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Joe Justice had a story in one of his Youtube appearances about someone updating a cable internally (I think from the charge port to the bms system) to allow the car to get to 250kw. It would be interesting to know how much margin all the different components where designed with for future increases in amperage.Presumably. Tesla's capacity is based on their not-quite arbitrary, conservative choices to increase safety. I don't know of anyone managing to identify the component-level of the chargers and know their theoretical maximums.
In other words, we don't know the max capacity of either the stations or the cars - only the speeds they have historically run at.
Tesla has raised the capacity without saying before, when the Model 3 was shipped with 250KW capacity.
-Crissa
Well... They'd also get sued if they set the limit to high causing cars to burst into flames. But I think that might be a slightly different type of getting sued than what you meant.They only get sued if they have to lower the charging speeds post-sale, after all.
I mentioned it above, but Tesla’s new silicon anodes will alleviate this. Not sure if we’ll see it in the first generation Cybertrucks, it might be a few years down the road, but it’ll essentially blow those constraints away. Still be a curve but it will be much flatter and enable megawatt charging speeds.No, that's how it works (and you'll only get that power level if certain conditions are met, such as type of car/battery pack rev, low state of charge, and adequate battery temperature)...
There is a charging curve built in that tapers from maximum power to prevent overheating the battery...