80% vs 100% charge

[Cosmo Cruz]

Thanks so much for this thread. I've been trying not to visit here so much because I post like I'm talking to friends at a bar and that gets me in trouble, but every day I learn things here. What an amazing community.

There is an EA charger 6 mi from home so even though I have a Betty Boop installed I haven't been using it. After reading this thread I went to my "home" EA charger and topped off (79%), (it's next to a Whole Foods so walked to buy dinner fixin's ... saw "charging complete" as I was just meters from the car after shopping ...having a perfect day). Now plugged into my BettyB as per these experts recommendation. My only issue is the charger cable is between door and workbench...

 

[SaaSManKS]

You know what’s funny I realized tonight about whether or not I want to plug in over night, it doesn’t matter bc when they update the charger to reverse power the house I’m going to want it plugged in to kick on! so guess I’m going in either way! Haha

 

[GMan]

If you are oNly charging once or twice a week, I would actually set it lower, say to 60% or 70% and just plug it in every night. I only charge to 100% if I am leaving for a trip the next morning.

Exactly what I do. Charge once a week to 66%. When it's time to recharge, I'm typically at 38-45%.

Early on, I saw some scientific report on car batteries in general and came away with using this 33-66% strategy as being highly effective over the long term.

My original post is here: https://lucidowners.com/threads/any...larity-when-battery-at-50-60.4463/post-109802
With my analysis here: https://lucidowners.com/threads/any...larity-when-battery-at-50-60.4463/post-110069

 

[Richard Carlson]

I hope this isn't redundant of any other convos, I tried to vet it!

So I live in KS, and the cold is destroying the range of my Pure. I know I have a heavy foot (it's just too fun!) but I'm averaging about 2mi per kw maybe 2.5 so I got home today and was down to 20% after having gone 136 miles and it's been in the 30s and 40's for temp so I know that's a variable as well.

My question is, I know that battery charging is recommended at 80%, but isn't that for nightly charging? I will only charge when I need to, so I don't plug in but once or twice a week depending on the weather. So if I were to charge to 100% once a week or hopefully a day or two longer than a week, that wouldn't really impact the battery since I'm not plugging in nightly right?