WannabeOwner
Well-Known Member
Absolutely agree, but your "just" brings all those issues to light.
Power Cut and desired SOC% not reached (assuming you are still asleep and carrying on charging would have been your preference, because on that day you need the expected range)
The times when you want to charge extra (or even just the SOC% expected at that time) and it isn't achieved because of the STOP limit (e.g. you forgot to cancel, or it was cold that night)
Also probably frustrating when you do remember to cancel the STOP on such an occasion, and then forgot to reinstate it on subsequent nights and wind up charging at Peak Tariff
I have no answers, just perceive complexity, and having personally fallen foul of all of those then in the situation where my charging would normally be done before Off Peak finished my preference is to just let it carry on, at Peak, on the rare occasions when it overruns. I am presuming that for most people the Off Peak period IS long enough to charge their car on most occasions (otherwise ... Natch! they are using more than they are charging ...).
As always, I am sure there are some exceptions.
I am certainly not adverse to Tesla adding it ... no idea why they haven't, but maybe a reason is because of perceived user complaints of "I didn't get the charge I wanted because it stopped charging at 4AM [as I set it to ...]"
