stopcrazypp
Well-Known Member
You are giving too much credit to techs. While they have more experience on the tech side than a generic sales staff, they may not necessarily know specific limits for all the models. Even when talking to an actual Tesla engineer (at corporate), unless they worked on the supercharger side, they may not necessarily know it either (for example they may have been a drivetrain engineer instead).I will bring this up again the next contact I have with Tesla, since this goes against what I was directly told by Tesla tech staff last month.
Would have been great to know that, if true, before buying the car. I was sold on the idea of 80% charges in 30 minutes, as frequently advertised by Tesla. I count myself lucky if I can get 80% in 1 hour. Now that sales pitch seems so shady, along with them hiding the true cost of buying their product on the design studio. Seriously, if I had known that a 70D or 75D cannot charge at 120kW, which Tesla has NEVER reported to be the case from anything I've seen, and which directly contradicts what I was told firsthand by Tesla tech staff, I would have most likely purchased a 90D instead. Charging at 120kW is that important to me. And if Tesla knows this to be the case, why lie about it? Instead, using it as a sales tactic to get folks in those bigger battery vehicles (you will be able to charge significantly faster as an added bonus for shelling out the extra cash for a bigger battery!).
But in this case, the Tech may have been confused by the "true" 70D (older 2015 era) which actually had a 70kWh battery. That one can get to ~116kW. The software limited 70D (which is actually a 75D) can only get to ~100 kW max. You have the latter.
From this conversation:
If you fast charge, Tesla will permanently throttle charging
85kWh A packs ~90kW max
85kWh non-A packs ~120kW max
60 and software limited 60/70/75 kWh ~100 kW max
70kWh (older true 70, not software limited 75kWh) ~116 kW max
90kWh (pre-refresh) ~116kW max
90kWh (newer refresh) ~113kW max (but is overall faster than even the 85kWh due to different taper)
100kWh ~120kW max (but overall is faster due to different taper)
Note, many of these numbers are "all stars aligned" numbers (in some cases only a handful of reports of reaching these speeds).