How will the range of the electric car Tesla Model 3 SR + (2021) change in WINTER? Less than 20 percent [video] • CARS

Tesla Model 3 Standard Range Plus (2021) is by far the cheapest Tesla in the lineup and the manufacturer's only car with two-wheel drive. On the BatteryBro channel, it was checked how the power reserve of this electric model changes at negative temperatures. The effect? In the cold, the car could cover 19,4 percent less distance than the EPA said.

Tesla Model 3 (2021) = heat pump, double glazing, battery and cab heated test

The outside temperature was -2/-3 degrees Celsius (29-26 degrees Fahrenheit). The ride was part city and part expressway - where the BatteryBro ran 113 km/h (70 mph), ending at 116 km/h (72 mph). The battery was 98 percent charged. As promised by the manufacturer, Full battery vehicle must travel 423 kilometers EPA (430 WLTP units), although it is worth noting that Tesla has achieved leadership in optimizing EPA results, so they are overstated by at least ten percent.

Post author goes new Tesla Model 3 SR + from 2021, so that version with double glazing and heat pump... The heat pump significantly increases the efficiency of heating the cab at low temperatures, but not necessarily at low temperatures. BatteryBro stressed that "there is no need to use a heat pump."

He did not turn on the heating throughout the trip.because it was “surprisingly warm” in the cabin, he was cold only on his feet (but he was sitting in a shirt and did not chatter his teeth 🙂).

The lack of active heating led to fogging of the driver's glass. As he later added, by the end of the trip it became cold in the cabin. Based on this, it is easy to conclude that youtuber behaved like a typical owner of an electrician with a socket in the garage, that is, warmed up the battery and the car parked at the charging point.

When his the battery has dropped to 1 percent, he had 331 kilometers behind him, consumed 49 kWh of energy and drove with an average consumption of 14,9 kWh / 100 km (148,5 Wh / km). If the battery was full and discharged to zero, it should travel 340,9 km on battery, or 80,6% of the EPA range..

If it moved in the 80-> 10 percent range, the vehicle's range would be less than 240 kilometers.

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Note from the editors of www.elektrowoz.pl: the unwillingness to turn on the heating for the skeptical mill, of course, will be water, but the driver does not look cold, his nose did not turn red, he did not steam his mouth, so the temperature in the cabin did not fall below 17-18 degrees Celsius . However, it is worth remembering that we are dealing with a new machine (the passivation layer is still being developed), which was additionally hot-started. If the car were under the block, the energy consumption in the first kilometers would be higher - Tesla would only warm up the battery. So people planning to buy a Model 3 SR+ and often drive it in the cold without charging overnight should lower their results by about 5-10 percent - just in case.

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