Trades46
Active member
Well the car is about to take its 2nd routine maintenance service at 16,000km. When I brought the car one of the promotions was free oil changes 2x per year (somewhat useful as old man's commute is ~50km roundtrip with no charging stops in between) and the rest like air filters & all that jazz.
I don't have the PHEV Dog but my Chargepoint Home gives me a good rough estimate on how much juice is required to charge from empty. Clearly there's already a bit of degradation going on as the car when new took about 9.1~9.4 kWh to top up. Now it is closer to 8.7~8.9 kWh. Should I inquire about a battery health report and/or ask for a cell smoothing or cell balancing procedure to be performed? Since the car is still less than a year old, I do not believe a DBCAM would be required so soon. Obviously neither are put into routine maintenance but we all know how "good" the BMS software is on the PHEV.
Any thoughts from older members here on preserving battery health & integrity? Many thanks.
I don't have the PHEV Dog but my Chargepoint Home gives me a good rough estimate on how much juice is required to charge from empty. Clearly there's already a bit of degradation going on as the car when new took about 9.1~9.4 kWh to top up. Now it is closer to 8.7~8.9 kWh. Should I inquire about a battery health report and/or ask for a cell smoothing or cell balancing procedure to be performed? Since the car is still less than a year old, I do not believe a DBCAM would be required so soon. Obviously neither are put into routine maintenance but we all know how "good" the BMS software is on the PHEV.
Any thoughts from older members here on preserving battery health & integrity? Many thanks.