HerdingElectrons
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So I have only used the Chademo station at my dealer that's a 360V x100A so max 36kw charger although once I did see 38kw but anyways the last several times I have done a QC there it has taken WAY longer than it has historically & a few days ago I booted up LeafSpy & noticed that I was only seeing 1/2 the wattage charge rate that the car & charger was reporting.
The Charger walked the indicated charge rate from 36kW down to 24kW as my SOC went from 30ish% to 70ish% SOC and the battery temp did NOT climb hardly at all which anecdotally also correlates to the lower actual charge rate that LeafSpy was reporting.
So I was actually getting a 18kW charge and then as low as a 12kW charge. Temps were in the 50's F & the car was only driven 1 way for about 22 miles and then parked at Costco for about an hour before the 1 mile jaunt to the charger. Temp gauge was about 1/3 from L to R.
Back in Sept I had a battery check and a software update so I'm wondering if that is related...(Not the battery check)
Any ideas or others have the same thing happen?
The Charger walked the indicated charge rate from 36kW down to 24kW as my SOC went from 30ish% to 70ish% SOC and the battery temp did NOT climb hardly at all which anecdotally also correlates to the lower actual charge rate that LeafSpy was reporting.
So I was actually getting a 18kW charge and then as low as a 12kW charge. Temps were in the 50's F & the car was only driven 1 way for about 22 miles and then parked at Costco for about an hour before the 1 mile jaunt to the charger. Temp gauge was about 1/3 from L to R.
Back in Sept I had a battery check and a software update so I'm wondering if that is related...(Not the battery check)
Any ideas or others have the same thing happen?