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Vehicle properties
Electric vehicle

EV_BATTERY_INSTANTANEOUS_CHARGE_RATE

What it is

EV instantaneous charge rate in milliwatts

Positive value indicates battery is being charged. Negative value indicates battery being discharged.

How the ID is built

A property ID is a 32-bit value packing four fields. Reading 0x1160030c apart:

FieldMaskValueMeans
Group0xf00000000x10000000SYSTEM
Area0x0f0000000x01000000GLOBAL
Type0x00ff00000x00600000FLOAT
Ordinal0x0000ffff0x0000030c0x30c

Reading it from an app

CarPropertyManager mgr = (CarPropertyManager)
        car.getCarManager(Car.PROPERTY_SERVICE);

mgr.registerCallback(callback,
        VehiclePropertyIds.EV_BATTERY_INSTANTANEOUS_CHARGE_RATE,
        CarPropertyManager.SENSOR_RATE_ONCHANGE);

This property is read-only — writes are rejected. It changes continuously, so subscribe at a sample rate rather than polling.