Ultimately the question is why charging at 100% if you do not need the full capacity. Porsche recommends 85% generally unless you need to travel far. Also, you can connect your car every night to get that 85% fresh from the start every morning and you will not damage the battery.
I just followed the manufacturer recommendations, which was keep it plugged at home, charge to 90% daily, more on trips. Worked out great. When selling the cars, I never hid how I used my cars, free for the next buyer to accept or buy another car instead.
I can see where you're coming from, but I respectfully disagree. I am aware of and support social responsibility, however I don't see charging to 100% every day at a DC charger as anything dishonest or irresponsible (socially or otherwise). Even for people who own their cars, I would not see it as socially irresponsible to DC charge to 100% daily, it just puts more wear on the car, no different than someone tracking their car regularly (though for a lease, I would check fine print as some leases will restrict track racing). If you use your car faster, its value drops faster, that's all.
The battery health can be retrieved from the BMS, including KWh charged via DC charger and other stats, no different than inspecting an odometer, measuring tire wear, or checking the car for rust from road salt. The leasing company has to factor in the wear people are allowed to put on their cars, which includes the battery wear. Some Taycan lease returns will have very few miles on them while always garaged and never seen winter, and others will have full mileage and garaged outside in all kinds of weather - all normal. acceptable wear and tear on the car. I see nothing dishonest or irresponsible in using the car for what it was designed for. If Porsche wanted to claim that the car is not designed to be DC charged to 100% often, they should put limits on that, maximum number of times per year you can DC charge, etc. Those limits should be made clear to anyone buying, so they can make a decision on value of such limited car.
Again, whether leased or owned, the only difference is that if you own it, you lower your own residual value, and when you lease, the drop of the residual is prepaid with a lease - if you return a car in a better condition you're not getting any credit back. If you own it and want to cut out the back seats, put in a roll cage, remove doors and weld sheets of metal in their place to reduce the weight, all the power to you even if it does lower the residual value. If a lease allowed that, you should feel free to do that too, though I am certain most if not all leases require you to bring the car back to factory specifications before returning them.
As OP, you posed the question, why not charge to 100%?
There is no such thing as "unethical in legal sense". Ethics and legality are completely orthogonal topics primarily because ethics is very personal, almost everyone has a different set of ethics (which usually partially overlap with others of course), while laws are the same for everyone. Laws are not supposed to attempt to enforce ethics for the same reason, though there are plenty of examples where ethics of democratic majority creeps into law, for example prostitution and its legality. Ever studied the classic trolley problem taught in almost every Ethics 101 class (also philosophy classes)?
). An event which annihilates all humans on Earth would arguably benefit the planet in many, many ways (come on green comet!). I am not advocating for any of those by the way, simply illustating various arguments which can be made.Absolutely! Opinions are like assholes, everyone's got one.
Ethics is closely related to opinions. Some believe having sex outside of marriage is unethical, others don't. Some believe divorce is unethical, others don't. Some believe offering assisted suicide is unethical, others believe individual rights to decide about one's body. Some believe democracy is discrimination, since by definition majority forces their decisions on minority, others will claim otherwise. Abortion, death penalty, taxes, due process, whether to charge a Taycan daily to 50% 70% or 85% for maximum battery longevity, etc, - list of topics on which not everyone agrees is unending. Welcome to the diversity of the world!
No feelings about Thanos at all. Not a big comic book fan (had to google the name). Given a quick google glance, perhaps Star Trek Q would be a good stand-in from my sphere of interestI guess you are a fan of Thanos
