Engine revving hard when pushed & maybe why it does it?

[Big Ears]

I was talking to my service department boss yesterday.

about this over-revving business, and he explained that the engine and gearbox are not always tied together as in a normal ICE engine, and that there is a coupling that disengages it, so when you nail it or are going up a steepish hill, all it's doing is charging the EV battery.

Now, whilst that sort of makes a certain amount of sense to me, I've not found it mentioned elsewhere yet.

 

[salty]

It's been mentioned a few times, elsewhere. But the odd thing is. Some owners don't experience it.

 

[Big Ears]

I just put it down to it grabbing the lowest gear and not feeling the need to change due to the weird software, then I nailed it yesterday to get away from some scrotes messing around, and it just revved it spuds off, and didn't change up and kept revving even after I'd backed off

 

[johnbristol1966]

There are 3 versions of software, mentioned elsewhere. Depends what version you have is to what happens to you. I get high revs, even when i'm on a hill that doesn't need it as I'm not accelerating and only doing 20mph with 50% battery! Update is coming...apparantly!

 

[Big Ears]

Hopefully there is a useful update and not just a fix for the service dept.

We need a one button turn off for the nanny software at least.