Vehicle
Tesla Model 3
The compact electric saloon, and the car that makes the corpus's honest limit visible. A Tesla does not present standard OBD-II diagnostics. There is no engine, no emissions monitor set and no legislated generic code list to read, and the Model 3 has no OBD-II socket at all without an adapter into its internal connector — so almost nothing in the P0xxx range applies, and the codes it does store are Tesla's own. What transfers from this site is the reasoning: the electric-drive, battery and charging blocks describe the same physics an inverter, a contactor and a charge port obey whoever built them.
Generations
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Model 3 2017–present
Rear-drive and dual-motor versions; battery chemistry varies by market and year, including lithium iron phosphate on the standard-range cars.
- Body styles
- Sedan
- Engines
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- Single motor (rear) — electric
- Dual motor — electric
- Battery packs
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- 82 kWh — lithium ion
- 78.1 kWh — NCA
- Transmissions
- Single-speed reduction · Single-speed fixed
- Drivetrain
- Rear-wheel drive · Four-wheel drive
Information, not instruction
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Have anything you intend to act on checked by a trained person against the manufacturer's own procedure for your vehicle. Nothing here replaces that procedure.
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