Daily Charging?

[woolyhead]

I'm currently 90% of the way to buying an E, and some input from current owners on charging and driving would be great. My commute 4 days a week is 48 miles round trip on decent B roads or dual carriageway and I have the option of charging at home or work, do you think daily charging is going to wear on me at this rate?

[EEEE]

Unless its torrential rain, plugging the car in and unplugging it is not a massive chore.

If my commute was that large, I would charge everyday at home.

[Verone]

It fast became routine for me just to plug in at work when I arrive in the morning whenever I need it. It takes 30 seconds and the car is charged when I'm done for the day.

You get used to it fast, just the same as you get used to plugging your phone in to charge when you're running low on juice.

[Brettus]

Charge near daily due to free company charging at work. you just get used too it. What i will say is that the boot is even more useless as u just hoy the cable in without thought which means when you need it for something else you have to pack it neatly

[Verone]

What i will say is that the boot is even more useless as u just hoy the cable in without thought which means when you need it for something else you have to pack it neatly

One thing that's actually a benefit of living with full blown Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is that the cable gets put away after every charge, so no bother there

[MaXPainT]

I have free charging at work and keep my battery at 80% charge limit. So I am charging it daily. There are two minor annoyances with that:

1. If it is raining and you have to get the cable from the boot, water will drip on you when it is open. Some cars are designed with that in mind. Unfortunately, the E is not. On the bright side my colleague is driving Tesla model 3. The water drips inside the boot when it is open. So at least we don't have that.

2. If the cable is long and stiff (as the OEM cable is), you might need to wrestle it a bit to get it coiled neatly in the boot (getting it back to the Honda bag adds two minutes to the procedure so I don't bother). The cable will most likely lay on the ground during the charging which will make it dirty. So prepare to wrestle a wet long stiff cable on a daily basis What worked for me is getting the shortest and thinnest coiled cable I could find. It doesn't touch the ground when charging and takes seconds to put away.

I am charging my car in an underground parking so sheltered from the weather. I can imagine adding rain or snow literally on top of me would not improve the experience. With all that said, I rather prefer taking a few seconds to plug the car in and out daily, than to have to drive to a fuel station and stand there watching money being pumped from my wallet into the tank every two weeks or so.

[ilBaku]

As we have discussed in other threads in the past, the Honda E manual recommends that you *always* charge the car to 100% before driving. This is because 100% charge does not correspond to 100% battery, there is a fair amount of protection buffer. So my advice is to not worry too much about charging to 100%, then if in daily use you see that much less is needed you can set the charge level to 80%. The only precaution is perhaps not to leave the car unused for days or even weeks with the battery at 100%

[happyV]

100% SoC on the dash is about 97% real. Still around 4.15V per cell.
Charging to 80% puts far less stress on the battery.

But even worse: charge to 100% and then don't use the car for days.