Like many others, I never charge to 100% unless I'm going to be driving he car shortly afterward As far as I know, users/owners have no "access" to 0% SoC and 100% SoC in modern electric cars: it's hidden by the onboard firmware, e.g. if battery has 24 kWh, you see just 21 kWh available, ...

I wouldn't keep my car plugged even for a day. And surely wouldn´t keep it with full charge for a day too. So, keeping it like that for two weeks, specially with hot temperatures, that is surely not good. Keeping the car plugged is not the same as keeping the car unplugged. I don´t know if it charg...

Only weird recommendatin I remember I've read in the manual is to avoid full discharging of secondary 12V battery, as this would prevent from starting the car.

I subscribe the thread... and I wait some years...

And these are the sad charts taking into account coulombic efficiency...



edit:
damn imperial units... X axis was wrong too. Now it should be ok in all images.

DaveMiller wrote:Thank you for the mph version, but I think the velocity scale is incorrect. My I-Miev will not go 200 mph.
Dave

Yes, I put a * rather than a /...

I didn't read the source data behind the graphs - Do you know if the Peukert Effect was taken into consideration? Don Peukert effect is negligible in lithium batteries: discharge them at C20 or C2, and you'll get same capacity. Lead: http://jumpjack.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/peukert-hires.jpg Lit...

Jumpjack, those charts are excellent! This is exactly what I wanted to see for a long time - they show what are the most efficient speeds (giving the longest range) depending on various conditions and loads. It looks like with all accessories off, about 20km/h (13mph) is the most efficient, with A/...

Thanks to this additional paper http://www.empa.ch/plugin/template/empa/*/135716/---/l=1 I was able to draw a much more interesting chart: http://autoguida.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/imiev-consumi-brs.png These are ranges in World Lightduty Test Cycle, both at standard temperature (23°C), winter te...

From this thread: http://myimiev.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=264&start=50 Frontal Area: 24.052 sq.ft (2.2345 sq.mt) Cd: 0.35 (0.33 European, post Sat Apr 13, 2013 9:33 pm ) CdA= 8.4182 (7.9372 European) (0.782 sq.mt, 0.737 sq.mt) mass = 1080 kg https://autoguida.files.wordpress.com/2014/0...