Does the Mach E charge while waiting to charge?

[AliRafiee]

Why not just plug in every night so that it doesn’t need to charge prior to the hours you set up.

I’ve have been doing that lately. Mostly because I don’t like prison bars. ?

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[AliRafiee]

That is an option but I try to keep my "cycles" as low as possible. Will look at charging when I am at 30% instead of 20%. That way it just needs to go from 30 to 80, which it can hopefully do inside six hours.

A charge cycle is from 0 to 100%
If you do 10 10% charges, that’s one cycle

 

[EMachE]

I plug in every day during the winter and then once a week in the summer. My commute is about 10 minutes one way.

 

[krafty81]

I saw yesterday that I could let the car pick charge times base on what the best times were as published by the power company. When I first got the car this was not available for my power supplier. Are you you using time you selected manually or did you use the automated option? If yo IM here uses the automatic one they may be your answer.

As I mentioned above, my FP does not show my plan for SDGE. NEM 1.0/TOU5

 

[737flyer]

I set the charging hours on my ChargePoint home charger and not the car. This way it never starts early or overruns.

 

[Blue highway]

That is an option but I try to keep my "cycles" as low as possible. Will look at charging when I am at 30% instead of 20%. That way it just needs to go from 30 to 80, which it can hopefully do inside six hours.

Cycles are counted differently than you may be thinking.

Battery charge cycles are counted from 0-100% = one charge cycle so charging once from 0-100% counts the same as going from 50-60% ten times. The so-what is that waiting to drop to 20% does not reduce your charge cycles.... and shallow depth of discharge is better for your battery than deep discharge at the same cycle count.

Anyway - if you charge every day, you will rarely if ever need more than 6 hours to charge... presuming you are able to charge at 32A or better. Aaaand you are doing your battery a favor by reducing depth of discharge on average.

 

[krafty81]

Thanks for all the help - problem solved!

 

[TheSteelRider]

That is an option but I try to keep my "cycles" as low as possible. Will look at charging when I am at 30% instead of 20%. That way it just needs to go from 30 to 80, which it can hopefully do inside six hours.

As @AliRafiee commented, that's not how "cycles" are counted. One "cycle" is 0 - 100%. If you charge 50 - 80%, that is 1/3 cycle. If you charge from 50 - 80% three times, that is one "cycle".

In fact, if you are trying to really nerd out on charging, you are doing the exact wrong thing by deep cycling like that.

See the video in the first post here: https://www.macheforum.com/site/thr...m-your-ev-battery-engineering-explained.33402

TL;DR it is better on the battery to charge more often in between a smaller percentage range than less often across a larger range.

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