You can’t add power but you certainly can utilize the power that is available better. It really depends on how much of the power you are using currently.
You're wrong. I have all of the evidence to prove it as well. I will upload another video on it tomorrow. However, for now here are pictures showing that a 432 KW "max discharge" yields an 11.74 @ 113.8 mph 1/4 mile while a 455 KW "Max Discharge" yields an 11.45 @ 117.65 mph on the same lane of the same track and less than 1 hour apart.
I don't think so. They haven't actually done anything other than hack the firmware and sell the code that Tesla created. (AWD boost and Performance options. Of course it only works on the hardware that Tesla wrote it for.)
I see that the charge is 10% different and the cell temp is 15.5c different. Are those the main factors affecting Max Discharge?
Yes, Max Discharge is a function of SOC and Cell Temp. However, Cell Temp seems to affect it the most. Here is 100% SOC with a 28.5 C "Temp mid" and only a 431 KW "Max Discharge". This scenario was accomplished with Track Mode and it would produce similar times to the 81% SOC with 432 KW "Max Discharge".
Cool info and graphs, thanks for all that! One last OT question, what did you do to warm up the battery in a Model 3? I thought (wrongly, obviously) that only the S models had some sort of drag racing preconditioning.
The Model 3 Performance doesn't have any specific mode for Drag Racing. Track Mode is just about the worst thing you can do for acceleration. This is actually what I am hoping Tesla will add.
That is why it would be great if Tesla added a mode that automatically does it for us. They already have Track mode that does the opposite of what we want for straight line performance. They could easily add a mode that optimizes straight line performance if enough people asked for it.Yeah, I will do that next time I'm out driving and just want a bit more punch in the top end...
Again and again and again your data is wrong.
There's a reason why they have not done anything except the ghost mod. Because you literally cannot add horsepower to this car. The only thing that this mod does is trick the computer into thinking it is a performance car when it is not.
Nobody said the car has 600 wheel HP. I stated that it doesn't have 600 WHP in my last video. It is probably closer to 500 HP at the wheels. The figure the car reports is akin to Engine Horsepower in an ICE car. It is a theoretical maximum that the battery will allow. What actually gets put down to the ground is entirely different. However, that doesn't mean that the "max discharge" value is irrelevant.
Tesla does not have a drivetrain loss similar to a normal car with a transmission. So the assertion that your 625+ goes to 500 at the wheels is incorrect. These cars do not lose 20% of their power because of resistance at the differential/reducer and CV joints. I tried to explain previously that each motor hits peak power at separate times, and your app is just adding both of those peak points together for one big number, but you don't want to listen.
I am not suggesting that the car loses 20%. The 600+ HP number is a theoretical maximum. In actuality it never comes close to that number at the battery. The max value that it reports is closer to about 440 KW for both of the motor’s real-time output. Even that number is still high but their are electrical and even mechanical losses after that.
On this particular point, you are wrong. That isn’t what the app does and that isn’t what I am reporting. You really should try the app before you suggest what it does.
