Recent content by LostVector

Draining the battery to a low SoC makes sense if the car is going to sit for a while. For a car that is driven regularly, avoiding charging in order to drain to a low SoC when you could charge back up a bit does not make sense.

You could get something like this. https://getneocharge.com/products/neocharge-smart-splitter It allows you to charge from both output outlets simultaneously and the internal breaker will limit any accidental total overcurrent. Then set your vehicles to an appropriate amperage. If you want a...

Yes ... I probably could have named this thread slightly differently because I can see how it's confusing. I think FSD likely uses WiFi to upload multiple GB's of data per day. Hotspot just looks like WiFi to the car so it goes hog wild with the data despite the fact that the hotspot obviously...

Certain features like music and video streaming work over the hotspot and otherwise need premium connectivity. Hotspot data is included with my cell plan (or at least 30gb worth is) so I use it. I did not turn it on in relation to enabling FSD.

Just a quick warning … I engaged the free FSD trial a month and an half ago … and then did a subscription today for a big trip. While FSD was engaged it ran through my hotspot data plan at the rate of several gigs per day. Tesla needs to do a better job of explaining this as it was totally...

If your litmus test for shutting things down is whether they make a profit right now, then Tesla itself should have shut down many years ago when it wasn't making money. So rather, the fact is the superchargers are projected to be profitable. Even Elon himself said this just a couple of years.

My point was more that regardless of what you think the impact is, if one is trying to follow Tesla’s recommended charging procedure, then charging to 85 and draining it back down daily is not that.

Yes, speed is probably the only actual number that matters re understanding the discrepancy.

if you drive within half an hour of charging, seems mostly fine. It just appeared that you were going off Tesla's recommendations, and the recommendation is pretty specifically not to charge past 80% except for trips ... the advice isn't "charge past 80% daily and bleed it off immediately"...

I'm finding the approach a bit puzzling. Why charge to 85 instead of 80? The way you are doing it, the car is spending some portion of time above 80% ... and possibly not an insignificant amount of time either, depending on when you put that charge in relative to your next drive.

The X factor in all of this is how defensible / non-reproducible a robotaxi is. If self driving ends up being easy to replicate or copy due to general advances in AI, no robotaxi business will sustain unusually high margins.

I mean this. It’s not complicated …investors view this piece of Tesla as a serious business. Tesla Has Built a Charging Business to Be Taken Seriously [URL unfurl=“false”]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-04-09/tesla-tsla-charging-network-has-become-a-serious-business[/URL]

Ah I see the oft quoted graph you are using. Well that specific study does appear to contradict what I said, but a meta study of multiple chemistries and studies does conclude that LFP is generally more stable. There are differences at various operating ranges that may result in different...

I voted against his comp package after this nonsense and know others who did as well. I wouldn't be surprised if he's turning tail based on the votes coming in.

LFP batteries are widely understood to experience less calendar aging than NCA batteries ... something around 40-50% of the degradation over time. You can google through various studies to confirm this.