Hi all -
I have a pre-face lift 90D, February 2016 build. I've experienced some throttling issues at superchargers but have had enough experience at Superchargers that weren't throttled to make an observation about my vehicle because the same pattern has happened many times.
The situation is I arrive at a supercharger with anywhere from 5-20% charge. I plug in and I get a nice 105-110 kw. After about 5 minutes charging at this rate, I notice my cooling system goes into overdrive, and my state of charge starts to steadily drops until it hits about 60-65 kw, where it says for a few minutes, until climbing up to around 75kw very gradually. This is usually occuring when SOC is 30-40%.
It then remains at about 75kw until about 70% state of charge, where it then starts to decline gradually as expected.
I'm wondering if there is something wrong with my vehicle. I know my car is capable of taking 100kw until at least 50% or so, so why does the charge rate drop so much in such a short time, and in such a predictable pattern? Has anyone else experienced this? I suspect this is increasing my charge time, as I routinely take about 50 minutes to an hour to charge from 10% to 80% instead of the 40 minutes advertised.
Edit: This happens in normal temperature conditions and without pairing. For example it happned last night at the fremont factory where it was in the 60s, and I had an unpaired charger the whole time.
I have a pre-face lift 90D, February 2016 build. I've experienced some throttling issues at superchargers but have had enough experience at Superchargers that weren't throttled to make an observation about my vehicle because the same pattern has happened many times.
The situation is I arrive at a supercharger with anywhere from 5-20% charge. I plug in and I get a nice 105-110 kw. After about 5 minutes charging at this rate, I notice my cooling system goes into overdrive, and my state of charge starts to steadily drops until it hits about 60-65 kw, where it says for a few minutes, until climbing up to around 75kw very gradually. This is usually occuring when SOC is 30-40%.
It then remains at about 75kw until about 70% state of charge, where it then starts to decline gradually as expected.
I'm wondering if there is something wrong with my vehicle. I know my car is capable of taking 100kw until at least 50% or so, so why does the charge rate drop so much in such a short time, and in such a predictable pattern? Has anyone else experienced this? I suspect this is increasing my charge time, as I routinely take about 50 minutes to an hour to charge from 10% to 80% instead of the 40 minutes advertised.
Edit: This happens in normal temperature conditions and without pairing. For example it happned last night at the fremont factory where it was in the 60s, and I had an unpaired charger the whole time.