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I am no longer getting useful results from planning with ABRP as recent results are overly optimistic regarding my range.  I am driving a 2017 Chevy Bolt, which is sending live data to ABRP through Torque.  The Battery capacity entry in ABRP (doesn't currently fit in its box on the web or in the app) looks to read 178.2kWh, which seems rather optimistic for my Bolt.  What can I do to change the Battery capacity back to a reasonable number?

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Those are both the same PID with different calculations.  We don't have a way to differentiate server-side, and in the setup instructions it points you to the "kWh capacity" value, as you're absolutely right that the Ah value will give you very strange routing results (tricking our planning server into thinking you have nearly 200kWh to play with).  If you stop logging the Ah capacity and add kWh capacity to the logging you'll see the correct data.

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I had a chance to ride as a passenger and look through some of the information Torque can provide.  I see that Torque now provides data for "!Battery - Pack - Capacity Ah Raw 2017-2018," which, sure enough, for my Bolt reads 178.2 Ah.  This seems to be a reasonable measure of the electric charge capacity of my battery.  There appears to be an error causing this value to be misinterpreted as the amount of energy capacity in kWh for my battery.  I do note that there is a Torque value for "!Battery - Pack Capacity kWh estimated 2017-2018," which for me reads a reasonable 57.024 kWh.

I've only been using ABRP since I bought the Bolt four months ago.  I have imported updated PIDs into Torque from https://allev.info/boltpids/.  I'm using an OBDLink MX+ Bluetooth Scanner, a Pixel 2XL running Android 11 and ABRP App version 4.0.35.  ABRP used to give me great predictions even after I imported the updated PID list.  Is there something I changed that is causing ABRP to misread the 178.2 number as energy capacity in kWh?  If so what can I do to correct this error?  If not, can ABRP fix this error?

Are there any other Bolt/Torque/ABRP users out there that have had experienced the value for the battery charge capacity in Ah being used as the value of the battery energy capacity in kWh?  

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Great. It seems both values were being logged.  So I guess it seemed rather arbitrary from my perspective which one was being used at any given time.  I've stopped logging the Ah capacity and things are working well.  Thanks for the help. 

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