L2 charging rate Max/Reduced is the same?

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Hey, been a while but that's mostly because ownership so far has been completely uneventful!

For the first time since I got my 2020 Kona EV, I've had reason to try reducing the L2/240V charging through the settings in the center console. I don't know if I did something wrong or what, but I know Max is ~7400W as reported from my home energy monitoring kit. I set it to reduced and it was also 7400W..? So I set it to minimum and it dropped to 5250W.

My EVSE is a ChargePoint Home Flex on a 60A breaker/48A max and the Kona only has a 7.2KW charger anyway so it's not like I'm secretly maxed out on "Maximum" or anything. I was hoping for better control, like 7.2/6.5/4.0KW or something. Purpose being, I'd like to charge off my new solar panels while staying within the excess generation they're providing.

So is there something I'm missing or are the power level options just lies?
 
I think you may have answered your own question. The three levels apply to the offered current rather than the maximum capacity of the car. You should be able to reconfigure your charger internally to 32A or 26A and get more favourable options.
 
KiwiME said:
I think you may have answered your own question. The three levels apply to the offered current rather than the maximum capacity of the car. You should be able to reconfigure your charger internally to 32A or 26A and get more favourable options.
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Not sure that makes sense; It's a setting inside the car and should be independent of what the EVSE is offering? Like, I'd expect it to change what the car asks for, and if it asks for more than the EVSE can offer then that's what you get. Isn't the entire point of this setting to decrease load on unknown EVSEs?

L1 also has max/reduced/min and those are 1200, 1000 and 800 watts respectively. Was really expecting something comparable...
 
I was able to reduce the charge rate on my 2022 UK to 6.8kW.
From memory I could reduce in 10% steps ?
Guess 2020 doesn't have that flexibility.
 
This is one of my minor gripes: why don't they tell us what the current (or kW) like other cars and just give us a slider and be able to set the current at each level? I like numbers.
 
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