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OP. Have a great trip! I'll see if I can do the same when mine goes out!
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I asked for a ballpark estimate of when the PCS would be available. I was told 8 weeks. How many times can I cross America in 8 weeks?
as far as I k ow they give you 90 days free charging. Timer starts when you put in the service request. They do not take it away once fixed. Mines been fixed and free till Aug 15th. Now I’d imagine if they delayed the fix past the 90, would seem fair to extend it. But that’s just a guess.
 

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15-month old AWD with moderate Supercharging, weekly Level 2 (48-amp) home charging, maybe every 4 days with heavier use, still shows 316 miles range. There’s way too much focus here on best practices - Elon says drive it like a rented mule. I often run to near zero, frequently charge to 100%. No problemo. I’ve had seven Teslas, starting with #209 in 2012. Battery ā€œhealthā€ is a made-up-concern. Yes, unless you have iron phosphate, only charge to 80% regularly, but the idea that 50 or 60% is better, never go below 20%, is just nuts - and doing so WILL screw up your BMS, and you WILL have inaccurate range estimates until running to zero and 100% a few times.
 

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Folks, free supercharging is way over-rated. If you drive a CT across the continent, the most free charging will save you is $500. CT owners with wadded up panties should get off their wallets and not worry so much.
 


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Don't be silly. You didn't go from 0.75% to 3.5% so quickly just by SCing a few times... Where are you getting your data? I've 100% SC'd for 30k miles, I still get 320+ estimated miles on a full charge. The battery pack uses a reserve anyways that you don't get access to, similar to how SSDs work. You can't charge the full 123KW. I think the most we get to use is ~116KW.
Data directly from linked Tessie app.
 

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Data directly from linked Tessie app.
That's just an estimate. It's not accurate. Only doing a battery test through the service menu and following the procedure will give you an accurate measurement. Otherwise, has your estimated range changed when charging to 80%? There's no way a couple SCing sessions degraded that much. I've been SCing 100% for 32K miles and my estimated range has yet to change. The BMS in Teslas isn't like cheap consumer Li-Ion battery packs (Bluetti/Ecoflow/Jackery/etc).



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Another interesting data report on EV batteries about how our expectations of battery health mostly comes from uses unrelated to EVs.
 
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Folks, free supercharging is way over-rated. If you drive a CT across the continent, the most free charging will save you is $500. CT owners with wadded up panties should get off their wallets and not worry so much.
I notice that this explanation and allegation of cheapness and wadded panties usually comes from people who aren’t using this benefit daily. Not saying at all that anyone is wrong, just that experiences obviously vary quite a bit in this and it would behoove us all to keep an open mind and respect other people’s choices whether or not we agree with them. You do what works for you and others will do what works for them. It’s a beautiful thing.
Again, I have no intention of arguing with anyone’s financial calculations because this is complicated math which isn’t exactly what I’m best at, but I can at least provide one anecdotal data point for your consideration. How that translates to over or under rating free supercharging is not something I’m shrewd enough to decide either. Just the facts.
I am today about a week short of having owned my second AWD for a year after trading the first for one with free supercharging at 0% interest financing.
According to my Tesla app, I have supercharged an amount equivalent to $4959 so my expectation is just north of $5k for the year over the course of 13,904 miles.
Based on that, I certainly wouldn’t wad my panties up as you say especially knowing this could have also been done for quite a bit cheaper sticking religiously to home charging, but I’ve been taking that saved money and quite deliberately buying TSLA every month with it.
In my opinion, in five years I may be wearing much nicer panties if the trend I’m seeing continues. Wadded or not.
 
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Places to go on your Route 66 trip??
--Painted Desert
--Meteor Crater
--Monument Valley
--Grand Canyon (definitely)
Added them all to my list. It sucks now that I get to ask GROK two or three questions before he shuts down. It would be very helpful in planning. My wife has been researching like crazy though! I definitely need a break. Yesterday we were dropping the kids off at camp and were coming back on I-44 a major interstate between Joplin and Springfield, Mo. The car decided to get off the Interstate and take a 5 mile scenic alternative route... I gave Grok the benefit of the doubt... maybe it knew about a traffic accident/stoppage I did not. Nope. Turns out it just decided it was a better to get on a slower hwy instead of a a faster interstate. When I tried to understand its logic it told me I had asked too many questions... Argh.
 


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I asked for a ballpark estimate of when the PCS would be available. I was told 8 weeks. How many times can I cross America in 8 weeks?
Go for it. I would guess you could do 16 trans-America trips in 8 weeks without even trying. I bet you feel this would be really sticking it to Musk, huh? If you only knew how little he cared, how insignificant this was in the big picture, not even a single teardrop will be shed. The number of Cybertrucks with PCS failure is miniscule relative to Tesla's Supercharging business.

I sincerely hope you have some good adventures though! Be sure to keep us abreast of your amazing progress.
 

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Added them all to my list. It sucks now that I get to ask GROK two or three questions before he shuts down.
I've used Grok a lot more than that and he never shut down. Maybe you are in Elon's little black book? ;) Just kidding, that's probably Elon suggesting you should pay for the service you love to use so much! My wife uses free Grok more than I do and she has hit her token limit a couple of times. I guess you get what you pay for!
 

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They told me I had free supercharging but when I went to the supercharger I was charged.
 

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They told me I had free supercharging but when I went to the supercharger I was charged.
Takes a few days to propagate to your app, you will see the change in your app at the bottom, specs and warranty, bottom of the spec sheet it will either say Pay as you go, free unlimited or free expires on date.
 

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Takes a few days to propagate to your app, you will see the change in your app at the bottom, specs and warranty, bottom of the spec sheet it will either say Pay as you go, free unlimited or free expires on date.
They gave it to me and took it away after I used a supercharger. They sent me a text message saying that I wasn't going to get it because they looked at my truck again remotely and decided I did not have a problem after all even though I had error messages
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