So have you actually owned the first gen chargers? If not it explains everything cause you just looked up what the charger is capable of lol.
Have you ever adjusted the amps on your MCU Screen when it’s charging?
Do you know what the max charging amps is of certain Tesla’s that have Dual chargers or High Amperage Charging?
Do you realize you could be plugged into a 30 amp outlet and set your settings to 40 amps with the first gen chargers?
Do you think pulling 40 amps from a 30 amp outlet is safe and won’t cause a fire?
Just curious do you own a P85D, P85DL, P90D, P90DL, P100D, or P100DL?
I bet you don’t.
The first gen chargers will allow you to set your car to 40 amps regardless if it’s plugged into a 30 amp outlet.
The second gen on the other hand will only let you charge to 24amps into 30 amp outlet and 32 amps into 50 amp outlet.
Why do you think that is?
Do you think an overheating charging cable can cause fires or fry an outlet?
Well let me explain since clearly you never understood or took the time to understand the reasoning behind Tesla switching from gen 1 to gen 2. Gen 1 chargers would overheat especially if let’s say you HAD THE PREHEAT BATTERY ON! Or if you had it set to Max Power while it’s charging which would do the same thing but at a much higher level in regards to the temperature of the battery. Nevertheless you could just have the AC running , heater running , etc and the cable would get extremely hot. If you ever owned a Gen 1 charger you would already know this as it would be impossible not too.
When the Gen 2 charger starts to get too hot it will simply drop the amps accordingly all the way down to 8 amps. It is built in to protect the charger from overheating thus causing an outlet to fry or worse catch on FIRE.
Now back to Dual and High Amperage Chargers. Dual Chargers were capable of 80 amps and High Amperage 72 amps. Guess which one came before the other? Dual!
So do you see a pattern here yet?
Now guess what the maximum charge rate is as of 2018? 48 amps
Why do you think this is? To piss off owners especially ones who idk say owned 80 amp or 72 amp options?
No it’s because it’s not good for the battery and will cause battery degradation.
Do you know what causes more battery degradation than anything else?
Excessive use of Superchargers.
So comparing a refrigerator to a Tesla is quite laughable and telling of your understanding of Tesla in general and what their primary reasoning is almost always based around. Which is....
To protect the battery that they don’t want to have to replace for free.
But please if you have a performance Tesla start charging on max battery every time you charge and than come back with the first hand knowledge and enlighten everyone if it has had a negative effect on your range.
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