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Max Battery Charge in Winter
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DirtyT3sla
Member
Why is my displayed estimated range decreasing faster than miles driven?
Displayed range is based on regulating agency certification (EPA) and is not adapted based on driving pattern. Your driving behaviors and environmental conditions can impact your car's efficiency, and therefore its range. To see estimated range based on personalized energy consumption, open the Energy app.
After charging is completed, why is the estimated range less than expected?
It is normal for estimated range to decrease slightly over the first few months before leveling off. Over time, you may see a gradual, but natural, decrease in range at full charge – this depends on factors such as Supercharging regularly or the mileage and age of the battery. Your Tesla will inform you in the unlikely event a hardware issue is causing excessive battery or range degradation.
Range
Displayed range is based on regulating agency certification (EPA) and is not adapted based on driving pattern. Your driving behaviors and environmental conditions can impact your car's efficiency, and therefore its range. To see estimated range based on personalized energy consumption, open the Energy app.
After charging is completed, why is the estimated range less than expected?
It is normal for estimated range to decrease slightly over the first few months before leveling off. Over time, you may see a gradual, but natural, decrease in range at full charge – this depends on factors such as Supercharging regularly or the mileage and age of the battery. Your Tesla will inform you in the unlikely event a hardware issue is causing excessive battery or range degradation.
Range
DirtyT3sla
Member
Overall the best thing is to just use your car and not worry too much about it.
With some of the older Ss, people were getting their supercharging restricted if they did it too much to protect the battery. This hasn't been seen in the Model 3 yet.
5_+JqckQttqck
Active Member
Optimal use range is 20% to 80%. Charge to 90%-100% when needed.
Avoid going below 10% if possible. That will reduce degradation.
If you want to break your battery, do the opposite of the above
[Tesla will have logs of it though, good luck claiming warranty with abusive behaviour]Wintertime efficiency average 60-70% of displayed range: 450km = ~310km with battery going into Yellow. Plan around this for road trips.
5_+JqckQttqck
Active Member
Heavier car and hungrier car. Your cells may be unbalanced if you regularly charge to 60% or 70%. I've charged to 90% a lot last winter as I wasn't charging every evening.
The most recent 100% charge was 502/525km ~5% degradation expected for first 50,000 kms.
So with 100% charge I am getting max 459km in the garage. So about 9% degradation. Is this within acceptable parameters? Or is this winter thing and it will bounce back in the summer?
pcons
M3 AWD+
It should bounce back a bit, but probably only to around 470km. It seems almost all long range AWD have settled around that number. I fluctuate around there too. Some think it's partly because Tesla increased the low end buffer by a few kwh (tesla Bjorn did a video on this a couple months back). Also the battery will degrade more in year 1 then taper off, so maybe it's that. No one knows really as the model 3 is still new.
In terms of it being 'acceptable' the battery warranty is 70% capacity over 8 years, so it could degrade 10% in year 1, then 2% every year after and still be well within warranty. If you lost another 10% in year 2, then I would start getting worried.
5_+JqckQttqck
Active Member
Charge to 90% once a month unless you need it daily (winter time maybe). Otherwise, 70% for summer / 80% for winter is fine. Go 90-100% for trips, especially for winter.
