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Little concerns about fast charging overheating a Tesla Battery. They have large heat exchangers and powerful fans that will control the tenps of the water coolded battery pack. If the pack gets too hot, the computer will simply turn down the rate of charge.
Actually, reading a bit deeper, it may only be fast charge rates which are harmful at low temperatures
at 20% capacity loss ... 2,500 equivalent full cycles (EFCs) at 1 C charge to only 200 EFCs at 4 C charge.
Seems this capacity loss relates to the charge current overwhelming the rate of 'desired' charging interactions, so I'm sticking with my assumption that cool gentle charging remains the best.
Bjorn has Supercharger video of cold charging. Car doesn't charge at all (or not much) for ages, whilst the battery heater and/or stators are put to work.
Moral is, assuming choice available, to Supercharge night-before rather than morning-after in cold weather.
Here is a pic of my local charging bays at 16:45. Really no contention. I mostly charge at Park
and Rides around Edinburgh (which seem to be setup for people to leave their cars on AC charge for the day).
Dundee City has been charging since 1 November 2019. For non-residents, it is a reasonable 15p/kWh, plus 38p connection fee, not sure if its a different price for residents but they do get free parking in multi-storey car parks (which will all have whole floors of AC charging, Greenmarket is open, Olympia under construction). Advise checking website or email or call [email protected] , 01382 432779 or 01382 432713.
The rapid hubs (Lochee, Princes Street and Queen Street, Broughty Ferry) are free to park while charging, suggest AC charging at Queen Street, you get 3 hours free, rapids are just 30 mins.
Talking about cold pack temps, noticed by selecting a Tesla Supercharger in NAV (within 30mins drive) the pack will commence preconditioning (message on dash) and then charge at Non Tesla 50KW location, haven't tested whether the pack makes less noise once preconditioned.
Talking about cold pack temps, noticed by selecting a Tesla Supercharger in NAV (within 30mins drive) the pack will commence preconditioning (message on dash) and then charge at Non Tesla 50KW location, haven't tested whether the pack makes less noise once preconditioned.