Unless someone can get access to pack voltages, or Tesla tells someone, no.do we know if it's limited on the lower side or the upper side? In other words, does the car only charge from 0% to max 66% and stop, or can you only discharge from 100% to 33% and it stops?
Yeah, but it doesn't really matter that the pack isn't balanced all that well.In either case, given lithium ion chemistry, it's practically impossible to ever balance this pack and accurately calculate charge capacity. If you can't charge to 100%, you can't balance the pack, the cells will become very imbalanced, and you can't ever accurately calculate degradation. If you can't charge below 33%, then just the same you won't ever be able to accurately know remaining SOC. (I might be getting my terminology mixed up here, SOC, charge capacity, etc).
That would be a crazy and expensive way of doing it. Much easier to simply cycle the pack somewhere in the middle by altering the cutoff voltages.UNLESS they cycle the battery packs. (I think think this would be the ideal implementation).
Lithium batteries don't generate any significant heat if charged properly unless you are abusing them. That's why the charge rate tapers down as the pack reaches 100% SOC.I don't think this is true. When doing a full charge to 100% the management should be able to tell that no more power is being taken by the batteries and heat is building up instead, at least that is what seems to happen in other systems