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You can't drop lithium ion batteries much below 25% charge or they start to die. If you fully discharge a lithium ion battery it's dead forever. That's how the
by fleitz 16y ago
You can't drop lithium ion batteries much below 25% charge or they start to die. If you fully discharge a lithium ion battery it's dead forever. That's how the Tesla engineers knew it didn't drop below 25% charge because otherwise the car would be undrivable. Why is it unbelievable that a car with a normal range of 200 miles would only get 55 on a track? If your car normally gets 400 miles to a tank it would not be unreasonable to expect 100 miles during a track day.
- po 16y agoThat's also why lithium batteries include circuitry to shut down when they get to x%. When they say they are at 25% then they are really at 25% of what is "safe" for the technology. It's not like if your laptop drops to 0% you can't boot it again. Don't you think that when they say it had 25% charge they are talking about what the battery was reporting?
- fleitz 16y agoKnowing lawyers, probably not. Look at the crap SCEA is putting infront of the court against an 18 year old kid. Also, 25% is known as a quarter tank where people who don't like to run out of gas decide that it's time to fill up, since you can't 'fill up' a Tesla, that means you have to go home. It also means that if you drive your car 55 miles away from home in track like conditions you'll be pushing your car home.
- pbhjpbhj 16y ago>It also means that if you drive your car 55 miles away from home in track like conditions you'll be pushing your car home. In the UK you'd probably have been stopped by the police and have several speeding tickets if you were lucky enough to do the 55 miles on public roads at track speeds (0-60mph in 3.7s, limiter hits at 125mph) without killing anyone or wrecking the car.
- JshWright 16y agoI had a MacBook battery that dropped to 0% and wouldn't charge after that...
- bradleyland 16y agoIt's worth noting that the Ford GT actually ran out of gas on the Top Gear track while Clarkson was driving it, and they put it in the show. They got something ridiculous like 6 miles to the gallon and made a point of it.
- Nelson69 16y agoIt seems reasonable to me.. I vaguely remember the car actually breaking in some way, maybe even a couple times. I can't say I was in the market for a Tesla, but the range wasn't what sounded bad to me, I was left under the impression that it just didn't have the quality yet.