shc wrote:
My typical pattern is to plug it in and leave it until I'm ready to ride again. That almost always means it charges to 100%.
If that means I'll be buying new batteries a bit earlier, well, the scooter is still fantastic. It wouldn't be nearly as convenient if I had to time my charging to keep it below 80%.
I believe you are among many other EV users with this.
In my car, a plug-in hybrid not a full EV, I use the remote controlled timer that comes as a standard. I have quite a good idea of an average time it takes to charge at home, so I'll set the charging time accordingly a bit short - ending up with around 80%.
Would be even easier if the app would let me set the target charge level, which it does monitor and display - but this app too is optimized for a '100%' user, not for battery lifetime. At least here a lot of plug-ins and EVs are company cars, hence making the battery lifetime optimization mostly irrelevant for the users - it will last the lease period