Tesla’s get over time, less swagger, because they have longer in the plug.
Tesla shows sneak software in Tesla’s stopped to have charge, under certain circumstances lasts longer as the batteries re-charged more often. According to Tesla itself has this software for the purpose to the life of the batteries to extend. The issue is that some customers, however, is that Tesla this information formerly not with them shared.
Something similar occurred earlier with Tesla’s ‘Performance’ models. In these models, the powah in Launch Mode and Ludicrous Mode is automatically limited after repetitive use. After a software update, you could get this restriction off, however that will only work if both Launch Mode and Max Battery Power Mode is activated.
Anyway, the story with increasing loading of the batteries came to light via a Tesla-rider on a forum who noticed that it always took longer for his car to charge. Initially, he thought that the differences in upload speed came through the use of different superchargers. But a trip to the dealer learned that the problem has a different cause. The reduction in upload speed is built by Tesla itself. The Tesla driver in question is not best pleased about.
“I’m honestly speechless at this. To the best of my knowledge, it has never been communicated from Tesla, until now, that using any kind of DCFC (Direct Current Fast Charging] will permanently degrade your vehicle. Yes, we all know that charging to 100% regularly is a bad thing, but just regularly DC charging is also apparently just as bad, according to Tesla. But to make matters worse, it’s not the battery that’s degraded or causing the slow down, it’s Tesla’s charging algorithm that will slowly start to degrade your charging on each “count” or DCFC. According to the tech I talked to, there is an internal counter that increments each time you DC charge, and once that reaches certain thresholds, it starts restricting your top end charging ability.”
We have in this story is notable that the man in question shows his Tesla only charged with the CHAdeMO adapter, or with the Superchargers. But Tesla gives nothing that you had better not do it. The wroth Tesla-rider goes on the speculate that the purpose of the software is to ensure that Tesla batteries have to be replaced under warranty. The result, however, is that traveling with the Tesla already takes longer than desired.
“This, ostensibly, to prevent Tesla from having to pay out to replace degraded batteries under their unlimited mile warranty. So over time, it will take longer and longer to charge your car. Already, this adds a significant amount of time to my road trips by restricting my charging from a previous high, or 117 kw to ~90 hp on a good day. Road tripping in my Telsa already takes 2x as long as a gas car, but now it’s taking even longer. I can’t imagine wanting to take this car on any further road trips at this point.”