Charging time 90 to 100 and Departure

[Firn]

Curious if you are on iPhone or Android as my Android will only allow 10% SOC adjustments. When I attempt a "5%" on the 'slide' in the Android app, it jumps to 10% increments only. I know this sounds picky, and like who would need this, but I charge on solar power and to manage this with the Ford app VS Tesla is quite the difference. Tesla allows 1% increments, and additionally, it works 99+% of the time unlike the Ford app which is more like 10% of the time, and I keep having to close the app, and re-verify it "took" or accepted my SOC change request.

Does anyone at Ford know of the Tesla app? If not, why not? !! Many rudimentary features could be added that are missing. Many are quite simple such as showing the door locked "status" instead of just the Lock and Unlock "buttons" We need the status of the door locks without pressing Lock and wait for a message. Another would be the cabin, and or the outside temperature. That should be easy enough. Many others that would be seemingly simple to invoke.
I do some programming and understand all things are not always as they seem, but gee... doors locked? How tough could this be? Thr Ford app has the feel of no one wanting to spend any time with it to advance the app, least on Android anyway.
Thoughts?

I believe it is 5% only over 80%.

When setting the max charge percent make sure to watch until the progress bar at the top stops moving.

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[jeep2liberty]

I believe it is 5% only over 80%.

When setting the max charge percent make sure to watch until the progress bar at the top stops moving.

Sure enough, I can do 5% adjustments above 80% on Android. Yes, I do see the progress indicator near the "eyelid" of the app.
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[Adventureboy]

Is it still considered best practice to periodically (2-4X per year) charge to 100%?

Reading this information indicates its somewhat energy wasteful to charge to 100%, but at the same time we cannot set it to 98%. I only charge to 80% unless I am going on a long trip and know I need max battery, which is probably 5 times a year.

While not as efficient as bulk charging up to 98-99%, it wastes little energy to take it to 100%. The balancing process puts trickle amounts into each cell to bring each cell to 100% SOC so the pack can retain as much of its capacity as possible based on the health of the cells and the health of each module. This is why you see the quick drop in EVSE power on @carys98 's graph. It steps down as each cell/module gets topped up. The last one to get topped up was your overall pack limiting module before it was balanced. It doesn't mean the module is weak, just that it was more discharged and out of sync with the other packs for one or more of dozens of reasons.

 

[Firn]

There is no "wasted" energy by charging to 100%

 

[jeep2liberty]

There is no "wasted" energy by charging to 100%

I think that wasted energy idea "spills" over from FLA days (Flooded Lead Acid). On an "equalize" charge, an amount of heat is released from certain cells while other not fully charged cells are brought up to 100%.
Imagine if electric cars still had lead acid technology. Likely this forum wouldn't exist.

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