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While we on the subject of Tesla's 'greatest invention', the 4680 battery.

It would seems it barely improved anything, if at all, for charging. 

It starts off super nice at 'close to' 250kW, but that speed quickly disappeared, dropping to under 100kW by 45% SoC. There is barely any area under the curve after that point.

Just about any modern EV right now can maintain over 100kW charging till about 70% SoC. They don't hit a really high peak kW like Tesla's 250kW just for advertisement, most of them can only take advantage of 150kW plugs, but they all can maximize the amount of energy coming in. Tesla has some serious catching up to do.

I can already predict some Tesla fanboy will mentione that just do quick charge from almost empty to 50%, as that only takes 12-13 mins, and repeat and rinse for the rest of the road trip. Cool, but that would really negates the greatest Tesla advantage of them all, better range on paper. 

Can't have it both ways. 

 


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