Or you can follow the advice of an engineer from Tennessee that Tom True talked to - "The final recommendation from him was to discharge the pack to 10 miles or so in range (according to the instrumentation), and fully recharge about once a month to "refresh" the battery" Which totally contradicts what the engineer said in the sentence before, " Explaining that if you let the battery pack get below 10%, it would typically brick (not allow a charge), and above 90%, that your could experience a thermal even ( Thermal runaway & fire)."
Confusing, right? Rush Dougherty Tucson AZ 85719 > -----Original Message----- > From: EV [mailto:ev-boun...@lists.evdl.org] On Behalf Of Mark Hanson via EV > Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2016 1:34 PM > To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List > Subject: [EVDL] Best charge rate for longevity > > Thanks folks > > So if the Leaf charges at the 100% setting to 4.12vpc and 80% to 4.05vpc and battery > university says max life of 2k cycles is at 4.00vpc then I should change my charge cut off at > 80% for daily short trips of 15 miles typical. Plus since balancing occurs all the time there's > no need to charge at 100% except for long trips Best regards Mark Sent from my iPhone > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)