"It's not the car, it's me." After the epic fail in the previous video when I managed to get stranded due to low battery, I’ve looked into why it happened. Primarily it’s because I recklessly left without enough battery of course, but the reason I had a false sense of confidence was due to the incorrect range on the GOM (‘guess-o-meter’).

The range was wrong, it turns out, because the battery had not recently been calibrated. That involves charging up to 100% from a low state of charge. Do that once a month and that should keep the battery happy.

Now I’ve told you that here, there’s not much reason to watch the video, is there?!

Chapters:

00:00 - Introduction
00:11 - Recap of my epic fail
03:11 - Calibrating your battery
07:32 - Why was the 12-volt depleted?
09:10 - Dash it all!
12:28 - Should I have used OVMS?
13:51 - "It's not the car, it's me."

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