7 Essential Tips For Maintaining Your Hybrid Car’s Battery Health

As with many other batteries, charging the cells powering your hybrid to 100%, or letting them drain to nothing, is a bad idea. Storing near max capacity, or spending periods with no charge at all will drastically reduce the parts’ lifespan. At high charge, lithium cells can grow tendrils called dendrites, which can cause shorts between various internal parts of the battery. Similarly, letting it go completely dead can result in a charge-limiting chemical process…