Battery Losing Range at Low SOC

I know that with Teslas the BMS will do cell balancing at the top of the charging process... between about 92% and 100% IIRC. So it's often suggested to charge to 100% occasionally and immediately drive it so it doesn't sit at the high SOC. Subsequently running it down to single-digit SOC helps the BMS to calibrate the present capacity.

Is that also true for Lucid?
 
I know that with Teslas the BMS will do cell balancing at the top of the charging process... between about 92% and 100% IIRC. So it's often suggested to charge to 100% occasionally and immediately drive it so it doesn't sit at the high SOC. Subsequently running it down to single-digit SOC helps the BMS to calibrate the present capacity.

Is that also true for Lucid?
True for all lithium-based cell chemistries, which includes Lucid. But also good to remember that this does little for the health of the battery itself - rather the opposite if anything. I've encountered people who almost religiously tried "calibrating their battery" by ramming it up to 100% and going as deep as 1-2% as often and once per week. Totally unnecessary, and likely to increase degradation.
 
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Your 2017 Chevy Bolt was not on topic. What’s that saying about throwing stones in glass houses? :)
 
Such different mindsets here.

Remaining miles has always been a snapshot guesstimate. Audi's for decades still give one guesstimate when hot, at 9pm after a drive when below 1/8 tank, and a very different one when cool the next morning. Normal.

Drove with someone in a Tesla last week for 100 mile trip. I asked if we could stop for coffee. Said we couldn't. Not enough juice to stop and then to get home. He purposely left his house in the AM with the level of charge at just enough juice so he would arrive back home with a few percent left. Has two Tesla chargers in his garage. Didn't see the need to top up overnight and start out with a full battery "since (he) would have a few percent to spare.".
 
Keeping the car hot or cool does not use a lot of energy. Cooling a hot car or heating a cold one does use alot of energy.
 
I am a bit surprised at some of the seeming skepticism directed at the OP of this post, though maybe I'm not skeptical because the same thing has happened to me on a couple of occasions. Similar to the situation with the OP. If the car is at a relatively high state of charge, vampire drain is pretty minimal. If it's around or below 20%, it vampire drains pretty fast.

In my case, I parked my car on a Wednesday, knowing the next time I would need the car would not be until Sunday. I was planning to meet up with my friend for lunch and then would charge my car afterwards (for those wondering, I don't have home charging because I live in a condo. I'm allowed to install one, but it's a bit of a pain). I knew I would be driving a total of about 30 miles, so when I left the car on Wednesday with a little over 90 miles, I figured this would be plenty. Unfortunately, by the time I got in the car on Sunday, I was below 50 miles of range left, which basically torpedoed my initial plan. In addition, my Trip odometer, which had efficiency in the 3.5 kwh/mi range when I parked it, had gone down to below 2 kwh/mi. This to me is much more consistent with "battery losing charge at low SOC" than "car bad at guessing mileage". I'm guessing, based on the other posts in this thread, that I might have a bad cell.

Incidentally, something similar also happened to my once in my previous car (Model 3), though that was not at low SOC, it just randomly started vampire draining like crazy. However, my 12V battery also went bad at around that time, so I think that one might have been related to that, rather than a bad cell, being as replacement of the 12V and rebooting of the car seemed to address it.

Anyway, I'm guessing maybe some of the skepticism is related to the fact that if you home charge, you'll basically never see this problem even if you have it. When you can't home charge you are generally much more keenly aware of vampire drain than if you're charging your car on a daily basis.
 
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