you are right l have tried ‘every which way’ but currently it does not work on the epower -shame, another great selling point!
Disappointing! A great feature (especially for defrosting)
I’m sure it’s to do with the fact it’s go an engine.
Has nothing to do with that, our Golf GTE does have remote heating/air conditioning (and an engine).
however, the e power ,to all intents and purposes, is an’ electric car’ , driven by an electric motor powered by a battery -in reality ,it is only the way that the battery is charged that is different? it might therefore just be a ‘software’ upgrade some time in the ( not too distant ) future and perhaps some extra kit on the heater?
While true that in a vacuum, it’s technically an EV – there’s a key difference to EVs, and even to PHEVs. A difference so big that in reality, purely from an economy standpoint, the ePower cars are closer to a FHEV than EVs or PHEVs.
That key difference is the battery. The QQ ePower has a miniscule battery. An EV battery usually is anywhere between 45kwh in small cars to around 77kwh in bigger ones. PHEVs usually have around 13kwh on average.
To preheat a Tesla, the car consumes 2kwh within 15 minutes.
“When preconditioning first starts, you can see that it consumed my chargers entire 10kW of output power, but only for a couple of minutes, and then it starts ramping down to around 8 – 9kW. Then, after 15 minutes exactly or 2 kWh of energy spent, the motors stop generating heat and the power draw drops to around 800w, which is how much power it takes to continue running the heat pump alone to maintain cabin temps.”
That’s the issue: a QQ ePower has a 2.1kwh battery. Which is barely enough to preheat the car when it’s fully charged.
Preheating/conditioning in the QQ isn’t viable due to the tiny battery (it’s closer to a FHEV than anything in that regard) – and i don’t think that an update fixes that, sadly. FHEVs in general aren’t able to precondition either (which, again, boils down to the battery capacity).
Heating/cooling the interior is pretty power hungry, and without running the engine, there’s basically no way you get enough energy (especially in the cold) out of your battery to actually do it.
Prior: SEAT Ateca Xcellence Lux 1.5 TSI DSG MY19, VW Golf GTE PHEV DSG MY23
Current: Hyundai Ioniq 6 Ultimate
Next: we'll see what's available in 2028.