State of Charge on navigation

PaulW1972 | 2024-08-22 09:41 | 26 views

Hi all, took delivery of my Excellence yesterday and said goodbye to my Polestar. One thing I’ve noticed is that the Sat Nav doesn’t seem to show what the state of charge will be at destination! This is one feature I found really useful on my Polestar; the integrated google sat nav would always show worst case so if I was travelling from the north of England to my home in South Wales and it said 3% on arrival then I knew it was more likely to be 8-10% never less than estimated. Have I just missed a setting on the BYD sat nav? The google map sat nav on apple car play doesn’t do it either! Thanks and any help is appreciated. Autos & Vehicles

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swedespeed 2024-08-22 18:10

I don't have an answer to your question unfortunately but I am in the same situation as yourself moving from a polestar to the BYD so would be keen to hear what you think in the future

PaulW1972 2024-08-23 17:37

I think there's a few things that the Seal could learn from the Polestar. The state of charge on the sat nav as I've mentioned. Unlimited data usage. No need for a Start/Stop button. User profiles so I don't have to fight my way through the menus to change the seating back every time my wife drives... or indeed listen to her awful taste in music...etc I'm looking forward to the next 3 years with the Seal but these improvments would help! Cheers

swedespeed 2024-08-27 22:38

Does the car not include unlimited data the same as the polestar? What is the allowance if you don't mind me asking. I agree that the profiles addition would be welcome as the memory seating switches on the door made that much easier as well. How are you finding the app compared to the quite limited polestar one?

PaulW1972 2024-09-18 20:50

I get 1gb per month so it’s not unlimited like the Polestar. The only reason I swapped was because the lease price of the Polestar become to expensive. The Polestar is a better car.

PaulW1972 2024-11-15 13:38

Does anyone have more information on this? My car just installed the latest update but the integrated sat nav is useless. It STILL doesn’t show the SoC at destination. Not only that, it’s suggesting I stop twice on a 180 mile journey when my battery is at 98%(297 miles!). Very frustrating how poor it is.

swedespeed 2024-11-15 19:04

I still can't use the built in Sat Nav as it's just not that good. Others have enjoyed it but for me it just doesn't work. Even after the latest update it still doesn't do the basics well enough for me. The routes that it offers are not as well thought out as GM and it's traffic data seems inaccurate for me. However, there is a work around for the percentage battery at your destination but it's not great. Whilst on a journey, if you press the progress bar over on the left hand side it will show you what the battery will be when you get there but then you need to go back to the navigation screen again. Why not just build this in to the estimation time like GM?

Jaymac460 2025-06-30 12:58

If you press on the (green) progress bar on the left hand side of the screen, you will see the estimated soc for each stage of your journey. Interestingly, if you select a destination by voice command (which works very well), then the soc won’t be displayed. However, after selecting and starting a destination by voice, then end the destination (end button). The option will then appear on the screen to resume the trip. Press that, and then the calculated/estimated soc will be available on the progress bar screen. A bug for sure, but easy to get around.

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