Thanks for your great videos! Very helpful and much needed for us Aussies. However with this one, how would it automatically know that car is on the highway or town?
It doesn't - you have to change it to take advantage of wanting to preserve battery for town driving. If I'm doing a town-highway-town circuit I will set a SOC around 35% and choose "SAVE". Once I'm on the highway I switch to HEV mode and the car will keep using battery until it gets to 35%, at which point it'll use the petrol more to maintain the battery charge. Once I get back to town I switch back to EV mode and the car goes back to battery drive only. I've found leaving SOC in AUTO just lets the car do it's own thing, no matter what the % is set to.
@@Jeremy-di4ye I took one for a test drive the battery was at 30% I increased the soc save to 50% to force It to charge the battery. I got around 11 l/100
@ram00sa00 I guess it depends how far below you are and how hard the engine has to work to bring it up to the save percentage. If you use EV to a certain percentage then ask the car to maintain that percentage you'll get 5-6l/100km.
@ram00sa00 yeah I can't say I've ever driven mine that way. I'm not sure why you'd want the petrol to add charge to the battery in day-to-day driving, except perhaps on a freeway run where you want to increase the SOC in preparation for some city driving. But again, I just drive on EV until I get down to the SOC I want to keep, then use petrol to maintain it.
If I skip charging the car for about a month (say for example I took my car for a road trip in a country where there is no EV charge infrastructure), can I manage with a petrol only ? Will the batteries ever get depleted ? And if depleted, how does it drive? Is there a max speed limit ?
The car will let the battery drain down to 25%, then the petrol engine maintains the battery at 25%. You don't feel any change in performance. You can force the battery to go lower - to 15% or thereabouts - but you'll feel a drop in performance then. Provided you keep fuel in the car you could never recharge and just let the petrol engine maintain 25% battery and drive normally for years!
If you set a SOC percentage and hit SAVE but run in EV mode it will ignore the SOC percentage you've set. This menu is only relevant when running in HEV mode.
@andifebr no the camera itself is not installed but the cabling is. You can purchase an OEM camera for around $100 and installation takes about 10 minutes. There are some videos on UA-cam showing how to install the OEM camera in a Seal - the Sealion 6 is the same.
So mine only seems to work like that when 'save' is highlighted. Seems when i turn off the car and turn it back on again it goes back to 'auto' and will not charge the battery it will keep it at 20%. In my case my soc is 70% and when in auto the car keeps the battery at 20% in 'auto' if i hit the 'save' button it will charge the car as i drive, but i have to press 'save' every time i start the car. Does anyone else experience this?
@music1981ify yes I've found it will completely ignore the percentage set when in "auto". If you want the car to start up again in "save" mode go to settings>vehicle settings>intelligent memory and turn SAVE Mode Memory on. Note this will only start the car up in save mode if you were also in save mode when you turned the car off.
Thank you for your great tips
Thanks for your great videos! Very helpful and much needed for us Aussies. However with this one, how would it automatically know that car is on the highway or town?
It doesn't - you have to change it to take advantage of wanting to preserve battery for town driving. If I'm doing a town-highway-town circuit I will set a SOC around 35% and choose "SAVE". Once I'm on the highway I switch to HEV mode and the car will keep using battery until it gets to 35%, at which point it'll use the petrol more to maintain the battery charge. Once I get back to town I switch back to EV mode and the car goes back to battery drive only. I've found leaving SOC in AUTO just lets the car do it's own thing, no matter what the % is set to.
What's the fuel economy in save mode when your below the save threshold
@@ram00sa00 between 5-6l/100km
@@Jeremy-di4ye I took one for a test drive the battery was at 30% I increased the soc save to 50% to force It to charge the battery. I got around 11 l/100
@ram00sa00 I guess it depends how far below you are and how hard the engine has to work to bring it up to the save percentage. If you use EV to a certain percentage then ask the car to maintain that percentage you'll get 5-6l/100km.
@@Jeremy-di4ye I guess that’s why . Because we got 12 percent more on the battery during our test drive.
@ram00sa00 yeah I can't say I've ever driven mine that way. I'm not sure why you'd want the petrol to add charge to the battery in day-to-day driving, except perhaps on a freeway run where you want to increase the SOC in preparation for some city driving. But again, I just drive on EV until I get down to the SOC I want to keep, then use petrol to maintain it.
If I skip charging the car for about a month (say for example I took my car for a road trip in a country where there is no EV charge infrastructure), can I manage with a petrol only ? Will the batteries ever get depleted ? And if depleted, how does it drive? Is there a max speed limit ?
The car will let the battery drain down to 25%, then the petrol engine maintains the battery at 25%. You don't feel any change in performance. You can force the battery to go lower - to 15% or thereabouts - but you'll feel a drop in performance then. Provided you keep fuel in the car you could never recharge and just let the petrol engine maintain 25% battery and drive normally for years!
If you set it in HEV mode and if the SOC is higher, it will still run in EV, right?
Then what is the use of the EV/HEV lever? 0:04
If you set a SOC percentage and hit SAVE but run in EV mode it will ignore the SOC percentage you've set. This menu is only relevant when running in HEV mode.
@@Jeremy-di4ye that makes sense.
Thank you!
does this car have dashcam installed like atto3?
@andifebr no the camera itself is not installed but the cabling is. You can purchase an OEM camera for around $100 and installation takes about 10 minutes. There are some videos on UA-cam showing how to install the OEM camera in a Seal - the Sealion 6 is the same.
So mine only seems to work like that when 'save' is highlighted. Seems when i turn off the car and turn it back on again it goes back to 'auto' and will not charge the battery it will keep it at 20%. In my case my soc is 70% and when in auto the car keeps the battery at 20% in 'auto' if i hit the 'save' button it will charge the car as i drive, but i have to press 'save' every time i start the car. Does anyone else experience this?
@music1981ify yes I've found it will completely ignore the percentage set when in "auto". If you want the car to start up again in "save" mode go to settings>vehicle settings>intelligent memory and turn SAVE Mode Memory on. Note this will only start the car up in save mode if you were also in save mode when you turned the car off.
Found out how to keep the setting. In the settings menu there isna keep 'save' memory
@@music1981ify yes that's right - did you not see my reply to your first message 😉
@@Jeremy-di4ye no i didnt sorry.