Any early Roadsters with the original battery?

[Sam?]

I'm wondering if there are any early Roadster batteries that are still working, and if so how's it doing?

 

[LeoNordic]

Mine is 10 years. (Bulit 5 oct 2009) 7300miles, Sweden (cold). Mostly garagequeen.

Very careful previous owner. Never rangecharged or driven hard.

CAC 155,5 =190miles i std charge. So I would say as good as new.

 

[Sam?]

Thanks LeoNordic! Great to hear the battery has held up so well, and thanks to you and all other Roadster owners for helping start the electric transport revolution.

Any others?

 

[markwj]

Mine still going well after almost 9 years. Had a couple of sheets replaced though.

 

[Sam?]

Thank you markwj!

 

[Tesla 940]

A little over 9 years, 35k miles, range charge about 215 miles. I've have range charged numerous times and raced it about 20 days so some hard driving / charging between track sessions.

 

[Sam?]

Thanks Tesla 940! Any others?

 

[Tex EV]

Coming up on 11 years on #113 (November 2008 build). All original powertrain. ~47K miles with ideal range of ~154 miles.

 

[Marius]

All info can be found here as long as everyone updates regularly. You can close this thread then.
Battery Survey « Plug In America

 

[drewski]

as long as everyone updates regularly.

that looks like a good potential source, but eyeballing the report, it's not very up-to-date.

there's a lot of older updates . . . like maybe <10% of entries are from 2019

 

[Tesla 940]

Just an update - I literally just finished range charging and it turned off at 224 ideal miles - that's 90%+ of the original range. I'll let it sit a few minutes before I take off.

 

[hanknum]

I have #187 with 54k miles. Standard charge goes to 151 miles and range charge goes to about 200...haven't done that in a while. But, we all know YMMV

 

[break]

I have #82, 2009/10, first battery, pem upgraded
30'000km, range in Standard mode is 260 - 266km, in range mode it's 325km - 335km, I charge only 10A and use range mode once or twice a year.

 

[ShawnA]

Hi Sam,

I have #785 delivered in December 2009.
I replaced the battery with a refurbished one in 2015.
(Battery depleted due to VMS failure.)
It is mostly a garage queen although a daily driver while I was working
but only a 14 mile round trip.
The battery on 90% charges to 180 miles...
CAC 155.11

Shawn

 

[gregd]

The battery on 90% charges to 180 miles...
CAC 155.11

For anyone reading this later, 180 miles with a CAC of 155 would be a "Standard" charge. The Roadster doesn't have a "90%" charge, just Standard (internally about 83%) and Range (internally about 93%).

Adding to the data pool, my 2010 2.0 is still on its original battery. 52k miles, CAC down to 136.75; standard charge of about 159 miles ideal. Seems to drop a little over 1 CAC point per year (was 142.6 at the end of 2014).

 

[Mark77a]

1 more data point:
Original Battery, 2010 2.5 Sport
33,000 miles, 144 cac, 171 Standard miles, (coolish UK)

 

[Sig72]

Roadster 1.5 #72
Built November 2008
31k miles
Original R56 pack
Standard charged it ~165 miles a couple days ago
Mostly a garage queen in the SF Bay Area

 

[DeedWest]

2011 Roadster 2.5 Sport #1462
Built late November 2011
44K miles
Original R56 pack
Standard Mode is 178 mi
Range Mode is about 230 mi

 

[toutizes]

Original owner #190 here, ~40k miles, was charging at ~170 miles in normal mode, always garaged, only range charged a few times per year too.

But the PEM or battery (not sure) suddenly died 2 weeks ago just in front of the Tesla dealer. So seems that such good charge results were not indicators of good health.

 

[AEdennis]

Just got my wife's baby back from @petergrub. Had a brick go bad, and they had to replace a sheet, otherwise, it's good. Approx 165 miles on Standard mode... Haven't range charged it... So testing it out now...