Wireless phone charging is offered

[Filupo]

I was attracted to the idea - but can't find any instructions on how to set it up! Anyone out there managed?

 

[smoked]

it varies from phone to phone.
google your phone and wireless charging

 

[Deleted member 9196]

Generally you don't need to "set it up". If your phone supports it, just plonk it on the charging pad.

 

[sgt4hed]

shouldn't need to set it up... On phones with it you just need to place it on a wireless charging pad and it will start charging. The car also requires no set up, simply place a phone which has wireless charging capability on the pad in the centre console and away you go. If it doesn't charge either the phone doesn't have it (you would be surprised to hear the amount of people who assume that phones have it when they don't) or the pad is faulty... likely the former though in most cases.

Do bear in mind though, I am not sure why as the ZS wireless charger is the only one I own that does this, but the phone gets bloody hot while wireless charging, both my fold3 and my iPhone 11 get really toasty after about 30 minutes on the charge pad.

 

[Kithmo]

I don't understand why it's permanently on, on the Prius there was a button to turn it on and off.

 

[MichaelJHunt]

I don't understand why it's permanently on, on the Prius there was a button to turn it on and off.

The Prius has an engine and a fuel tank - two more things that the poor old MG ZS EV lacks

 

[Maciej]

I don't understand why it's permanently on, on the Prius there was a button to turn it on and off.

It hardly uses any electricity less button to press less things to break. I expect that majority of people want it on all the time. On average commute we are still taking about less than 5% of a battery

 

[Kithmo]

When I got the Prius in 2016 there weren't that many phones with wireless charging so I never used it and it was always switched off. I must have saved 10p in fuel in the 4 years I had it. As a Yorkshireman, 10p is 10p.

 

[jamesie]

"Every penny's a prisoner!"

 

[gus]

I am going to pull the fuse on mine as the phone is normally connected via a cable for Android Auto and charges that way and I don't need to worry about putting anything metallic on the charge pad.

 

[sgt4hed]

I am going to pull the fuse on mine as the phone is normally connected via a cable for Android Auto and charges that way and I don't need to worry about putting anything metallic on the charge pad.

Putting something metallic on the charge pad wont do it any harm... it needs an inductive coil to take advantage of the charge pad... Throwing loose change on a wireless charger does nothing to the charger or the coins. it also doesn't draw any power from the battery unless it is being used. And a phone that is plugged in with a cable will takes its charge from the cable and not the wireless pad, it won't use both. so unless you have a phone on it that isn't plugged into a cable the pad is not going to be doing anything and therefore not draining any precious miles from your battery.