How are charging settings (like target SoC and schedule) set?

[KevinRS]

That's what makes sense to me. If the best thing for the battery is to generally stay between 10-80%, then saying that's the usable range and defining 10% as 0% and 80% as 100% with everything else as a buffer. You can drop below 0% occasionally, like you're running on fumes, and can "overcharge" for a roadtrip by indicating through the app when you plug it in that you intentionally want to charge extra. Consumers get to charge 0-100 quickly (since there's a charging speed drop-off above 80%), range would be rated for that usable capacity, and there's no mental worry about what state of charge is safe.

What manufacturers do is a whole different thing though. The stated and useable capacity does not include those buffers. Under normal circumstances they are completely blocked and invisible.
It is capacity you basically didn't pay for, because it is there to ensure capacity at 10 years.
I understand Tesla has enabled use of them in times of disasters so people can successfully evacuate when chargers or time to charge are unavailable.

If there is such a buffer, it means you don't have to worry about 20/80% at all, just charge to 100% every time, since it's really 80%

 

[pdxmotorhead]

State of Charge (the youtube channel) just reviewed a smart EVSE that comes with an OBDII dongle so that it can do some of these functions without using the vehicle settings.

My Tesla dual mode wall charger does both NACS and CCS, has wifi capability and you can set up the wall unit to handle off-peak charging management and how much charge if the vehicle responds to the battery level query. Wall unit will default to 36A@220V for very old EV's and lets the EV charger handle the level issues.

 

[ElectricShitbox]

My Tesla dual mode wall charger does both NACS and CCS, has wifi capability and you can set up the wall unit to handle off-peak charging management and how much charge if the vehicle responds to the battery level query. Wall unit will default to 36A@220V for very old EV's and lets the EV charger handle the level issues.

State of Charge rates that EVSE very highly, although it doesn't have the functionality that was being discussed (setting a vehicle SOC cutoff with the EVSE).

 

[EV Trek]

Has anyone asked Slate Directly? I would but I have asked so many questions already I am afraid to wear out my welcome LOL.