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Also please tell us about CC/CV, and what design considerations were put into the cells to "handle 1C at low SoC."

Everything you are saying is what was said before, but that's not what I am currently observing. 1) When loading/unloading, I frequently open and close vehicle doors and it will switch on the radio if there is sufficiently time in between. I switch off the radio before closing the doors, but...

Note how it went below 120kW before even reaching ~60% SoC. CT battery is 123kWh, which means 1C charging rate (safe, sustainable charging rate for all Lithium Ion batteries) isn't ever maintained, and this charging curve overall would have resulted in sub 1C charging in the end.

I've seen this discussed before, not sure if anything changed. Radio keeps coming back on whenever vehicle is opened. I NEVER use the radio, I play my music from the USB. On a brief stop it resumes playing (from the beginning) the current track. But after some time it comes back to the annoying...

The purpose of the curve is to exceed 1C rate on average. My whole point is that the current curve averages out to below 1C.

That's the standard wisdom in this context, but I'm saying that from the observation it's significantly worse both under 80% SoC and also in totality.

I just did 1600 miles. Sometimes it seemed better than the others, but on average the charging was quite pathetic. Battery health is a factor when charging say at 3C, but what I am saying is that on average CT doesn't even charge at 1C. And again, I understand the math there - if you only...

What I've seen is more like 1hr+ for 15-100%. Sure, it may be fairly quick for the first top off at the bottom, but the navigation wants you to make many such stops to keep it going, and doing a stop is time too... bottom line, I don't see an impressive achievement there - CT charges very slowly...

This may have been discussed before, but did a longer trip in the last few days and had many opportunities to observe. Basically you pull up to a 350kW Supercharger with say 15% SoC. It pushes ~300kW until you get to say ~30%, then 200kW until ~50%, then 150kW until ~60%... above 60% it's...

Where did the $59K come from ? On Tesla website there is $69K with deliveries in 2027, is that different ?

Parking the vehicle in a fully enclosed metal garage that is properly grounded would eliminate any possibility of the damage from an EMP. The real issue is that non-nuclear EMP sources aren't able to produce pulses strong enough to cause damage over a vast territory, and nuclear sources... you...

If you go through insurance you want to have a police report filed. At least attempt to file it :D That establishes that you were not at fault, and shouldn't affect your premium.

Wow, that's really some shitty police department. Sorry you got to find out that way. Please write a complaint to the city council. It will probably fall on deaf ears, but hopefully enough citizens will actually try to hold them accountable where they may feel worried about their seats and put...

That's the weirdest thing I heard this year. Destruction of property is against the law regardless of where the property is located. I haven't checked all 50 states, but pretty sure it's universal nationwide. I mean it may not be a specific traffic offense because of the "private property", but...

Never used it myself, but I think the major limitation is that they're not offering it everywhere: https://ev.aaa.com/articles/roadside-assistance-in-an-electric-car/ https://www.aaa.com/autorepair/articles/used-ev-buyers-guide

AAA has a charging service. Also for long trips through areas with limited charging I'd recommend bringing Honda EU2200 or two (parallel). Also having a long beefy (12AWG) extension cord is useful as there is always 120V somewhere. But hey, you probably don't even have a spare tire...

LOL

Also another thing... do we know how the energy tracker works ? Is it really total energy used per mile traveled, or is it energy used in the traction subsystem only ? In other words if you sit in a parking lot with AC on for an hour, does it count it towards the current trip or not ?

Reserve is at least 10%, but possibly 15%. Can't say if that's how it's done in CT, but in the industry the common practice is to leave 10% at the bottom and 5% at the top, so the actual cycling of the battery is 10-95%.

I rented a similar camper on Outdoorsy a few months ago. The host asked the distance to the ground from the receiver and adjusted the coupler on the trailer ahead of time - I gave them the height in Low suspension mode. Likewise they had the WD setup with sway control, so it wasn't necessary to...