Tesla Cuts Waiting Time At Electric Car Charging Station By Limiting Max Charge To 80% Capacity
Tesla is facing a new-found problem with its increased number of users. Tesla car owners are having to wait for long duration at the company’s superchargers used for charging its electric vehicles. Though Tesla has come up with a solution for this. Going forward, some of such chargers will be limited to charging up to 80 percent of a car’s battery.
To enable this, Tesla will be updating some of its Supercharger stations. The new limit on the State of Charge (SOC) to 80% will be applied at select high-traffic stations in order to reduce wait times, reports Electrek. The information comes through a memo sent to Tesla employees.
As per the memo, the new limitation will be imposed on 17% of all the Tesla Supercharger stations in the US. Among these, 8% of stations will see the limitation at all times, while another 9% will have the restriction during high-traffic periods.
Tesla will also alert the car owners of the limitation to 80% of the battery capacity as they arrive at such a station.
Source: indiatimes
