How about this?

[gwatpe]

PHEV had been charging for about 1 3/4 hours and I was just passing the car to check on progress.

Even though I am passionate about accessing data from my PHEV, when the car pulls out numbers like this from its own computer, I really have to re-assess what data is believable.

 

[Tipper]

Is that standard then? Is it when you started charging or current time or is it from the remote app (for which I have never found a use...yet!)?

All I've only ever noticed is the red 'plug' lamp on the left of the instruments. I check this is on before I walk away from the car each evening just to make sure it's all connected properly and charging.

(Somebody's going to tell me that app can do that but I find having to change wifi connection to get on it and off it again a pita which is why I don't bother with it anymore. The novelty soon wore off. And I'm used to getting in a cold car on a cold morning too. :roll: )

 

[gwatpe]

I can assure you that this is not standard. The maximum time I have seen before is about 5 hours with a completely empty battery. The battery was charging and the pic was taken at 1 3/4 hours into the recharge, from a start at about 1/4 on the gauge.

Was a shame I was not recording the recharge from the cars perspective. Do have the external power record and this showed a normal quite constant power at about 2.2kW.

I have unplugged the car tonight, and will try again tomorrow. Hopefully the systems will have made some adjustments to the estimated time to recharge.

 

[gwatpe]

PHEV plugged back in to finish the recharge, and the new calculated time is 1:30. This may be a bug in the calc time for recharge routine.

 

[Sunder]

All I ever get is --:--

Don't know why it can't estimate time remaining. Maybe I don't wait around long enough to check?

 

[gwatpe]

The power has to be turned ON and the relay clicked ON in the controller. Mine displays the --:-- same as you when charging has finished. If you use timer charging you probably will never see the estimated time value.

 

[greendwarf]

Never seen any wrong figures like this but the "blank" does take a while to disappear at the start of charging to be replaced by an estimate and of course you need the door open - as per picture.

What I did wonder is the reported pauses in charging observed in other data tracking - during these periods the car might re-interpret the estimate in a similar misleading way as the range guessometer. It does seem as inaccurate, as I have often returned to the car before the estimated time to find it fully charged.

 

[anko]

..., as I have often returned to the car before the estimated time to find it fully charged.

If you cannot trust the instruments, how do you know it was fully charged?