Tesla Battery Gossip cut n paste
As Florida residents fled Hurricane Irma over the weekend, some Tesla owners got a little surprise from the auto maker to help them get out of the danger zone. On Saturday, Tesla began pushing a so...
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Bumpyroad wrote:
so Tesla is basically cheating the owners by not doing this permanently for all vehicles??
bumpy
Uh NO.
Rechargeable batteries. have a "Minimum state of charge" now you can discharge PAST this point. but you should not because the overall life of the battery goes down much faster at lower State of Charge.
Tesla calculated this point for their batteries and programmed it in.
BUT.. in an emergency.. Well you do what you have to do and if another 10 or 15% of the state of charge makes the difference between the BATTERY dying a bit sooner than expected.. and YOU dying sooner than expected.... Well the battery is way, way, way easier to replace.
If I wanted to make more profit I would let you run the battery down so far you needed to replace it 2 or 3 times as often as I need to replace mine Tesla is not doing that.. Except in emergencies.
