NooDle
Ik ben niet alleen lekker met kaas!
A question to fellow EV drivers (or anyone else who may have knowledge on this) : what's the deal with only charging to 90% purposely?
I'm reading this everywhere that you should never charge to 100% unless you take a drive immediately after, but I thought this was mainly for older batteries.
I'm still seeing this more and more, and am unsure whether this is still a thing or not.
For the record, my car is a lease, so I don't really care about longevity (since I'll be getting rid of it within 3 years anyway)
Also, I don't always know when I'll be needing range, so I usually charge up to 100% anyways. Not daily, but let's say 3 times a week.
Am I slowly killing my battery or doesn't it really matter? I thought all batteries were purposely larger than their actual size (eg my EV6 has a 82kwh battery of which only 77 kwh can be used), so there's always a top buffer. So, even when I'm charging to 100%, I'm really at 95 or so.
Opinions? FWIW I'm not planning on changing my charging behavior (because I'm stubborn and lazy), but curious to see what other people think/do.
I'm reading this everywhere that you should never charge to 100% unless you take a drive immediately after, but I thought this was mainly for older batteries.
I'm still seeing this more and more, and am unsure whether this is still a thing or not.
For the record, my car is a lease, so I don't really care about longevity (since I'll be getting rid of it within 3 years anyway)
Also, I don't always know when I'll be needing range, so I usually charge up to 100% anyways. Not daily, but let's say 3 times a week.
Am I slowly killing my battery or doesn't it really matter? I thought all batteries were purposely larger than their actual size (eg my EV6 has a 82kwh battery of which only 77 kwh can be used), so there's always a top buffer. So, even when I'm charging to 100%, I'm really at 95 or so.
Opinions? FWIW I'm not planning on changing my charging behavior (because I'm stubborn and lazy), but curious to see what other people think/do.