Paraphrase: Plug in as frequently as possible. Set charge limit to accommodate your typical trips. Don't sweat fully charging, fast charging, or fully draining your battery, but don't make a habit of any of it.
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Engineering Explained: How To Ruin Your Electric Car's Battery - 3 Common Mistakes
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Paraphrase: Plug in as frequently as possible. Set charge limit to accommodate your typical trips. Don't sweat fully charging, fast charging, or fully draining your battery, but don't make a habit of any of it.
I watched this video.
My take aways:
1. Avoid storing an EV at high temperatures and high state of charge. If you have to store an EV at high temperatures, keep the battery at 30%. High temperatures degrade a battery more quickly. I don't recall what he meant by high temperatures. I assume it means the ambient temperature is 90 degrees Fahrenheit or higher.
2. Don't wait to recharge. Plug in after every trip. Keep your depth of discharge range as short as possible. In my case, since I am a low mileage driver, I plug in every night and limit my charging to 50%. My depth of discharge range is 40 - 50%.
3. Don't charge to 100% routinely. Only charge to a maximum of 75% if you can.
Highly recommended.
My take aways:
1. Avoid storing an EV at high temperatures and high state of charge. If you have to store an EV at high temperatures, keep the battery at 30%. High temperatures degrade a battery more quickly. I don't recall what he meant by high temperatures. I assume it means the ambient temperature is 90 degrees Fahrenheit or higher.
2. Don't wait to recharge. Plug in after every trip. Keep your depth of discharge range as short as possible. In my case, since I am a low mileage driver, I plug in every night and limit my charging to 50%. My depth of discharge range is 40 - 50%.
3. Don't charge to 100% routinely. Only charge to a maximum of 75% if you can.
Highly recommended.
MobileClimate
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What really matters is the price per kWh and we need to protest this bs price hike from pge that’s the real issue
MobileClimate
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The battery degradation doesn’t matter it’s the cost of filling it up..and the cost of getting you from a to b should be at cheap as possible
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