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Honestly, an nice advantage of a full PPF installation is that if you are in an area with a ton of dust and you park your car for even 10 min, you get this slight dust layer. Drives me nuts after I just finished washing the car. With PPF, I just use a california duster when it has light dust...

It’s a track beast that can do 2 full Ring laps before thermal limiting. Highly impressive thermals and capability. Kind of a different market as most M3P owners aren’t hard core track folks but those that want more straight line speed and more range. Still not going to discount how impressively...

M3L will hit the thermal limit if the basic battery architecture isn't changed much. I5N can do 2 full laps of the Ring without thermal limiting. I bet it won't be that close. I hope i'm wrong.

About half the range too. Yes, its probably a more fun drive but rather have a Model S LR for a bit more money (or used Plaid).

$67k is quite a bit of money for that. I'd expect a lot from a $67k M3L. Of course if speed is your primary criteria, you can get a low mileage Plaid for that and only a handful of cars on the planet can even keep up with you.

If you don’t need the range everyday, try charging to a lower state of charge. 90% seems excessive especially if you only need 30%. I charge mine up to 55% daily and use about 30%. I charge everyday. Helps keep the degradation much lower.

Some cars are better than others at this. My Lexus ventilated seats actually shot hot air into my back on a hot day which was worthless. My Kia EV6 is pretty cold...feels like i wet my pants even on a hot day 😁

Not surprising if you charge to 90% regularly and stays at high SoC.

The best part of the sports seats in the Plaid is that its heated and ventilated! Will probably be the same for the new Ludicrous.

Agree and I still love the extra oomph my current M3P provides. Give me the extra highway oomph with the adaptive dampers and 19s for a decent price and Tesla will have my money again. But please please don’t get rid of the ventilated seats. 😁

The 55% strategy is much better for overall longevity. Go read the other thread and you’ll see that people that have employed that strategy for a few years have really good capacity left on battery. 80% isn’t actually that great for long term battery health.

Yes but as FastLaneJB said, you don't want to compromise useability. I don't need the entire battery most days so I charge enough to maintain battery to about ~50% majority of the time. I leave home with about 55% and use about 20-30% on most days. If I need more, I charge higher but my days...

I'm not saying cycles won't degrade it more but calendar aging has a bigger effect on overall degradation than merely using cycles. Most of the scientific evidence says below 55% SoC will half the degradation rate and the degradation rate between cycles is much less than vs. time. If you...

Most of it is lab tests on SoC over time vs. cycles in scientific papers. The thread is a great read and gives really good guidance on maximizing longevity for batteries. I could understand those that heavily track their car to have bigger degradation than average users but people mostly don't...

Completely disagree. Read the battery thread where there is a mountain of evidence that calendar aging is a much bigger contributor to overall degradation than cyclic degradation...