Before I took delivery of my Y, I had a subpanel with 100A service and a NEMA 14-50 outlet installed in my garage. I then installed a Tesla mobile charger and can charge at the full speed of that charger. Cable management is great and its simple to plug in and unplug each day. Until this week, chargepoint chargers at my office were effectively half the cost of the lowest rate power available at my home, so I've been charging there since I got the car this past summer. Since that is a bit of a pain having to move the car during the day, I would let the car get down to 20% ish and then charge up to 80% ish, charging every few days. That worked great, but my office building is replacing the chargepoint chargers with loop chargers. Still just level 2, but the cost is 3x it was before, so I will switch to charging at home. My daily commute is short and typically I drive around 20 miles per day. Some days between 50-100. More than 100 is rare and can be planned.
Plan
Plug in every day at home, overnight at the lowest utility rates, charge to 60%.
If I need to leave on a trip, up the percentage and adjust the rate to complete right before I intend to leave
Reasons
Plan
Plug in every day at home, overnight at the lowest utility rates, charge to 60%.
If I need to leave on a trip, up the percentage and adjust the rate to complete right before I intend to leave
Reasons
- 60% in my LR Y is good for over 150 miles of range, way more than I need daily and enough to do some unexpected driving each day.
- Lithium Ion batteries in the Y like to be around 50% SOC
- In cold conditions regen is limited above around 60% SOC, so have to use the brakes when in most driving I do not need brakes as regen is enough and more efficient