Russinating
M3 SR+
I left my car on 85% when I went on holiday for 7 days and it lost 0% charge. Just a heads-up; if it's gone from 80 to 50 in a week then something's wrong!
Uncle Paul
Well-Known Member
I would charge it to 90%, then set your charging to engage as low as possible, maybe 40%.
Keep a watch on it and when it gets low bring it back up to 85-90%.
Shut down should not last long enought for this to be an issue.
Bonus is that it will always have sufficient charge if you need to take it out for any reason.
Stay healthy my friends.
Keep a watch on it and when it gets low bring it back up to 85-90%.
Shut down should not last long enought for this to be an issue.
Bonus is that it will always have sufficient charge if you need to take it out for any reason.
Stay healthy my friends.
I don't know about 'significantly' damaging, but after a while the car will tell you that it isn't recommended to keep on doing it.
If it warns you then that's useful ... we then know what to do! I can't imagine anyone is going to persist doing something that results in warnings.
Rooster6655
Active Member
In 3 weeks it will use about 1% a day so just over 20%, I don’t see the need to have to plug it in for no reason
On a completely different note I am interested that people expect not to use their car at all for the next few months. I too expect my Tesla to sit idle most of the time. But unless you have already panic-bought a garageful of groceries, it will still be necessary to make occasional visits to the supermarket, as I had to do this morning.. We've had our groceries delivered for the past five years, but now there no slots to be had for love nor money..
ACarneiro
Active Member
The hospital where I work is 50 miles away. Plenty of miles go be travelled for me, even in the coming weeks.
I’m hoping the reduction in traffic will allow me to leave home significantly later in the morning, though...
I’m hoping the reduction in traffic will allow me to leave home significantly later in the morning, though...
It’s going to be longer than 3 weeks realistically. It ought to take about 2 of those for infection and death rates to start to show meaningful data, due to the incubation period of the virus.
Realistically the lockdown is probably going to last a couple of months at least, and may even get more restrictive if the numbers don’t slow sufficiently.
ACarneiro
Active Member
Anyone who works at a hospital in whatever capacity has my greatest respect and appreciation.
I'm on 3 month government mandate lockdown.. I'm just hoping supermarkets sort out the delivery slot mess before we run out of food.
Its an interesting one that because I feel like doing just the same. Take a bite to eat with us and head out to the coast but it goes totally against now what is advised. I suppose the powers coming in will enforce this.
Yes it was funny to see all of a sudden tons of slots become available when the mass hoarders were only allowed 3 of each. Now you cant help but find if you have a slot booked to stack it up as the next one, well... there is no next one as far as I see to book atm for weeks.
It's one of those things that at an individual level carries little to no risk, but if everyone did it...
So as a result we shouldn't do it, stay home, minimise the chances of getting a puncture, breaking down, having an accident etc. and so adding to problems that are already out there, and of course keeping the roads clear so goods and other essential services can move around more quickly.
planehazza
Member
If we're leaving the cars parked for potentially three months, continually charging and discharging is of no benefit. Instead, you're just putting more cycles on the battery. You're best leaving it plugged in, charge level set to 50% and use something like Sentry mode to get the charge level to drop down to said 50%.
In cold weather, each charge cycle is fairly inefficient. It looks to me like 5A is consumed in heating the battery, for up to an hour or so. Since I'm using free solar energy, the first time I tried to charge during a break in the cloud I actually lost 1% in an hour.
I'm going to be waking every 2-3 days to top up to 75% (assuming the clouds stay away). 75% will get me to my parents and back without a charge.
I'm going to be waking every 2-3 days to top up to 75% (assuming the clouds stay away). 75% will get me to my parents and back without a charge.
Yes - it's not essential travel.
What if you have an accident? The NHS is under immense pressure already and it's only going to get worse.
Rooster6655
Active Member
I was referring to the amount of charge being used over 3 weeks not how long the virus thing will last for.
The cars don't have a problem holding their charge you could leave it for 2 months and then charge it when its low, the cars are meant to be tough and aren't going to break down if they haven't charged in a month, otherwise wouldn't last long in the real world. Some people don't have chargers and only charge them once every 2 weeks out of necessity.
Realistically I don't think it will be months at all in this 'lockdown' but we will see.
Rooster6655
Active Member
I would already assume the car manages itself well enough especially with the power off function
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