Recent content by Kristian

Lik I have never used pre AC

Well, if most/all of your trips are short lets say a couple of miles or km, then the average fuel consumption could easily be 10 l per 100 km or more, there seems to be a price for starting the ICE, and if the battery is full it is a complete waiste. There is a lot of talk about this on PHEV...

If you turn on the car with the heater on in cold weather the ICE starts, and then fuel consumption go through the roof for a short trip

Here in snowy Norway I think the PHEV does quite well as 4WD. But since it has an open differential, how does it distribute energy/torque between the left and right side of each axel?

The preheating is crucial in winter Norway. An extremely irritating "feature" is that the heating turns off if you open a door, even the back door. This is very irritating when loading the car with luggage and children on a cold day. Why is it doing this? Is there a way to keep it on even if the...

Heated stearing wheel? Rather decadent, even in cold Norway. In Japan they have heated toilet seats, but it has not caught on elsewhere. :)

There is a strange logic (or lack thereof) behind the graphical information of the PHEV as a EV, perhaps much less useful than it could be. The three dials all have 2 scales, the outher "double one" each "knot" between the double rings seems to be related to horsepower (about 750W), and for...

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It seems nobody knew the answer to my question. So I did an experiment. CONCLUSION:The ECO vs. COMFORT setting in the SETTINGS/VEHICLE/AC menu is permissive. That is: In ECO mode the green ECO button will attenuate the AC, in COMFORT mode the ECO button has no effect on AC. The ECO setting in...

Supposedly the Eco button reduces AC power, but there is also an eco mode option in the settings of the MMCS. Does anybody know how these relates? 1) Does setting Eco in MMCS mean Eco is always on and that the Eco botton does not influence AC power 2) Is the MMCS Eco setting permissive, that is...

Regenerative breaking is discussed a lot. I guess one could have 3 different hypothesis for what gives the longest EV range: 1) B5 for most regeneration 2) B0 for long gildes 3) Some middle value like B2 which is the same a D and the PHEVS default value. Has anybody tested this more...

Yes words and units are important, and I spend a lot of time making my own graphs as precise and illustrative as possible. Enigneeres are used to reading graphs that are more pragmatic I guess.

It is strange how defensive people become when they have spent a lot of money on a car. I like that car a lot but I think the MMCS interface sucks. You are right the screen should have been called ENERGY, and it would have been helpful if the manual explained the screen, it does not. The manual...

So people are suggesting that the POWER screen shows energy usage per 5 min periods. Not quite scientific (trust me I am a scientist) to call it power. For example an energy usage of 1kWh used up during a 5 min interval represent a POWER of 12kW, so perhaps what is now called 1kWh on the screen...

Yes I know all that Wuduslad. That is why I am asking. Under the heading POWER if you look at the history graph, the Y-axis has the unit kWh, is this just wrong and it means kW? Because as you say kWh is NOT a unit for power while kW is. Also the numbers I read seem low if it is indeed kW. That...