There is no advantage to charging your battery less than 50% or else Tesla would allow us to set the charge limit to values below 50%. It would absolutely cost them nothing to make the lowest charge limit 30%, if that would make your battery last longer. This is not some conspiracy to get you to trash your battery so you will buy another new Tesla when your old one dies.
Very true.There is no advantage to charging your battery less than 50% or else Tesla would allow us to set the charge limit to values below 50%. It would absolutely cost them nothing to make the maximum charge limit 30%, if that would make your battery last longer. This is not some conspiracy to get you to trash your battery so you will buy another new Tesla when your old one dies.
If you are only making short trips through the week, just set your charge limit to 50% and keep it plugged in (assuming you have a charging station at home).
People are over-thinking this. How many people worry that their ICE car's engine and transmission might "only" last 300,000 miles when buying a new car? That's not even on anybody's mind because ICE cars are typically costed out over 150K to 200K miles. After that many miles, the value of an ICE car has already depreciated to next to nothing. The whole "expensive battery replacement" narrative is just another false narrative designed to make you think buying a new EV is somehow risky or a bad value because the battery will fail eventually. When, in fact, they tend to last longer than ICE cars without any major repairs. Why don't media stories worry about the cost of engine and transmission replacements when discussing new vehicle purchases? Yeah, because most cars are sent to the recyclers before they get new engines and transmissions.
Now cue all the people who will tell you how their Toyota is on it's third engine/transmission and approaching a million miles. And that replacement only cost $500 each time. Because it's so easy and cheap to rebuild engines and transmissions.
Sweet. Driving my S with 290k with my brembo rotors and new pads in the back. Don't need them, but I think it's time.
I actually 'forgot' to turn off Sentry Mode when I went on a 2 week trip and because it was parked 'on the street', it recorded every time someone walked past it... I had parked it with 74% and when I was almost done with vacation I checked in on it only to find that it was down to 18% and I still had 3 days to go before I would be driving it!! Really worried me that it lost 56% of it's charge in 11 days... I figured that if it was losing 5% per day that I was going to be LUCKY to have 3% left when I got there... So, I went into the settings to turn off Sentry Mode... But it was already off!!
You've got your CT a year ago?
I wish!! We still haven't received it... Hoping any day now we'll get the VIN... That was all with my Model Y-LR... I thought I said that in the message... Guess I didn't... Oh well, it was on the 'side' under Vehicles... hehe...
80% is a good everyday limit to set. When road-tripping, you'll want to charge just enough to get to your next supercharging location (but give yourself a few % pad). That way, you're not charging for a longer time than you need to be, and your next charging session will begin at a deeper discharge, which will translate to a higher rate of charge for more of your charging session. The idea (when traveling) is to get the energy you need at the highest charging speeds possible.
