I have a 2017 MS 60D, and have some questions about how software limiting the battery is done, and what it really means..
1) Since the battery is actually a 75, how is the capacity reduced? I have heard two different stories about this. One, that a module is 'turned off', and that they do some sort of rotation (this makes less sense to me). The other that the battery is prevented from being fully charged. Do we know how it is done?
2) If the state of charge is what is limited, does this mean that it is fine to charge all the way to 100% regularly because it is really only 80%?
3) What about balancing? I gather this is pretty automatic, but I've seen descriptions of the balancing process that imply the battery needs to get to 93% charge to trigger balancing. Depending upon #1 above, this might never happen with the MS 60s. I would assume that Tesla thought of this and that it is being handled somehow, but does anyone know about this?
4) If the battery is charge state limited, does this mean that the capacity should stay at a full 60 rather than degrading, even though the battery may have lost some of its 75KWH of capacity?
1) Since the battery is actually a 75, how is the capacity reduced? I have heard two different stories about this. One, that a module is 'turned off', and that they do some sort of rotation (this makes less sense to me). The other that the battery is prevented from being fully charged. Do we know how it is done?
2) If the state of charge is what is limited, does this mean that it is fine to charge all the way to 100% regularly because it is really only 80%?
3) What about balancing? I gather this is pretty automatic, but I've seen descriptions of the balancing process that imply the battery needs to get to 93% charge to trigger balancing. Depending upon #1 above, this might never happen with the MS 60s. I would assume that Tesla thought of this and that it is being handled somehow, but does anyone know about this?
4) If the battery is charge state limited, does this mean that the capacity should stay at a full 60 rather than degrading, even though the battery may have lost some of its 75KWH of capacity?