Tesla Has Improved Braking With A Full Battery!

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It’s been a very long time since I charged my Tesla Mannequin 3 SR+ above 90%, however I’m taking my ladies on slightly street journey and simply charged as much as 95%. It didn’t take me lengthy to note one thing had modified.

The automotive was braking for me as I used to be approaching stopped visitors at a purple gentle. I do know, I do know — regen braking. Besides, it wasn’t that, and that is the entire level. It was that the regen braking fades away, or goes away fully, when your battery is shut to completely charged — there’s not far more area in there to pour electrical energy in by regen braking. It was truly slightly harmful, in my view, as a result of being accustomed to regen braking, it’s shocking when your automotive isn’t mechanically braking as you count on it to. That may result in having to slam on the brakes once you get nearer than you count on to one thing (if not worse).

So, once more, I simply left a Supercharger with 95% battery (forgetting, to be trustworthy, that I’d should be utilizing the brakes), and because the automotive was getting near the stopped visitors, it appeared to use the brakes itself. That’s proper, it wasn’t like regular regen braking, it was extra just like the automotive pushed the brake pedal down. It wasn’t the smoothest utility of the brakes, nevertheless it wasn’t unhealthy. It took me a minute to course of it. I used to be considering, “Wait, what, it’s doing regen braking at this excessive of a cost stage?” However I knew it was completely different, it had stunned me in how strongly the brakes had been utilized — and principally proper on the similar time that I’d in all probability usually be stunned that regen braking wasn’t slowing down the automotive. When it did this once more, I used to be extra ready for it and extra attentive to what gave the impression to be taking place — it actually appeared to depress the brake pedal by itself.

Naturally, I feel it is a nice little replace. I at all times thought of it to be fairly harmful that the automotive would behave a lot otherwise at a excessive state of cost, and that there wasn’t sufficient warning or widespread consciousness of that. This — if I truly understood and skilled it appropriately — is a giant step up. It’s slightly bit tough in that it was braking more durable or prior to I anticipated, however possibly that was actually simply because I was sluggish to brake (anticipating regen to softly kick in) after which it determined it was time to behave so as to keep away from a a lot larger problem. I’ll simply add that I don’t assume this was regular computerized emergency braking — it didn’t really feel like that and it occurred a lot prior to I feel computerized emergency braking would.

Tell us down within the feedback should you’ve observed this as nicely, or should you assume I’m off my rocker with this one and was imagining the automotive behaving otherwise from the way it’s at all times behaved!