I'm in US market and scheduled charging has been broken for me for a while, I had to switch to the chargepoint scheduler which has worked well. What market are you in and when did you last get a software update?

 

I'm in the UK market and since the last update around July/August time I've noticed that it seems to work now - to be fair though I've only really tested it in the past week, but I'm not aware of any other updates being applied since the summer

 

Notifications can be turned off under - Utilities (sand which symbol) - Setup (cog wheel) in Bluelink. That will solve being alerted in the night. As for not being at full charge you will need to calculate when to start charging to insure always having the SOC you desire. You can use the following

Hours needed = (End State - SOC) / Charge rate

here is an example

Hours = (80%X77.4KW - 20%X77.4KW)/7.2KW/h = 6.45 hours

assuming 77.4 KW battery and 7.2KW level 2 charger. Modify for your conditions.

so if you never have the SOC below 20% and you want 80% SOC every morning then scheduling charging at least 6.45 hours before departing will confidently get you off every morning with your intended charge. I hope this helps.

 

Notifications can be turned off under - Utilities (sand which symbol) - Setup (cog wheel) in Bluelink. That will solve being alerted in the night. As for not being at full charge you will need to calculate when to start charging to insure always having the SOC you desire. You can use the following

Hours needed = (End State - SOC) / Charge rate

here is an example

Hours = (80%X77.4KW - 20%X77.4KW)/7.2KW/h = 6.45 hours

assuming 77.4 KW battery and 7.2KW level 2 charger. Modify for your conditions.

so if you never have the SOC below 20% and you want 80% SOC every morning then scheduling charging at least 6.45 hours before departing will confidently get you off every morning with your intended charge. I hope this helps.

Thanks for the advice about the notifications, that's a good idea!

With regards to the calculations - I set the departure time so supposedly the car is meant to do this :-( I mean personally I thought this was the point of scheduling a departure

Otherwise I don't have a way of doing it since I don't think my charger has the functionality to set up delayed charging - but if possible, I'd rather have the car manage this for me than have to do my own calculations (lazy I admit )

 

Our last US update was April/May, so maybe we'll get it before the year is out.

 

I think for us this was the delayed May update that we received in the summer instead

 

Both systems work for me (separately).
I have my charging set to start just after midnight and finish at 6am. This is more than enough and the car stops charging at the point it reaches the target % (80 or 100%).
I don't generally need the climate pre-conditioned, but on very cold days I start the climate remotely using Bluelink when I wake up. After half an hour the car is absolutely warm enough, and I don't usually leave the house until 1 hour after getting up. Plenty of time.
So charging scheduled in car - climate manual via Bluelink.
I have my departure set at 9am everyday for no particular reason, it's just a random time that enables me to set the scheduled charging between midnight and 6am.

 

That's a good approach - my only reason for using the scheduled climate was that I thought that if the car isn't charging at the time when climate goes on, the battery gets used to power the heaters rather than mains - not a big deal I guess as it's only on for 10 mins, but if you're going on a long trip and want to maximise range then you'd potentially want the mains used for this

 

Does anyone know if the bluelink "time to charge" estimate is based of 100% or the preset max I set (80%)?
TIA

 

Mine changes its estimate if I change the settings from 80% to 100%. Presumably, it would also change the time to charge to a lower time estimate if I changed the settings down to 50% max.