I personal a Tata Nexon EV and I commute about 150km every day, which additionally contains some operating on the freeway. There’s a public DC quick charger that falls on my route and I discover it fairly handy to recharge my car in between breaks on my commute. But is it advisable to all the time use a DC quick charger to cost my EV? Or can there be some destructive implications for the battery?

Sumit Halder, Pune 

Autocar India says: Some producers like Citroën say that you should use a DC quick charger every day for the eC3, nevertheless, that is solely as a result of even on a DC quick charger, the charging pace doesn’t go too excessive and it’s sometimes at about 20kW.

However, since charging generates warmth, fast-charging cars usually endure from elevated battery degeneration. Thus, for on a regular basis charging, it’s greatest to make use of the AC charger solely. Most producers advocate you utilize a quick charger solely when needed, like topping up at a public charger.

Also, after a few quick cost cycles, a traditional AC cost until one hundred pc is advisable, which is to assist battery balancing. As cells could have some minute variations of their development, over time, particular person cells inside a battery pack degenerate in another way. Thus, battery balancing evens this out by trickle charging your complete battery pack, thereby guaranteeing that each one cells inside are charged to the identical stage.

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