The CEO was not misquoted, based on other evidence. Charging with the onboard charger is essentially trickle charging that warms the battery for a longer period of time than a shorter charge at a higher rate, and this is what’s been referred to lately in some testing results.
This makes me wonder if regenerative charging, which is low power, also shortens battery life.
these arguments are akin to arguing if parking a typical motorcycle ages the gasoline... of course it does. the gasoline gets older. VOCs come off and it has less power. etc...
but in the real world, there is no difference. its all theory.
that said, regen is actually high level charging, for a short amount of time. nothing wrong with it.
At the risk of getting ridiculed further, I'll add this experience:
I enjoyed my 2018 7.2S in the southern Appalachians recently, about 300 miles total. 10- 15% grades for up to 3+ miles are common. Coasting down such a grade at high speed I'd be lucky to regain almost 1% of charge, usually less, and on gentler grades or at low speeds much less, more like 0.2% during the course of 5-10 minutes.
Edit: to be clear, I’m referring to regen while coasting, not the higher rate regen during braking.
By comparison, plugging into 110v household outlet generates 1% every 3 minutes.
Just coasting on the flats the recharge must be nearly negligible. I'm not smart enough to know the difference between high and low charging, but that must be very low.
No I'm not going to turn off regen braking, fret futilely if I inadvertently charge to 100% (whatever 100% means) instead of 80% (whatever 80% means), or ride less than all I can to protect the diva battery. I'm just curious.
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