Is My 2025 Solar Charger Malfunctioning?

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  1. bisco

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    i drove 8 miles this morning (not in a prime) and returned with 2 more miles on the guess-o-meter than i left with
     
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    Well that's no doubt due to receiving an Irish Blessing ...

    May the road rise up to meet you.
    May the wind be always at your back.

    Guess-0-Meter ... classic!
     
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    Congratulations; you've got virtual solar panel on your car.:cool::p:D:LOL::ROFLMAO::whistle:
     
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    Thanks. I only got my 2025 with solar roof a few days ago, don't understand much about it yet, or how it is working. Might be able to compare later.

    One question though. On both the car's display, and the phone app, I only see the charge in percentage. How do you change it to see the estimated miles?



     
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    I’ve wondered that myself. It would be interesting to see if the number of miles increases by the same number as the solar panel app predicts it should.
     
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    Another thing I did in my initial testing (but do not do any more) was that I went and turned the car on multiple times during the day to check its progress (and the amount of instantaneous amount of solar power being seen). This obviously drained some of the charge that the sun had earned for me.

    Instead, I now only note the increase in charge from the sun through the app in my phone.
     
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    What solar panel app? Do you mean the regular Toyota app? Or is there a different app for solar?
     
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    I now figured out how to change the car setting to show the charge in "miles". (Quotation marks intentional.) Is there a way to also see it in "miles" on the Toyota phone app? (still showing percentage)
     
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    How did you get it to show miles on the car? I think you can’t change the phone app (but I also didn’t think I knew of a way to show miles on the car either).
     
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    No. I meant the standard phone app. I don’t think you can see anything solar from the phone.
     
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