XC40 Charging Test in the cold 🥶

Charging in the cold 🥶
Winter charging test with my Volvo XC40 Recharge Twin 2024. Without active preheating and also after been parked a little hour.
How bad can that be?
📌Recorded 28th of December
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[@vincentmeier]

Love you videos! Happy driving for 2024!

[@volvo_kristian]

Thanks for the support 👌

[@kaiser1966]

Great info, looking forward to 2024 🎉 picking up my XC40 same as yours on 1st March. Can’t wait.

[@volvo_kristian]

Thanks 👌 Congrats in advance. Hope you will enjoy it

[@edwardengwirda398]

We wish you a good and electric 2024 from Holland. Keep up making those video's

[@volvo_kristian]

Thanks the same 😊

[@pete9b]

Thanks for sharing!..

[@Madonsteamrailways]

It’s going to be a great year for me!! It’s the year I actually change my Renault Zoe for a Vauxhall Combo Life Electric with the Wheelhome Vikenze IIIe camper conversion.

[@Madonsteamrailways]

Car companies should give each car produced a proper test of how long it’s going to take to charge it up, and how far it’s going to travel rather than just putting a WTLP, or whatever it is number!! The best test for ANY car is a member of the company using it on a daily basis, not figures counjoured up by a testing rig.

[@markvanloo309]

True, but then the conditions are always different. In WLTP it’s not.😢

[@stephencrowther524]

@@markvanloo309WTLP is just a theoretical fantasy figure,in the same way as mpg was for ICE vehicles. The range will be different for every single journey in reality.

[@Madonsteamrailways]

Happy New Year!!

[@volvo_kristian]

Same to you 😎

[@ojeskog]

Nice to see. If you get an even colder night or even temperatures like this, do you mind posting a video of what speeds you get while plugging in having had the car parked overnight? So with a totally cold soaked battery. I remember having an (old version) e-Niro rental in winter, and driving it cold soaked about 10km on slow roads, to fast charge it for 30min and driving it back again. After that I just wondered why I bothered as I used almost as much energy as I put in... That car charges shockingly slow with a fully cold soaked battery. While sitting an hour will leave a fairly cold battery, it will still have quite a bit of heat in it.

[@volvo_kristian]

Understand your thought. Would be interesting to try that so if I get the chance I will try that. But for today's test. Yes I had just been on a long trip. But the cold battery warning was active from 100% and all the way down to like 15-20% SOC. Didn't see exactly when it went away. I'm guessing it went away when I got the short range message. So the battery should be quite cold in todays test. But still want to try a overnight test. So will keep that in mind if the opportunity appears.