Difference between Electric Climatisation and Auxiliary Air conditioning

[dvptommy]

Hi. What is the difference between “Electric Climatisation” and “Auxiliary Air conditioning”?

And also “Battery Care Mode” and “Optimised battery use”? What does “Reduced AC Charging” mean?

[virtualdj]

Hi, actually you should ask VW for those names 😄

• Electric Climatisation = uses the car's high voltage battery (plug-in & electric models) for the climatisation (if it is not enabled, the car has to be plugged to the power to start the climatisation)
• Auxiliary Air conditioning = I don't know for sure, because I don't have it, but I suppose it is an optional that some cars have to burn fuel to use the climatisation only
• Battery Car Mode = Same, I don't have it, but I suppose it is a setting to stop the charge at a percentage the car wants, helping to preserve the battery health (same as for smartphones)
• Optimized battery use = I don't know, but it might be related to the previous
• Reduced AC Charging = If enabled, allows to draw less power from the AC charging plug; it's useful when you are charging your car at home with the supplied charged and you want to use other electrical appliances that draw a lot of power