Max Supercharger Charging Rates

[f15ranger]

Charged a few times so far on my new Y on a Super Charger. I understand the charging concepts but my question is has anyone seen more than 150kW burst at any time during your charge. I would expect it would happen below 40%. Are we limited to 150kW right now?

 

[frankvb]

250 kW at 16% battery charge (Las Vegas v3 supercharger). Once you hit 40-50% it will start to go down already.

Of course most superchargers only have 150/120 as limit, also the v2 and older chargers often share the power between 2 adjacent stalls, so you might only e.g. get 60 max if that's the case.

 

[user212_nr]

I understand the charging concepts.

I'm not so sure about that.

If you arrived at a supercharger with 40%, I don't think you understand how to use the supercharger properly. Ideally you should arrive with about 20% or less to take advantage of the faster charge rate.

I'm guessing that you may be an apartment dweller without access to home L2 charging. In that case, the increased supercharger speeds will not benefit you very much.

 

[Zoomit]

Here's a long Model 3 thread on the topic.

V3 Supercharging Profiles for Model 3

And here're the resulting ideal charging profiles. These are very, very rarely seen and requires a "perfect storm" of real-world conditions. Usually both the 3 and Y charge slower than these profiles depict.

 

[TomServo]

The lower the starting SOC the faster it will charge until you reach about 40% SOC then the dreaded TAPER starts. Ideally if you could arrive at about 10% SOC and only need another 100 miles or so of range to get to the next SC or your destination you could be IN/OUT of a V3 SC in less than 15 minutes.