What is the best way to recondition the battery

[Dale Hoppas]

I did a search on this but was not able to locate the answer:

I purchased new Model S-100D in 2018 and now have over 120,000+miles.

The battery when new was rated at 330miles.

Charge at home most of the time and when I charge to full with the charger that puts in 24miles for every hour will top out at 300. (I do not fully charge every day – only on road trips that are about 3 times a week and then hit a super charger on the road to get home).



My question is - What is the best way to recondition the battery to try and get back to 330 miles or close to it?

I plan on keeping this car long term.



Thanks for everyone time and help

 

[trm2]

So can the car only travel 300 miles on a charge? Is it that you want it to display that it can go 330 no matter how far it can actually go? If the former, nothing you can do will restore the mileage as the battery is actually degraded, if the latter, well, it really doesn't matter, does it.

 

[Dale Hoppas]

My goal was to try to get the battery pack back close to the 330 miles back to full charge, obviously i have lost some range as well.
Thanks for anyone with good idea(s).

 

[ItsNotAboutTheMoney]

If you're looking for recalibration, Bjørn Nyland recently tried it for his repurchased 2013 Model S (Millennium Falcon as he calls it).

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[drklain]

If you're looking for recalibration, Bjørn Nyland recently tried it for his repurchased 2013 Model S (Millennium Falcon as he calls it).

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It's an 8 hour video. Can you tell us where to look? What were Bjorn's results and what did he do to try and recondition it?

 

[Uncle Paul]

No current reconditioning is available. Your Tesla battery has lost 10% of it's range over 120,000 of driving. That is the nature of the beast. Good news is that most of the loss happens early, and then the batteries become more stable and loss is reduced for the next 120,000 miles.

 

[ucmndd]

You can find lots of threads with hocus pocus and other advice but what you’re observing is normal. There’s no “getting it back.”

 

[Cheburashka]

Actually there is a way that works 100%.

Go into your display settings and change the range display to "ideal". You'll get that 30 miles back and then some!

 

[domodan]

If you're looking for recalibration, Bjørn Nyland recently tried it for his repurchased 2013 Model S (Millennium Falcon as he calls it).

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That’s a 9 hour video! Any tips as to which parts may be of value? LOL

 

[possum22]

That’s a 9 hour video! Any tips as to which parts may be of value? LOL

23 min version.

 

[David_Cary]

You probably have a fully calibrated battery given your behaviors.
Those of us that spend time between 40 and 70% exclusively need occasional recalibration. Although I am one of those that rarely charges to 80% but when I do charge to 100%, it is pretty stable. Wavers between 216 and 218 over the last 2 years. My original was 240 and I am 6 years out and 90k miles.
Calibration is done by going close to 0% and then all the way back to 100%. Make sure you sit at 100% on the charger for a little while (how long is hard to say but certainly until it stops charging). Do that a few times. Not great for your battery but will calibrate the BMS.
At 300 and 10% loss, you should just not worry about it. You maybe at 290 when you hit 200k miles.

 

[amiral_sub]

but Bjorn did the calibration and it did not change anything

 

[ItsNotAboutTheMoney]

23 min version.

Uh, yeah, sorry. The above was the video I meant to link to.

 

[Hugh-SG]

Range Loss Over Time, What Can Be Expected, Efficiency, How to Maintain Battery Health

What’s the longest you’ve driven on a full charge at Highway speed? LR 3 is rated at 310 miles, but ABRP says I’m going to be going from 90% to 13% over a 176 mile leg of my trip. That puts real range more like 230 miles 200 to 230 miles per charge is about the optimum for speed due to...

teslamotorsclub.com

Have a look over at the above I just posted a short note on the degradation one can expect at 50k and 150k.

It is normal of EV batteries to slowly take degradation, but if you follow the 20 to 80 recharging rule of thumb, you should get over 837,000 miles or 1.3 million km's before you battery has degraded to 85% of original OEM range.

Thus using the 20-80 rule I expect my MX to have a long life and last me the next 30 years.

Food for thought,
Cheers, Hugh-SG

 

[Dale Hoppas]

You probably have a fully calibrated battery given your behaviors.
Those of us that spend time between 40 and 70% exclusively need occasional recalibration. Although I am one of those that rarely charges to 80% but when I do charge to 100%, it is pretty stable. Wavers between 216 and 218 over the last 2 years. My original was 240 and I am 6 years out and 90k miles.
Calibration is done by going close to 0% and then all the way back to 100%. Make sure you sit at 100% on the charger for a little while (how long is hard to say but certainly until it stops charging). Do that a few times. Not great for your battery but will calibrate the BMS.
At 300 and 10% loss, you should just not worry about it. You maybe at 290 when you hit 200k miles.

Thanks !!!

 

[Dale Hoppas]

Thanks !!!