morning all.

Octavia iV vRS - Dec 24.

i am trying to find out whether its possible - and if so, how you can do it - to limit the maximum charge level of of the HV battery, in my case to 80% as that would cover pretty much all my trips and the vehicle charges on reduced current overnight.

seems to make sense in terms of battery longevity.....

there is a MIN charge level in e-Manager but doesn't seem to be any way to limit the MAX charge.

i did see somewhere that there was a workaround by using the e-Manager scheduler, but i'm not seeing it.

i even went as far as reading the manual....i know!

any ideas appreciated....

cheers!

I have set a departure plan for 12 noon each day which has a maximum charge level of 80%. I don't apply this plan on Saturdays, because I go shopping and have a separate plan which charges to 100% and sets a target temperature for my usual departure time.

10 hours ago, NZsteve said:

seems to make sense in terms of battery longevity.....

Not really. PHEVs have a big buffer of about 30% which is enough to protect battery. I charge mine till 100% with max current daily, I see no noticeable degradation after 4 years.

@Edela - cheers, look like thats the only way to go.....

@jay982bea - i obviously have a different setup, when i configure a departure plan it comes up as follows:

12 hours ago, NZsteve said:

@Edela - cheers, look like thats the only way to go.....

@jay982bea - i obviously have a different setup, when i configure a departure plan it comes up as follows:

Mate I’m guessing that is because he was showing you his app. We don’t have connectivity in New Zealand.

Edited 28 April, 20251 yr by whippersnapper

@whippersnapper @jay982bea @Edela

ah, the penny drops......of course, suddenly makes sense.

i've tried to get the app, officially and not so officially but no joy.....

i asked the dealer and he said it ewasn't going to be any time soon.

cheers mate, i'm just going to plug it in overnight and it can have at it :)

I had the app but it won't work. The app needs to connect to a dealer to authorise the connection. The one I had went to Singapore! My dealer told me that there are plans to introduce servers in Australia / New Zealand but when that happens it won't be retroactive unfortunately. For me the only downside is not being able to have driving profiles for my wife and I. At least the seat and mirror settings are coded to the memory seats.

yeah, not a hill i'm going to die on :)
i don't actually need the profiles....but you know how it is when there's something you want to fiddlw with but can't.

but its all good, thanks for the insight!

On 28/04/2025 at 08:28, Edela said:

Not really. PHEVs have a big buffer of about 30% which is enough to protect battery. I charge mine till 100% with max current daily, I see no noticeable degradation after 4 years.

Charging to 80% is better. There's an Engineering explained video on it on youtube. I think it's this one:

i'd love to charge to 80% but appears that is not a feature on this vehicle....maybe a FW upgrade, but for now what it does have a "charge on reduced current" option which drage out the charge process but as its overnight, not an issue - unless you have the app, which we can't get in NZ.

everything else i have - phone, laptops, e-bike all have the 80% max charge setting so no idea why Skoda would make this available via the app but not from the vehicle settings......

It annoys me that the app is only free for the first year. Then you have to pay so much a year, can't remember what it was but didn't seem great value to me.

They probably put settings like that on the app so that more people pay for it.

Edited 2 May, 20251 yr by mccririck

hah...that makes me feel slighly better :)