Frankly I would prefer the software cap which I can disable (with a warning) for long trips. I like to plug in overnight and I can't check at 2 AM where the charge is at.
That's (basically) what the charge limit already does; nobody's running out to their car at 2am to unplug it before it hits 100%.
Presumably these "it's a lease" folks are just choosing to set the 'limit' at 100%.
I agree with other comments that I prefer the regen anyway; it's weird to charge to 100% and have to use the brakes to slow the car so much. Your efficiency on that last 10% of charge is lower because of this lack of regen.
First, every EV battery already has excess capacity you can't charge up.
Second, Nissan tried having the Leaf default to 85%. But they got in trouble for claiming more range than they should. The government rates the capacity in the default configuration.
There’s no reason you couldn’t have the default be 90% of whatever you thought was safe and allow 11% over rated on occasion by explicit user selection. It’d be like packing an extra gallon or two into your gas tank after the dispenser clicks off.
Yeah it makes no sense for the operator to manually regulate charging. We don't do that with any other rechargeable device. Oh gotta unplug my phone it's at 90%!
