100% charged by Airport valet upon drop off, unrequested. Now what? 🤔🤣

[Pjlightning]

so the airport parking lot valet probably thought they were doing me a solid by plugging in my Lightning after I dropped it off this morning….

despite me asking them specifically not to charge it….

so to my Surprise the Ford app just alerted me to having achieved a 100% charge.

And I won’t be driving for quite a while now.

I certainly don’t want to ask them to take it out for a Ferris Bueller ride around town to burn off some energy…

How much damage is this causing?

Do I need to hatch a plan to have someone in the family spring it out of the lot, or just leave it be and not worry about it ?

best intentions I’m sure,
but ugh……not what I wanted to discover from 40,000 feet up

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[Zprime29]

How long are you going to be gone? My gut tells me it'll probably be okay if it'll be just a few days, and we know 100% isn't actually 100%. Was the charging free?

 

[Maquis]

Nothing you can do about it now (obviously), but next time, set a one-time charge limit before you turn it over to them.

This one-off occurrence won’t measurably affect your battery. I know people who charge to 100% every time.

 

[MillieChliette]

How much damage is this causing?

None.

 

[Peddyr]

I know people who charge to 100% every time.

I'm one of those people and I do it 5 days a week because I use at least 70% of my battery every day(commute and subsequent errands). I don't charge it on weekends so there is that

 

[TaxmanHog]

Agree with the above advice, but if you're really concerned, just remote start the truck, let her run for a 15-30 minutes, should drop it a few %%SOC

 

[detansinn]

No impact. Don’t sweat it.

 

[Henry Ford]

YOLO! There's an eight year warranty. Let Ford worry about it.

 

[Pioneer74]

Nothing you can do about it now (obviously), but next time, set a one-time charge limit before you turn it over to them.

This one-off occurrence won’t measurably affect your battery. I know people who charge to 100% every time.

One time charge limit will reset if it's driven, won't it?

When the OP returns, I would save the location of the charge. When leaving it in the future, he will have a set charge limit for that location.

 

[Maquis]

One time charge limit will reset if it's driven, won't it?

When the OP returns, I would save the location of the charge. When leaving it in the future, he will have a set charge limit for that location.

I wasn’t aware driving would reset the one-time limit. I don’t think it says that in the manual. I need to test that out.

Now that he’s charged there, using the location setting is probably the best solution.

 

[vsansal]

You should be ok especially if the temperature is not too high where the vehicle is.

 

[RickLightning]

You should be ok especially if the temperature is not too high where the vehicle is.

Not even a question.

 

[jimfigler]

so the airport parking lot valet probably thought they were doing me a solid by plugging in my Lightning after I dropped it off this morning….

despite me asking them specifically not to charge it….

so to my Surprise the Ford app just alerted me to having achieved a 100% charge.

And I won’t be driving for quite a while now.

I certainly don’t want to ask them to take it out for a Ferris Bueller ride around town to burn off some energy…

How much damage is this causing?

Do I need to hatch a plan to have someone in the family spring it out of the lot, or just leave it be and not worry about it ?

best intentions I’m sure,
but ugh……not what I wanted to discover from 40,000 feet up

You'll be fine. This 100% fear is overblown. Just remote start a few times to drain the battery a little if you are super concerned.

 

[Maxx]

source:

https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-808-how-to-prolong-lithium-based-batteries

more light reading for your flight back:

https://batteryuniversity.com/articles

 

[Jim Lewis]

In Darren Palmer's (Ford EV Division VP) interview with Tom Moloughney's State of Charge a while back, Palmer stated that the Ford warranty of having at least 70% charge after 8 years or 100,000 miles was based on supposing that folks might charge to 100% every day with a level 2 charger, IIRC, (but not spend the whole day at 100% charge). So being at 100% charge for a week or two is probably just a small ding, not a big dent.

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