johnd973
Established Member
Put our car on a rapid charger today and the charge speed was much slower than expected. Took 51 minutes to put 25.5kWh in the battery which equates to just under 30kWh per hour. This was on a 120kWh Electric Highway charger at a motorway service station so I would have expected to get a charge rate of closer to 100kWh given that is the rate the 5 LR is supposed to be able to charge at. Temperature was a reasonable 21 degrees and the battery was not over the 80% level where I would have expected the charge rate to drop off.
This is probably the third time the car has been on a rapid charger in the year we have owned it and I have always had a suspicion it was charging much slower than it should, but this is the first time I have actually looked at the numbers. Could this be indicative of a fault?
This is probably the third time the car has been on a rapid charger in the year we have owned it and I have always had a suspicion it was charging much slower than it should, but this is the first time I have actually looked at the numbers. Could this be indicative of a fault?