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by aetherspawn 2196 days ago
The batteries have such large capacities that the C-rates are tiny. Tesla are well beyond the point where inefficiencies in battery contribute to as little as 1% of the total range.

Source: design engineer at EV company.

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Even during acceleration?
The kind of acceleration that would cause it to be non-trivial is not the acceleration that you would use in normal driving unless you were very reckless.