Going on Vacation -- best practices to prevent battery drain? Leave plugged or unplugged?

[rmalzo]

I am leaving for a 3 week vacation and not taking Thr r1t. What is the best way to leave the car and prevent battery drain? Is it ok to leave it plugged in or?

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[Dark-Fx]

Plugged in yes

 

[Soldier4Life]

I was gone for 10days. I plugged mine using the 110 volt charger kit. I set my charge time from 0:00 to 4:00 and set the limit to 60%. I think this reduces the constant high load on your charging system with the wall charger.

 

[emoore]

Plug in and set to 50%. Don't think L1 or L2 matters much.

 

[Electrified Outdoors]

Plugged in yes

Plug er in ?

 

[krockett]

Plug in and set to 50%. Don't think L1 or L2 matters much.

Pretty much what I do.

 

[R1Thor]

I went on an 11 day trip and left it plugged in and set to 70%
It got a few trickles during the week to keep it at 70, but I don't think there'd ever be a real problem.

I'm sure over time we'll get more information, as data is studied to see how people behave with charging, but my philosophy has been ABC: Always Be Charging (I read it somewhere and it stuck). IE: even if I just use 2% of the battery puttering around the neighborhood, when I park it back in the garage, the charger's right there, so it doesn't inconvenience me at all to plug it back in. Is this good/bad/neutral? Only time will tell!

That said, with 8 years an 175k battery warranty, I'm not too worried about battery degradation. Best case is it degrades enough for a full replacement at the 7 year 11 month mark! And if I keep this truck for 8 years (which as of now I have every intention of), that'll be a personal record, as I've never kept a car more than 5-6 years before trading it for the next vehicle.

 

[SANZC02]

I went on a 3 week trip and left my Tesla in the garage. Charged to 80%, set the charge limit to 50% so it would only charge if it got below 50%. Got home it was around 68% and no charge session kicked in.

I will do the same thing with the Rivian now that they have enabled the new charge limit feature.

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