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Firmware 4.3 - basic charging scheduling
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Since it usually takes less than all night to charge the car, why not just set it once to start at a time that fall within the low rate for all seasons. For example in California PG&E off peak hours start at 9:00pm in the summer and 8:00pm in the winter so setting a charge start time of 9:30pm puts you well into the cheap rate window any time of the year - set it and forget it.
A very reasonable request. The Chevy Volt has summer and winter TOU schedules with peak, mid-peak, and off-peak times.
It also has "charge based on departure time," and you can program a different departure time for each day of the week. Charge based on departure time is a "must have" feature for all EVs in my book.
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Todd Burch
14-Year Member
Happy to see this, and grateful...and wow, a car getting a software update--cool!...but...am I a jerk to say I was expecting way more?
This can't possibly be the major update we were hearing about. OK, don't mean to be negative. Yay, charge scheduling!
This can't possibly be the major update we were hearing about. OK, don't mean to be negative. Yay, charge scheduling!
araxara
X-LR M3AWD, MYLR
Thanks. That's a good idea. My off-peak schedule is:Since it usually takes less than all night to charge the car, why not just set it once to start at a time that fall within the low rate for all seasons. For example in California PG&E off peak hours start at 9:00pm in the summer and 8:00pm in the winter so setting a charge start time of 9:30pm puts you well into the cheap rate window any time of the year - set it and forget it.
Winter: 11:00am-6:00pm; 9:00pm-7:00am
Summer: 8:00pm-1:00pm
Weekends: 24hrs
More like months! It started coming out at the end of November. We didn't get an update until the end of January. I hope it doesn't take that long this time!!
contaygious
Active Member
I wish weekend and weekday was different. I have 12 to 7 on weekdays, but the weekend has more cheap time I think, but can't remember the hours with e9
Yep, this. Weekends the cheap rates start at 9 p.m., weekdays at midnight. Seasons be damned, but weekdays vs. weekends could have been useful... as well as end time instead of some arbitrary six-hour window.
But like someone else pointed out, six hours is enough for most overnight charging and there is always overriding it with the phone app, so... Did anyone say sleep mode?
SDG&E apparently has their own idea of when daylight saving time begins and ends, so the times are an hour off between March 10th and April 6th and again between October 27th and November 2nd. Crazy, right?
2013 Daylight Saving Time Calendar - EV-TOU2 | San Diego Gas Electric
2013 Daylight Saving Time Calendar - EV-TOU2 | San Diego Gas Electric
Very interesting, indeed.
Is there any rhyme or reason to the version numbers? 4.3 is reported as 1.25.x, while 4.2 is 1.19.x. Seems like a big jump in version number to me just for scheduled charging. When I upgraded from 3.5 to 4.2, I went from 1.15 to 1.19. Obviously, there were a heck of a lot of changes between those versions.
Some guy or gal with a major or minor in marketing has a powerpoint deck explaining how it totally makes sense to 4 people on the planet and is a useful tool for selling more vehicles.
As an engineer, I prefer to just see the sync time of the build instead. It's harder to play games with it.
PattyChuck
Model S P100D, Model X P90D
Oh my gosh, this! It seems as though everyone has been touting 4.3 as the be-all-end-all upgrade. If it took them 4 months to add something simple as a charging timer, how long will it take them to add a shuffle button to the audio page or enable WiFi? But, yay charging schedule!
I don't think this was the rumored "big update". More likely they decided to release an interim update with a few new features and a bunch of bug fixes.
Any other car would require a trip to the dealership for an update so the fact you can update the car in your garage is a bug plus. I think we all knew there are a number of missing features and things that need improvement. Overall though the speed of the interface and the layout is great I think.
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