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Life with the ë-C3 has been relatively trouble-free during my first 3000 miles – but it hasn’t been without a few frustrations.
My main gripe revolves around one important omission: there’s no in-depth trip computer. This means there are no efficiency readings and no economy figures. Plus, when the car is plugged in, there’s no indication of charging speed, just the remaining time left until a full battery. There’s no menu for this in the touchscreen either.
This seems odd and regularly frustrates me as someone who keeps a meticulous eye on my car’s efficiency. I thought I might be missing something obvious, but clicking through the screen using the toggle on the end of the indicator stalk didn’t help either.
So I contacted Citroën about it and a spokesperson confirmed that “energy consumption is not currently available” in the ë-C3 but it “will be added later in the year with the latest software generation”
For now, the only source of vehicle data is the digital head-up display, which shows vehicle speed, overall mileage and remaining range. This makes working out efficiency – and how quickly or not I’m chewing through the potential range on the go – a tedious task.
How can you truly plan a long-distance journey if you don’t know how many miles you’re getting from that dinky 44kWh battery?
I’ve been nearly caught out a few times, due to the combination of a lack of data and the ë-C3’s disappointing cruising economy. One time, I started a 65-mile drive with an 126 miles of range displayed on the digital dash and arrived with just six miles remaining.
I’m used to running electric cars down to a low remaining range, but that journey needn’t have been so tense. As far as I was aware, I had almost twice the range I needed, which should have been enough of a cushion to travel without worry.
Whipping out my calculator, I worked out that the ë-C3 had averaged just 2.8mpkWh over the journey, which had involved a mixture of motorways and A-roads.
That’s identical to our road test figure and significantly poorer than the Renault 5 achieved (3.1mpkWh). It indicates a real-world range of just 129 miles. Plus, that journey was done without a puff of energy-sapping air conditioning.
Unfortunately, a few things held the ë-C3 back. The most significant of those was efficiency, which varied massively between competitive and woeful, depending on the type of driving.
Over three months, the best I saw was a fairly creditable 4.5mpkWh, achieved along a route that was almost entirely at town speeds below 30mph. That equates to a range of 197 miles from our car’s 43.7kWh battery – in line with Citroën’s advertised claims.
Yet when driving home to see family – a journey of around 70 miles along a mix of motorways and A-roads – I’d regularly see no more than 2.9mpkWh. That’s equal to just 127 miles of range, even in optimal conditions of 25-29deg C.
You expect faster depletion of the battery on quicker roads, but dealing with such a shortfall in efficiency is made all the harder because the ë-C3 still lacks a trip computer to display its economy figure.
All it shows is a rapidly dwindling range indicator, making longer trips harder to manage than they need to be. This was offset slightly by a decent claimed charging speed of 100kW, although I never saw more than 86kW.
Another feature notable by its absence was any form of brake energy regeneration control. A mild level of regeneration is there by default, but there’s no option for one-pedal driving.
It was missed when driving through town, and the only level of adjustability was the Cruise mode, which reduces high-speed regen to make for smoother driving on faster roads.
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Given we have had a relatively balmy summer, the conditions couldn’t have been better for a small EV such as the ë-C3 to thrive and really make a case for itself among an increasingly large pool of rivals