An announced disaster for the new NMC811 from LG Chem produced for Tesla in Nanjing, China, fitted from springtime on the MIC LR RWD and now appearing on the 2021 export to EU, made in Fremont.
According to the following article, a massive production is on the road to supply the MIC Model Y, GigaBerlin production and USA.
LG Chem completes battery spin-off - electrive.com
At the moment in EU there's a lottery: you can be given, customers unknowing, NMC LG Chem or a NCA Panasonic.
Upon measurement with SMT, the LG Chem have also less 3,7 kWh capacity relative to the Panasonic models. But the big difference is the extremely slower speed of charge.
Here's Bjorn results, warm cars, about the speed of charge at a V3 and at Ionity for the LG Chem 2021 LR, compared to his 2019 M3:
Video:
This was not unexpected at all. Already in China, with the first delivery of MIC LR in springtime 2020, the charging speed was compared to the Panasonic M3 2019, charging them simultaneously.
As can be seen, The LG takes 12 min more to go from 30% to 80%
The complete article and testing conditions can be read here with Google translate:
惊人的 234kW 特斯拉 Model 3 第三代超充桩充电实测-有车以后
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According to the following article, a massive production is on the road to supply the MIC Model Y, GigaBerlin production and USA.
LG Chem completes battery spin-off - electrive.com
At the moment in EU there's a lottery: you can be given, customers unknowing, NMC LG Chem or a NCA Panasonic.
Upon measurement with SMT, the LG Chem have also less 3,7 kWh capacity relative to the Panasonic models. But the big difference is the extremely slower speed of charge.
Here's Bjorn results, warm cars, about the speed of charge at a V3 and at Ionity for the LG Chem 2021 LR, compared to his 2019 M3:
Video:
This was not unexpected at all. Already in China, with the first delivery of MIC LR in springtime 2020, the charging speed was compared to the Panasonic M3 2019, charging them simultaneously.
As can be seen, The LG takes 12 min more to go from 30% to 80%
The complete article and testing conditions can be read here with Google translate:
惊人的 234kW 特斯拉 Model 3 第三代超充桩充电实测-有车以后
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