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I've never seen any energy registered for battery conditioning, is this normal even in cold weather?
i've never seen any energy registered for battery conditioning, is this normal even in cold weather? 2023 EUV premier purchased oct. 22 with 8k miles
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Define "cold weather"; 50 degrees, 15 degrees, -15 degrees, etc?
The temperature at which the battery says, "Hey! I'm cold, send me some heat."
You’ll usually see some battery conditioning going on while charging if temps are below or near freezing. While driving, it depends on a number of factors, because the battery will warm up a bit just from driving, especially at higher loads.
There's a chance that the battery conditioning will kick in if the battery's temperature is no longer within the roughly 40-100F range. The criteria for its activation also seems to depend on whether it's in a stored (parking) or used (driving) state. Don't worry if you don't see any. The car knows when to use it.
A. Congrats on your EUV, I got the same model just a week before you. B. Congrats on driving it even more than I’ve driven mine. I’m sitting at 5100 milea right now (mostly typical milage for me with my daily commute 4 days/week) and I thought I had a lot! C. I’ve only seen mine kick on once or twice and it was when we were hovering around 0 F and just under, but only when my car sat outside for a while in those temps. From what I’ve seen in the forum, and in my own limited experience, I think what you’re seeing is pretty normal.
This is what happened when I left in the AM @ 5F and drove 55 miles. Even here it didn't need to run BMS. This was pre-warmed while plugged-in before leaving.
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So even in relatively extreme cold the car doesn't need to run battery heat while running.
So even in relatively extreme cold the car doesn't need to run battery heat while running.
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I live in a relatively mild climate (winter lows typically in the mid 20s, summer highs in the mid 90s) and I never saw battery conditioning in the winter. I saw it once in the summer.
I have wondered about this too. Similar results to RacerX00 but at 1-19 deg F last week. I did see a 1% battery conditioning on one drive last week with single digits F -- back to 0% ever since. First time I saw that in 5 weeks/2500 miles since purchase. I do charge "late as possible" prior to AM departure so preconditioning on AC all the time.
Overall very pleased with cold weather range performance, even if never over 200 miles. Looking forward to May-June results prior to Summer heat.
Overall very pleased with cold weather range performance, even if never over 200 miles. Looking forward to May-June results prior to Summer heat.
In the 17 months I had my EUV, I saw the energy display showing battery conditioning exactly once. That is living in the Seattle area, with occasional temps dropping below freezing but mostly in the mid 30s to 40sF in "cold" weather. The car was always garaged when home, but did sit outdoors overnight on a couple of occasions, and of course sat in the parking lot at work all day if I went into the office.
If you are plugged in, it will condition without registering on the screen, It only show's up there when it uses battery to do it. It was -20C / -4F here on Friday and I had 3% on the screen from the car sitting for a bit unplugged. after that never had it again as I was charging every time I stopped but the car was definitely running the BMS as it got even colder on the drive -29C / - 20F but never had conditioning show a % again.
I finally noticed for the first time, some battery conditioning while not plugged in, a few days ago. As you can see, there was lots of human conditioning too.
We got our EUV in late September, so at the moment our lifetime efficiency kind of sucks.
yep, it has to sit a while. I saw the conditioning from it sitting for 16 hours at -20C and even then it was only 3% of the battery.
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This is an interesting observation. I know in the Tesla, you can choose to precondition the battery to enable faster charging at their superchargers, either as a scheduled event, or automatically upon choosing a certain supercharger to use from the map. To date, I've not seen any "on demand" battery conditioning in the EUV... 🤷
If the care is unplugged, and SOC is > 30% and the battery [not the air] gets down to about 36-37F, it will suck juice from itself to heat, pulling about 2kW when it's heating. Depending on weather, it could be as little as 1 kWh or as much as as several per day. Saying it used xx% isn't useful [at least in my 2017], since that's % of kWh used total. 10% when only 5 kWh have been used [total -- cabin heat/cool, driving, and battery condx] is almost nothing, but if 50 kWh have been used since last full charge, it's a lot more.
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No on demand preconditioning button. But below is an interesting experiment done on VW ID4s. “Yo-yoing”. Pretty dramatic results. But any attention you get from the police is your responsibility 👮♀️.
Not to mention doing that sh!t on public roads is dam stupid, especially in that weather.
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