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The trouble with that is to a certain extent we're just kicking the can down the road. Modern Tesla vehicles have more range than older ones, yet people still
by agent86 8y ago
The trouble with that is to a certain extent we're just kicking the can down the road. Modern Tesla vehicles have more range than older ones, yet people still charge modern ones to 100% for various reasons.
The idea here is to leverage their incredibly fast rate of charge and short term nature to reduce time spent Supercharging. Very roughly speaking, you can charge from 0-90% in an hour, but to go from 90-100% can take almost another hour.
If you could get the car to 90% and then very rapidly charge the capacitors with the remaining 10% that trickles in, you get the car off the charger faster. In theory you could almost double the number of cars you could serve at that station.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoTesla is rolling out a firmware update that will prevent you from charging above 90% at high contention Superchargers. Simple solution.
- Dylan16807 8y agoThat's just lying to yourself about what "100%" is, by excluding the caps. It's again easier to add more battery and pretend it doesn't exist for reaching 'full charge'. That will also give you better battery longevity.
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