Reports Suggest ID.4 Reservation Web Site Crashing

by Tim Healey

Published: September 23rd, 2020

reports suggest id 4 reservation web site crashing

Users of one of the forums owned by our corporate siblings have spent part of the day complaining that when they attempt to reserve their own 2021 Volkswagen ID.4, the site crashes.

Whether a 404 error is due to a massive influx of traffic, a poorly-run site, or both, can be hard to tell. Still, it suggests the ID.4 is getting buzz one way or another.

Then again, I was able to log on to the site with no trouble a bit after I heard these reports, although I stopped before giving up any personal info. I don’t want a dealer hounding me (and wasting their time) about a car I don’t intend to buy.

We’ll keep an eye on this – if the issues continue, it could drive some potential ID.4 buyers away in frustration. Or maybe not – maybe they’ll be patient and wait for the site to run smoothly.

Click here if you’re curious about the anecdotal reports of the Volkswagen ID.4 reservation site crashing.

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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VJW on Sep 23, 2020

And how are they generating the power for all those electric cars? And when? At night when the sun don't shine and the wind don't blow. World wide 60% of EV's would be coal powered. EV's make sense with Fusion reactors on line but not until then.

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- SCE to AUX on Sep 24, 2020
  
  My EV adds 20% to my household electric consumption. Two of them driven equally would be 40%. EVs comprise maybe 1% of the US fleet on the roads today, and a but more than that in sales. It won't be hard to scale electric production to meet the growth of the EV fleet because it will take many years to have any meaningful impact on the grid. As for coal powering: a) coal has been deemed the devil so it's going away, and b) efficiencies of scale mean that even a coal-powered EV is cleaner and more efficient than an ICE.
  
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Inside Looking Out on Sep 23, 2020

Fusion reactors will be up and running 10 years from now.

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- NeilM on Sep 24, 2020
  
  Bwahahahaha! Fusion is the power technology of the future — and always will be. It’s been just a decade or two away for how many decades now?
  
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- Mcs on Sep 24, 2020
  
  @NeilM Actually, they're now saying five years for a plant in Provence France that they started construction on this summer. I think they're saying it will produce 500MW from 50MW. I think I read somewhere that it's been 35 years of work. Still, that's just one pilot plant, but they are making slow and steady progress. They expect to switch it on in december of 2025 with full generation in 2030. For nuclear, Radiant just received a couple of patents for their microreactor design. The NRIC is going to be working with them to test it at the Idaho National Laboratory. For any of these new technologies to progress, we really need to increase education in material sciences. Battery electrode coating technology depends on it as does improving the containment magnets for the fusion reactor tokamak. Even the new single piece rear casting for the Model Y and 3 depending on the development of a new alloy.
  
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- Luke42 on Sep 24, 2020
  
  @mcs Here's EU's fusion project website: https://www.iter.org/ It's serious Big Science, but it's also a long slow project that may (or may not) work when it's done. They've been working on it for decades. If it works, it the EU will change the world for the better!
  
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- Inside Looking Out on Sep 24, 2020
  
  I have Fusion in my garage right now.
  
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- Inside Looking Out on Sep 24, 2020
  
  I have Fusion in my garage right now.
  
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- Luke42 on Sep 24, 2020
  
  @Inside Looking Out Creating fusion in your garage is actually pretty straightforward, at least as far as nuclear physics experiments go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fusor_examples The problem is getting more energy out of it than you put in -- that's hard, and that's what the folks at ITER are trying to figure out. Oh, wait, you're talking about a Ford Fusion? Those are worthwhile cars. They generally don't fwing neutrons at people, which is a good thing in most circumstances.
  
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- Inside Looking Out on Sep 24, 2020
  
  @Luke42 You are right my Fusion consumes more energy than generate (it has a generator of course). But it is a Ford. If it was Mazda it would be a different story.
  
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Polka King on Sep 24, 2020

Some people are good with people. These people get to be managers and politicians. Some people know how stuff works. These are different people, and they don't get to be managers and politicians.

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MKizzy on Sep 24, 2020

Tesla and the OEMs will have to start producing millions of affordable EV's by 2035 in the shapes and sizes required for the California/US market. Else, California's ruling (and possibly a soon-to-come Federal rule under a Progressive Administration) will be an open door for one or more Chinese automakers to flood Cali with a variety of cheap EVs which the West Coast's diverse and Progressive population would happily accept vs. we Middle Americans.

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