Yellow battery gauge

[Slipstream]

I looked in the manual too, but couldn’t see a thing about it either

Theres nothing in the manual.
It's just a glitch.

 

[Mchooligan]

Is it plugged in?
Is it turned on?
Have you tried turning it on and off again?
Have you bisected the generative quadrophonic interface with a polaron bypass?

I’m anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctious to have caused you such pericombobulation.

 

[ozzz]

Stop get out
Lock car
Unlock
Get in car & drive away in green

 

[ReintjeWA]

I’m anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctious to have caused you such pericombobulation.

This a UK forum, so please post in English in future

 

[NLMGSAN]

I’m anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctious to have caused you such pericombobulation.

That is exactly what Zelensky said after they kicked him out of the White House...

 

[shiraze]

I've never seen it "turn" orange; I've only ever seen the bar "start" orange, with no explanation as to why. It'll stay that colour for the duration of the journey, and be the usual green when the car is restarted.

 

[shiraze]

14 pages on and no official answer
I've never seen the bar turn orange, even as remaining battery gets to 2%.
I've only ever seen it (on two occasions now) when starting the car.
I've not noticed any regen issues when driving the car (I'm usually set at 3, and only have reduced regen when battery is at 100%, and I get a warning when starting a journey if battery is at 100%)
So far, I've always had green bars when restarting the car for the next journey.
I don't think the colour is weather related (orange bars appeared on "average" days)
Finally, here's my orange bar pic

 

[ReintjeWA]

14 pages on and no official answer
I've never seen the bar turn orange, even as remaining battery gets to 2%.
I've only ever seen it (on two occasions now) when starting the car.
I've not noticed any regen issues when driving the car (I'm usually set at 3, and only have reduced regen when battery is at 100%, and I get a warning when starting a journey if battery is at 100%)
So far, I've always had green bars when restarting the car for the next journey.
I don't think the colour is weather related (orange bars appeared on "average" days)
Finally, here's my orange bar pic
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Considering the theme of your screen it looks like you may be on older infotainment software. I believe the random orange bar was a bug in older software. Although it may still be there in current versions, I’m not sure of this.

For me the bar doesn’t go orange until very low state of charge.

 

[Tuareg]

That actually sounds reasonable, but obviously it doesn't work consistently.

Well, it does 'work' consistently as the vast majority of cars are working in exactly that way. There will always be a tiny minority of cars with some issues, mostly very minor or often a misunderstanding by the user.

 

[mikgle]

Considering the theme of your screen it looks like you may be on older infotainment software. I believe the random orange bar was a bug in older software. Although it may still be there in current versions, I’m not sure of this.

For me the bar doesn’t go orange until very low state of charge.

For me the orange bar appears randomly and very infrequently about once every 2 or 3 months. Regardless of SOC or weather. Reverts to green next time screen switched on. Also very, very infrequently the info screen goes blank.

 

[OriginalBigAl]

I don't know how many thousands of colours make up the screen matrix , but there are lots of glitches in the software make up as we are all aware. The green colour is made up of blue/ yellow maybe with a touch of red , perhaps one of the glitches is that the blue element is not turned on leaving the bar orange. Perhaps orange is a default colour for low battery warning which some get, and the blue ,on/off switch , to turn it green is faulty ( glitchy ) meaning there is a random disparity in what is displayed and reported here.
In short green is the default colour with the blue element turned off at lower battery percentages , but because it is what it is , this may be random and and possibly classed as a characteristic or personality of each individual car.

 

[pjmmk]

Now sure how much we can rely on this, it was an AI generated explanation. I don't know where it found its data.

Green:
Indicates a healthy battery and a sufficient state of charge, or that the battery is actively charging or discharging.

Orange:
Suggests that the battery is not charging, there might be a charging system issue, or the battery is low. It's also been reported that the orange indicator can appear when the 12V battery is being topped up by the DC-DC converter.

Red:
Indicates a serious problem with the battery or the charging system, such as a critically low battery level or a fault.

 

[OriginalBigAl]

Now sure how much we can rely on this, it was an AI generated explanation. I don't know where it found its data.

Green:
Indicates a healthy battery and a sufficient state of charge, or that the battery is actively charging or discharging.

Orange:
Suggests that the battery is not charging, there might be a charging system issue, or the battery is low. It's also been reported that the orange indicator can appear when the 12V battery is being topped up by the DC-DC converter.

Red:
Indicates a serious problem with the battery or the charging system, such as a critically low battery level or a fault.

It ,It I'm not an It, cheeky burger.
It was a guess based on the randomness of the perceived problem.
Can I ask where you found the information for your explanation , although that would sound like a logical state of how it should perform its not borne out by any MG literature I can find or consistently reported posts here.

 

[Tuareg]

AI is only based on data accessed over the internet and that data is entered by people and people are often wrong/have an agenda/ enter wrong data on purpose/guessing/what they heard/etc/etc

The media are overhyping AI as it gets readers witnout understanding the basics of the 'tech'.

 

[fnegroni]

It’s a j bug and it was fixed in later software releases. It’s likely your cars both need several updates not just software.
I wish MG dealers just did it without being scaredy cats.

 

[hharzel]

I get this orange bar weekly so for me it's more of a feature now, just like the weekly eCall system fault/failure messages. It is likely a software race condition.

 

[mikgle]

It’s a j bug and it was fixed in later software releases. It’s likely your cars both need several updates not just software.
I wish MG dealers just did it without being scaredy cats.

Who has told you that?

 

[tsedge]

I get this orange bar weekly so for me it's more of a feature now, just like the weekly eCall system fault/failure messages. It is likely a software race condition.

The eCall system has a complete fix available. I know because I got it at the fourth attempt.

 

[pjmmk]

Saw a post somewhere, not on this forum, suggesting that the battery gauge turns orange when the HV battery is being used to charge the 12v battery via the DC-DC convertor. Having said that, I've never seen it orange on mine except when the HV battery was low.

 

[AndyL61]

Saw a post somewhere, not on this forum, suggesting that the battery gauge turns orange when the HV battery is being used to charge the 12v battery via the DC-DC convertor. Having said that, I've never seen it orange on mine except when the HV battery was low.

This is not true . The 12v battery charges when the car is in ready mode and also when charging the HV battery. This can be seen by looking at the 12v battery voltage which will be close to 14v when charging. Mine has never been orange. It is supposed to be a traffic light system according to HV state of charge but it appears to not work properly on the MG4.