I recently got back from a 1500 mile trip from central Ohio to downtown Boston and back. Some quick stats from the drive, I charged a total of 604.054 kWh, all at Tesla chargers (this will come up later), spent $232.96 for the total trip as well, averaging 2.377 mi/kWh. Fun trip through West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut and finally Massachusetts!
As previously stated, I chose to charge soley at Tesla Superchargers, with them being mostly right off the highway and several of them being 12 stalls, I felt comfortable being able to take up two spots most of the time. I also need to state that I have the A2Z Typhoon adapter, I currently am still waiting to receive my OEM adapter.
Since buying the truck in March of 2024, I have a little over 20,000 miles and have done a lot of charging at Tesla Superchargers. I assume becuase I haven’t gotten my OEM adapter, I still can’t see V3+ Superchargers in the built-in navigation, therefore I can’t precondition on my way to them, although I do my best, if there is, for example, and EVGo station very close to it, I will try to navigate to it to get some sort of preconditioning before I get to the Supercharger. For some other infomation, my truck is up-to-date as far as I’m aware besides the BC updates. My most recent updates include the 6.14.0 and the ECG-24.2.5.6.1 Communication update. Also, using the CarScanner app, when charged to 100% the day I left for Boston, my truck was showing 126.486 kWh for the battery capacity and the actual battery SoC was just shy of 96%.
I know DCFC is tough on the battery, especially as much as I do it, traveling for work, over 50 times since buying the truck in early March, but I feel like it’s not a good thing for the truck to show 100% when there’s actually 96% or like this morning driving to work, truck shows 71% and the actual is somewhere near 66%. I know the battery degredation is inevitable, but this seems like a bit more than I expected on 20K miles in. And I suppose since I know the actual SoC, I can remember that during trips easily enough.
This write up was just for some real life information of what I am seeing driving this great truck everyday. I do have a couple of questions for the community, am I correct in assuming that becuase I don’t have my OEM adapter yet that that is the reason I can’t get the Superchargers in the built-in navigation? Anyone else seeing battery degradation like this? I’d love to hear about others’ experiences, especially ones with higher miles in a short amount of time.
Feel free to ask follow up questions!
