The point of all my recent fretting about how much charge I have left is that I want to join the 80% club. But, of course, I have to be comfortable that will let me do what I want - get to work and back without the embarrassment of running out of charge.
Friday night I charged to 100% again (and possibly the last time) because I knew we were doing a couple of errands on Saturday morning. After we'd got home from doing those, I checked my car's status in the Owner's Portal and I am currently showing 83% - this is apparently the figure you get when you ask the car to charge to 80%. So this is the charge I'll use for my commute on Monday.
What I'm expecting to happen is this.....from 100% full, I've been getting home with three bars left in my dash display (the last white one and the two red ones). Since I'll be starting out with two bars less, I'm expecting to use at least one of those red bars, possibly both. But do not expect to get the "Battery Level is Low" warning message. However, even if I do get to a point where that message comes up, I expect to have 4kWh left before the car goes into "turtle mode", so 6-8 miles of additional normal driving followed by another 6-8 of driving with reduced performance.
It should be fine, but wish me luck anyhow!
Friday night I charged to 100% again (and possibly the last time) because I knew we were doing a couple of errands on Saturday morning. After we'd got home from doing those, I checked my car's status in the Owner's Portal and I am currently showing 83% - this is apparently the figure you get when you ask the car to charge to 80%. So this is the charge I'll use for my commute on Monday.
What I'm expecting to happen is this.....from 100% full, I've been getting home with three bars left in my dash display (the last white one and the two red ones). Since I'll be starting out with two bars less, I'm expecting to use at least one of those red bars, possibly both. But do not expect to get the "Battery Level is Low" warning message. However, even if I do get to a point where that message comes up, I expect to have 4kWh left before the car goes into "turtle mode", so 6-8 miles of additional normal driving followed by another 6-8 of driving with reduced performance.
It should be fine, but wish me luck anyhow!