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Vehicle properties
Fuel & energy

INSTANTANEOUS_EV_EFFICIENCY

What it is

Instantaneous EV efficiency in km/kWh.

This property must communicate the instantaneous EV battery efficiency of the vehicle in units of km/kWh. The property's value is independent of the DISTANCE_DISPLAY_UNITS and EV_BATTERY_DISPLAY_UNITS properties i.e. this property must always communicate the value in km/kWh.

For the fuel version of this property, see INSTANTANEOUS_FUEL_ECONOMY.

How the ID is built

A property ID is a 32-bit value packing four fields. Reading 0x11600212 apart:

FieldMaskValueMeans
Group0xf00000000x10000000SYSTEM
Area0x0f0000000x01000000GLOBAL
Type0x00ff00000x00600000FLOAT
Ordinal0x0000ffff0x000002120x212

Reading it from an app

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

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

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