I agree. Supercharger network access is a significant, and for some owners, a primary reason for buying Tesla vehicles. Turning off features of a customer's vehicle is problematic, and even more so while away from home. Imagine your ICE car's gas inlet suddenly only allowing a pencil stream of fuel instead of the firehose.
Tesla runs risk of a negative media storm over tampering with customer's vehicles. Also, we don't know whether 50 kW Chademo is even a workaround. The answer depends on how the disabling is actually implemented in the car software. If DC charging is disabled on the car by locking out the battery relays when DC is presented, I imagine Chademo is also gone. If Tesla is worried about damaged vehicles experiencing problems while supercharging, they could look at BMS voltage, current, and temperature readings as a guide. If they want to hedge things beyond just the BMS readings, onboard software could result in an initial post-crash reduction in max charge rate followed by a diagnostic ramp up back to normal over the next few hours of charging. This would offer broader metrics on post-crash performance. As a data point, some Toyota vehicles (e.g. Prius) do have a reduced efficiency, lower performance mode for certain problems while the malfunction light is lit up. These cars recheck their sensors each time they are used. If after a certain number of times (about 50) the issue appears to be gone, the car will clear the malfunction light and return to normal mode. On Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 10:03 Lawrence Rhodes via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you are 600 miles from home in a Tesla and they turn of the > Supercharger you have been disabled. In my opinion the main reason for > having a Tesla is the Supercharger system. Lawrence Rhodes > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20180925/65513d2e/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
