Does the battery need preconditioning in a 50kw charger?
Im still a bit of an EV newbie (i rented a tesla for a week) but I was under the assumption that preconditioning was more for supercharging?
Happy to be educated!
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Australian Model 3 Waiting Room
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Im still a bit of an EV newbie (i rented a tesla for a week) but I was under the assumption that preconditioning was more for supercharging?
Happy to be educated!
Ahh cool, when i test drove back in august (the 2023 model) they preloaded a route in the nav to a spot down near the beach and back. Did they do something similar or just let you go for a rip?
Tbh I only ever had my old M3 precondition for Tesla superchargers, it never did for normal fast chargers.Yeah good point, im not sure either
Nope, no preloaded route. Just went for a long drive around the block (from Adelaide Airport) and then took it down some small and large roundabouts to test the new stalk-less indicators, and then did a three point turn. These were my main concerns with the new model 3.
Results: I found indicating out of a large roundabouts (Adelaide airport) was OK. Couldn't get the indicator sorted when leaving small roundabouts (maybe with a bit of practice?). Three point turn with the gear shifting on screen was okish.
After the test drive, we checked out their display vehicle and noticed that the rims (with no aero covers) look amazing, so might ride around without the covers for a while and see how it goes.
Now give me three hours and I’ll check with back when I find the rest of your details
Seriously? Jesus Christ.
China has always been good at numbers, just look at their Covid death counts
Just checked the app receipts and on the way over I added 45kwh for just under an hour costing $23 and on way back I added 25kwh in 30 mins costing me $13. I am not sure if you can manually heat the battery or not. If I was hitting a Tesla supercharger the car just preconditioned battery for me.
Even if you can't manually heat the battery, you can set the closest supercharger as your destination in nav and it will do it automatically.
Then go wherever you're planning to charge while you do it.
Maybe not for a 50kw but there are non Tesla 200kw chargers I used in SA on the Chargefox network.
My current hole is quite dirty, but i've never had an issue connecting a charge cable to it... Would you like me to show you a picture of my hole?
Yeah there are a few around now. I was eyeing off the one at Keith as that seems to come up on my trip planner when heading to melbs.
I think there are a few up in the mid north now too, without the RAA rollout we would be in trouble in SA
Ill definitely check out my options closer to my delivery next month.
Closest supercharger is about 15min from me, but there's others that while closer, i have nfi of their output
