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David NZ

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Hi, It just traded in my Audi A3 2.0T Quattro which I had for 9 years and loved, and bought an immaculate 2017 A3 E tron from Japan 43,000km. Work is only 4km away so thats the plan. šŸ˜€
I charge at night when we have 2 hours free power, using 8amp charger which works fine. But Iā€™ve read 16amp ā€œis better for the carā€, is this correct and why? Thanks, David
 
Hi David, congrats on the new car! I'm no expert but I believe the quicker the charge rate, the more damaging to the battery it can be over time. I am currently charging using 110v outlet and the original charger the car came with and I'm a happy camper. If I know I'm not going anywhere for a day or two, I'll even enable the option to run the charge at half the rate.

Battery management is actually a complicated topic, you can't leave the battery below a certain charge level for too long or it'll suffer, you also can't leave the battery over a certain charge level for too long or it'll suffer as well. The idea is to keep it at ~50% charge when idle and charge it up to 100% before departure.

The departure scheduling settings in MMI combined with the Audi charger will bring your battery up to a healthy charge then stop and resume once it gets closer to your scheduled departure time. It's quite a confusing system if you don't know what it's doing and a lot of people actually consider it broken since there is very little literature. You'll even find people saying the charging issues started after a dealership visit, my humble opinion is that Audi released a software update after they had to recall a bunch of batteries and replace a bunch of batteries under warranty to reduce the failure rates.

I know this is probably more information that you wanted, but I got to rambling a bit. Congrats again, enjoy it!
 
Hi David, congrats on the new car! I'm no expert but I believe the quicker the charge rate, the more damaging to the battery it can be over time. I am currently charging using 110v outlet and the original charger the car came with and I'm a happy camper. If I know I'm not going anywhere for a day or two, I'll even enable the option to run the charge at half the rate.

Battery management is actually a complicated topic, you can't leave the battery below a certain charge level for too long or it'll suffer, you also can't leave the battery over a certain charge level for too long or it'll suffer as well. The idea is to keep it at ~50% charge when idle and charge it up to 100% before departure.

The departure scheduling settings in MMI combined with the Audi charger will bring your battery up to a healthy charge then stop and resume once it gets closer to your scheduled departure time. It's quite a confusing system if you don't know what it's doing and a lot of people actually consider it broken since there is very little literature. You'll even find people saying the charging issues started after a dealership visit, my humble opinion is that Audi released a software update after they had to recall a bunch of batteries and replace a bunch of batteries under warranty to reduce the failure rates.

I know this is probably more information that you wanted, but I got to rambling a bit. Congrats again, enjoy it!
Thank you for you informative reply and yes I thought slow was good.
Cheers David
 
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