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Last night I set out on an experiment to see how much power would be drained from running the climate all night - but I couldn't get it to stay on! It seems no matter how you start it, if the car is in park for 30 minutes, the climate shuts off. Seems like an unnecessary relic of a feature from an age of non-electric cars with tiny batteries: I had close to a full charge and was only pulling about 1.2 KW, it theory I could have kept the car running for days before the battery was fully drained. In an attempt at being thorough, here are the ways I tried to start the climate (all resulted in shut off 30 minutes after start):
If anyone has had any luck trying a different method, please let me know! I'm assuming that you can keep the climate running indefinitely if the car is plugged in (though, I'll have to test that too), but it would be nice for camping trips where there isn't electricity available to be able to keep the climate running all night
- starting the climate remotely from car-net
- getting into the car on the passenger side and manually starting climate
- fully starting the car using "on" button
- fully starting the car using "on" button with the seatbelt fastened
- using "on" button then "off" button, then toggled the "keep climate running" button
- using "on" then "off" button", then manually turning the climate on from the climate menu
- pressing the climate button after the climate shut off from a previous attempt
If anyone has had any luck trying a different method, please let me know! I'm assuming that you can keep the climate running indefinitely if the car is plugged in (though, I'll have to test that too), but it would be nice for camping trips where there isn't electricity available to be able to keep the climate running all night