Well charged it fully and went out on “electric” and it did exactly 19miles when the engine kicked in. Don’t think Stellantis can argue that there isn’t a problem. Trouble is can’t get booked in for a diagnostic till late February. Might be best to book it in for its first service and get them to check then.
They certainly can.
That’s more than I get out of mine, and I just got a brand new drive battery pack last week.
Charged it full today for the first time and got 24km estimated (15 miles).
It’s the temperature that’s causing this.
Don’t waste your money.
That’s nice. I have 16 km at fully charged battery with -5 C outside.
16 km was my lowest mileage last winter.
Can’t even make it home and back to work the next day.
I haven’t driven my car for around 10 days so decided to give it a charge last night, its showing 100% @ 24 miles this morning.
It’s been getting a bit colder here over the last few weeks, nothing like -5 c, just a light frost on some mornings.
It’s going into the dealership next Tuesday for a Stellantis technician to check out the keyless entry & Welcome lights issue, the dealership technicians are are drawing a blank, so they’ve called in the big guns, I’m thinking he’ll check out the batteries as part of the investigation ?
Quick question on E-Save.
If its set to Max why does the car still use electric, especially at low speeds ?
I would of though if it was set to Max it would save all of the electric capacity, until it’ required, or am I looking at it the wrong way ?
Just had a call from Stellantis, they said they had had a number of enquiries concerning charging levels and that what my DS4 is achieving is normal at this time of year. Seems it is the same for most of there models.
Accepted Stellantis view on the battery. As for E-Save after the groups help found it and I really can’t fathom it. Put it on the six miles and it still went down to zero on Comfort and Hybrid. expected it to save six miles for the start of the next journey but it didn’t!
I tend to agree with what they are saying.
I tend to agree with that as well
Thats a little bit weird, I
m using e-save on all levels (10km, 20km, Max)
My car only discharges during warmup of the cabin, after that initial “small” discharge it starts to charge battery.
I`ve let it recharge with petrol engine from basically just a few percent to 100%, doesnt matter if I use hybrid or comfort - same behaviour no matter mode.
Maybe I explained what I’m experiencing wrong.
In E save the car does charge the battery, but I’m curious why the car uses electric from the battery if E save is set to max.
I would of thought the car wouldn’t use any battery if E save was set to max, it would just save it until required ?
Or dont it work like that ?
I’ve noticed on my car that if set to max the car will still shut the engine down at low speeds and use electric.
Such as reversing or pulling off from traffic lights/junctions.
The engine does kick in more frequently when E save is on max but I’m still a bit confused why the car uses any electric at all when set to max ?
Ok, then it`s the same on mine
In sport mode it doesnt stop the petrol engine, could it be some enviromental regulation fantasy numbers that they must achieve?
My query was why is the car using electric if E Save was set to max, surely it shouldn’t use any, at least thats what I thought.
So I’ve asked my son about this and heres what he said.
The car will ALWAYS try to use electric no matter if E Save is set to max or not, the reason being, we cannot turn off regen breaking, so every time we ease off the accelerator the car will regen some electric charge back into the battery, the amount depends on how much charge is in the battery, the fuller the battery the less intense the regen, but it will still put some charge back into the battery, therefore, because the car will ALWAYS try to put charge back into the battery, with or without E Save, the car has to make room in the battery for this regen charge, hence always taking a bit out when it can, ie lower speeds, reversing ect ect.
If the car didnt use any electric at all in E Save, where would the regen breaking charge go ?
Using the electric when it can is to stop overload onto the hybrid battery, because no matter what mode the car is we cannot stop the regen breaking putting charge back into the battery.
It makes more sense to me now.
I was looking at E save as a way to bank ALL of the electric power, without it being used until I wanted to use it, especially when set to max, which it is, but because of the charge going back into the battery from the constant regen breaking there needs to be room in the battery for the regen charge, and thats why the car will use some electric no matter if E Save is on or off and no matter what driving mode is selected.