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Dolphin Surf battery losing power while parked over night

The_Austrian_Zebra | 2025-12-23 10:28 | 15 views

We've only had our Dolphin Surf since October of this year, but for some reason it's happened a few times now that the car loses battery life over night, e.g. range of 140km when coming home yesterday, turned off and parked outside overnight and a range of less than 100km this morning. Is it normal for the battery to lose that much range overnight? It's cold outside, but not that cold (we're in Austria). This is our first EV, so we're a little bit confused, any insight would be appreciated, thanks! ETA: ok, I think the example mentioned above can be safely stored under "range estimation dropping due to temperature". Most of this is secondhand information from my mother, who primarily uses the car. Like I said, we're first time EV owners, so we're still a little green behind the ears. Another incident my mother wanted me to share on here after I told her about this post: the other day my mother left to do some errands with 14% remaining which usually gives her around 40km, she drove a total of maybe 18km when suddenly while driving the battery went down to 1% and the car gave an alert. She made it back home to our charging station (very slowly) and the car was fine after a charge. She insists that there were no warnings prior to the 1% warning (like I said, this is a second hand recollection of events) and that nothing out of the ordinary happened otherwise. Any ideas how this could've happened and what to do to avoid it?

Comments (6)
deSenna24 2025-12-23 10:34

Does the battery SoC drop? (the actual battery percentage) It's normal for an EV to adapt to temperatures and learn driving habits.

rogueqd 2025-12-23 10:36

This is just my guess... When you say "not that cold" are we talking not much above 0°C? Maybe the battery is keeping itself warm? (as in turning a heater on) Batteries have less charge when cold. So also maybe it's just colder in the morning? If you don't drive it does the range come back by the afternoon?

net_fish 2025-12-23 11:04

I'd suggest ignoring the km based guesstimate that the car gives, it's about as accurate as the file copy time remaining on a windows PC. The real thing to watch is the state of charge. if that's dropping at a rate of around 4% a day while the car is sitting idle it would suggest that the 12v battery is on its way out. BYD's check the 12V battery frequently and top it up from the HV / traction battery if it drops too low.

SexyDraenei 2025-12-23 11:19

is the actual % dropping? ignore the km. check the connections on your 12v.

McHondy 2025-12-24 08:27

Does it get charged to 100% now and then? If not the range and % shown are just a calculation based on usage and trickle charging. The blade batteries has a very low voltage diffrence in the 20-90% range. Charging it to 100% 'resets' the calculated % to the correct state again.

OzBestDeal 2025-12-24 22:53

This could be the issue. It's known that if 12v battery is bad, it will drain main battery.

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