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Supercharging supposedly reduces battery life so it was never really something you would want to do frequently anyway. They have always encouraged charging ove
by makecheck 10y ago
Supercharging supposedly reduces battery life so it was never really something you would want to do frequently anyway. They have always encouraged charging overnight (taking a few hours instead of a few minutes). Their proposed annual limit on “free” seems totally fine.
- lorenzhs 10y agoThere was an article on here recently that suggested that this may actually be false, and that at least occasional supercharging might be good for the battery. There isn't quite enough data to make a firm claim, but it's an interesting observation nonetheless. Speculation was that the battery is hot for a shorter amount of time when supercharging.
- PinguTS 10y agoTalk to anybody from research. Fast charging was and is never a good thing for any-kind of battery.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoTesloop has charged their Tesla Model S vehicles to 100% constantly for almost 200k miles, and their batteries have only experienced a 6% loss of capacity.
- lorenzhs 10y agoWell I know that, this is why said study was so surprising. There might be other factors, potentially influenced by the battery pack architecture or whatnot. In any case, it seems to imply that you don't need to be afraid of using the supercharger every now and then.