Be Careful! Using Fast Charging Too Often Can Damage Electric Car Battery

SUV Neta X. (Photo: Afrizal/VOI)

JAKARTA - Support infrastructure for the electric vehicle ecosystem is one of the important things, namely the presence of Public Electric Vehicle Charging Stations (SPKLU). Usually there are two types that are presented both slow charging and fast charging.

Not a few owners of electric vehicles prefer to use fast charging, the goal is that the battery is filled quickly. However, it turns out that the use of fast charging is not recommended too often.

"It is not recommended to use fast charging continuously, like a cellphone, it can reduce its lifetime," said NETA Senior Manager After Sales Januar Eka Sapta, when met in the PIK 2 area some time ago.

Not without reason, he said that usually fast charging has a large amount of output, some even have 100 kW, some are 200 kW, even though for the recommended car is below that, some are even 50 kW.

"So that's called forced and like battery cells can have an effect. It is recommended in the mix, for example, 3 days of using a regular charger and 3 days of using fast charging," he added.

To find out if the car battery is problematic, it can usually be seen from the scanner when checking the car into the dealer network. It can also be seen with the naked eye.

"For example, it has charged 100 percent of the battery suddenly not used, the battery decreases, so 96 percent means something is wrong," he explained.

So, make sure not to use fast charging too often so as not to cause new problems in your favorite electric car.