The Volt doesn't have a charge target that you can set. If it's plugged in, it goes to ~85% SOC on the top end, and will bring the ICE range extender on at around ~25% SOC IIRC. Though I can bring the ICE on earlier in Hold or Mountain mode.That’s good results for that pack, and was it even charged carefully or was it charged to 100% on a regular basis and at 0% at regular basis?
Car really won't let you go too deep into the bottom end. But I've had the battery "full" from charging then go regen straight down 1000' decent. That pushes the cells a bit over the 4V design top end according to my OBD readout. So no, this pack has been far from babied. I don't have an exact number but it's probably well north of 1500 FCE at this point.
Granted, there have been cell, module, etc failures on other people's Volts. I'm not trying to pretend GM's Voltec era, let alone Ultium, pack is bullet proof, far from it. I know I've been lucky with the performance of mine, but others haven't been so lucky. My post was more about the costs and third party options available to a limited run, decade old EV. Leaf support is orders of magnitude better at this point, even if Leaf pack longevity really isn't.
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