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Regen Changes in New Firmware?

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About a year ago, I started to notice that no matter what, I couldn't get above about 45 kW of Re-Gen. Even if I dropped my foot right off the accelerator at 75 MPH. I also noticed I was getting nowhere near 90 kW at Superchargers even when the battery was very low. Tesla couldn't really find anything wrong. Then I had a main pack contactor failure and the car was in for a week while they dropped the pack and undertook repairs. After getting the car back, my re-gen and Supercharging were all back to normal. I'm not sure what the connection is, but it was as obvious as day is to night.
If you also have less than normal acceleration I would suspect it has to do with the higher than normal contact resistance on the failing contactor. Abnormal contact resistance increase localize heating eventually leading to contactor failure.