It doesn’t read, it just tells me how much energy I need to draw from the 230V grid to charge the battery to 100%. The photo shows the amount of energy drawn to charge the battery from 0 to 100% in February 2026. In the summer, this will be approximately 11.2kWh, so that means I’ve temporarily “lost” about 0.7kWh of the battery due to low outside temperatures.
I don’t know on the DS vehicles, but mine shows it when I switch off before opening the door, and while driving in the statistics screen. Look at page 27 of your owners manual - i think.
Does this help.
Based on this, mine can show 5.4 m/kW (11kW/100km) but I can’t drive 60 miles (100km)
So how do you set this charger up to give you info ?
Would you somehow be connecting to the traction battery whilst its being charged ?
My son has a similar charger so I could possibly try the same thing.
The charger has a built-in energy meter. Only the power output (6, 8, 10, 13, 16A) can be configured. The rest of the information is simply displayed on the LCD, including the energy meter used during each charge. The meter automatically resets when the charger is unplugged.
Ah right ok.
My 3 pin charger doesnt give any info like that,I think all it shows is when its in standby, charging and complete.
I was looking at buying one that had a bit more spec and a better display with more info.
You have to remember, the charges being put out by the charger is less than what your car gets, you get loss from the cable and your onboard charger.
Of course, where it’s warm, there are energy losses. But ultimately, I only care about how much energy I’ve drawn from the 230V socket and how far I’ve traveled.
I have a second meter on the 230V socket itself, which I reset once a year.
One question, how do you use e save for holding and not charging? I belive if you select e sevar 10km it will hold 10 mm of charge but if that means it has to use the motor as generator to hold that 10km it will do
Yes, you are correct, I used it once going down a motorway and I watched as it went below the set amount, by a fair bit, then recharge again, had a real negative effect on fuel economy- not again.
You can’t “hold” it in the way you mean, unfortunately.
The system isn’t very well thought out. If I had designed it, a “save the remaining battery until I say so” feature would have been an obvious inclusion.
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Yesterday I tested eco-driving. 10kWh was enough for 39-40 miles. The reading was twice as high as about 5m/kWh. I didn’t read off the remaining trips to see how many miles I traveled per kWh. In total, I did 5 trips.
Over the last few months my range dropped from 33 to 23 miles after a full charge, so last week I tried what I did last year, run the car on full electric down to 0%, recharge, run again, recharge ect.
The mileage range has now started to creep back up, currently on 29 miles.
I think if I were doing longer journeys this would significantly help to increase the range.
A very interesting discussion but I dont even know how to bring up that screen. Please enlighten me.
It’s from a DS7, so it doesn’t necessarily look the same.
I assume you have a PHEV as well?