Long term storage?

[JoeGiul]

We plan on keeping the car over the summer in Florida while we are in the Carolinas.

It will be in the garage where we have the charger.

I'm not crazy about leaving it plugged in for five months. If the battery goes to zero (will it) does it do damage, will it recharge?

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[Electrified Outdoors]

Five months is a long time. You definitely want to leave it plugged in. Running it to zero and leaving that way for months could certainly do damage.

A big concern I would have with five months too would be flat spotting the tires.

Here is a good write up from continental on flat spotting.

https://www.continental-tires.com/products/b2c/tire-knowledge/flat-spotting/

 

[Jared2]

Totally understand your concern of not wanting to leave it plugged in. I recently left my R1S for 6 weeks.

My Emporia charger has a feature where I can tell it to send charge or not from the app (from anywhere). So I left my R1S plugged in and would periodically, tell the Emporia charger to send some charge to the vehicle and then shut it off again.

Do other chargers have this option?

 

[JackRussellRacing]

Plug it into a level 1 charger, and maybe use something like this:

https://switcheon.com/product/switcheon_remote_power_switch/

Absolutely the greatest device in the world. We use them in our IT closets to reboot offsite equipment. Flawless.

 

[swflor]

We plan on keeping the car over the summer in Florida while we are in the Carolinas.

It will be in the garage where we have the charger.

I'm not crazy about leaving it plugged in for five months. If the battery goes to zero (will it) does it do damage, will it recharge?

I leave 2 R1s plugged in at our place in Florida when we aren’t there. Set to 70% and charge 11-2am and 2-5am each. Never an issue. We don’t leave them 5 months, but do leave them 2-3 months sometimes.

I do the same for our 2 R1s in North Carolina when we are in Florida. Again, no issues.

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