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 women on a bit 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 crimson mild. I do know, I do know — regen braking. Besides, it wasn’t that, and that is the entire level. It was once that the regen braking fades away, or goes away fully, when your battery is shut to completely charged — there’s not way more house in there to pour electrical energy in by means of regen braking. It was truly a bit harmful, for my part, as a result of being accustomed to regen braking, it’s stunning when your automotive isn’t mechanically braking as you anticipate it to. That may result in having to slam on the brakes if 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 sincere, that I’d have to 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 software of the brakes, nevertheless it wasn’t dangerous. It took me a minute to course of it. I used to be pondering, “Wait, what, it’s doing regen braking at this excessive of a cost stage?” However I knew it was totally different, it had shocked me in how strongly the brakes have been utilized — and mainly proper on the identical time that I’d most likely usually be shocked 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 all the time thought-about it to be fairly harmful that the automotive would behave a lot in a different way 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 accurately — is an enormous step up. It’s a bit bit tough in that it was braking more durable or earlier than I anticipated, however possibly that was actually simply because I was gradual to brake (anticipating regen to softly kick in) after which it determined it was time to behave as a way to keep away from a a lot greater concern. I’ll simply add that I don’t suppose 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 should you’ve observed this as nicely, or should you suppose I’m off my rocker with this one and was imagining the automotive behaving in a different way from the way it’s all the time behaved!