I have no choice but to leave my car outside in the sun all day. No parking garage at work, barely any shade trees, just egg-fryingly hot pavement. I use both the overhead and windshield sun shades, and I put the side and rear built-in shades up. I've still seen the inside temperature reach over 140ºF, and I know the outside temperatures here aren't even close to what some of you (looking at you Arizona and Saudi owners) deal with.
I've tried turning on Climate Keep all day, setting the temperature to 80ºF or so hoping it will keep things from melting. No dice. Not only could it not beat the heat, it tried so hard it ate through a good 50% of my battery before the day was over. I checked on it and noticed it was running the loud battery cooling system as well to dispel the excess heat produced by powering the A/C. Without airflow from driving it just couldn't get rid of that heat, so it was making its job even harder.
Today, once again I turned on Climate Keep when I parked my car. But this time I switched off the A/C. With the recirc button in auto mode I figured this would just run the fans to pull in fresh air, combatting the greenhouse effect under the glass canopy. Sure enough, according to the car's thermometers it reached 98.8ºF outside the car but peaked at only 105ºF inside. Still toasty, but not plastic-melting toasty. Meanwhile the battery only dropped from 74% to 67% over the 8 hour workday. Seems like a win/win to me.
I've tried turning on Climate Keep all day, setting the temperature to 80ºF or so hoping it will keep things from melting. No dice. Not only could it not beat the heat, it tried so hard it ate through a good 50% of my battery before the day was over. I checked on it and noticed it was running the loud battery cooling system as well to dispel the excess heat produced by powering the A/C. Without airflow from driving it just couldn't get rid of that heat, so it was making its job even harder.
Today, once again I turned on Climate Keep when I parked my car. But this time I switched off the A/C. With the recirc button in auto mode I figured this would just run the fans to pull in fresh air, combatting the greenhouse effect under the glass canopy. Sure enough, according to the car's thermometers it reached 98.8ºF outside the car but peaked at only 105ºF inside. Still toasty, but not plastic-melting toasty. Meanwhile the battery only dropped from 74% to 67% over the 8 hour workday. Seems like a win/win to me.
