How to configure low battery auto-sleep ?

Hello,
When my battery is low, I've got an alert to tell me to plug my Mac.
Though, this alert comes really to soon (when it's ~7%) and I like to do full cycles, so I usually wait to reach 2-1% to plug it.
But it happens that I forgot to plug it and then my mac turns off because of lake of battery.
How could I configure my mac to tell it to go to sleep if the battery charge reaches 1% ?
Thank you !
Pit

Thank you !
That's a good workaround !
I found SlimBatteryMonitor, that seams to be a good equivalent to Watts, but Free ! ;-)

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