A far bigger battery and a stronger motor on the 4.0. The battery alone was worth the extra money.
I agree it SHOULD be worthwhile. Do you believe the Range Calculator? It claims the bigger battery (710 vs 530 Wh) only gets you about 10-12% more range. But it also claims you get more range on hills than on flats, sooo...
I haven't tried the non-IGH Vado 3.0 yet (50 Nm) but I did a 10 mile ride on the Vado SL (35 Nm) and it did fine on small hills. I intended to take it up a 7% hill but my battery ran out too soon. But since the 35 Nm did fine on flatter rides, I suspect the 50 Nm of the 3.0 would do fine for me. I don't plan to climb any mountains. (Some people are crazy that way. Here in Colorado we have the Triple Bypass ride, a one-day 118-mile = 190km ride with 3 major mountain passes -- climbing 3200' = 975m, 4500' = 1370m, and 1500' = 450m, with peaks of 10500-12000' = 3200-3600m. And the truly insane do the Double Triple -- ride to the end, turn around, and ride back again the next day !!! https://www.triplebypass.org/)
+1. I used to own only one automatic gearbox car, the rest being manual,
That's fairly common in Europe, yes? It's very rare in the US. Very few people here choose to drive manual, and even fewer are as stubborn about it as I was. But very few drive Saabs for 37 years, race Porsches, etc.
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