CRLeafSL
Well-known member
I chose this title cause I'm really not sure what is going on with my car but here is what it's doing. I'm charging using the EVSEUpgrade EVSE connected to a 240 volt outlet so L2 charging. The car seems to be charging just fine, says hours to completion and you can watch on Carwings on where the state of charge is. I charge to roughly 80% maybe a little more but certainly not up to 100% and I don't want it sitting at 100%. It then sits overnight (yes outside, don't have a garage) and in the morning Carwings still says I have the same charge as the night before even though our temps have been very cold as in -20 degrees F or even colder. I preheat the car for about 10 to 15 minutes and then I go out and get into my car and turn it on. It shows only 3 battery bars (not the little capacity bars, but the big battery bars) and within a couple minutes of driving it says reducing power due to low battery and the turtle shows up and the yellow triangle. Now here is the weird part, if I turn off the heater, which is really hard to do since it's so freaking cold the battery bars slowly start to reappear as my range is increasing and it will raise to about half the bars being there, not the 10 I should have for the charge I put into it. It will finally raise enough to shut off the reduced power warning and the lights disappear, until I turn the heater back on and then it drops the battery bars again. Anyone have any idea what might be causing this? I already contacted the dealer and it's going in Monday just was wondering if anyone had any ideas before it goes in.