Battery percentage and range not dropping.

[defeatedbythecat]

Charged overnight and the battery was 66% when I got in the car in the morning.

I've driven 8 miles so far today in 5c temps in a mix of normal and sport mode with the heating on at 24.
The battery has remained at 66% and the range hasn't dropped. Is it just being weird post charge last night or is it frozen?

Everything else behaving as normal, just wanted to check and see if anyone else had experienced this?

 

[Deleted member 7134]

Whatever you do don't tap the fuel gauge

 

[5teep]

At 8 miles my batt would normally drop by about 4% never seen it not do that. I suppose the wait and see principle applies for you, if it doesn't clear itself a trip to the dealer might be needed.

 

[Ian MG5]

I had that problem when I did my first rapid change
But the next day all was good
???????

 

[defeatedbythecat]

It finally dropped when I did a 22 mile journey this evening.

Managed to get a fairly decent 3.8kw for a change

 

[lebelinconnu]

I too have had this- charged to 80%, drove 8 miles and still showed 80%! Finally went down to 79% after 9 miles.

 

[EVsince2016]

I have this every time I charge. No idea of the real percentage after charging!

 

[bwanamdevu]

The opposite appeared to be the case for me the other day. Charged to 100% ‘cos I had a long roundabout trip to make. When I ‘switched’ on, the range said 188 miles as expected for a quite cold day, then switched to Economy mode and the range suddenly jumped to 242 miles! Drove the half mile to the A1 and within a few miles the range had slowly dropped to 196 miles. Was the 242 miles just the guessometer playing silly buggers or just trying to mess with my head? Or both!

 

[lebelinconnu]

I have found the guessometer to jump around a lot more than it did on my 30kw Leaf. I have had a range drop of 10 miles but only 1 or 2% drop of battery charge level, which seems strange. As a new owner I am going with the battery % as the more accurate reading- hope I'm correct there!

 

[Alb]

This stuff always grabbed my attention in the early days of ownership but I don't pay much attention now. The only thing I take any real notice of is actually getting to the percentage at which I will recharge.

 

[Iain]

Probably difficult to get accurate readings on short journeys due to the electrons sloshing about in the cells.