Tesla is now accounting for ‘battery age’ in its vary calculation

Tesla is now beginning to account for “battery age” in its estimated vary calculation for its electrical automobiles.

I’ve lengthy been advocating for prioritizing correct vary prediction over an extended vary in curbing vary nervousness.

Don’t get me fallacious, an extended vary might be helpful, but when you realize what the place you’re going, the principle factor is that you realize you will get there and your vary doesn’t begin dropping quicker than anticipated.

Vary calculations are tough no matter the kind of powertrain – electrical or inside combustion engine.

There are simply so many elements that may have an effect on the effectivity of a automobile on a street that it’s laborious to find out how far it might go on a full battery pack or tank of gasoline.

Tesla has been a pacesetter in effectivity and long-range electrical automobiles for a very long time, however regardless of that, it nonetheless has points predicting the power consumption of a visit.

When getting into a vacation spot within the navigation system, Tesla offers the driving force the anticipated vary remaining on the vacation spot, and it’s usually not precisely what you’ll anticipate based mostly on the automobile’s EPA vary, however you shouldn’t have vary nervousness so long as the vary prediction stays true.

Over the previous few years, Tesla has invested extra into its vary calculation and added “crosswind, headwind, humidity and ambient temperature” in a software program replace in 2022.

Just a few months later, it additionally added tire strain to the calculation. Final 12 months, Tesla additionally revealed every little thing that impacts its vary calculation.

Now, we be taught that Tesla added a brand new issue: battery age. I might have thought that that is one thing already accounted for, however apparently not.

Not A Tesla App noticed the discharge notes of the brand new 2024.2.6. Tesla wrote:

Your estimated battery vary now incorporates extra traits associated to battery growing older over time.

It’s doable that Tesla has made new findings about how battery growing older can have an effect on vary in sure circumstances.

The brand new software program replace additionally provides one other characteristic that would assist a bit with vary: Tesla will now let you understand how a lot pre-conditioning time the battery wants earlier than going to a Supercharger station.

If the driving force places a Supercharger location within the navigation system, the automobile begins to pre-condition its battery pack for extra environment friendly charging on the best way there.