I have no experience with the e-Golf, but I'll just note that it has the lowest battery capacity and thus shortest range of current production EVs, and the 2016 still has the original (24 kWh?) battery rather than the larger (36 kWh) battery of the current version. That could work for just short local trips. I think the 2015-2016 version also has no liquid cooling for the battery - it's very similar to a Leaf.