Total battery capacity. Tesla are know for not hiding battery capacity, and instead using UI to strongly hint you shouldn’t charge past 80% under normal usage.

Total battery capacity. Tesla are know for not hiding battery capacity, and instead using UI to strongly hint you shouldn’t charge past 80% under normal usage. The exception to this rule is cars sold with a lower capacity, where the battery is capacity is software locked. But that’s a market segmentation thing, not a battery protection thing. I also think there was only a short period where this happened on the Model S. These days Tesla has the scale where it’s more economical to have multiple battery versions for each capacity, than it is to reduce manufacturing complexity with fewer SKUs (and software lock the battery).