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It doesn't tell us how much of the $500m for the year was already spent by the supercharger team in the first 4 months. If there's only $100m left for the remaining 8 months then that's a massive slow down. Elon being vague makes me think a bunch of the $500m was already committed to by the...

That doesn't seem to match the science though. AAKEE has posted many papers that all show lower degradation at low SOC. This applies whether it's NCA, NMC, or LFP. When it comes to storing your car for extended periods the lower the SOC the better. Damage can be done if the physical cells go...

I just did a drive by of the location for the Perth supercharger in Kings Park. TOCWA announced at the end of March that it was being constructed in April. I went past there a few weeks ago and there was scaffolding up behind the car spots where the chargers were to be installed. It looked...

Depends I guess. If you have CAN bus tools you can see when voltage imbalance starts to drift and the BMS is being ineffective balancing. Then you can do a 100% charge to re-calibrate the BMS. If you don't have CAN bus monitoring then doing a 100% charge every couple of months would appear...

Doesn't look like your car is balancing if there is still at least a 20mV imbalance. I faced similar and wondered WTF was going on. In the end I tried a method from Reddit that said engineers from Tesla suggested charging to 100% and letting the car sit for at least 6 hours. So I charged to...

TOCWA revealed a new Supercharger is going in to Kings Park in April. It's mentioned at the start of the latest Ask Us Anything at: The supercharger will be located near the tennis courts. Not a bad location with a great playground/cafe nearby, although this may lead to it being iced as it...

Yep probably just running down the stock they already have. I expect warranty repairs will keep getting T revision remans until they have exhausted their stockpile. I went through similar in Australia, Tesla only had T reman units available in stock. It was made clear to me that if it was a...

If you're paying out of pocket then I'd try to avoid getting a reman drive unit. In my case I was originally quoted a reman T drive unit. I wasn't happy getting another motor with coolant leak problem and asked how much to get a new U unit and it basically came to same price. I just had to...

For the cells there's lower degradation at low SOC and low temperatures. Looking at my car (model S P85) I can see that the battery won't be actively cooled until the temperature hits 52 degrees. Car is currently at 53%. I think as the SOC rises the car will select a lower temperature to...

Model S. To be fair the last motor was replaced in 2017 so it's had a reasonable life although far less than a typical ICE motor. The car is out of warranty so it was $10k to replace. Since I was paying they said it was ok to order in a new U revision motor which has a fix for the coolant...

I think the one thing I've learnt is that age is a more important factor than mileage. In fact it seems the low mileage cars can encounter more problems sooner. The large drive units are particularly problematic. If you just look at the high mileage cars such as the 1.9million km car needing...

I unplugged once it finished charging at 100%. There was a constant drain of around 250W so I assume the car would've started charging again after some hours if plugged in. There was an increase in capacity of around 2% (nominal capacity increased from 72kWh to 73.6kWh). Also a slight drop...

That's quite amazing. All these people worried about EVs crashing the grid and yet consumption continues to drop. I guess most EV owners are getting solar to go with their car. Free fuel is such a drawcard. Thanks for all your hard work compiling these stats Vostok!

Had a similar issue. Imbalance rose quite suddenly to 26-28mV. Advice from Tesla nowadays is to charge to 100% and let it sit for at least 6 hours to balance. I was watching the levels via SMT after charging to 100%. Balancing was slow, with imbalance reducing around 1mV per hour. It took...

I had a similar problem recently on 2023.32.7. Car unlocked, I jumped in and MCU dead. No way to reboot it. Then I found the car wasn't responding to the keyfob. I opened the app and it showed a weird error I hadn't seen before. Luckily I could open the frunk through the app. Then I took...