Does it hold, now so every time you plug in at home it stops at 80% or do you have to set it every time you connect to your Level 2 at home?

 

For me it keeps the setting

 

Wow, thanks so much, this seems to work!! I turned the car off and on, and it seems to hold. It's strange to me that the same setting is in two different places. I'm not sure why more people have not commented on this.

 

Probably because the center multimedia display isn’t always present (some markets are different), but the MID is always there. Hell, that’s the reliable one.

 

It's probably because the one in the Drivers dash is more like hard wired. Kinda like the BIOS of a computer. The one in the infotainment system is more like Windows and is software driven and is not at all reliable because it is severely buggy. This is my theory.

 

I'm sad to say that this is not actually working for my 2024 XLE AWD. It's back to full charging again. I tried it twice.

 

I set mine but have not needed to charge it since. Been running around with the Camry due to needing to take it in for service, (the Camry) and then simply running the errand I needed to perform in that area with the Camry. Rather than run all the way home simply to get the BZ

 

Hello everyone. I’m new to electric car, I just got my bz less than 2months ago. Please what is the advantage of 80%charging limit?. I equally noticed that my bz range decrease recently to 180 miles at 100% change. Please what could be the reason and possible way out? Thanks

 

Welcome @Theomidele! The idea behind the 80% charge limit is that it maximizes the health of your battery.

The range number change really depends on things like you're driving style and the conditions of where you're driving (example driving up hills a lot and using more power).

 

The range is an estimate based on your real world driving habits. The car ships with a notoriously optimistic first estimate and takes some time to learn your habits. (I wish they'd preset it more reasonably.)

If you do a lot of highway driving, it'll estimate a lower range. (All other things being equal, aero drag rises exponentially with speed, such that driving 75mph has about 50% more drag than going 60. Speed makes a big difference.) If you spend all your time on slow, local roads the range guesstimate will go up.

Colder temps will reduce the range estimate, as well.

As to 80%, there's lots of theorizing. Toyota has said that charging to 100% on your home charger is fine, but that you want to limit charging to 80% on DC Fast Chargers when you can. Fast charging higher stresses the battery.

 

Something else to consider, when charged to 100% the car will limit the amount of regenerative breaking until the SoC is lower. Somewhere between 80-90% the limit is removed completely.

You can see this by a thin blue line on the charge portion of the gauge.

 

FWIW, just drove a 90 mile RT, mixed driving. Country 2 lanes mostly. 65-70 and a couple 80 mph blasts for passing. Mild weather here. mid 60s when I left so simply cracked window, no climate control. Way back upper mid 70s ran climate control as had to make some phone calls
Left at 100% returned 62% 3.7 MKwH, during return leg, 3.5 on the outbound. All in all not bad IMO

 

I typically drive around 80 mph for a 70 mile daily commute, roughly 90% highway with no braking. I average right at 3 MKwH. First time today I used my roof mounted bike rack. My average was 2.1 MKwH!

 

That’s why I got a trailer hitch platform bike rack for my Solterra. I do have a roof rack for occasions when I need to carry larger stuff.

 

Did you use the factory "activity mount" or get something from eTrailer?

 

It's on the factory activity mount. The rack works really well and doesn't seem to impact mileage much. I knew how much stuff on the roof of my old car hit my gas mileage and I wanted to avoid that.

This was my post on the Solterra forum about it:

https://www.solterraforum.com/threads/thule-epos-bike-rack.2263

 

thanks!

 

I'd like to use a bike rack myself. I have one I used to use with my Highlander with the class 3 hitch (HL had a tow group, and I installed the class 3 hitch) for no other reason than to use a bike rack Never installed the wiring, never attempted to tow anything. Just for the rack.
Any recs for a hitch for the BZ again only for that purpose

 

I just got the factory/dealer-installed one when I got my car as I knew I wanted to go that way. And since the Solterra isn't rated to tow (though it certainly can - it does in other countries!) I didn't care much about the hitch.

 

The factory hitch is only 1.25 inches. A more standard size - giving a wider variety of rack selections - is 2 inches which etrailer.com has. Fairly certain that installs of both require some bumper modification (read: cutting). Personally if I were to choose one over the other, prices probably being within $100 of each other, I would take a 2 inch hitch.

I will add that yesterday’s report of greatly decreased range I attributed to having a bike on the roof for the first time was also that I drove my BZ in sub 40 degreee weather. Later in the day at temps of 65 degrees and 90 percent highway driving at 80 mph, my MKwH avg had declined to 2.8 from the normal 3.0. Obviously the colder temperature had a far larger impact.

 

I’ll bet that Toyota USA designed the 1.25” activity mount to discourage towing. Maybe a slight weight improvement, but I’ll bet it was to discourage towing.

 

That and to eliminate putting very heavy items on the mount. It’s weight limited to 100 pounds total object weight if memory serves. It’s mounted different than the etrailer hitch, which is under the car as opposed to attached to the bumper frame.

 

Weird. My racks needed a class 3.

 

A class 3 simply is a weight limit classification. So a 3 carries more weight than a 2 but less than a class 4. I would imagine without knowing how many bikes your rack carries that it holds more than two bikes? The other limit is the “tongue” weight which is the weight at the point the rack enters the hitch. A class 2 is limited to 350 pounds while a class 3 can accept up to 800 pounds.

 

I know all that. One of them is rated for 2 or 3 and the other is rated at 4 bikes. Long story how I ended up with 2 carriers. But both required larger 2 inch receiver tube

 

Just checking back in on this thread to see if the OP's method for setting a charging limit is working for anyone with a 2024 model. It's very frustrating that this simple function doesn't work and Toyota can't give us a software fix for it.

 

IDK about the OP, but no matter how I've tried to set the charge limit to 80% (whether on the main stack display or the driver display), it will not actually "hold". As soon as you plug it in that disappears and it always will charge to 100% no matter how or what you do.
Big problem? MEH, not really for the way I use the car. Only needing to charge every few days on avg. But still disconcerting. I really would like the feature to work but it's not making me pull my hair out

 

Yes it has worked very well for me. Sorry it does not work for others.