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It dropped below freezing here overnight ... (far inland and 850ft above sea level). I got the battery snowflake symbol for the first time for a long time. I mention this for owners who have not gone through a cold weather season yet. There's nothing to freak out about but it just lets you know the battery cannot immediately use all of its power. The battery will naturally warm back up with driving and the symbol will disappear. The other thing is that you may think you've lost a couple of percent of charge (or some range in miles depending on what you have showing on screen) before you've even gone anywhere... but...once the battery warms up you will get that range/percentage returned to you.
On mornings like this you will, of course, also get the "reduced regen" message for a while .. again that eventually goes away. If you get your stopwatch out you will measure some loss of max performance, up until everything warms up. These mornings are when those who are plugged into shore power will set the climate to on using the app if they have an early morning departure. Warms the battery as well as the cabin. You can do it without being plugged in but obviously it's going to eat into the juice.
Short journeys are going to start showing as less efficient than in the summer but don't panic too much if you have a long journey because these are much less affected.
It dropped below freezing here overnight ... (far inland and 850ft above sea level). I got the battery snowflake symbol for the first time for a long time. I mention this for owners who have not gone through a cold weather season yet. There's nothing to freak out about but it just lets you know the battery cannot immediately use all of its power. The battery will naturally warm back up with driving and the symbol will disappear. The other thing is that you may think you've lost a couple of percent of charge (or some range in miles depending on what you have showing on screen) before you've even gone anywhere... but...once the battery warms up you will get that range/percentage returned to you.
On mornings like this you will, of course, also get the "reduced regen" message for a while .. again that eventually goes away. If you get your stopwatch out you will measure some loss of max performance, up until everything warms up. These mornings are when those who are plugged into shore power will set the climate to on using the app if they have an early morning departure. Warms the battery as well as the cabin. You can do it without being plugged in but obviously it's going to eat into the juice.
Short journeys are going to start showing as less efficient than in the summer but don't panic too much if you have a long journey because these are much less affected.