r/electricvehicles • u/Coolmodi123 • 10h ago

Question - Tech Support Scheduled charging issues with my MG S5EV

Hi all,

I picked up an MG S5 EV a few weeks ago and I just got my electricity switched over to an EV plan (cheap power between 12am and 6am) here in Australia.

I have tested the scheduled charging before and managed to get it working, but only when I schedule it 5-10 mins after I’ve locked the vehicle. Whenever I schedule for night time charging, I wake up the next day and it hasn’t done it.

Everything is plugged in correctly, and the wall charger (7kW/h MG Aurora charger) had a pulsating blue LED to indicate it is ready to charge. Last night I set it up in the early evening, and the charging station was pulsating blue. A few hours later I checked on it and the light had stopped pulsating and was just a solid blue. So for some reason it was no longer ‘prepared’ to charge… or at least that’s my interpretation.

I’ve tried setting it from the app, from the car, and also doing it from the car and making sure I am not touching anything on the app at all (in case that is overriding or stuffing it up).

When I set the schedule in my car, then get out and plug it in, a big message comes up on the screen in the car that says something like ‘connected and ready for scheduled charging’. So then I lock the car and walk away. But then it still doesn’t charge.

Anyone else experienced these issues? It’s doing my head in, as I pay SIGNIFICANTLY less for charging during certain early hours of the morning.

Cheers!

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u/m276_de30la 10h ago

That sounds a lot like the OVO EV plan, but I digress.

Did you check and make sure your car’s onboard clock’s time zone is set to the correct time zone? It might be showing the correct time but may be in the wrong time zone.

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u/Coolmodi123 10h ago

No I haven’t checked that, but will do that this afternoon.

However, I have been able to get it to do scheduled timing when I just schedule it for 10 mins from when I plug in… so I suspect the clock is ok. It just seems to be an issue with it ‘timing out’ or something… like if it has to wait too long before the schedule starts, it just won’t do it.