That's impressive for 85. My consumption is 30% higher at 85 vs 70.
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Model S Plaid range discussion.
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That's impressive for 85. My consumption is 30% higher at 85 vs 70.
Bill Price
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Insomuch as you are talking about a compromise, then you are probably correct. However, since I've retired several years ago and have no need for being anywhere in a BIG hurry, like I did when I was younger, I find that I prefer the big MPGe numbers, and therefore drive 65 and 70, which is the speed limit on most interstates and highways now. But the difference between 70 and 75 is probably about 105 MPGe vs 100 MPGe? So I really shouldn't give a sugar anyway?Sure but 70 might be a bit slow that is why I said compromise between speed and efficiency
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Just to update based on my original post in this thread, my new high voltage battery pack has been behaving very well thus far since it was installed about a month ago. You can quite clearly see when it was replaced in my TeslaMate graph. What a difference...
I am also getting terrible range. I have Plaid with 21” wheels. Drive to the airport and car sat for one day. Total round trip was 41 miles but I dropped 101 miles on my range. Am I missing something but this is awful? I only get 313 on a 90% charge.
Sounds normal to me. Did you have Sentry on? You’ll lose a lot of range with Sentry on for a full day. 313 miles at 90% is 348 miles total range. Spot on.
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That's normal range for a 21" wheel car. "Vampire Drain" in cold conditions are pretty bad as well as when sentry is on. I've heard people estimate that Sentry is about 1% per hour.
When @WilliamG and I had our HV packs replaced our estimated range on the dash at 90% was about 225
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Sorry to revive an old thread, but i’m wondering if i’m seeing some early degradation or if i’m doing somethig wrong (daily charge sually set to 90%, and i’ve only ever taken it to 100% 3 times in 6 months. Charging is made mostly at home)
When i originally got my Plaid, a 90% charge would show 313 miles
Now after 15K miles and 8 months later, 100% is shown to be equivalent to 298 miles
My average consumption (lifetime) is at 318 wh/mi
Is there a cause for concern? (Not sure when the numbers changed, as i usually keep yhe battery % shown instead of the guess-o-metered range on my front display)
When i originally got my Plaid, a 90% charge would show 313 miles
Now after 15K miles and 8 months later, 100% is shown to be equivalent to 298 miles
My average consumption (lifetime) is at 318 wh/mi
Is there a cause for concern? (Not sure when the numbers changed, as i usually keep yhe battery % shown instead of the guess-o-metered range on my front display)
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I’m having the same concerns. I took delivery of my Plaid a year ago. At that time a full charge was 346 miles. Now a full charge is 317 miles. I charge to 85% and that gives me 268-270 miles depending on the day. I have a little over 17k miles on the car.
What does it show if you temporarily change your wheel size to 19" in settings?
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Couple of things:
- just like every EV would, your Plaid also had some degradation. But consistently charging to a lower % (meaning lower than full), simply makes the BMS displays a conservative lower estimate over a period of time, because it doesn't know what the full capacity is. To over come that, charge your EV to 100% once in a while (maybe more than once) for the BMC to learn and recalibrate what the full capacity is. Typically after charging to 100% a few times, you will notice the numbers go up.
- Of course after charging to 100%, don't let it sit for a long time. Drive and reduce the charge to 80% or lower.
- My default every day charge is around 75%. Although you will get different viewpoints on that, where some consistently charge to 90% or 85% and so on.
In general I have noticed that people who charge to 100% frequently and drive a lot, have less degradation than people who drive very little. But again that is anecdotal observation and not scientific.
- just like every EV would, your Plaid also had some degradation. But consistently charging to a lower % (meaning lower than full), simply makes the BMS displays a conservative lower estimate over a period of time, because it doesn't know what the full capacity is. To over come that, charge your EV to 100% once in a while (maybe more than once) for the BMC to learn and recalibrate what the full capacity is. Typically after charging to 100% a few times, you will notice the numbers go up.
- Of course after charging to 100%, don't let it sit for a long time. Drive and reduce the charge to 80% or lower.
- My default every day charge is around 75%. Although you will get different viewpoints on that, where some consistently charge to 90% or 85% and so on.
In general I have noticed that people who charge to 100% frequently and drive a lot, have less degradation than people who drive very little. But again that is anecdotal observation and not scientific.
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