The ID.4 Pro is the cheapest car in this database that will genuinely do 445 km between charges. It leads no column on this site and it is beaten badly in none, which is a harder thing to achieve than it sounds.
Range: the claim and the reality
572 km WLTP, about 445 km observed — around 78 percent, the same ratio as the Teslas. Consumption of 173 Wh/km is mid-pack: better than the Ioniq 5 and the EV6 at 178, well behind the Model 3 at 142.
Charging: the one place it is clearly behind
175 kW peak and 28 minutes from 10 to 80 percent on a 400-volt architecture. That is eleven minutes slower than the EV6 doing the same job. On a single commute it is irrelevant; on a 900 km drive with two stops it is twenty-two minutes of your day.
Whether that matters depends entirely on how you drive. If almost all of your charging happens overnight at home — which for most owners it does — the rapid-charge time is a number you will meet a handful of times a year.
Price is the argument
At £35,495 in the UK and €44,990 in the Netherlands, the ID.4 Pro undercuts every other long-range car in this database. Against the Ioniq 5’s £43,400 that is roughly eight thousand pounds for eleven minutes of charging time and five kilometres of observed range.
What we do not know
Volkswagen has announced bidirectional DC at 10 kW for this platform but it is not supported on the car as sold, so the vehicle-to-load field is blank rather than filled with an announcement.
The cell supplier is not published. The capacity-loss figure is the SUV class rate and carries an estimate tag, for the reasons on the methodology page.
Charging time and running cost for the Volkswagen ID.4 Pro are worked out in full on its own page. It works the numbers through at every charger power, with the tariff and efficiency assumptions printed rather than assumed: Volkswagen ID.4 Pro charging time and cost.
Frequently asked questions
How far does the Volkswagen ID.4 Pro really go on a charge?
The Volkswagen ID.4 Pro covers about 445 km in independently observed mixed driving, 572 km on the WLTP cycle, 291 miles on the EPA cycle. That observed figure is about 78 per cent of the WLTP claim — a shortfall is normal for every electric car, and what matters is that this one is predictable rather than that it exists. We rank the size of that gap across the database on claimed vs real range.
How long does the Volkswagen ID.4 Pro take to charge?
From 10 to 80 per cent on a DC rapid charger it takes about 28 minutes, peaking at 175 kW. That puts it mid-pack among the 18 cars we hold charging data for. On AC at home it accepts up to 11 kW. The peak figure on its own tells you very little — this ranking explains why the window is the honest measure.
How long will the Volkswagen ID.4 Pro’s battery last?
Our projection puts it at roughly 78.4 per cent of original capacity after eight years. That is an estimate, not a measurement: nobody publishes per-model degradation data, so it applies the published rate for this vehicle class and is labelled as an estimate everywhere it appears. The reasoning is set out in full on the methodology page, and we compare warranty terms across the database on best EV battery warranties.