Hi
I am a two day owner of a 2013 Volt and love it so far.
I have a question/issue re: charging.
I will preface this by saying that the 2013 has a new safety "feature" that defaults the system to charging at 8 amps vs 12 amps. Before you start charging, you have to change the setting to 12 amps to minimize the charging time
I put the setting at 12 amps and plugged in last night at 9 pm starting at about 35% power. Being the anal new owner that I am and intrigued by gadgets, I checked the charging status using the onstar app on my iphone just to see if the charging was trending correctly--and it appeared to be--was in the high 50s/lows 60s when I went to bed at 11 with an estimated complete time at 3:30AM. I also set up the onstar app on my wife's phone and on my ipad and checked from those phones as well just to have those options set up
When I woke up this AM at about 4:30, I expected a full charge...I checked using the onstar app and was quite surprised to see it only at 67% charge. I went to the car - the charging light was green; no signs of an overheated or tripped plug (I use 110 power at the moment). I turned on the car and saw that the charge setting was at 8 amps.
My theory is that I checked the darn thing via onstar so many times that it may have re-set the power setting to the default charge rate? My other theory is that there is some Volt safety feature that could have picked up a power spike/drop and automatically kicked the system back down to 8 amps?
Not sure what else could have happened. Thoughts?
I am a two day owner of a 2013 Volt and love it so far.
I have a question/issue re: charging.
I will preface this by saying that the 2013 has a new safety "feature" that defaults the system to charging at 8 amps vs 12 amps. Before you start charging, you have to change the setting to 12 amps to minimize the charging time
I put the setting at 12 amps and plugged in last night at 9 pm starting at about 35% power. Being the anal new owner that I am and intrigued by gadgets, I checked the charging status using the onstar app on my iphone just to see if the charging was trending correctly--and it appeared to be--was in the high 50s/lows 60s when I went to bed at 11 with an estimated complete time at 3:30AM. I also set up the onstar app on my wife's phone and on my ipad and checked from those phones as well just to have those options set up
When I woke up this AM at about 4:30, I expected a full charge...I checked using the onstar app and was quite surprised to see it only at 67% charge. I went to the car - the charging light was green; no signs of an overheated or tripped plug (I use 110 power at the moment). I turned on the car and saw that the charge setting was at 8 amps.
My theory is that I checked the darn thing via onstar so many times that it may have re-set the power setting to the default charge rate? My other theory is that there is some Volt safety feature that could have picked up a power spike/drop and automatically kicked the system back down to 8 amps?
Not sure what else could have happened. Thoughts?