is my charging behaviour healthy

[Yongping Tang]

if in a day, I regularly charged 2-3 times from 60% to 90%, is it a healthy behavior, or shall I wait for the battery to go down to 20% and charge?

 

[skip8jj]

if in a day, I regularly charged 2-3 times from 60% to 90%, is it a healthy behavior, or shall I wait for the battery to go down to 20% and charge?

I would not worry about about doing either way. Tesla appears to have a very robust battery and it’s management system takes good care of it.

 

[TexasEV]

You can RTFM, or read posts here (this question is asked and answered every day), or you can do both. What you shouldn't do is ask a question that is answered in the manual, or without reading yesterday's answer to this question, or the day before's, or the day before that.

From the battery information section of the manual:
"There is no advantage to waiting until the Battery’s level is low before charging. In fact, the Battery performs best when charged regularly."

You may want to read that entire section of the manual, as this car is unlike any you've owned before (unless you've owned another Tesla, in which case you wouldn't have asked.)

 

[puritan]

Jeez, give the man a break.

 

[ewoodrick]

I feel the best thing to do is to stop worrying about it. As long as you don't need more than a full battery in a day, just plug in once.
EVs are designed to be low maintenance and Tesla especially wants to make it low maintenance. Having to babysit a battery is definitely not low maintenance.

On a regular basis, keep it between 10% and 90%. Don't charge it to 90% and then run it down to 10% though. Charge to 80%-90% and then plug back in when it makes sense. Just enjoy the car.

 

[gavine]

Generally, shallow discharge cycles are supposed to be better than deep cycles. I’m not sure if this applies to Tesla’s battery recipe.