Yellow battery gauge

[Ian Key]

I think we can safely assume he's a guy. Sometimes it's not difficult to tell at all.

That's a very female thing to say...true though

 

[Rolfe]

Just a woman's intuition...

 

[gfawise]

Just had my first experience of the amber SoC bar, 7 weeks into owning the car. Came online to find a reason and found this thread. A year on from when it began it's still just a speculated bug, I see , ah well at least it doesn't sound serious.

 

[Bricktop X PWR]

Just a woman's intuition...

Well to be honest @Rolfe until we had our little tête-à-tête, I did think you were a chap!

 

[Rolfe]

I don't mind being misgendered!

 

[dsimpkins]

Just had my first experience of the amber SoC bar, 7 weeks into owning the car. Came online to find a reason and found this thread. A year on from when it began it's still just a speculated bug, I see , ah well at least it doesn't sound serious.

It's not a bug, it's a "feature"

 

[RP67]

After my recent software update, I noticed the bar gets orange, when the "low battery" warning came up. The threshold is quite high IMO, 16%.

 

[Rolfe]

That's an improvement, but people with different MG cars were talking about it going amber higher than that, in fact some were saying 50%. Does it ever go red?

 

[RP67]

Yeah, this thread starts with a 93% orange. I guess they try to finish programing and put functions behind the visual appearance. At least this is what I feel. I'm not sure about red, someone might tried to drive the battery further down.

 

[Rolfe]

There are photos of MG4s where the gauge does go amber then red in a predictable, sensible way, but I'm not sure if anyone on this forum has one that does that. People in MG5s and ZSs say theirs work properly.

I had random amber gauge at 100% once.

 

[JonnyG]

Mine stayed green all the way down to 11% so not fixed yet on newer 2023 Phase 2 cars

 

[stevegus]

Its a totally random “software featurette” that has nothing to do with the actual reading.

Dont try and make any sense of it

 

[Vingnut]

Today I drove my MG4 R46 down to 0% 0km/mls.

Outside temperature -4°C.

Yellow battery gauge and battery symbol came on at 7%.

Yellow Turtle came at 7% and 1-2km less range. Max speed flat road 47 km/h.

Flashing yellow battery symbol at 4% 5km and heater shut off.

3% 3km range, car stopped. Rolled to a stop.
Put the car in park and then drive, drove the last 400m home with max 5-6% with power (note: when starting to drive again I momentarly got at least 17% power output).

0% 1km still flashing yellow battery symbol, the car can still be moved. No battery bar appears.
0% 0km. Still yellow battery symbol, car can be moved, now charging to 100%

 

[Eber]

Yellow battery gauge and battery symbol came on at 7%.

Yellow Turtle came at 7% and 1-2km less range. Max speed flat road 47 km/h.

Flashing yellow battery symbol at 4% 5km and heater shut off.

3% 3km range, car stopped. Rolled to a stop.
Put the car in park and then drive, drove the last 400m home with max 5-6 with power.

0% 1km still flashing yellow battery symbol, the car can still be moved. No battery bar appears.
0% 0km. Still yellow battery symbol, car can be moved, now charging to 100%

Mine behaved similarly regarding the colour of the battery gauge and when the yellow turtle came on. But I could still do around 60 mph / 100 km/h. Power was limited to 25% though.

 

[Tig170]

Mine behaved similarly regarding the colour of the battery gauge and when the yellow turtle came on. But I could still do around 60 mph / 100 km/h. Power was limited to 25% though.

Thats how our SR works - very linear "guess o meter", from below 50% (albeit on a long journey) - I think the lowest we've gone is 4 miles remaining (a story for another day) ~ 1-2% , but no significant loss in power.

 

[Vingnut]

Mine behaved similarly regarding the colour of the battery gauge and when the yellow turtle came on. But I could still do around 60 mph / 100 km/h. Power was limited to 25% though.

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Was that in low temp? My test was done between -5 and -4°C with a car/battery just as cold when I started the test with 10% remaining in the battery. MG4 Luxury/Trophy with R46 infotainment software.

 

[Eber]

Was that in low temp? My test was done between -5 and -4°C with a car/battery just as cold when I started the test with 10% remaining in the battery. MG4 Luxury/Trophy with R46 infotainment software.

It was in April last year, late in the evening. Can't remember exactly, but my guess would be between 5 and 10°C. Luxury/Trophy model, too.

 

[greenacre]

I've recently bought a second-hand MG SE long range and on a couple of occasions the green charge/discharge indication on the display panel has gone brown when driving. I can't find anything in the on'line instructions and there's no 'fault indicators' lit up.
It looks ominous to me; anybody's any idea what this means?

 

[Ian Key]

There is already a thread on this but the general census of opinion is it's a software glitch and nothing to worry about.

Yellow battery gauge

Can anyone advise why the battery level display has gone yellow instead of green?

www.mgevs.com

 

[mg4carol]

my mg4 ev basic model(SE?) has twice shown an orange charging %, both times I was at 40odd % charged. Last time I noticed that I locked the car and then left again shortly after and it went away and both times it was on the return of a short journey (7 miles at most).

Today I preheated the car as it was -1 and iced up and it was green, drove 3 miles, left it an hour and then on return journey it was orange, so could be a battery thing. Or I imagine its another feature of the MG just like the errors that randomly appear on startup.

The orange shows on the 'charging' tab but its a lovely blue on the 'discharging' tab.