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Kevzpolo



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Terrible range in Winter
I don’t have a at home charger, so I have to go to a local car park (luckily it’s free) to charge my car. However when I wake up in the morning I see a drop in charge sometimes up to 30%. It just looks like my car is not holding its charge. I have read online that EV’s do not like the winter and the range can be affected. I probably wouldn’t notice this as much if I was charging my car over night.

Anyone else notice this?
Post #1056772 9th Jan 2025 12:46pm
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Stacey007



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Hello

We have just purchased a P300e Evoque and I charge this at home currently on a 3pin plug from 12.30pm to 5am

In the morning it says 31 miles, 100% (I realize its a slightly different engine / motor)


Is it full when you go to the car park to charge up? as if its only charging at a 3pin plug rate it will take a while..
Post #1056774 9th Jan 2025 1:27pm
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Kevzpolo



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I charge to full or 80% and pre-condition.

For example I may finish charge at 9pm, drive 1mile home then wake up and see the percentage drop to 65%.
Post #1056775 9th Jan 2025 1:29pm
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Stacey007



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Having all the features on in this weather will affect it...


Seats, wheel, etc etc


Its funny I'm on some Tesla forums and VW Buz ones as was looking at both for a swap, the range people are seeing are horrendous at the moment (like 70 miles with 50%) on the VW

People suggesting, turn the heating down, the seats off etc etc... I mean come on, I didn't have the options fitted so I don't use them.

I guess these temperatures are bad for UK (-5 today) so everything is being used more. I would wait until it warms up a bit to see if it gets better. It does sound like something is using more than it should?


Do you set it to warm up etc before you get on the car?


Will keep an eye on ours also. As for your lead I only paid £70 for the JLR granny charger off e-bay, genuine product then moved to an ev tariff, so car and batteries we have charge over night at 7.5p kwh Smile

I will have a charge point fitted as they are clever and in summer will divert the extra solar to the car Thumbs Up
Post #1056781 9th Jan 2025 1:58pm
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c. Both of the above

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Post #1056789 9th Jan 2025 2:31pm
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Chicken Drumstick



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Re: Terrible range in Winter
Kevzpolo wrote:
I don’t have a at home charger, so I have to go to a local car park (luckily it’s free) to charge my car. However when I wake up in the morning I see a drop in charge sometimes up to 30%. It just looks like my car is not holding its charge. I have read online that EV’s do not like the winter and the range can be affected. I probably wouldn’t notice this as much if I was charging my car over night.

Anyone else notice this?
The brutal reality of EV tech?? Question
Post #1056793 9th Jan 2025 2:50pm
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Philm



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need electric heaters to warm them up Rolling with laughter Rolling with laughter
Post #1056802 9th Jan 2025 4:05pm
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TexasRover



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When the dailies that live outside freeze over I throw in a 1.5kw electric heater to pre warm them up. Then when you drive away you have 10min until the engine heats up and it's not as if the car had warmed up sufficiently.

So on an electric car ALL heating is electric, I would think you need 3kw and an electric car battery is like 30-40 kWh?, so that's an additional 10% capacity lost per hour?
Post #1056829 9th Jan 2025 6:37pm
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ardevd



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A PHEV makes very little sense if you don’t have a charger at home. The already limited range is impacted severely when the battery is cold.
Post #1057730 18th Jan 2025 11:18am
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