@NarutoNolimits: Elon Musk explains why you should never charge an electric car to 100% The last 20% is not a small ask. Elon: "getting …
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Elon Musk explains that charging an electric car to 100% is inefficient because it takes as much time as charging from 0 to 80%, and recommends charging to 80% for road trips.
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Elon Musk explains why you should never charge an electric car to 100%
The last 20% is not a small ask.
Elon: “getting from 80 to 100, it takes about as much time as getting from 0 to 80”
It runs backwards from how people fuel a car.
Elon: “it’s a little counterintuitive, because for a gasoline car you would fill it up”
Inside the battery, ions are looking for somewhere to go.
Elon: “the lithium ions are trying to find a parking space”
Elon: “when the parking lot’s empty, they can zip right in there and find a spot, it’s easy”
Elon: “as the parking lot gets full, just like trying to find a parking space at a mall, you have to hunt around for a spot”
So on a road trip the rule flips.
Elon: “you actually want to charge to about 80%, and then run it down all the way to 10%, or less”
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