I bought an ex-demo Peugeot e-Traveller Allure in October and intend to put in a modular kitchen / storage / fold out bed utilising the original rear two seats. I'd hoped to use the HVAC system to maintain the temperature whilst camping, and the integrated 120W inverter was an added bonus though I hope to run an small induction hob so a separate inverter and / or battery storage would be required.
Due to various medical emergencies / work / Christmas I haven't been able to spend as much time looking at this as I'd like to, but it appears that the car disconnects the HV battery when in park for a (relatively) short period of time - around 10 minutes. On two occasions it lasted longer, first time was 1 hr 30 minutes when I started at 91% SOC, in ECO mode, in park, with no A/C but charging a laptop on 240v. Second time was 45 minutes when started at 83% SOC, in normal mode, in park with heating set to 18 degrees C, and a load on 240v inverter - in both these occasions, I only stopped the timer as I had to leave the car and do other things. When I tried again below 60% SOC, it only lasted 9 minutes or so, and I've been unable to replicate the previous results so I'm unable to say with certainty under what circumstances the HVAC system will run longer.
I'm slightly disappointed that ECO mode completely stops all heating, whereas on previous EVs I've owned it would only limit the performance. The dashboard gauge for the HVAC only seems to show either full (but not in the red zone) or off (ECO zone) - altering the fan speed, temperatures, or A/C doesn't make a difference other than indicating on or off. Lastly, the range guessometer also seems to be very sensitive, particularly in the tests above using HVAC whilst not travelling - with the range dropping dramatically, even if I then went to drive very economically.
Anyone bought a PSA group van or MPV with camping in mind? I assume there will be similar issues for the Spacetourer, Zafira Life since they are so closely related - don't know if there may be any firmware updates to resolve this (and if they'd be distributed to all models across the group) or a workaround... I already considered remote pre-conditioning but its a limited length of time, and doesn't enable 240v inverter (so I don't know if the DC-DC converter would top up the 12v battery if I used a separate inverter).
Any thoughts or experiences would be appreciated.
I was looking at putting a switch in to turn off the front running lights, but would have to do something similar for brake lights in this scenario. Ideally there would be some way of mimicking the brake pedal (which I assume is just a trigger touching the pedal), and switching off those lights - all from one button that you importantly cannot forget to switch off again!
