I just sent my SA another request for my counters, as well as guidance from Tesla as to how best to enjoy the performance of my car and not trigger a power reduction.
Based on their answer I will seriously consider selling the car, while it still has the power. I will be up front to the buyer about the counters, which I would expect won't help the resale value.
If I am allowed to drive it as I would like (which comes down to spirited street driving ) for the life time of the car, across multiple battery replacements? I will keep it. I like keeping my car for as long a possible ( last car I drove for 15 years ). When I purchased the P90DL I also expected to enjoy it for 15 plus years. So if triggering a power reduction cannot be reset by replacing the battery? I know I will eventually trigger the reduction. Which means I am basically forced to sell the car, before the power downgrade, and before the value plummets. I love the car. I am hoping this will end up with me keeping it.
I was with you until you said instead of keeping the car for your expected 15 years you sell it now (and buy what instead?).
And not wait to see exactly what the limits are? How many of what events trigger what power limit?
I think that is really the key issue, and we still don't have an answer to those key facts.
I'll concede that there could be unreasonable answers to those questions (100 WOTs triggers 30% power limit) or reasonable answers (1000 Launch Mode events triggers 5% power limit, which can be addressed by agreeing to waive warranty claims for extraordinary Launch Modes usage or by replacing the component that has aged beyond acceptable limits due to the extra stress).
But we don't know the answers to the questions. I am eager for this key information and hopeful that Tesla will be reasonable, and willing to wait instead of get out the pitchfork.
The fact that the TRC cars have not been limited, and Tech Guy refuses to answer how many LMs he has engaged in, makes me think TG and hostman are outliers and TRC and certainly the rest of us are well within whatever the limit is for a long time to come.
It is a given that these sorts of mechanical and electrical systems will have a given mean time to failure (MTTF), which will change based on type of use. It should be no surprise that: harder use --> decreased TTF. True of all cars.
One way to deal with that is to let premature failure caused by hard use happen, and either cover it under warranty or not. And possibly have a fight about it. And after the warranty expires, the customer covers it no matter what.
Another way, likely only possible with software, is to attenuate the power events that are harmful to maintain a certain MTTF floor based high power discharge events. Those with an imagination could imagine some hardware ways too that I just don't know about -- I can imagine a fuse type thing that doesn't blow, but rather just degrades decreasing the power over time based on exposure to high power discharge events. Hardware or software doesn't matter. ICE engines similarly will degrade and it amusing to think of people going to dyno and making claims against the car mfr with their dyno slips in hand while their piston rings and valves wear, their clutch slips etc., all based on their use (including redline events).
The point is that there was only certain amount of high discharge events possible in a system until it broke. Should the design simply just let that happen? Let it break? Or should it ration the the high discharge events, and attenuate the ones as you approach the MTTF?
I do wish they would have used something like the current easter egg disclosure screen to notify us that Launch Mode events (and perhaps other events? we still don't know) have serious wear consequences. But in hindsight, I realize -- of course they do, why would I expect a free lunch performance lunch? -- of course harder use has higher wear consequences.
There is no free engineering lunch -- hard use has stress and fatigue consequences. Rationing the hard use makes perfect sense to me, especially as someone who intends to keep my car well past the warranty period.
