Last night, we posted
a series of new shots of Tesla Model 3 release candidates spotted at the San Mateo Supercharger yesterday.
One of the pictures showed the user interface while the vehicle is Supercharging and after some deduction, it shows that the Model 3 could have a range of over 300 miles.
After zooming in and making a pixel count on the battery pack graphic, it shows that the state of charge is just about 30% and it is displaying a range of 95 miles (152 km).
It would mean that the range could easily reach over 300 miles (483 km) once fully charged.
It’s not a perfect way to estimate the range of the vehicle, but it’s the best we got so far. Tesla advertised the range of the base version of the Model 3 at “more than 215 miles”, but that’s for the standard battery pack.
Another, slightly larger battery pack estimated at 70 to 75 kWh of capacity is also expected to be made available and that particular Model 3 release candidate is likely equipped with that option.
When Tesla was about to first unveil the Model 3 in March 2016,
we reported that they were aiming for the higher-end version to have 300 miles of range.
Later on, we reported on a
Model 3 mule being tested with a battery pack listed at 70 kWh and we calculated that depending on the efficiency, a pack of that size could likely push the Model 3’s range over 300 miles,
