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What are your EV charging habits? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by Domiku@beehaw.org to c/electric_vehicles@lemmy.ml

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I mostly charge up at home (240V receptacle and L2 EVSE), and I limited my charge to stop at 80%. I've heard competing ideas about if that's really necessary, but I usually drive <50mi each day, so I figured I don't need to full range anyway. When we're planning to take a trip or something with the car, I will charge fully the night before.

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[–] HelixTitan@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I am not yet an EV owner, but I have done some research into this question, it would appear that most brands batteries are actually pretty good with 10-20% degradation in 10 years good. So odds are you won't charge enough to really affect it. I plan on charging it like I do my phone, so letting it get to 20% after like a few days of driving, then full charge overnight. My understanding is the battery degrades due to actual charge cycles, so constant charging in theory is more strenuous on the battery. I doubt my "optimizations" will result in more than 2 or 3 % better battery performance, if that.