GoGoGadgetMachE
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- Michael
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We don't know how the buffer is split. Even if you're right, "80%" is actually 76%. If the magic number is 80% then they should be telling us "84%" or so. ("85%" would be easier to remember and be close enough.)Why do you think that is idiotic? If you charge the battery to 100%, then the battery is probably charged at 95% (assuming the buffer is split between top and bottom).
95% is still unpleasant to Lithium batteries.
Clearly the more you stay in the middle the slower the degradation.
but even better would be just to program the damn thing to not make this my problem. Making it my problem is idiotic for previously stated reasons. You never go to a gas station and fill up to only 80%. And normal people charge phones to 100%. If you're trying to be a car for normal people, you don't start with "here's your range oh just kidding you only should use 80% of the range most of the time because [blah blah science]."