How often to you charge to 100%?

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How often to you charge to 100%? Does doing this have any impact on the warranty?
 
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I don’t think it would affect warranty. The main reason to not consistently charge to 100% is all about maintaining maximum charge capacity long term.

If interested, this guy does a good job explaining why:

As for how much I do, I have not yet set the charge to 100%. I charge at home at night and typically set the charge to 80%, but have set it to charge to 95% twice. Basically if I think I’m going to need extra range for the next day I’ll set it to charge higher than 80%.

I will note that the two times I set it to charge to 95% it said I had 97% charge when I got into it.
 
I have a two year lease. I'm not sure 100% will hurt me in that time. Thoughts?
i charged my tesla S to 100% every day for 7 years... no noticeable degradation. Dont be scared if you need it. What isnt so great is constantly charging to 100% and then not using it. If you dont need 100% then dont set it that high. You should every few weeks actually charge it up to 100 and then run it down. i have read that is the best thing for the battery.
 
The concerning part is why someone leasing these vehicles wouldn’t charge to 100% every time. There is no incentive to protect battery life!
 
No, not if you don't plan on keeping it!
Will definitely not affect you in those 2 years. This "dont charge to 100" is overplayed... maybe over 10 years you would get 82% instead of 85% battery life at that point. If you were planning to keep it forever, maybe you would want to follow that... but in 2 years??? and you have warranty for 3 even if there was an issue that isnt affec ted by charging to 100 daily.
 
The car probably keeps track of such things. I'd check the fine print of the lease agreement just to be safe.
 

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