How often do you charge your Mach E?

[Scorpy2643]

I charge using excess solar production, so I’m set to 85% max and it’s always plugged in when home. The solar system decides when there is excess and routes it to the car.

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[ShaggySS]

I charge using excess solar production, so I’m set to 85% max and it’s always plugged in when home. The solar system decides when there is excess and routes it to the car.

I like that!! Is that Solaredge?

 

[MG101]

Daily on L1 at work. Short commute so I'm always ahead of the game. Use it up on the weekend and start the cycle again on monday.

 

[leeman]

At home mostly not more than twice a week standard for charger240 v

 

[KidGalahad]

I've noticed there are two kinds of cell phone people: those that put their phone on the charger at night, and those that are constantly looking for an outlet, asking for a charger, etc.

I treat my Mach-E like my cell phone, or any other rechargeable device. I charge it every night. You never know when that 20 mile commute turns into 140 mile trip to the mall, to dinner, or whatever. Since I try to avoid public charging at all costs, I charge to 90% every day.

 

[JamieGeek]

I plug in when necessary. We work remotely now. There are some days the car doesn't move.

If I haven't charged it by Friday, however, I'll often plug in on Thursday evening just to have it at least 90% for the weekend--seem to drive it more on the weekends than weekdays anyway.

During the week if it gets below 50-60% or so I'll plug it in. So once, maybe twice a week.

I'm now also using this schedule in the winter.

 

[JamieGeek]

I've noticed there are two kinds of cell phone people: those that put their phone on the charger at night, and those that are constantly looking for an outlet, asking for a charger, etc.

I treat my Mach-E like my cell phone, or any other rechargeable device. I charge it every night. You never know when that 20 mile commute turns into 140 mile trip to the mall, to dinner, or whatever. Since I try to avoid public charging at all costs, I charge to 90% every day.

Cellphones these days can charge to 100% in an hour or so.

Thus I charge mine twice a day: Once in the morning to 100%, and then once in the evening before bed to 100%.

I'm not always looking for a charger and my phone isn't always sitting on a charger either.

 

[Mirak]

About twice a week.

I forgot that I had a departure time still set, and it looks like there is a "smart charging" feature which can delay the charging so it reaches the set maximum at or near the departure time.

Life with kids and their variable schedules makes setting a departure time not as useful.

 

[SyNRG]

I have a Select standard range battery which I purchased in February and I drive around 250-300 miles a week. I charge the car for 2 or 3 hours early in the morning maybe 5 times a week. I don’t use charging schedules or keep it plugged in. I like to keep the car charged between 70-85%

ditto, same for us (except ours is a Select SR RWD), charge as needed and have never used any charging schedules. Charging limit is set to 90% since day 1 but most of the time just charge to 75-80%.

 

[leehinde]

I charge every night to 90% (unless I forget to plug my car in).

Me too.

 

[Vulnox]

We charge daily to 80%. By daily I mean, if the car is home, it's plugged in.

There is no reason not to do so, the car will be in the same spot whether we charge or not, so we are just in the habit of parking and plugging in as we walk past the charging port to go into the house. Multiple short charges, even with just L2, is going to be less harmful than long heat soaked charges doing it 2-3 times a week.

I don't think even the above is going to have a significant impact, to be clear, but there's no benefit to it either for the car. You just increase risk of failure of the EVSE or the plug if you have a plug in EVSE by having high current for a longer period of time if you charge just 2 times a week or whatever. Even if people dismiss the odds, it doesn't change that longer charging generates more heat and on any component that has long term implications. How long that term is though is up to debate. But we have been plugging in vehicles to charge since 2015 and this method has never caused an issue so may as well keep at it.

 

[Scorpy2643]

I like that!! Is that Solaredge?

yep. ? 16.4k in panels. 11.4kw inverter. 10kw battery. Solar charger set to excess only. I’ve charged my car on solar only since December when the charger was finally off backorder and installed.

edit: my power company pays 2.6 cents/kw for overproduction, so thats the ”cost” of charging the car.

 

[DevSecOps]

You never know when that 20 mile commute turns into 140 mile trip to the mall, to dinner, or whatever. Since I try to avoid public charging at all costs, I charge to 90% every day.

This is exactly my thought. I never know where I'll have to go in a given day.

Charging is really based on what an individuals need is and it's hard to compare what I do vs the next person. A lot of people on this forum are retired and their local drive to bingo and bridge every other day doesn't consume a lot of electrons.

 

[Garbone]

Charge to 90% on both our rigs over the weekend and drive until the next weekend until charging again to 90%. We do juice them to 100% if we know a longer trip is in the offing but usually the cars run down to high 30%s on a non trip week.

 

[Sam2084]

Every night to 70%.

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