Hi everyone, new owner here, so bear with me.
I have a M3P just delivered two weeks ago. Have a ChargePoint Flex charger hardwired in my carport, running the full 48 amps. Charging works fine when I just plug it in and go.
But, I'm trying to leverage the nighttime charging thing, and just can't make it work.
First, I tried having all schedules off in the car. Using the ChargePoint, I set it so that charging only can happen between 12am and 3pm (our cheap time here in NorCal). If I plug the car in at, say, 8pm and go to bed, charging doesn't start...UNLESS I wake the car with the app...then it begins to charge normally and finishes up. If I don't check on it during the night though, it doesn't start. The charger is on, but the car doesn't "wake up" on its own to start the process.
So then I shut of the schedule on the charger (ready to charge round the clock) and am trying to schedule it from the car. Well all I have is the "scheduled departure" feature..... and my schedule is too erratic and changes everyday.... so unless that is on the app at some point, its not a very functional way of doing things for me.
What I'd simply like to do is plug the car in at 8pm. Go to bed. The car automatically starts charging at 12am and charges until its reached the set limit. I get up in the morning and go out to a charged car.
Why can't I do this? On my charging screen in the car, I have no option for simply "start charging at a certain time"...only this scheduled departure scheme. Am I missing something?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Fabian
PS.... tried searching for this, but really couldn't find an answer....
I have a M3P just delivered two weeks ago. Have a ChargePoint Flex charger hardwired in my carport, running the full 48 amps. Charging works fine when I just plug it in and go.
But, I'm trying to leverage the nighttime charging thing, and just can't make it work.
First, I tried having all schedules off in the car. Using the ChargePoint, I set it so that charging only can happen between 12am and 3pm (our cheap time here in NorCal). If I plug the car in at, say, 8pm and go to bed, charging doesn't start...UNLESS I wake the car with the app...then it begins to charge normally and finishes up. If I don't check on it during the night though, it doesn't start. The charger is on, but the car doesn't "wake up" on its own to start the process.
So then I shut of the schedule on the charger (ready to charge round the clock) and am trying to schedule it from the car. Well all I have is the "scheduled departure" feature..... and my schedule is too erratic and changes everyday.... so unless that is on the app at some point, its not a very functional way of doing things for me.
What I'd simply like to do is plug the car in at 8pm. Go to bed. The car automatically starts charging at 12am and charges until its reached the set limit. I get up in the morning and go out to a charged car.
Why can't I do this? On my charging screen in the car, I have no option for simply "start charging at a certain time"...only this scheduled departure scheme. Am I missing something?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Fabian
PS.... tried searching for this, but really couldn't find an answer....