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?
Interesting to know. I’ve just picked up a 2021 e-tense and it’s showing 21 miles at full charge. I’ll try doing a few full charge/discharge cycles on electric only drive and see if it improves.
Yeah give it a go, drive sensibly keeping the car in the ECO range on the dash display.
A little while ago I was seeing around 23 miles, this crept up to 29 miles after doing the charge/discharge process, I’m now currently seeing 32 miles after a full charge.
Doing the EXCACT same journeys over a 4 days , driving exactly the same, the only difference is I’ve carried out the charge/discharge process by driving in full electric.
My son has taken his Vauxhall PHEV from 19 miles after a full charge 6 weeks ago, up to 39 miles, doing the exact same thing but over a longer period and a longer mileage.
As we know the mileage shown after a charge is predicated on you previous driving style/conditions.
Just to add my pennies worth I’m currently getting an indicated 45 miles on the GOM, this is an 80 mile daily commute, 40 each way, mixed speed with 15ish miles of 50+mph quite a lot of 20 mph in traffic as I’m in London village for work and that’s with the air con on as required. I charge at home and at work so I have the full 14.7kW at the beginning of each journey and run the car on comfort mode as it seems to be the best of all worlds. I don’t consciously drive like a hyper mile bod but I don’t race every where, spirited excelleration as required as why have 300hp and not use it from time to time 
But it’s not pure electric driving, so the range figure might be misleading. Besides, 14.7 kWh is the brutto capacity; for pure electric driving, you only have 12.5–12.7 kWh of usable energy.
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Combined driving ie; hybrid I get those sort of numbers, probably even higher.
But as Andrew points out it’s not 100% electric driving.