battery temperature of about 45°C, the charging speed goes down to about 12-15 kW. Much slower than the 40 kW advertised by VW. This is because the VW e-Up! does not have active thermal management for the battery. The battery cannot be cooled by the car and therefore charging speed has to be reduced in order to keep the battery from being damaged. This is the same for the Seat Mii electric and the Skoda citigo-e, as all three cars are technically identical.