Is Frequent Supercharging BAD For Tesla Model 3 Battery?

How bad is

supercharging

for your Tesla Model 3

battery

? If you can't charge it at home, let's look at the facts. Hi, I'm Joey, welcome to my channel if this is your first time watching my videos. Document about my Tesla Model 3 owner experience: How new and future owners learn more about this car. If you enjoyed this video and found it helpful and informative, please consider subscribing for the last two weeks. I have been talking about Tesla Model 3

battery

maintenance and charging habit after one year of ownership. Some of the people raised arguments and responded to me, especially about

supercharging

.

You may or may not have known it, but a little over two years ago, in May 2017, a Tesla Model S owner posted on the Tesla Motors Club forum telling people that he discovered that his Model S's supercharging rate was had dropped dramatically due to superchargers on a recent road trip. What I want to update with this information from two years ago is that many people did not read the details about what had happened to this

model

. as the owner and his battery and I was charging out of habit, so here are the facts about what happened to this person two years ago and I am linking all the information from the article in the description box so you can also read them yourself, number one.

The person has been doing Chatham or DC fast charging instead of Tesla super charging 99% of the time, so this is the first differentiation with what this owner was doing compared to the rest of the Tesla drivers when they supercharged and secondly, here is Tesla, she responds. According to Tesla engineers, once the vehicle has been fast-charged with DC above a specific amount, the battery management system restricts DC charging to prevent degradation of the battery pack, which we knew because in The Tesla Model 3 owner's manual says that's exactly what it said, according to Tesla engineers. One vehicle in particular, the older Model S, has experienced significant DC fast charging and now has DC charging speeds permanently restricted again according to the Model 3 manual, that's what it was going to do, however many people skip this, it is important to note that super charging will always be available to the vehicle and the battery pack has not yet experienced significant degradation due to the amount of DC fast charging performed on the pack up to this point, the vehicle It is working as designed, as you can see, Tesla restricted DC fast charging. rate permanently on this particular vehicle because the owner was abusing it, he was using snub motors instead of the Tesla designated super charging network and there is a difference in that because the Tesla super charging network has a protection algorithm Built-in battery charging to work in conjunction with a Tesla car battery so that your battery does not experience constant high heat, which is what will damage the battery cell with current entering the battery at a sustained rate and time, but with fast charging in Chado mode, I don't know what network it was on.

So my speculation is that whatever charging channel I was using did not have that protection built in and therefore Tesla detected this and took action. of caution to permanently reduce the charging rate of this vehicle so that the battery has a longer life compared to the one damaged at a higher rate, the main takeaway from this point is that even with all the important DC fast charging sessions that this person has made, his Tesla battery did not degrade as much or was damaged in any way later, Tesla issued a statement. was a whole paragraph and was pretty much the same as what the

model

three owner's manual states, except the last sentence of this paragraph says this changed due to age and battery usage may increase the total time of supercharging in approximately five minutes. and less than one percent of our customers experience this for those of you who have argued with me that I overcharge once a week, that's bad for my battery, not really because I don't fall into that one percent of customers where they overcharge or We do DC fast charging several times a day and Tesla's statement continues where it says that Tesla is not slowing charging rates to discourage

frequent

supercharging, but quite the opposite, we encourage our customers to use the supercharger network at their discretion. and we are committed to doubling the number of chargers worldwide this year alone in 2017.

We also want to make sure our customers have the best experience. Add those superchargers and keep the vehicle's range as long as possible even after

frequent

charging. There you have it. Tesla does not advise against frequent supercharging. and many of you have made this statement to me in the comments section saying that Tesla doesn't recommend supercharging that often, it's actually quite the opposite, so I hope this sets the record straight about how often to supercharge with your Tesla. car, but just to verify and confirm what Tesla says is true with data from real-world users. I contacted a company called Test Loop.

If you didn't know about Test Loop, they were running transportation services in the Southern California area using a fleet of Tesla Model S and Model Xs and recently acquired a Model three into their fleet. Tesla has vehicles that have the highest mileage usage record of all Tesla cars produced and used and perform frequent super charging. I'll contact you to try. loop and asked have you seen any reduction in Tesla's supercharging rate because you guys supercharged so often and here is the answer from the test loops? We have no reason or data to lead us to believe that Tesla is speeding up or reducing supercharging rates based on high supercharger usage.

So as much as the test circuit is running its cars instead of super charging, Tesla still hasn't reduced the super charging rate for its fleet, so I think for the rest of us who don't run our cars shuttle or one-way services from Los Angeles to San Diego. When we commute, we can rest assured that it most likely won't happen to us, at least not for a long time. Another point that people have been arguing and pushing back at me is that supercharging is bad for your Tesla Model 3 battery because it is putting so much heat into the battery cells and lithium ion batteries don't like much heat, That is true and several of you have shared with me the university articles on batteries that I read many months ago and that are valid for generic lithium ion batteries. battery None of their arguments had included how Tesla's battery management system and supercharge flow technology help protect the Tesla Model 3's batteries when they become overcharged.

One of our viewers shared this article with me. Thank you very much for this sample. that a mechanical engineer and a licensed HVAC engineer in California took apart the new Tesla Model 3 battery in August 2018 because that was when Tesla was releasing the performance version and track mode that would heat up the battery like crazy and what They found was that the new Model 3 battery module is a completely new design, bears very little resemblance to the Model S, has improved cooling over the Model S and Model has improved battery cooling are, number 1, better heat transfer between the cells and the cooling belt and number 2 fewer cells per passage of the cooling tube basically what it says is that the design of the Tesla Model 3 battery has a system much more advanced cooling so that when you are charging the car or specifically supercharging your car or even running in track mode, it will not damage the battery cell much compared to the old battery design of the Model S or Model who were speculating even before August 2018 that the Model Three would ship with Gen.

Supercharge 3 capability or we now know it as Supercharge v 3 which reaches a charging speed of 250 kilowatts. Superchargers are more powerful and better cooling is necessary to keep cell temperatures down. The Model 3's new cooling system should help in that department, according to experts. and according to scientific studies, frequent overcharging of your model 3 will not be bad for your battery, it just is when you do non-Tesla DC super fast charging at most stations, for example, and do it several times a day. day or Many, many times a week, you may start to see Tesla accelerating your super charging speed and your battery may suffer some degradation, but the rest of us shouldn't worry so much about this.

I hope that the information I have shared in this video has helped you alleviate your fear, worry and anxiety about having to recharge frequently if you can charge it again at home. If you enjoyed this video and found the information useful, don't forget to subscribe, like this video, comment below, ask me. questions or if you do frequent charging, have you seen Tesla accelerate its super charging speed? I haven't found any other incidents besides the one in 2017 so I'm really interested to know if Tesla is still doing this and until next time I see you have a blessed week