BradFoxUS
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lpickup said:BradFoxUS said:Next weekend I will be leaving my Leaf parked in covered parking for about 3 weeks plugged in at 100% charge, then for about 3 weeks in September I will be away again and parked again. Still hoping sitting at 100% and hot will drag me down some. I'm going to see if a friend of mine in Raleigh will hold onto the Leaf for me. He has a Smart Electric Cabriolet and a home charger. His Smart ED is going in for service so timing would be perfect on his part. He told me he would quick charge me as much as he could and try to keep the pack hot.
I thought letting it sit at 100% charge would be "detrimental" to battery capacity as well, but in reality each time I have left it at 100% (or actually as close as I can get to 100% without actually being 100%) I have gained AHr. I think what is happening is that the battery rebalances whenever it is left parked (even when not plugged in). When at a higher SOC, the more effective the rebalancing is.
I was gone for the past week and left my car OUTSIDE, unplugged, at 2 bars. I lost 0.1AHr during that week (adding 0 miles to the car). I expect some of that will come back next time it sits at high SOC and rebalances.
At any rate, I would recommend you leave your car UNcovered if possible. And consider leaving it at low SOC, not high.
Thank you. I will try. Most likely, it will be in use by my friend who will be QCing it as much as possible while I am gone. It only takes 3 QC sessions to spike the battery high enough to cap it at 30kW of power output. I barely manage to get on i40 and i440 at those temperatures and it will cut the QCsession speed in half.