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Note: the advice is to take the car below 10% state of charge not 10 miles range. 

I don't have a percentage battery display in my '70 plate MG ZSEV, only range in miles.Note: the advice is to take the car below 10% state of charge not 10 miles range.![]()
Is conditioning the battery in this way something you do frequently?I took the car down below 10 miles range to condition the battery yesterday. It was interesting that as I drove around the block in Sports mode, dropped to 9 miles, then the screen was flashing that I needed to charge, so I dropped into Normal mode and circled until that dropped out into warnings to charge, popped it into Eco mode where I again saw 10 miles range, but a couple more circuits and heaters blasting and I was below 10 and ready to go home for a charge.
After sharing a low battery near miss, the forum reminded me that it is good to condition the battery by taking it right down every 6 months.Is conditioning the battery in this way something you do frequently?
Yep. It's a bit complicated.Hopefully one of the ZS drivers will have read something about it.
I like your explanationI don't see how any GOM can be accurate if it doesn't get a long charge now and again. Imagine you're trying to keep track of the depth of water in a well by counting how much water flows in and how many buckets are drawn out. If you never see the bottom then after a while you're guessing. One day when a lot of buckets are drawn out you may suddenly see the bottom and get quite a shock.
Getting a good look at the bottom then measuring how much water flows in in a single uninterrupted fill is necessary to recalibrate your understanding. So it is with cars.