120KPH/75MPH Range Test In The Mercedes EQC 400 4-Matic

[@kitchendog]

There is a parkingheater button. If you keep the car turned off, and press that you have heating/cooling while parked. Then you can keep pressing the button on the steering wheel to get up the charging speed.

[@stephan43527]

That’ s right there’s is no manual Funktion for preconditioning the car battery … The walk around is, to navigate to the charger (as destination) and change the settings for “SOC at destination” in the navigation menu to fx 50% ahead of the charging stop. That will trigger MBUX to add an “intelligent” charging stop to the route and will precondition the battery as necessary. The same will happen to all charging stops the MBUX system adds automatically to the route (green highlightet) if you don’t want to manipulate it as mentioned above…. The EQC is just a kind of its time, conservative in its charging speed, but maybe with a long lasting battery and still very comfortable and quiet

[@MrSportauspuff]

You ware so close to hit the right button. Physical button with a fan and three arrows upwards is the button for climate while ignition is off, also works at 1% while DC-charging. EQC has pre-heat, navigate to a destination beyond your current range and “Electric intelligence” will pick a charger along the way and pre-heat to that charger. In reality when you drive EQC under 10% and with good pace you will get 100+ kW anyway.

[@KrisRifa]

Yes it has parking climate with that button, I found this out later. But still won’t let you control the climate. It seems to be a one temperature and one fan speed. Regarding preheating, have used the NAV like in every other Mercedes and this does not give you a message about preheating, neither is there any information about this anywhere. So as I said in the video, please provide a source to confirm this.

[@MrSportauspuff]

@@KrisRifa Physical buttons to change temp setting work, climate menu don’t work in this state. EQC/EQA/EQB don’t inform you about active pre-heat you need to thrust Ola Källenius. If you still have the car this is how you do: Make sure battery is cold and around 20% SoC. Navigate to a destination beyond your range. Make sure Mercedes Me is connected to a account and “electric intelligence” is ON in the Navi settings. When route is calculated a charger will be added in green at the destination list. Now monitor the instant consumption while parked and it will add around 7-8kW as a proof of active heat for battery. This will not work if you have high SoC because it’s not time to charge yet. Works the same for EQA/EQB.

[@KrisRifa]

@@MrSportauspuff sorry don’t mean to be pedantic, but this claim means nothing if you can’t link a source to confirm it. There is so much misinformation about EVs these days and a source is needed to prove your claim for it til be valid. Unless a source that confirms is linked this comment tread is closed.

[@FSerafinucci]

@@KrisRifa agreeing with this. I would like it to be true, but I have found no documentation to confirm it. In the cold I have gotten piss-poor charging speeds even when having a charging station EQ (green) destination set an hour in advance.

[@bilfisk]

@@KrisRifa kzbin.info/www/bejne/qpnLqZ17Zbesi8U

[@Soulboy63]

Does it have heat pump ?

[@jimsig2142]

Can you do a test for EQA 250+?

[@der583]

Next time drive in the legal speed limit. We don’t have 120 but 110. That will increase the range. Also you can push a button on the right side of the hvac menu button to activate the hvac without turning on the ignition

[@cephasmakuzva]

Even so if its 160miles full charge range at 75mph/121kmh at 113km/70mph itll be like 170miles range

[@Vxvx22]

When you do the test, did you check the indicated speed against actual GPS speed (using an app in phone)? Looks like you didn't.

[@KrisRifa]

No, these test are always done driving according to the speedometer, because this is what 99,99% of people do. But the actual speed is recorded (distance/time) and car be seen in the chart at the end of the video 😊👍

[@Vxvx22]

@@KrisRifa So basically you are adding more variable to your test result between the different EV u test. Which mean the test result are not true "apple to apple" comparison between EV. The EV car maker that has their speedometer way off by the most amount can be much more easily boost up the ranking in the comparison list.

[@KrisRifa]

@@Vxvx22 if you read what I wrote and look at the actual chart instead of inferring your own bias you’d see that the results only differ at most with a few kph when compared for the same route. This is a real world test and in the real world people drive according to their speedometers and not an external gps measuring device. And if that results in them getting a few extra km then it does and that really doesn’t matter. I don’t think anybody cares if a car goes 300km or 305km. The weather and wind have a bigger effect on the results in the reality 😊

[@Vxvx22]

@@KrisRifa Yes, I did look at the details of your procedure/video and looked at your chart in extreme detail and in every single column. Your data shows that the real AVERAGE speed of different EV can be up to 6.8 kmh difference. Yes, most of them are around 3 to 4 kmh difference. But this is the kind of variable that you can easily control to minimize. I think the test results can be up to 10 to 20 km at the end. Not the 300 vs 305 km (5 km difference that you claim). Yes, the weather and road surface make the biggest difference, and I was wondering why you were doing range test for some EV on wet or snow surface (unless you have no other choice because you have limited time with the press car). It makes your ranking in your chart even less comparable and meaningful for viewers. If the goal of your ranking chart is to give an accurate and meaningful comparison across different EV, so the results are DIRECTLY comparable, then I think your test procedures should change. If your test is just meant to give a very rough idea to viewer, and don't really care about comparability across different EV, then you don't have to change. You can call me crazy or real people look at the speedometer, but almost every single reliable EV tester out there on KZbin and on car magazine uses GPS actual speed for calibration in any kind of test related to car. It is pretty much an industry standard to use GPS speed.

[@thomassoderqvist4666]

Turn off the ignition and push the black button on the left side of the steering wheel twice and you will see the charging speed and the SOC. You can manually turn on the preheating with a button while charging. Why are you testing a car that is, or will very soon be discontinued?

[@KrisRifa]

Yes, that is what I show in the video. But there is no way to run the heater and show SOC, you have to do this "dance" which is annoying and not as good as EQE (incl SUV) and EQS (incl SUV). "You can manually turn on the preheating with a button while charging. " Are you talking about parking climate? That is is not what pre-heating of the battery is though. "Why are you testing a car that is, or will very soon be discontinued?" This is a brand new 2023 EQC and they are most definitely not discontinued. There where rumors last summer that Mercedes may discontinue it, but that has not been confirmed in the time since then. I am guessing they will give it a massive facelift and the interior from the new GLC. along side bigger batteries, faster charging and more range.

[@tural313]

discontinued ?

[@CookandBakewithSamer]

@@tural313 It is being replaced by an all new EQC. From what I've read, production of the current EQC ends May 2023 (ended).

[@1975rov]

Når skal du teste Ioniq 6? 😁

[@KrisRifa]

Så fort som jeg får booket pressebil 😊 Men er nok mange før meg i køen… så viktig å abonnere så kanalen kan vokse så jeg får roligere tilgang 😊

[@1975rov]

@@KrisRifa Jeg får en rwd om ca 4 uker. Så har du ikke hørt noe til da så får du si i fra. 🙂 Kunne sikkert lånt deg den for en dag eller 2. Hvis det hadde holdt til å ta dem viktigste testene dine. 🙂

[@cephasmakuzva]

160 miles isn't good enough

[@conradmilson6654]

Crap range at speed.

[@ИмяФамилия-ц9щ1ш]

1 hour charge is complete fail, for all electric cars in general. When the time matters and you are in hurry - it just unacceptable.