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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 just a little 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 site visitors at a crimson 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 utterly, when your battery is shut to completely charged — there’s not rather more area in there to pour electrical energy in via regen braking. It was really just a little harmful, in my view, as a result of being accustomed to regen braking, it’s stunning when your automotive isn’t robotically braking as you anticipate it to. That may result in having to slam on the brakes whenever you get nearer than you anticipate to one thing (if not worse).
So, once more, I simply left a Supercharger with 95% battery (forgetting, to be trustworthy, that I’d have to be utilizing the brakes), and because the automotive was getting near the stopped site 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 software of the brakes, nevertheless it wasn’t dangerous. 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 degree?” However I knew it was completely different, it had stunned me in how strongly the brakes have been utilized — and principally proper on the similar time that I’d most likely 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 occurring — it actually appeared to depress the brake pedal by itself.
Naturally, I believe this can be a nice little replace. I at all times thought of it to be fairly harmful that the automotive would behave a lot in another way at a excessive state of cost, and that there wasn’t sufficient warning or widespread consciousness of that. This — if I really understood and skilled it appropriately — is an enormous step up. It’s just a little bit tough in that it was braking tougher or earlier than I anticipated, however perhaps that was actually simply because I used to be sluggish to brake (anticipating regen to softly kick in) after which it determined it was time to behave in an effort to keep away from a a lot larger concern. 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 earlier than I believe computerized emergency braking would.
Tell us down within the feedback in case you’ve observed this as effectively, or in case you assume I’m off my rocker with this one and was imagining the automotive behaving in another way from the way it’s at all times behaved!
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