How many times have you Range charged (100%) your model S?

CAR NEW PURCHASE DATE: September 2013
CURRENT VEHICLE MILEAGE: 34,500 kms (21,000 miles)
CURRENT RATED MILES @ 100%: 404 kms (251 miles)
TOTAL # OF RANGE CHARGES: 5 times

Purchase: Jan 2013
Miles: ~38,000 miles
Rated @100%: 256 miles (August 2014, with my last 100% charge).
# Range: ~15-20, about 1/2 driving within 30 minutes of hitting 100%. One lasting ~36 hours @100% (messed up like you did). All others less than 6 hours at 100%.

I've driven to single digit remaining miles ~4 times (lowest was 2). It gets driven to yellow ~2 times a week for the past month, and will be driven to yellow 2 times a week until May 2015. I have driven to yellow ~20-30 times total, not including the twice weekly number.

A lot of my justification of getting the 85kWh over the 40kWh version was that I would do a few trips a year in the 85kWh pack. I'm not worried about degradation due to use at all.

Are MS60's welcome to this poll?

• CAR NEW PURCHASE DATE: 5/31/2014
• CURRENT VEHICLE MILEAGE: 6K
• CURRENT RATED MILES @ 100%: 195
• TOTAL # OF RANGE CHARGES: 3

• CAR NEW PURCHASE DATE: November 8, 2013
• CURRENT VEHICLE MILEAGE: 20,526
• CURRENT RATED MILES @ 100%: 261 (last checked over two weeks ago)
• TOTAL # OF RANGE CHARGES: Approx. 15... (about ten more times in the high nineties)

Typically leave the car on 100% less than 10 minutes before I drive off.

About half of range charges were on SCs. Next highest is on UMC at 40A or J1772 at home at 30A Oh, and it's an S85.

Charged it to 100% about 10 times in 9 months. About half those times, it was by mistake - by fiddling around with the cellphone app and leaving it on "max" prior to a scheduled charge. Then it charged up to 100% without me requiring it. <facepalm>

About twice, I've left it for about a day at full charge before driving it. (the worst possible behaviour, I understand)

Over nine months the 100% range has gone from 269 miles to 262.

(the 80% mark would therefore be at 215 miles)

I have become a great deal more careful about charging it to max these days.

• DATE ENTERED INTO SERVICE: 2013-12-18
• CURRENT VEHICLE MILEAGE: 16500
• CURRENT RATED MILES @ 100%: 262
• TOTAL # OF RANGE CHARGES: 10

• DATE ENTERED INTO SERVICE: 2013-10-15
• CURRENT VEHICLE MILEAGE: 16,888 km (10,494 miles)
• CURRENT RATED MILES @ 100%: 425 km (264 miles)
• TOTAL # OF RANGE CHARGES: 10-15

Only have fully charged it when on a road trip earlier this year. Normally I keep the car between 30-70 % charged and live in a temperate climate. Haven't really seen any degradation yet.

Mine's a service loaner so I'd have to go back and look at the build date, but I took ownership Halloween 2013.



CAR NEW PURCHASE DATE: N/A (VIN 11-12k)
CURRENT VEHICLE MILEAGE: 21,000 miles
CURRENT RATED MILES @ 100%: 257
CURRENT RATED MILES @ 90%: 226
TOTAL # OF RANGE CHARGES: 10 or so (but could've been more as a loaner)


I usually charge to 80-90% daily. When it gets really hot out, I charge to 80%. As things cool down, I charge to 90%. This is because heat as harder on the battery, but cold means you use more energy... Rather than trying to keep SOC as low as I can possibly stand like some people, I'd rather have the spare reserve in case something comes up and I need to do more driving after work, etc than I anticipated. Also because I only have the single mobile charger and I don't bring it with me unless I'm going on a real road trip

At first I thought my range was dropping a tad faster than most, but now I seem to be right in line with the mean/mode

CAR NEW PURCHASE DATE: February 2013
CURRENT VEHICLE MILEAGE: just over 24,500
CURRENT RATED MILES @ 100%: haven't range charged since March, had 212 (in a 60kwh)
TOTAL # OF RANGE CHARGES: about 6-7


I did a range charge for a group outing with the Tesla AZ owners. The others were all related to driving from Phoenix to Denver. I didn't need to do range charges, but I wanted to quell the range anxiety especially when driving in the cold and up to altitude.

I wonder whether we should be looking at IDEAL miles instead of RATED miles. Granted, I remember IDEAL vs. RATED, but the only absolute number is the IDEAL miles, right? That takes a constant rate vs. measured rate from the past however many miles of driving habit.

My wife's question to me of "how aggressively was I driving her Roadster Yesterday" comes to mind as we had a >40 mile difference in RATED vs what she normally sees in her car (shall I say I was "busted" for having fun with her car.)

• CAR NEW PURCHASE DATE: 2013/3/2 (assume you mean delivery date)
• CURRENT VEHICLE MILEAGE: 30,500
• CURRENT RATED MILES @ 100%: 259 - 261 (seems to vary a bit)
• TOTAL # OF RANGE CHARGES: 30 (estimated)

The question is: Does is count as a range charge if you are in the "trip" section of the slider?
I've never done a range charge where I've let it sit.​

CAR NEW PURCHASE DATE: Oct 2012
CURRENT VEHICLE MILEAGE: 37 K
CURRENT RATED MILES @ 100%: 250
TOTAL # OF RANGE CHARGES: 20-30 (estimated)

Do we need to know what firmware version one is using when quoting 100% Rated miles, since I think there may have been some tweaks to the formula that could affect the figure?

date entered into service: 2013-7-2013current vehicle mileage: )8500
current rated miles @ 100%: 261
total # of range charges: 5

CAR NEW PURCHASE DATE: 09/30/2012
CURRENT VEHICLE MILEAGE: 32,400mi
CURRENT RATED MILES @ 100%: 253
TOTAL # OF RANGE CHARGES: ~25


I have range charged when on trips since the car was new; I never let the car sit at 100% for more than a few minutes. Typically I charge to 85% for local driving and plug it in every night.

• CAR NEW PURCHASE DATE: May 16th 2014
• CURRENT VEHICLE MILEAGE: 5060km (3144 miles)
• CURRENT RATED MILES @ 100%: 250 (extrapolated from current Typical range of 322km at 80%)
• TOTAL # OF RANGE CHARGES: 0

I have never done a range charge and always charge to 80%. The Typical range has dropped from the original 325km to 322km at 80%.

Firmware 5.9.