LFP and NMC best practices

Yeh, I agree with all the above. What was lost on me was that I use to wait to get to low/below 20% before I charged it to 100%. But with the short cycling (if correct, and I am going to assume it is) I will now put on charge anywhere below 40% when I get home (why not, since they say 100% doesn't harm my LFP battery).
 
Agreed.

If I'm on a long trip then I charge when I can, otherwise I charge the car when I want to irrespective of the current state of charge. :) (This will typically be at 30% or less, but not always).
 
Why would you want to leave your car overnight at a low state of charge, anyway? Can you be confident that something unexpected isn't going to arise that requires you to drive somewhere immediately? What about if there's a power cut and you can't charge the car? And indeed might want to use VtL to power some household appliances?

I certainly don't plug in every time I come back, if the journey has been short. But once I'm looking at less than 50% charge, or have a longer journey planned for the next day, I'll charge.
 
If I'm at a lower SoC than what I unexpectedly need I'd just pop over to the Fastned at Hamilton (or the Tesla at Eurocentral - depending on which direction I'm heading) to get a boost. These days there's no real reason to get caught short, unless you live out in the sticks in which case you'd plan accordingly anyway. :)
 
The village 50 kw here is the only rapid charger for many miles. If I was going south though, I should be able to reach Abington services on the M74 at just over 20 miles. Going west there's another village charger in Carnwath, 14 miles on. Going north, bugger-all that's actually on my route into Edinburgh, what happened to the chargers that were supposed to appear at the Shell petrol station at Lothianburn (12 miles), I ask? Going east, probably another CPS unit in Peebles (13 miles) I suppose. But I don't intend to need any of them.

A friend of mine told me that her brother loved his EV until the day he was contacted to say that his daughter was seriously ill in a hospital in London with a head injury. The car was sitting out of charge. I think they eventually caught a plane, but I never really found out why the EV was impractical. Half an hour on a 50 kw charger (surely everyone is within reasonable reach of one of these) would at least give enough to get on the road, and ultra-rapids thereafter. But maybe this was before ultra-rapids were so readily available on major routes (I don't know when it happened), and maybe the car only charged slowly, which would have prolonged the journey by a couple of hours at least. Still, you can lose longer than that in a traffic jam. I certainly did last Friday.
 
The reason I use to charge at lower SOC was because that was what we were use to (battery memory and all that). Now that they are talking about "short cycling" then the game has changed.

Like everything else, you learn and move on. EVs are still too new and constantly changing eg LFP. In time better information will come out and we will change our behavior.
 
The reason I use to charge at lower SOC was because that was what we were use to (battery memory and all that). Now that they are talking about "short cycling" then the game has changed.

Like everything else, you learn and move on. EVs are still too new and constantly changing eg LFP. In time better information will come out and we will change our behavior.
I agree new battery tech will be out which will need some understanding to be used effectively but I think for consumer NMC and LFP batteries we do already.

What I seem to be witnessing is that for many people unfamiliar with EVs all of this is new and to make matters worse, there’s way too much information out there, both good and bad, because ‘social media monetisation’

The evidence of the past 10 years suggests ‘do what you like’ works. End of.
 
"The evidence of the past 10 years suggests ‘do what you like’ works. End of.". I wouldn't put that out there. With NMC , Robert Llewellyn, bought one of the first Nissan Leafs and use to plug in after each short trip. He destroyed the battery (see his videos). So with NMC it is critical not to leave it in high charged state for long (I know I am talking to experts here but new people do read these blogs). So " do what you like" is misleading and new EV drivers need slightly more information.
 
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