fly121

Ok - two things.
With the price of gas going up 5 - 10 cents daily, it is worth it to fill up everyday.
2nd - I took the EQS580 on its first long trip today. Charged up to 100% last night and went on 110 one way trip. Took 35% charge to get there. I didn’t think that was bad. Used ChargePoint to charge almost 5 hours and it got back up to 90%.
I’m very pleased with mileage/charge distance now.

perlfather

Something is not right here. Charging at 150kW (typical charge point chargers) should give you 100 miles in less than 15 minutes!

ALANPRIEBE

Nobody recommends charging daily!

Tjdehya

Nobody recommends letting their car get down to 10% on a regular basis!

ALANPRIEBE

I said 10 to 20%

Diesel Benz

This discussion does not fit under the title of the thread. Perhaps should be moved to a different one but I still continue by asking: why not? Obviously a lot of miles to drive daily if one starts from 80 or 100% but I haven't seen MB recommendations to avoid driving down to 10% battery SOC. Are you concerned about not reaching the destination (and a charger) or are you concerned about the battery health? I thought driving down to 0% is not bad as long as the battery stays at a decent charge once parked after the trip.

Plug-in hybrids are regularly driven down to 0% SOC because the small battery. The car intelligence should not allow this if it was bad for the battery. Isn't the battery technology the same, just a lot smaller battery?

There was an advice to drive the battery relatively flat and leave it parked overnight before charging and this was for battery health but I cannot remember the recommended SOC, was it 10 or 20%.

Isn't the issue with very low battery charge levels related to long time parking where leakage may result to unhealthy battery SOC?

Perhaps someone could collect MB recommendations to one forum post (is that even possible). No need to argue about different aspects of charging all over the forum?

Newbyloub

What is SOC?

Why do people assume we understand all (‼️) these abbreviations ⁉️

Tjdehya

Exactly!
Don't go below 20% and don't go above 80% unless needed and definitely don't do it on a regular basis.
Nothing wrong if you want to deliberately drive your battery below 20% just don't complain when it starts to degrade faster than others.
State Of Charge

fly121

The Charge Point charger in Newport was 6.5kw.
Besides my dealer, I haven’t seen a rapid charger yet.

hlothery

Status of charge.....the car's estimate of how far you can go on the current battery level.

hlothery

My ChargePoint charger, on my 50amp 240 volt circuit at home, charges at 9.6kW. Near my house, Electrify America has eight DC fast chargers, several of which are 250kW. Use the Plugshare or Electrify America apps and you can find them. Also, If you adjust the parameters in your Navi system to display all chargers, instead of just ChargePoint chargers, they will show on your map.

ALANPRIEBE

Nice info for the folks that didn't know that, thanks!

templeton

Too much to remember what to do. It's much easier to fill up the gas at the gas station.