Tesla Motors Club
So the new "don't blow up the battery" regen profile is aggressively lame.
I guess I'm on board with not blowing up the batteries but now I'm going to wear out my brakes because I won't get full regen basically ever.
To those who understand how these things work better than I do -- I imagine the battery heater is just a giant resistor submerged in coolant that gets pumped around; is there any way the energy from the regen process could be dumped into that resistor instead of just dumping (or not) the energy into the battery pack?
Another nice option would be to dump some energy into the cabin heater -- situations where the battery is too cold to charge probably correlate nicely with situations where the cabin heat is on.
I guess I'm on board with not blowing up the batteries but now I'm going to wear out my brakes because I won't get full regen basically ever.
To those who understand how these things work better than I do -- I imagine the battery heater is just a giant resistor submerged in coolant that gets pumped around; is there any way the energy from the regen process could be dumped into that resistor instead of just dumping (or not) the energy into the battery pack?
Another nice option would be to dump some energy into the cabin heater -- situations where the battery is too cold to charge probably correlate nicely with situations where the cabin heat is on.