Charging Best Practices?

[Wesman107]

I have a 2025 Outlander PHEV and have owned it for 3 weeks now. I've driven around 1200 km so far and haven't had to gas it up yet (although my tank is getting close to empty). Absolutely love the car.

I've been charging it regularly every night and often after getting to job sites (Level 1 at home and Level 2 at work). Since the weather has warmed up (around 4-8 C) I've noticed that the gas engine has been turning on less frequently as I run on EV priority mode.

Will it harm the battery or worsen degredation if I charge too often, like after short trips (around 8km or so)? Range anxiety shouldn't be an issue for this vehicle but I do want to run primarily on EV mode.

 

[AndyInOz]

I think the technical answer is yes, but from a practical point of view, it may not be very significant.

Mitsubishi recommend against trying to keep the car at 100% all the time, i.e. frequent charging from 99% to 100%, and also warn against frequent/only using fast chargers.

Other than those things, you're probably OK.

 

[AndyInOz]

But...

If you frequently only do short trips between recharging, that will probably affect the guessometer's guessing, which will make you think that your battery is dying!

 

[Terry01]

I have a 2025 Outlander PHEV and have owned it for 3 weeks now. I've driven around 1200 km so far and haven't had to gas it up yet (although my tank is getting close to empty). Absolutely love the car.

I've been charging it regularly every night and often after getting to job sites (Level 1 at home and Level 2 at work). Since the weather has warmed up (around 4-8 C) I've noticed that the gas engine has been turning on less frequently as I run on EV priority mode.

Will it harm the battery or worsen degredation if I charge too often, like after short trips (around 8km or so)? Range anxiety shouldn't be an issue for this vehicle but I do want to run primarily on EV mode.

 

[Phev2016]

There's a general view for EVs that charging to around 80% (especially if fast charging) and keeping above 20% is the best way to long life. Outlanders keep around 20% in actual reserve anyway so going to an apparent empty battery means there's still 20% left so no problem there.

 

[Wesman107]

OK, so if I want to charge to 80% max, is there a way to set that for the car? I also read in passing that the car's software won't allow charging to 100% anyway? Does this factor into the 80%?