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Mechanically, the battery is better yes. However since it's becoming rather obvious that the general population had no idea how this battery limit worked, it m
by bussierem 9y ago
Mechanically, the battery is better yes. However since it's becoming rather obvious that the general population had no idea how this battery limit worked, it means that Tesla could say "our battery is better" and be lauded for making the better "60kWh" battery. They don't have the "better" battery, because you're comparing an apple to a bigger apple and saying the bigger one is better at being an apple.
- rgbrenner 9y agoSounds like a perfectly valid strategy to me. You can create a longer lasting battery by investing in R&D or spending more on the battery itself. No consumer is buying batteries by looking at what technology was used to create it. They're buying it for X range, X recharge cycles, for X dollars. Those are all of the variables. So giving them more recharge cycles for the same money IS better. This is exactly the way the SSD market works btw.. in fact its worse, because the largest manufacturers are actively investing money to make shorter life (but denser MB/area) cells (SLC > MLC > TLC), while building more spare capacity into each drive to meet their reliability targets. Without it, SSDs wouldn't even exist.
- Johnny555 9y agoIf a 75kwh battery downrated in software to act as a 60kwh battery performs better, isn't that still "better" than a cheaper "real" 60kwh battery? Is that really different from using a more expensive cell design in the "better" battery?