My current employer is moving offices quite a distance. I am debating or not staying with the company based on a number of factors. One thing is due to the distance, in order to make it to the new office and back 2 days a week, I would need to charge the car to 100% especially in the winter (I am in southern Ontario) as the office does not have a charger to use.
The office is already a really significant distance from my house and I don’t want to spend an already 2 hour commute stopping at a charger on the way home.
So my real question is, is it really bad to charge to 100% twice a week or will the degradation on my battery start to worsen quicker?
I would say like any product, use it the way you need to use it. These things are overbuilt to be idiot-proof, 100% isn’t really 100%. It’s only on niche spaces like Reddit that we freak out about never charging more than 80% or whatever. Most people are treating these like gas cars and charging them up to 100. Will the life of the car be shorter? Maybe a little. Probably not much. I bet you lose 5 more miles of net range after 5 years or something small like that. But your car’s life will be a lot shorter if you have to sell it now rather than use it.