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Originally Posted by olrocker

Think logically -

Everything that requires fuel in any capacity is measured between 0% and 100%

From gas on your car to the battery charge in your phone to the nitrogen level in the space shuttle.

Even the percentage of oxygen saturation in human blood is measured in percentage, with 100% being normal for healthy human beings.

So, let’s stay in the medical field shall we? Thats a very large portion of the American work force. If you don’t agree please correct me.

Let’s say a nurse buys her first EV. She knows nothing about cars, just only what she’s been told about how great EVs are.

If someone tells her to charge only to 80%, and then not let it grow below 20%, she may or may not care to remember in her first few charges.

But she works 3+ 12 hour shifts per week covering 4-6 sick patients on her nursing unit, and has two kids.

The last thing on her mind is “charge percentage”.

She’s going to let it go to bear 0 and then fully charge it to 100% only when it needs it.

Maybe you can help reminder by sending her a text every time she hits 20%.

When that nurse buys her first EV one of the first things that will happen is the person delivering the car will familiarize her with the vehicles’s app on her phone. During that discussion they will explain to her when to use 80% and when to use 100%. They’ll also show her on the app how to set her charge rate to 80%. You don’t stand there like with a gas pump and try to shut the pump off at $30 (instead of $29.99 or $30.01). It’s so simple even a caveman can do it (where have I heard that before?). And there is no “forgetting”. Set it and let it.