Hi, I got my Zoe GT Line in September last year , 71 plate.
My question is this , What should I believe the battery percentage or the mileage left before charging?
It is a bit strange getting used to the new arrangement compared to ICE arrangement. However that said, I'm enjoying the move from ICE as charging is free at the moment, even if all the public chargers were not free it would still be better overall.
Hi Steve, yeah that's what ill do from now on.
I haven't found a way to limit the home charge to 80% on the car, so I've adopted doing it arithmetically and so far this has worked out not too bad. the following based on a 50kw battery. Basically I look at percentage gauge and divide by 2 gives me kw in the battery, then subtract this from 40 this will assess how many kw I'll need to get to 80%, then divide by 7 and this gives me hours of charging needed to be set in the car's own timer.
Have a similar vehicle and agree the switch from ICE takes some getting used to. Most advice seems to be to keep SOC between 20% and 80% unless you need maximum mileage for a long journey.
Hi EV Nick, thanks for your reply.
I have been charging anywhere from 20-40% up-to about 85% on occasion to 95% and storing a few days, so this is wrong, I'll get into the way of using the car more regular after charging.
I'm maybe looking too far into this but I was just wondering what was the more accurate gauge to use as there seems to be a difference between them when you are getting low. My personal thought was the percentage as during winter use I was getting about 2 miles per percent roughly 200 miles displayed when starting off from full before going on a road trip in cold weather, about 7 deg C.
Maybe when it gets warmer I'll get 2.3 miles per percent .
I suppose charge up before you get near zero, ie aim for 20% and charge up.
it doesn’t matter, when you want is a better answer, lithium batteries like to sit in middle if being stored, but they don’t get battery memory like old ni battery's you had in drills
I should have said I use Zapmap
Hi Anne, if you live in Scotland there are quite a lot around the following areas: Aberfeldy, Airdrie, Coatbridge, Glasgow, Irvine, Pitlochry & St Andrew's.
Some councils in Scotland are charging £1.50/£2 just to plug in no electricity flow then 30-35p/kw thereafter. Some even have a penalty overstay of £10 per hour beyond 45 mins of use. So if you can't get a dc charge but can take a 22kw charge then that would be an expensive way to go.
Also some supermarkets & public car parks have 7kw for free use.
I personally would like to see signage displayed showing all the costs for use, maybe that happens at paid for units but not all of them are displayed.
Hope this helps.
I am in a similar situation for the past fortnight but didn’t realise there was free charging. Where is this?