Is there a way to recharge for vampire loss through app without unplugging?

This is undoubtedly a lazy man's question, as the simple work-around is go out, unplug the car, and start charging it again. But I'm interested in knowing if there is a way to accomplish what I'm trying to "the lazy way" and if it's even a good idea, or if, for some reason, it may be bad for the battery to do this.

I charged my P85D to 90% a couple of days ago, and haven't driven the car since. I have left it plugged in. The range showed as 225 at the time, and is now down to 218, due to vampire loss, etc. Checking the mobile app, I am unable to start a charge, as the mobile app indicates, "charging complete." I realize I could set the charge point to 95% or 100% and start charging, but I don't want to do that. I also could probably "trick" the car, by setting a higher charge point, start the car charging, and then immediately setting it back to 90%. I don't really want to do that either, as I'm not sure what the possible ramifications of that may be.

I guess my questions boil down to two things:

1) Is there a safe way to replace this vampire loss without physically unplugging the car and plugging it back in, preferably by using the app alone?

2) Would it be better --NOT-- to replace this vampire loss, and is that the reason the app is not allowing me to do it, in which case I also should not unplug and charge the car?

This is not an issue for my next use of the car, but it may be an issue in the future, for some other trip, so I thought it made sense to ask.

Thanks.

ZBB said:

If the car is parked and plugged in, it will charge a bit every 2 days to top-off from the vampire loss. I've noticed that when its been parked and plugged in while on vacation...

this used to be a much bigger problem -- when I first got my car, it would lose 7-8 miles per day while parked. But sleep mode helps minimize it to 1-2 per day and often nothing if left unplugged overnight...

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It hasn't done this yet, but perhaps it has not yet been 48 hours. It won't be 48 hours this time, so I won't get to test that this time.

Thanks!

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commasign said:

If you change the daily range, you can reinitiate charging. E.g. 90% daily charge, vampire drain a few miles, temporarily bump it up to 100% and it will start charging again, then quickly lower it back to 90%.

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Yes, I posed that as a possibility, but said I didn't want to go that route because I didn't know what potentially negative ramifications it might have. For example, people have talked about getting warning messages when they have set the charge level above 90% but don't actually use much range. I wouldn't want to trigger these warnings, or some other potential issue I may not be aware of just to top off a charge that I could just almost as easily handle another way.

Thanks very much for the answers, everyone.

It was more of a "is there a better way than the obvious way to do this" type of question than anything else. I appreciate the answers, and knowing that I'm not going to do any harm by forcing a charge to start by temporarily kicking up the charge threshold. And yes, I understand that if that small a range difference would really matter I should be range-charging anyway. As I said, it was really kind of a theoretical question, just to know if there was a better way.

Thanks!