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Depends on C values, thermal limits, etc.

The single data point I have of 75k miles, once a week charging at 120kW from ~20% -> 60% shows very little degradation to the pack on our Model S.

Also, when it's warmer out I've seen warnings that in-cabin AC is lowered to divert to help cool the pack so I'm sure it's a question of thermals + number of parallel modules.



Accordingly to Musk the limit charge power for the Tesla in the future superchargers is around 200kw if I remember correctly.


But Tesla limits supercharging after too many cycles:

https://electrek.co/2017/05/07/tesla-limits-supercharging-sp...


That's still a lot of DCFC(~20k miles based on 0.33kwH/mi) and even then it's limited down to 90kW from 120kW.

FWIW you only see 120kW on the first ~35% of the pack and quickly tapers down to sub 100kW after that approaching home charging speeds for the last 80-100%.


I believe that turned out to only be for one particular revision of the battery pack.




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