Can you give some insight on trickle discharge? If I park my scooter at my office by 9AM, usually I rode back after 6PM. For this 9 HRS, what is the discharge quantity?

You mean self discharge. I measured this in only 1 instance when I left it idle for about 30 hours in a basement. It had lost 4%. I think that is reasonable. Trickle charging is a problem though. When I leave it charging overnight, it completes charging in about 3 hours and then switches off. Then …

The standby reduction rate of the range is around 8 -12 Km per day .

That’s quite extreme considering the timeline, so if the vehicle is not used for about 15 days continuously, the battery is probably going to be fully out of charge?

Exactly the reason why the 450 has a vacation mode built into it. With this feature you can turn your vehicle off with a tap on the dashboard. Once in this mode, the self discharge is substantially slower and the charge should last over a month. To disengage the vacation mode, you can simply put the…

Is the vacation mode advisable on a day to day basis? As in if I use the S450 to commute to office in the morning and post 9 - 9.5hrs be used to commute back home? The experience by new customers is worrisome as my office is around 32.5 Kms on 1 side. I was hoping to use the vehicle for my daily com…

It’s not suitable to apply vacation mode every time I don’t use the 450 for 2 days or so.

Bringing this old thread back up. Based on what you are saying, the difference between normal discharge vs vacation mode discharge is mainly due to software? I think this should be fixed. I dont care about knowing how much charge my vehicle has every hour of the day - or the app needing to check b…

Yes, agree. I think the software and network features need to be optimized further for standby. In my office basement, there is no network, and I think this makes the drain worse. Not sure if it’s already there, but basic rules like checking for network only once in 30 mins should make a huge diff…

The vehicle does not search for network when you turn off the key and it gets disconnected from network… so if the vehicle is parked in basement should not matter…

Idle Discharge while parked

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abhishek.balaji (Abhishek Balaji) June 19, 2020, 11:46am 20

Hey @arun06, welcome to the community

This is normal behaviour and you can read about why this happens in our FAQs: