Hopefully not a silly question but does the 7kW vs 11kW make a big difference. Starting to think I should have held out on buying the I Pace. It's September 2020 build but I think it's 7kW. It doesn't have Pivi Pro and don't think it has HUD (which was kind of my "want" list) I insisted on the performance seats and the one I bought was the only one in my budget
For most use cases 11kW won’t make a difference but on those occasions you only have access to a AC charger, then it makes a big difference. 11kW improves one thing, flexibility.
Case in point, we did a 460ish mile road trip holiday around the north coast of Northern Ireland and only had access to AC chargers in public car parks. We would stop to do some tourist stuff for about 3 or 4 hours and this would give the I-Pace about 30% - 40% charge at 11kW. This was usually enough to keep the I-Pace topped up with no range anxiety. We were only able to do this 3 times due to broken or occupied chargers but this did give us roughly 110% SoC over 3 days.
Had we had an I-Pace with 7kW charging we would have been charging about 50% longer for the same added SoC. Or face moving on with a lot less range buffer and a fair bit more low level stress if the next charger is broken or occupied.
Edit: I think the best way to think of the above scenario is that with that extra flexibility, we were able to dictate when it was time to move on, not the car.
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