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!
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If you have the charging level at a set percentage then you want the car to be at that percentage. I suppose its only doing what it is asked to do. The extent to which this is damaging is debatable. I would be confident that if it was significantly damaging it would be easy enough for Tesla to set the BMS to behave differently.
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.
So unfortunately but then inevitable shutdown of the UK is now in effect. So like many of us the Model 3 needs some downtime. I will garage mine but am thinking to attach the slow charger that came with it, plug it in and store it at 70%. Think this is a good preference for a few weeks? Or is it better to shutdown the car from the screen altogether?
Stay safe everyone!
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.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
Anyone who works at a hospital in whatever capacity has my greatest respect and appreciation.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...
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..
I’m using my car for the weekly shop at the supermarket, in addition today we went for a drive in the countryside, as it’s a nice day. I don’t see any problems doing that, do you?
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.
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%.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.
I’m using my car for the weekly shop at the supermarket, in addition today we went for a drive in the countryside, as it’s a nice day. I don’t see any problems doing that, do you?
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.
I guess now would be a good time for those of you with Twitter to ping Elon a suggestion of a “Storage Mode” that would allow the BMS to do whatever is best for the battery pack...