Candleflame
Active Member
again, I don't think you have a clue what you're talking about. Sorry to be so blunt, but really, you need to do more research before you start talking. I still get in the 240s per charge. better than a lot of people who babied their batteries. Rated range of course, reality is a couple hundred miles. I've driven it to what is called zero on the "gauge" and charged to 100% a lot. I think it's four or five times that we've had to call a tow truck, because the Tesla shut itself down. I've supercharged it literally thousands of times. The only long-term study not done by Tesla the cars that supercharged more often actually had longer lasting batteries.
don't misunderstand, there's reasons for all of that, but really, it's pretty hard to damage these things. The BMS never lets you get to real zero, never to real 100%. and of course, there's no point in beating up your battery. If I'm not driving around I leave it in the 60% range. but, that's now. Like I said, for years it did get beat up really hard. I'm sure there was at least 50 times when we accidentally left it at 100%, where it sat for 12-14 hours. I do charge it to 100% at least once a week even now. The Tesloop batteries never had anything but supercharging, and one of their batteries is reported to have gone over 300,000 miles.
So, just use the thing, enjoy it! Well, assuming you own a Tesla at all.
actually there is one way to go beyond 100% - if you supercharge from near 0% to 100% without letting the car rest you can charge above 100% even though the BMS tries to underread it quite often cant if there is such a high charge % involved. I.e. you can charge to 104% etc. The car will of course display 100% as it assumes you charge to 100% though hypothetically if you let it sit after the 100% charge and let the car take a few good quality voltage readings it will quickly realize the battery is actually overvolted.
If I charge at a destination charger and come home and the car rests I often get up to 2-4% range back just from letting it sit (without sleeping) for 30min or so.
This has ruined some fleet car batteries as they repeatedly charge from 0 to 100% every day for a year which completely wrecks the battery.