Delayed for a week due to illness but we did our first long distance trip in the ID.3 this weekend from where we live to visit a friend in Holland and back, a bit under 600km (~370 miles) each way. It turned out to be pretty easy. We largely charged up at McDonalds, which nearly all have relatively cheap fast chargers over here, and apart from one where we turned up and discovered the free charger was broken it was pretty easy. Helped that there was a slow charger where we were staying so we could leave it overnight to fully charge before we left. Overall, it did add some time to the journey, I reckon around an extra 30-40 minutes which was not a bit deal on a nine hour journey that we do occasionally but I guess would become irritating if you needed to do this kind of journey often especially as it wasn't that optional, whereas we could have cut a stop short by, e.g., taking the coffee with us to finish in the car we had to sit and drink it while the car charged. So we could have shaved off another 20 minutes or so in an ICE if we really wanted and maybe another 10 minutes because we drove more slowly on the autobahns to extend the range.
Up to now, I've always been unbothered by the range on the ID.3 but I think I'd like a little more if we were going to do this more often. Not so much necessarily to drive longer in a stint -- we try to keep the stint time down between driver stops anyway -- but so we could cut a stop down to a quick wee and driver swap rather than needing to wait for a charge.
Still, overall, my takeaway was that I'd be completely happy to do more long trips in the EV. Although it was longer, it was also a easier and more relaxing drive than the ICE cars I've had -- that's partly down to tech like radar cruise control that you can get just as easily in ICE but the smoother, quieter drive also makes a big difference. We're now thinking about taking the car over to the UK for Christmas/NYE on the ferry rather than flying over and hiring a car like we usually do.
