‘Camping mode’ is about keeping the car on and running the A/C but with the headlights and DRLs off, so you can sleep in the car. It uses power because the car is running, just not moving. You can run the A/C for days from an EV drive battery but it does take power so you do run out eventually.
If you turn the car off, you lose something like 1 km of range per day on my car because it stays connected to the mobile network so you can control it from the app.
Mine has been sat unplugged in my garage for the last 2 months while I’ve been overseas and the state of charge has dropped a whole 1% in that time (and I suspect that the actual difference is less than 1% due to rounding).
Eh? I can leave my EV parked unplugged for a week and it still has exactly the same main battery charge as before.
Well, at least to the nearest percent anyway.
‘Camping mode’ is about keeping the car on and running the A/C but with the headlights and DRLs off, so you can sleep in the car. It uses power because the car is running, just not moving. You can run the A/C for days from an EV drive battery but it does take power so you do run out eventually.
If you turn the car off, you lose something like 1 km of range per day on my car because it stays connected to the mobile network so you can control it from the app.
Mine has been sat unplugged in my garage for the last 2 months while I’ve been overseas and the state of charge has dropped a whole 1% in that time (and I suspect that the actual difference is less than 1% due to rounding).
Yeah, I was wondering. What Camping mode was, but that’s what the owners manual said in my nieces new EV…
I reckon it probably disables telemetrics and trying to spy on the owner.