Rated range 394 km=246 miles when new

hiroshiy · Jan 6, 2015

I have received my car in Japan on September 2014 and after a few weeks I decided to range charge with 80A wall connector. What I got was only 394 km or 246 miles of range, with firmware 5.12 (101.6.7). Yes I know Tesla has strange build numbers on Japanese cars and they are not updating our cars, but I think it's irrelevant.

Is this normal to have this range when new? Last week I got 390 km = 243 miles. I only had 3 or 4 times of range charging, other times I charge to 70%-90% daily. The garages at home and work are warm even in winter (underground).

Afdyce · Jan 6, 2015

Mine gets 244 miles on a full range charge

AmpedRealtor · Jan 6, 2015

Switch to ideal mile units (controls/settings/units). What is that number? That is a better way to determine battery capacity because rated range does some strange calculations.

gaswalla · Jan 6, 2015

A new battery should have a minimum of 265 rated miles, and often will have around 270.
Can you check the battery label (raise car if possible, and look at battery behind front passenger wheel).
post a pic or report back the number and letter. Would be interesting to find out if this is actually an old battery

hiroshiy · Jan 7, 2015

@Afdyce: thanks. Is your battery new? In your profile you seemed to receive the car last year??

@AmpedRealtor: will try that this weekend.

@gaswalla: will check the label tomorrow.

mknox · Jan 7, 2015

When my car was new, I got 265 Rated Miles exactly on a Range Charge. Did one yesterday (at about 40,000 miles and 22 months in) and got 245 Rated Miles.

hiroshiy · Jan 8, 2015

Japanese cars and possibly European cars have Rated and Typical, no Ideal.

Today I charged to 90%, and got 436km Japanese rated, which is 272 miles. Probably if I range charge, it will be 300 miles. So as I guessed before, American Ideal is Japanese Rated.

On the other hand, when I switched to Typical, at 90% I got 348km, which is 217 miles and when extrapolated to 100% it would be 241 miles.

From this result, American Rated might be different from Japanese Typical, so my battery may be just fine because Japanese rated at 90% was 436km.

Mario Kadastik · Jan 9, 2015

Yes, the EU and JP have Rated (similar to US Ideal, but different Wh/km as it's NEDC) and Typical (similar to US Rated). When I charge to 90% I get 348,x (the X varies a bit from day to day). However when I range charge to 100% I get around 388-396km. You have to multiple times charge to 100% and drive a substantial amount of the battery as well as let the car sit at 100% to make sure it balances out the pack (only visible at next charge what you gain). After a couple of such charges I've gone in summer from 388 to 402km.

hiroshiy · Jan 9, 2015

Hi Mario,
Re; EU/JP Rated:
I'm becoming confident that this is same as US Ideal. My 90% JP Rated was 436km/272miles, so 100% is 303miles, same as US Ideal.

The question is EU/JP Typical - my JP Typical was 348-351km at 90% (217-219miles). My JP Typical at 100% was approx 389-394km (243-246miles). This seems to match yours, but doesn't match US Rated numbers (265miles at 100%). EU/JP Typical seems to be 7% lower than US Rated. This makes me believe that:

US Ideal, EU/JP Rated = 250Wh/mile, 156.25Wh/km
US Rated = 300Wh/km, 187.5Wh/km
EU/JP Typical = 320Wh/km, 200Wh/km

What do you think?

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