We know lithium batteries degrade faster when they are charged over 80% and discharged below 20%. Will there be a way to limit charging percentage to a user customizable percentage? It would be especially advantageous if any extra charge over the set amount could be directed to conditioning the cabin, or with V2G, sent to the grid.
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Programmable charge level would be useful for other reasons. GM's charge limiting feature is called "hilltop reserve" and intended for people who live on top of a hill, to leave room for regenerative braking. And Aptera owners would probably want to leave room for solar charging, e.g. if you only drive a few miles to work and leave the car in an outdoor parking lot all day.
Actually, we don't "know" that Li batteries degrade faster when charged above 80% or discharged below 20%. What we know is that automotive traction battery packs, when regularly charged with DC current to 100% of capacity, are more likely to be stressed and will, possibly, lose capacity more quickly than those that are not. Li cells that are allowed to discharge to 0% are likely to undergo internal chemical changes and might not be able to be recharged completely. This is why all automotive traction battery packs have a nominal capacity and an actual capacity: Up to 20% at both the top and bottom of a pack's capacity is "locked-off" by the manufacturer and cannot be accessed by the user. For example, the Li pack in a Honda Clarity PHEV is advertised as being 17 kWh - but only 13 kWh is available for use. Tesla, because of its robust battery chemistry and massive amounts of operating data, has - on several occasions - increased the range of its vehicles by unlocking some of the hidden capacity. Also, if an EV is plugged into a Level 2 EVSE or DC charger, power for cabin conditioning will be drawn from the grid, not from the pack.