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"A standard wall outlet will charge a car perfectly fine for your average driver assuming you can park the car for several hours." This could be a problem in t
by giantg2 2y ago
"A standard wall outlet will charge a car perfectly fine for your average driver assuming you can park the car for several hours."
This could be a problem in the future though. As the newer chemistry for batteries increases energy density, it would demand more power or time assuming one still drains the battery a sufficient amount to reduce cycles in an effort to preserve battery life.
Edit: why disagree?
- Dylan16807 2y agoBatteries don't care about cycle count, if "cycle" in this context is every time you switch between charging and discharging. They care about how many amps go in and out, along with disliking being too close to 0% or 100%. Limiting max charge is easier if you have extra range, and so is staying away from empty. Making the battery hold more energy only improves things. Go ahead and charge every night. If you see someone giving "cycle count" as a spec, they mean full cycles. If you charge 10% five times, that's half a full cycle.
- giantg2 2y agoI know specs go by full cycles. I was always taught not to shallow charge because each partial charge essentially carried some overhead to it. Sort of like two 10% is not equal to one 20% charge. I guess that's not true anymore since I couldn't find anything on it.
- Dylan16807 2y agoKeep in mind that the battery is doing an extra transition between charge and discharge every time regenerative breaking kicks in.
- giantg2 2y agoLooks like maybe I was thinking of the lead acid battery "formatting" phase. Seems as though lead acid batteries benefit from deep cycles with full charges, while lithium batteries benefit from smaller depth of discharge without going to full.