AlanSubie4Life
Efficiency Obsessed Member
At the moment it looks like in Germany the Long Range and Performance cars are being shipped with three different battery sizes.
-77 KWh (SMT Full Pack When New = 74.5 KWh)
-79 KWh (probably the old 77.8 KWh pack)
-82 KWh (SMT read-out not performed yet)
People have been very busy plotting VIN numbers and production dates to understand the system as to which battery goes when into which model.
Übersicht 2021 LR / P Batteriekapazität Fahrzeugschein
Übersicht 2021 LR / P Batteriekapazität Fahrzeugschein
Did I miss something here or why isnt this discussed in the states as well? People are surely puzzled why some are getting a smaller battery pack in the refreshed model, which is advertised with a higher range.
Interesting. Not sure what to make of the 74.5kWh capture or how SMT makes the claim that that is where the car started...
The 77/82 in the second spreadsheet (with occasional 79) - where is that info coming from? Registration data?
To me 77 seems like the old battery (but it should be ~77kWh in SMT). While 82 is the battery with the new cells. But I realize that there are a few ways in which this is inconsistent/does not make sense. 79 would make sense as a half-and-half battery or something. Or more likely just the old battery labeling, if this info is just from a label...
Still, doesn’t make sense to me that there would be any batteries with less capacity than in the past (SMT used to start at 77-78kWh).
So the biggest mystery here is the “new is 74.5kWh” claim from SMT. How do they determine this?