*Warning, a bit of ranting in here*
I love the car and was actually okay with Carnet up to this point. I think Discover Media is the worst Infotainment system I've used to date, but we're stuck with it. Yes Carnet is not intuitive and a person be technically Saavy to set it up right but still it failed me last night. I've had the car for over a month but just started driving it this week.
The way I've had it set up is to do a 100% charge on M,T,W,TH,F at 6am and a 40% charge on Sat, Sun at 2am. They say that the batteries are happiest at 40% charge and this is my commuter car, so I figured keep it at 40% on weekends. So far it had worked properly on Monday and Tuesday charging to 100%, but screwed up today which is Wednesday. Last night I checked before I went to sleep and it had the right 6am departure time. In the morning it still showed the correct 6am departure time so no logic to what went wrong.
When I got home last night the charge was about 27% and woke up this morning and the car must have thought last night was Sat or sun because it only charged up to 40%. I thought maybe the dealer had set time/date in the car wrong. Nope the date and times were right, although manually set. I changed them to automatically adjust with the GPS. Don't know if that had anything to do with it, but worth changing. I also initiated charging but only had about 1 hour before I needed to leave.
What bad timing, because I had an appointment to get my windows tinted at a shop on the way to work this morning or I would have driven the ICE A4 instead. Anyhow, that's definitely not enough juice to get me to work and back. After getting the car tinted, I used Plugshare and stopped by an Carl's Jr with a Blink station which is like 49cent per KW, about 5 times more than it would have cost me last night. 3 EVSE's there. First one I tried didn't work, second didn't either, but fortunately #3 did.
I had to sit there for a good hour just to get enough juice to get home before showing up at the office, but was happy that at least one of them worked or I'd have to wander around wasting time and more juice trying to find a working EVSE. Trying to be conscientious, I neatly wrapped the cable back on the EVSE ... and learned that I need to keep some wet wipes in the car. Those cables are really dirty.
We'll see if I make it home tonight or will get a chance to writeup on the roadside assistance plan. And if you see a blue eGolf limping along at 54mph with a guy sweating from being in ECO+ mode. That's me.
Knowing myself, I'm going to have some level anxiety for weeks wondering if it's going to charge at night. I quadruple checked the setting and can only hope that it was the manual set clock that inexplicably made the car think that it's Saturday and that Carnet is reliable. I guess I'll have to gas up the ICE just in case.
I love the car and was actually okay with Carnet up to this point. I think Discover Media is the worst Infotainment system I've used to date, but we're stuck with it. Yes Carnet is not intuitive and a person be technically Saavy to set it up right but still it failed me last night. I've had the car for over a month but just started driving it this week.
The way I've had it set up is to do a 100% charge on M,T,W,TH,F at 6am and a 40% charge on Sat, Sun at 2am. They say that the batteries are happiest at 40% charge and this is my commuter car, so I figured keep it at 40% on weekends. So far it had worked properly on Monday and Tuesday charging to 100%, but screwed up today which is Wednesday. Last night I checked before I went to sleep and it had the right 6am departure time. In the morning it still showed the correct 6am departure time so no logic to what went wrong.
When I got home last night the charge was about 27% and woke up this morning and the car must have thought last night was Sat or sun because it only charged up to 40%. I thought maybe the dealer had set time/date in the car wrong. Nope the date and times were right, although manually set. I changed them to automatically adjust with the GPS. Don't know if that had anything to do with it, but worth changing. I also initiated charging but only had about 1 hour before I needed to leave.
What bad timing, because I had an appointment to get my windows tinted at a shop on the way to work this morning or I would have driven the ICE A4 instead. Anyhow, that's definitely not enough juice to get me to work and back. After getting the car tinted, I used Plugshare and stopped by an Carl's Jr with a Blink station which is like 49cent per KW, about 5 times more than it would have cost me last night. 3 EVSE's there. First one I tried didn't work, second didn't either, but fortunately #3 did.
I had to sit there for a good hour just to get enough juice to get home before showing up at the office, but was happy that at least one of them worked or I'd have to wander around wasting time and more juice trying to find a working EVSE. Trying to be conscientious, I neatly wrapped the cable back on the EVSE ... and learned that I need to keep some wet wipes in the car. Those cables are really dirty.
We'll see if I make it home tonight or will get a chance to writeup on the roadside assistance plan. And if you see a blue eGolf limping along at 54mph with a guy sweating from being in ECO+ mode. That's me.
Knowing myself, I'm going to have some level anxiety for weeks wondering if it's going to charge at night. I quadruple checked the setting and can only hope that it was the manual set clock that inexplicably made the car think that it's Saturday and that Carnet is reliable. I guess I'll have to gas up the ICE just in case.
