It took some digging, but I found a EVLN post I made back in Aug 2015 that might shed some light on this topic, see
http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Offset-Supercharging-degradation-with-pack-balancing-tp4677028.html ... Lost capacity may be restored by “balancing the pack”—that is, charging it to 100 percent to make sure that each of the cells is fully topped off. Tesla, of course, is mum on the subject; I’ve never seen any official word on pack balancing, and the company officially recommends against charging to 100 percent unless maximum range is necessary. The Model S fan site Teslarati, however, recommends charging the pack to 100 percent every three months or so. When I asked at my local Tesla Service Center about “pack balancing”, I was told they did it all the time. “Discharge it as close as you can to zero, and then charge it as slow as possible all the way up to 100 percent,” I was told. “You’ll probably get some capacity back.” It works! ... and comments on this topic are shown on: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=413529&query=tesla+pack+balancing&days=0 For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/archive/ {brucedp.neocities.org} -- Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
