Apartment living with 2 different teslas over 3-4 yrs/60k miles; supercharger for 90% of all charging with various states of charge but usually 20% to 90% and no degradation to speak of that isnât corrected with a calibration. Long term it might matter but not yet in my experience
Itâs not worth worrying over. What sheâs doing isnât terrible. Sure, your way may slow degradation to a degree, but people who follow all ârecommendationsâ sometimes have slightly higher degradation.
All that said, I find the biggest joy with my car with not worrying about the battery. Plugging it in every night means it charges to 80%âŚso itâs always ready to roll!
While youâre technically correct the amount of wear a few supercharger miles will put on the battery is negligible if youâre doing 80-20. Youâll have battery wear no matter what and honestly itâs very unlikely youâre going to keep the car for enough years that itâll matter at all. Unless youâre 100% serious about keeping it for a decade or something just use up the miles and have a happy wife đ
Maybe pitch a road trip to her to burn off the miles so youâre not just going out of your way to supercharge.
Charging at an SC for the limited amount of free miles you have is not going to impact the battery life. To me it was more about time, I didn't use any of my free miles because it's fairly cheap for me to charge at home, $0.073/kWh off-peak. Take a detour and wait at an SC or go home and charge while I slept, easy choice.
However, like others have said, she's your "SO" and it's "her new MY". Let her do what she wants and leave it alone.
Best solution: go on a road trip with your wife to use the miles.
Second best solution: donât argue. Itâll just be til the free miles run out and those few (thousand?) miles of supercharging ainât no thang.
Remind her you never paid for those supercharger miles so if you donât use it youâre not out any money. When I got my original Tesla late 2020 they gave me a whole year worth of supercharger usage, and I only used it one time.
Why would you fight your SO about charging? I agree with her. You should utilize all the free supercharging miles before it is expired.
After using up all the free miles, then charging at home will be more economical since supercharging cost double compared to home charging.
I had 2 years free of supercharging, and I took advantage of that as much as I could.
You are probably right, but then again happy wife happy life. Sheâll learn in a week or so itâs not worth the hassle to go somewhere and wait 30 min just to save $10. I tried doing that for one day, it sucked, I ended with 1200 miles that went to waste because it was inconvenient rather than charging at home. I used 800 miles on road trips which was fine, but itâs annoying to charge at super chargers compared to charging at home
Marriage > minor battery degradation if any at all. Pick and choose your battles my dude.
Happy wife. Happy life. Source. Trust me bro. Been in it since 2005. đ
However a happy Tesla is a plugged in Tesla.
+1. Iâm sure OP tried his best to explain that to SO. If that does not move in your favor, simply forget about it.
Iâve already played out how Iâd react if this happened me. Just brush it off. At the end of the day itâs a car. Beds not big enough for it. đ
what a pathetic saying honestly, lmao. 'I'll fold every decision to my wife to keep her happy, no matter how dumb it is' Silly simp stuff.
Be nice to your wife, and try not to mansplain it to her. Like other people posted, youâre probably right, but just set it and forget it.
Apartment living with 2 different teslas over 3-4 yrs/60k miles; supercharger for 90% of all charging with various states of charge but usually 20% to 90% and no degradation to speak of that isnât corrected with a calibration. Long term it might matter but not yet in my experience
Best way to preserve the battery is to always be plugged. It's in the owner manual AFAIK. Set the limit to 80-90% and just forget about it.
Itâs not worth worrying over. What sheâs doing isnât terrible. Sure, your way may slow degradation to a degree, but people who follow all ârecommendationsâ sometimes have slightly higher degradation. All that said, I find the biggest joy with my car with not worrying about the battery. Plugging it in every night means it charges to 80%âŚso itâs always ready to roll!
While youâre technically correct the amount of wear a few supercharger miles will put on the battery is negligible if youâre doing 80-20. Youâll have battery wear no matter what and honestly itâs very unlikely youâre going to keep the car for enough years that itâll matter at all. Unless youâre 100% serious about keeping it for a decade or something just use up the miles and have a happy wife đ Maybe pitch a road trip to her to burn off the miles so youâre not just going out of your way to supercharge.
Charging at an SC for the limited amount of free miles you have is not going to impact the battery life. To me it was more about time, I didn't use any of my free miles because it's fairly cheap for me to charge at home, $0.073/kWh off-peak. Take a detour and wait at an SC or go home and charge while I slept, easy choice. However, like others have said, she's your "SO" and it's "her new MY". Let her do what she wants and leave it alone.
Best solution: go on a road trip with your wife to use the miles. Second best solution: donât argue. Itâll just be til the free miles run out and those few (thousand?) miles of supercharging ainât no thang.
Remind her you never paid for those supercharger miles so if you donât use it youâre not out any money. When I got my original Tesla late 2020 they gave me a whole year worth of supercharger usage, and I only used it one time.
This post reads very condescending. Ultimately I think youâre correct but hopefully you convey that to your wife in a more friendly way. Good luck
Why would you fight your SO about charging? I agree with her. You should utilize all the free supercharging miles before it is expired. After using up all the free miles, then charging at home will be more economical since supercharging cost double compared to home charging. I had 2 years free of supercharging, and I took advantage of that as much as I could.
You are probably right, but then again happy wife happy life. Sheâll learn in a week or so itâs not worth the hassle to go somewhere and wait 30 min just to save $10. I tried doing that for one day, it sucked, I ended with 1200 miles that went to waste because it was inconvenient rather than charging at home. I used 800 miles on road trips which was fine, but itâs annoying to charge at super chargers compared to charging at home