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time2roll

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Posted: 10/04/20 09:09pm

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No. Full power to 100% is the only option for all charging. You can manually stop the charging if desired.
Charging and the charging timer on I-Pace is a general disaster. I just avoid it and plug in as needed.

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Posted: 10/04/20 07:58pm

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time2roll wrote:

Tesla does not allow you to throttle the supercharger rate like available for L2?

Nope. No control of L3 DC charging. That’s between the car and the charger. You can tell it to cut off at whatever percentage of the battery etc. I’m usually set for 80 percent at home until the night before a road trip. Then I set it to 100 percent.

You can set the L2 control from 8 amps up to 48 amps. But no control of DC charge rate. Can you do that on the I-pace?

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Posted: 10/04/20 07:39pm

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Tesla does not allow you to throttle the supercharger rate like available for L2?

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Posted: 10/04/20 06:37pm

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time2roll wrote:

Just take a few minutes longer than the M3 described above. The power will not taper off with the larger battery.

Yah I don’t know much about what makes the engineers decide on the taper curves. I know our leaf tapered later but then again it was only a 50 KW max charge anyway. I rarely charge over 90 percent but was killing time waiting for the wife while she was shopping. It’s pretty slow after 95 percent. Like level 2 slow. On longer road trips our charge time is determined by how long a break we need. Pee break, coffee refill etc. We are rarely at a supercharger over 15 or 20 minutes.

V3’s are still kinda rare but it seems most of the new Superchargers are all V3’s. It would be nice if a few V2’s were left at the Superchargers that have restaurants. It allows for a decent sit down meal without worrying about having to move the car and getting idle charges when the car is full. Thinking that won’t be an issue with the big battery cyber truck. [emoticon]

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Posted: 10/04/20 06:14pm

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Just take a few minutes longer than the M3 described above. The power will not taper off with the larger battery.

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Posted: 10/04/20 05:56pm

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One thing I have learned about Superchargers is you have to park just right or the cable doesn’t reach. I don’t think the Cybertruck will be able to hook up to more than one Supercharger at a time. It would be cool but I don’t think it would be possible.

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I am pretty sure that most of the initial customers will use the semi's for routes that can be done on one charge and then charge them while they are being unloaded/reloaded so the charging can be done relatively leisurely. All the same, I expect gigawatt chargers within a few years. Something serious is going to be needed for the pickup and even for the Model S after the new batteries with 520 miles of range hit the road.

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Posted: 10/04/20 04:46pm

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Of course a truck in transit could use 4x the V3 or more at a truck stop to charge.

Just saying if a company has 25 trucks for local delivery a V3 for each would serve fine. Might even dial it down to spread the load over the full time of being stationary. People that have never driven an EV seem to get all crazy about charging speed when for a lot of use patterns a much slower charge works just fine. Better for the battery too.

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Posted: 10/04/20 04:17pm

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time2roll wrote:

I believe the Semi battery is about 10x the M3. I would expect 250kW right close to the end. So maybe a 5 hour charge. So much for sleeping, that driver will just get a long dinner and a nap. Even an hour or two to unload could put a decent charge in.

Yah. It would probably hang around 250 KW for quite a long time on a big battery like that. Maybe a 50 to 60 percent charge in two hours ish.

I still think they’ll be able to use two V3’s at a time.

Jmho.