I'm leaving on a short trip tomorrow morning.. My P85+ is now charging at 120v/12a and has 212 rated miles... The mobile app says it will be 13 hours and 21 minutes remaining to a full charge. Assuming that's correct, that puts me at about 8:00AM ET tomorrow. I was thinking of leaving at about 9:00am or so. So the car would sit at 100% for an hour or so (again, assuming the 13 hours estimate is accurate). Another option is that I could run up to the local supercharger, and get it juiced up faster, say to 95%, and then let it charge the remaining 5% overnight, but then it would sit even longer at 100% until I leave. So when people say don't leave it fully charged for very long, how long is "very long" in reality? Thanks.
I think he is taking it with him on the trip... amped.. I left within an hour of charging my car to 100 (3x) when testing to see if rated range came up (on days I was planning on using almost all of that range), and you made it sound like I was playing with fire charging to 100 at all...
Must be nice. Don't bother with the super charger just let it finish and enjoy your evening. It can sit for an hour or two fully charged and will be fine.
Yes, I'm leaving with the car in the morning. Where I'm going isn't close to any SC, so I want to minimize any time I need to spend at a J1772 charger in order to get back.
I did? I'm of the opinion that it's not a good idea to do unnecessary 100% charges just to make the displayed estimate increase. But leaving within an hour should be fine. If I said differently than I must have evolved.
It'll be ok to sit for an hour at 100% but only if you have NOT clicked the "power off" button when you leave the car. (sorry, bad joke. forgive me.)
No, it's pretty darn funny... You had me going for a second until I realized the joke... Because I was in the car tonight installing a screen protector, and the last thing I did was Power off!!
You're still powering off? Did you figure out if something is wrong with your car since it doesn't shut down when you close the door and lock the doors with the key fob?