RJSATLBA
Well-known member
Just trying to draw some stuff together from various threads, particularly the Range for Speed thread and the What Car thread.
I'd seen the item in the UK glossy price list on the standard equipment page where it states that for the REx model the REx auto starts at 18-20% soc but had also seen the US unhappiness that it doesn't kick in until about 4%, without the facility that exists on EU cars to invoke the REx manually to maintain charge once below 75%. From this I'd assumed that taking a range of say 80 miles a US REx would come on at 3-4 miles, with no option to maintain a higher soc whereas in Europe the REx would come in at about 15 miles but could be invoked manually from about 60 miles remaining.
I've now seen the comments about trying out the auto start in the UK, all of which refer to it coming in at around 2-4 miles, which sounds more like the US set-up than the EU one.
Is my confusion down to ambiguity where the official reference to it coming in at 18-20% refers to the absolute battery capacity of 22.2kwh, not to the usable capacity, so 18% would be at 4kwh, of which of which 3.4 is unusable (22.2-18.8), leaving only 0.6kwh usable. This seems more in line with contributors referring to it not kicking in until the range is down to 2-4 miles?
Have just seen surfingslovak's post in the Range for Spped thread in which he or she says that the absolute capacity of the battery is 21.6kwh, which kills my back of the envelope arithmetic, can anyone clear this up for me?
I'd seen the item in the UK glossy price list on the standard equipment page where it states that for the REx model the REx auto starts at 18-20% soc but had also seen the US unhappiness that it doesn't kick in until about 4%, without the facility that exists on EU cars to invoke the REx manually to maintain charge once below 75%. From this I'd assumed that taking a range of say 80 miles a US REx would come on at 3-4 miles, with no option to maintain a higher soc whereas in Europe the REx would come in at about 15 miles but could be invoked manually from about 60 miles remaining.
I've now seen the comments about trying out the auto start in the UK, all of which refer to it coming in at around 2-4 miles, which sounds more like the US set-up than the EU one.
Is my confusion down to ambiguity where the official reference to it coming in at 18-20% refers to the absolute battery capacity of 22.2kwh, not to the usable capacity, so 18% would be at 4kwh, of which of which 3.4 is unusable (22.2-18.8), leaving only 0.6kwh usable. This seems more in line with contributors referring to it not kicking in until the range is down to 2-4 miles?
Have just seen surfingslovak's post in the Range for Spped thread in which he or she says that the absolute capacity of the battery is 21.6kwh, which kills my back of the envelope arithmetic, can anyone clear this up for me?