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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MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Bumpy has the right question. Why oh why would they leave a portion of the battery bank totally unused? And to suggest a shallower cycle has no effect on cycle life would border on the absurd. Or is lithium technology apart from the laws of this universe?
Even with LIthium Technology if you discharge DEEPLY it damages the battery and shorten's the overall life.
This is why TESLA set a discharge limit.. They decided in the Flordia case that a little shortening of battery life beats a big shorterning of owner's life and I agree with them.
The difference between LI and Lead Acid in this regard is the defination of DEEP DISCHARGE (or rather too deep) LI's can go lower than LA's but still too far shorten's the battery life.
