What happens at 0% range remaining

[PanameraFrank]

Howdy yall. There was a thread awhile ago discussing what happens if you reach 0% and how much extra battery the car actually has. I couldn't find that thread but I accidentally performed an experiment.

I ran my battery to 0% and until the car stalled and died. Whoops. I was about 8 blocks from home, the car had been on 0% for a few minutes and was giving me all sorts of warnings.. then it stalled and died mid turn.

I sat for about a minute pondering my life decisions and how much it was going to cost to tow my Taycan 8 blocks before I tried turning it on again. Miraculously when I turned it back on I was able to drive it again. I immediately jetted it the remaining 8 blocks home and rolled into my parking spot.

So, things I learned.

There certainly doesn't seem to be any super extra hidden battery at 0%. It got average efficiency before stalling.
There DOES seem to be a mechanism to release a little extra battery if you've stalled out and restart the car. I'm guessing this is giving you a bit of the safeguard range of battery and is probably very bad for your car's health. I made it 8 blocks slightly uphill after the stall.
The system stalling and crashing seems to have fixed the SOS error code I was getting. Sweet.

Morale of the story.. don't expect to get much range at 0%. It's not a fun game to play.

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[ithinkmac]

remember watching one out of spec video where he turn off the car, and turn it back on @ 0% and says there's a little reserve when doing that to drive the car just a little further. Sounds like that's exactly what you did. Not sure how many times you can do that. Maybe it's just once to get you out of a jam or out of harm's way and parked on the side of the street to wait for tow truck.

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[zzy45]

Love the part where you just sat there and pondering about your life decisions…can relate, happened to me with an ICE car in an extreme cold day after I dropped the kid off at the daycare, came back to a car that won’t start due to cold battery, pondering why the hell did I turn off the engines.

Somehow it started again while I just gotten connected to the the road side assistance.

 

[KTC]

I double dare you to see how many times....

nevermind

 

[JuTheKi]

Howdy yall. There was a thread awhile ago discussing what happens if you reach 0% and how much extra battery the car actually has. I couldn't find that thread but I accidentally performed an experiment.

I ran my battery to 0% and until the car stalled and died. Whoops. I was about 8 blocks from home, the car had been on 0% for a few minutes and was giving me all sorts of warnings.. then it stalled and died mid turn.

I sat for about a minute pondering my life decisions and how much it was going to cost to tow my Taycan 8 blocks before I tried turning it on again. Miraculously when I turned it back on I was able to drive it again. I immediately jetted it the remaining 8 blocks home and rolled into my parking spot.

So, things I learned.

There certainly doesn't seem to be any super extra hidden battery at 0%. It got average efficiency before stalling.
There DOES seem to be a mechanism to release a little extra battery if you've stalled out and restart the car. I'm guessing this is giving you a bit of the safeguard range of battery and is probably very bad for your car's health. I made it 8 blocks slightly uphill after the stall.
The system stalling and crashing seems to have fixed the SOS error code I was getting. Sweet.

Morale of the story.. don't expect to get much range at 0%. It's not a fun game to play.

I live in Finland so the blocks must be different ? Is 8 blocks like 3 miles or what?

 

[Midlifecrisis]

I think there are other threads on this. You can do it only once (until you have charged it again) and you can drive about 12 miles at a very slow speed. Maybe 15mph. Something like that I think

 

[PanameraFrank]

I live in Finland so the blocks must be different ? Is 8 blocks like 3 miles or what?

It was about half a mile. Maybe it could have gone further but considering the car bricked midway through a turn I wouldn't recommend any of this.

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