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by brandall10 813 days ago
It's not just this, it's literally bad to keep a lithium ion battery in a high voltage state, period. Simply taking a battery out and leaving it on the shelf in a high voltage state, otherwise unused, harms it.
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Agree, not sure why though. Because the isolation degrades because of electrons breaking through it?

However, keeping "a lot" of energy in the battery is kind of the purpose, no one is using 50% max to increase battery life. But I guess most damage increases exponentially with energy stored, so charging it from 95% to 100% will damage it a lot more to than charging it from 90% to 95%.