My Tesla app now has a specific recommendation of charging percentage in the app (a specific recommended percentage for each car). This is new, and somewhat unexpected, but it is true, as I see it in my Tesla app for both cars (and its a different recommendation for my model 3 vs my wifes model Y as well).
Tesla took the charge recommendation away from the manual and now tell us to look on the cars screen or the mobile app.
This is the new text: (change was dome in the middle of the summer.)
The reason for moving it into the app or car is probably the confusion about which battery the car has, that the owners often had. (This issue “should I charge to 100% or not” has been rather common here and on other forums, Facebook groups etc).
Having the information in the car and mobile only show the specific charging tips for your own car.
The new way, of having it in the app and car only show the “daily limit” when the slider is above the daily limit. It do not show if using any value below.
I am positive that this is ment as a upper limit. (The text above even use the term “limit”)
Before, we had the charging instructions in the manual. This is the old text that was used from the day Tesla introduced the “slider” charge setting.
[Below 90%] must mean any setting below 90%.
Here is a picture from when it was introduced:
Note the text “For daily driving, charge between 50 and 90% for battery longevity”
This notification also came in the same update:
There has not been any very big changes in the batteries for “the best charging level”, specially the old cars that also did get the same 80% notification still has the same battery.
Teslas change to 80% will in the long term reduce the future degradation slightly for the cars that otherwise had been charge to 90% instead of 80%.
This as cycles placed lower in SOC will cause less wear.
Also, calendar aging will be slightly less.
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