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Very cool. Did you only sleep while charging? [BTW, I got here because your post got linked over on chevybolt.org (which I think is the more active forum of the two). I'm a member of both, but rarely stop by here.]

Your strategy may be doing more harm than good. At the end of a charge, the BMS does cell balancing. If you prevent it from ever finishing, it won't get to do that part of battery maintenance. I think the Bolt is there already. Everything GM has said indicates that they expect us to plug in...

I understand why you and others might interpret it that way. The car is capable of performing battery conditioning while parked and not plugged in (although various people on Bolt forums debate the extent to which this happens—it certainly happens less than when plugged in or powered on). Thus...

Here's a question for the Chevy folks, in the manual for the car, it says: One key question is just how long a “long period” is. Is a “long period” a few hours while at work, or is it a few days while away on vacation? Also, this same advice is printed verbatim in the Spark EV manual, but the...