Battery range dropping suddenly

[sandeepg]

Hello, we are in the Northeast USA and have been having very cold weather with temperatures as low as 15 degrees Fahrenheit on some days. I have been consistently observing that during these cold temperatures, my Macan 4's range suddenly drops from 120 miles to about 50 miles during long drives, and the car starts alerting me to charge it ASAP. Until that point, the range goes down as expected and the dashboard also shows good enough energy consumption of about 34kWh/100mi with the heater in Eco Plus.

Has anyone else observed this?

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[pchak]

Hello, we are in the Northeast USA and have been having very cold weather with temperatures as low as 15 degrees Fahrenheit on some days. I have been consistently observing that during these cold temperatures, my Macan 4's range suddenly drops from 120 miles to about 50 miles during long drives, and the car starts alerting me to charge it ASAP. Until that point, the range goes down as expected and the dashboard also shows good enough energy consumption of about 34kWh/100mi with the heater in Eco Plus.

Has anyone else observed this?

No operational drop. However range has been adjusted for this single digit and teen temperature weather. I'm about 20% less range. However, I do enjoy seated heats and steering wheel as well as preconditioning!

 

[TomekGnomek]

What I noticed is that during summer you can arrive at the charger with 5% no problem.

During winter I rarely go below 25%, below 20% the range calculator becomes unpredictable and with 15% in cold weather and harsh conditions you can get 10km so you'd better find a charger.

So yes, during cold weather the range and SoC is hard to predict.

And this means during winter the effective SoC is 20-80% so combined with higher consumption and less efficient battery the effective range is cut in half despite all the marketing claims.

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