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Originally Posted by Lancpudn
Well! Apparently I've not been charging this MG ZS EV correctly  It says in the manual to charge the car to 100% once a month & leave it plugged in to balance the main traction battery pack, The pulsating MG badge on the charging port pulsates when it's charging and will change to a steady light when finished charging & will stay lit until the balancing is complete, It will then go out when balancing is finished.
I think I've only done it once since getting it in January  We don't use the car everyday & I only charge it to 50-70% because of that so as not to leave the car sitting with a 100% charge for days.
I've just plugged it in now to charge to 100% & see if it goes into balance mode. |
Oops! I forgot to report back on the balancing, Yes it did go into balance mode again, I went out in it to do some errands & the battery discharged from 100% to 97% so I plugged it in again & it charged to 100% then went into balance mode for almost 5 hours
I've never got the message on the dashboard saying 'Slow charge the car' Maybe it's because I've never used a fast charger of even used my 7kW home charger
I get by on using the 3.6 kW function on my charger just fine.
From what I've read you get the 'slow charge the car' message if you've done a lot of fast charges and the battery pack needs to balance the cells about once a month to keep them even.
It's all a learning curve as the MG dealership never mentioned this Procedure had to be done around once a month.