Electrical socket, wallbox or charging station. As in the smaller e-up!, there are various ways to charge the battery in the new e-Golf. The conventional solution is to use the standard charging cable and plug it into a 230-Volt mains socket. If they were fully discharged, the e-Golf batteries are then charged with alternating current (AC) from the mains at a power level of 2.3 kW in a maximum of 13 hours (100 per cent state of charge of the battery). As an option, Volkswagen offers a wallbox for the garage or carport, which charges at a power of 3.6 kW; this would fully charge the battery in around eight hours. Just like via a wallbox, there are also public charging stations which "fill the tank" at 3.6 kW. In addition, the e-Golf can be prepared for CCS (Combined Charging System) charging with direct current (DC) as an option. In this alternative case, the Volkswagen is charged at up to 40 kW of power from CCS charging stations; they charge the battery to 80 per cent capacity in just around 30 minutes. In the e-Golf, the start time for charging – either immediate or with a programmed time offset – is activated by pushing a button on the charging plug under the "fuel door".
Charging concept and charging equipment
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* = Besitzer von e-Golf und e-up! können in den ersten drei Jahren 30 Tage im Jahr einen kostenlosen Leihwagen von Volkswagen mit konventionellem Antrieb nutzen (inklusive Kontingent an Freikilometern).
= Deutschland, Stand Februar 2014, 0,258 Euro je kWh.