njjoe

I know there was a previous thread on this, but not much info. So it appears that we cannot set the vehicle to start and stop charging at a specific time. For example, my utility rates drop at 10PM and go back up at 8AM. Sure would be nice to program the car to charge during this period. It seems to only gear toward "departure" time and I can't really even figure out what that is doing. I have read the quick start user guide and it talks about scheduled charging, but it doesn't make sense. Can anyone provide some insight?

njjoe

Spent an hour on the phone with e-tron support today. I think I have it figured out.

hrc1079

Can it be done? General consensus on the forums is that it can't. I found a schedule option in the MMI but when setting it I couldn't get it to work.

njjoe

Directly, no. State of charge takes priority over preferred charging time. So let's say it's 6PM and your preferred charging time is set to start at 10PM. If you set your departure time at say 6AM, and you only need 4 hours of charge to meet your target setting (eg 80%), it will wait to 10PM to start charging. However, if you are near depleted and it figures you need 10 hours of charging, it will start before 10PM in order to achieve the target setting by your departure time. Hope that makes sense.

hrc1079

How stupid! Why not put both options in. I do hope that Audi will consider tweaking and evolving the MMI with features and updates for the eTron. Typically it’s something they don’t change a lot from when you get the car.

Thanks for the explanation