Yeah, just seems like my standard range is shrinking the more I read. I’ll see how my every other day plan works. I should only need 75 miles a day on average.It's not 10% off the top. That 10% is split between the top and the bottom of the charging range. Note Ford's recommendation:
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It's not really shrinking though. A 100% fill up is there for you when you actually need it.
Except when I don’t know that I need it.
It should be, I’m just worried that on one of the off days I’ll have to run around a bunch and run out of battery.
Check out your metro area on PlugShare.com. An unexpected day with well over a 100 miles of driving might not be an issue. You can filter PlugShare to only show you the CCS stations so you can have an idea of what the faster charging options are along your routes.
Ya I have the app, there are a few stations around, not a ton near my work. We’ll see how it goes.
In addition to the method on the app that @macchiaz-o showed you, in the car you can turn off your departure setting
Ahh ok. I set my charging limit while the car was already charging. So it hit 90 and never stopped, probably because it was set to charge to 100 when the session started. So for me I don’t see that button. I just manually stopped it when it hit 90. I’ll check again tomorrow night and see if it shows up.
Good to know too! So I would just turn charging locations off.
Exactly. I always charge all my EVs to 100%. Never had an issue and don't expect any with Mache either. I think the whole thing is blown out of proportion by the other company that leaves a 2% buffer so it can claim range rights.
I suspect that buffer is there because they know that most people are going to charge to 100%. My Wife freaked out when she saw the low battery alarm for the first time! She likes to see the max range at 100%.
The problem is that you won’t know you are having an issue until 5-10 years pass, it is an issue of increased degradation, not breaking something. I work with the manufacturers of these batteries for stationary storage applications and when calculating 20 year degradation curves the first thing they want to know after the cycle count is “how many hours above 90% SOC?”
Not to be argumentative but you don't know either way as well. There has been almost no degradation evident on the Volt engineering base, which is what the Mache is based on, which has an over protective buffer. I think Mary Barra once said that GM has not had to change a single Bolt or Volt battery for degradation warranty. There are Bolts out there with over 300,000 miles on them, 100% charges, very little degradation visible. My 2010 volt has over 4000 100% cycles on it almost no degradation visible. With all due respect I don't think your storage solution has anything close to auto grade cooling and engineering or out in the field experience. The buffer over protection makes it so 100% usable charge is meaningless. You can never get 100% charge or discharge.
