I have a question about super charging
Everyone is going to eventually take road trips during their cars life so I think it would be good to know best practices for super charging
Some trips I take could easily require 2 - 3 super charges in a single day
Is there a certain battery % that you want to start or stop at during super charging to reduce the strain
There’s really no difference. Low SOC, smaller cycles.
The higher the SOC, the more the cells are prone to lithium plating. Tesla reduces the charging rate at higher SOC, but anyway its most probably not a big difference to other cycling. From my point of view, always precondition completely.
A good thing is that this actually about the same as the fastest way of traveling with supercharging.
Let it go low (only the personal lower limit for range anxiety) and do not charge more than needed to next charger.
But as before, for most people the cyclic aging will be small anyway. You will not notice any difference from your trips.
Using Scan My Tesla you might se that the nominal capacity goes down 0.5-1kWh after several supercharging sessions but when using the low SOC strategy you will see it recover that capacity after some time of low SOC cycling (thats my experience from both the M3P and the MSP).
I again would like to emphrase that to not let the efforts to reduce degradation go to far. Do not let it take the fun out of having an EV.
Using the low SOC strategy will anyway put you ahead of anyone using the regular 80% charging.
While it could be nice to see how far it would be possible to reduce the degratation to, that level would still not be very much lower than anyone using the low SOC strategy. So driving it to the extreme will only save juuuust a little more degradation.