Mirak
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I'm not disputing your math, but are we confident that is what Ford is using the actual pack capacity when it recommends only charging to 90%? That seems unlikely to me. For the owner's purposes, the max capacity is 88kWh, so it would seem that Ford is recommending to only charge to 90% of that. Otherwise why would Ford even include the recommendation since you can't charge past 88kWh anyway?Agreed that charging a lithium battery to 100% regularly is bad for its health as it speeds up the process of dendrite formation. The manual recommends charging to 90% for longevity. But the key point is that there is already a big buffer built in software by Ford, so even 100% is not 100%. The max usable portion of an extended range battery is 88 kWh, but the actual pack capacity is 98.7 kWh, so when you charge it to 100% it's actually only charged to 89% and when you charge it to 90% you're actually charging it to 80%.
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