Hybrid vehicle charging advice

[gazdkw82]

Father in law picked his new BMW X5 phev.

Previously he had a 330e hybrid on loan whilst he waited for the X5.

With the 330e he charged the vehicle via an exterior 13A socket and the vehicle battery was 100% charged. The battery on that vehicle was a 2.4KW battery and a 2.4KW charging unit.

The X5 is a 3KW battery and a 2.4Kw charger.

He has charged the vehicle overnight and also a full 24 hours. The car never goes above 75% charged. He has spoken with BMW but they seem clueless.

He is getting quite frustrated so I said I'd post on here because it's full of knowledgable folk ;-)

My suspicions are that the charger unit itself is not capable of charging a 3Kw battery. It states it is a 2.4Kw charger. I'm not sure if that means it only charges upto 2.4Kw or that is charges 2.4Kw over a certain period of time.

Does anyone have any idea, knowledge or experience with these types of things?

 

[Strima]

What size charger to BMW recommend?

 

[gazdkw82]

What size charger to BMW recommend?

Well the cable came with the car so I'd imagine it's the 2.4Kw cable, unless it's a mistake

 

[snowhead]

BMW quote a 7kw charger taking 5hrs and 3.6kw charger taking 9 hrs to charge the battery, which weighs 2435kg, from empty to full so a 2.4kw will take a good while longer.

It doesn't mention 2.4kw charger in the ad blurb I saw.

 

[DPG]

The battery can't weigh that much surely?

 

[Gavin John Hyde]

From the podpoint website

 

[DPG]

From the podpoint website
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How come the 7kw and 22kw both take 7 hours to charge?

 

[hasel5]

Because that's the max the car can charge at 3.7 kWh so regardless of what the ev point will do

 

[DPG]

Because that's the max the car can charge at 3.7 kWh so regardless of what the ev point will do

I Should have thought of that really. Cheers!

 

[Zerax]

Can we all please try to get our kW and kWh right... it makes reading and understanding the comments tricky.

 

[nicebutdim]

The battery can't weigh that much surely?

Shouds more like gross weight of vehicle.

 

[DPG]

Shouds more like gross weight of vehicle.

That's what I think yes.

 

[snowhead]

Sounds more like gross weight of vehicle.

Thought it looked wrong when I typed it;

To deliver 54 miles of range the battery has to be big, and this results in the X5 xDrive45e weighing 2,435 kg.

 

[DPG]

Big heavy car is that.

 

[snowhead]

Also;

Charging from empty to full takes five hours on a domestic charger with a 7kW output, or nine hours if you have a more basic 3.6 kW charger. While this might sound a little tame compared to the latest generation of 150kW chargers, bear in mind that the chemistry of plug-in batteries is a little different to those in pure EVs and that DC rapid charging requires a lot more hardware in the car

https://www.electrifying.com/reviews/bmw/x5-45e/range