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Captain Slow Charging
Awright! We have some Real Winter Usage. I had a 900km roundtrip to do this weekend and decided to take the Hyundai for the journey instead of the Volvo which waits for inspection re-show. On the first 450km half temps dropped to -10C at coldest, but remained at -7C to -8C for the most part. Result: 15.4kWh/100km according to the car. I kept the car in Eco mode just in case, but used the heat pump normally to keep cabin temps cushy at 22C. Smooth and effortless with prioritizing kWh based rapid charging pricing, did four 100km-ish stints.
Fast forward to today and .. temps dropped under -20C and we saw -27C at the coldest! Proper freezing. The same drive in the other direction meant consumption rose to 19.6kWh/100km and we got home with 11% showing, which the car said would only be good for 27km. In other words, a Siberian cold will drop the range to 200ish km from the EPA rated 270km, but a slight freeze will still retain a 240km range. I can work with that.
Some notes: I could only really get the car to charge at 34kW at its fastest, which is not great but perfectly liveable when you pay per kWh and not per minute. Rapid charging usually started at 27kW and dropped back to that soon enough. But I also had to use some minute priced chargers on the route, which is less than ideal at least as a principle, with this particular model. I also didn't pay attention to snow getting inside my own Type 2 cable, and later wondered why I couldn't get the car to charge at a small town's sole 22kW charger. Did eventually realize the cable had a centimeter's worth of ice in the socket and brought it inside to thaw.
I also accumulated the first door ding due to some careless person charging a bit too close for comfort on Friday. Only noticed this the following day, but it is what it is. Dunno if I have to use my insurance's parking cover for PDR or just return the car with the dent in the door.
Fast forward to today and .. temps dropped under -20C and we saw -27C at the coldest! Proper freezing. The same drive in the other direction meant consumption rose to 19.6kWh/100km and we got home with 11% showing, which the car said would only be good for 27km. In other words, a Siberian cold will drop the range to 200ish km from the EPA rated 270km, but a slight freeze will still retain a 240km range. I can work with that.
Some notes: I could only really get the car to charge at 34kW at its fastest, which is not great but perfectly liveable when you pay per kWh and not per minute. Rapid charging usually started at 27kW and dropped back to that soon enough. But I also had to use some minute priced chargers on the route, which is less than ideal at least as a principle, with this particular model. I also didn't pay attention to snow getting inside my own Type 2 cable, and later wondered why I couldn't get the car to charge at a small town's sole 22kW charger. Did eventually realize the cable had a centimeter's worth of ice in the socket and brought it inside to thaw.
I also accumulated the first door ding due to some careless person charging a bit too close for comfort on Friday. Only noticed this the following day, but it is what it is. Dunno if I have to use my insurance's parking cover for PDR or just return the car with the dent in the door.