It’s been a long time since I charged my Tesla Model 3 SR+ above 90%, but I’m taking my girls on a little road trip and just charged up to 95%. It didn’t take me long to notice something had changed.regen braking
. Except, it wasn’t that, and this is the whole point. It used to be that the regen braking fades away, or goes away completely, when your battery is close to fully charged — there’s not much more space in there to pour electricity in through regen braking. It was actually a little dangerous, in my opinion, because being accustomed to regen braking, it’s surprising when your car isn’t automatically braking as you expect it to.
So, again, I just left a Supercharger with 95% battery , and as the car was getting close to the stopped traffic, it seemed to apply the brakes itself. That’s right, it wasn’t like normal regen braking, it was more like the car pushed the brake pedal down. It wasn’t the smoothest application of the brakes, but it wasn’t bad. It took me a minute to process it.
Naturally, I think this is a great little update. I always considered it to be quite dangerous that the car would behave much differently at a high state of charge, and that there wasn’t enough warning or widespread awareness of that. This —— is a big step up. It’s a little bit rough in that it was braking harder or sooner than I expected, but maybe that was really just becausewas slow to brake and then it decided it was time to act in order to avoid a much bigger issue.
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