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Do at lest one full cycle down to ~5% SOC (or less) and back up to 100%. The BMS needs to monitor the cells over a wide charge range every so often to correctly calibrate. You should not need to do this often. Running it down to low SOC is sometimes convenient on a road trip. As long as you...

No, that is Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM). :)

I still have 55 shares left, but will probably sell most/all of it depending on how the shareholder votes go. I started selling off shares as soon as the stalk-less Model S/X were unveiled, since that was the moment I realized the company leadership was becoming detached from reality.

To be fair, $35k in 2016 is ~$45500 now.

I would guess it is a deal-breaker for at least 10-20% of perspective buyers. But that is just a guess based on friends I have asked.

Think of how clean public transit is in most of the US. No imagine something cleaned even less. That will be the robotaxi experience. This is even assuming Tesla can make robotaxis work in a reasonable amount of time, which there is absolutely no evidence for.

Elon does not appear to believe that people will even own personal cars once robotaxis are a thing. So he clearly does not care anymore about selling cars and about increasing BEV adoption, because he does not think there is a future in private car ownership. Of course this is all madness, but...

So we agree he is not upholding his legal fiduciary responsibility as the CEO of a publicly traded company and needs to be charged/removed? Glad to hear it!

NEVER try and revive one of the Tesla 12 V Lithium batteries. They are one and done:

I believe one of them was the door window closing recall update. Went away like all the others.

Downloading some updates over LTE is not new. In the 2.5 years I was abstaining from updates I would get about 4 a year downloaded that way. At least back then the install prompt popups would go away after about 2 weeks of ignoring them. Annoying yes, but not as annoying as being forced to use...

Indeed. The car will not draw more current than the charger communicates it can supply (assuming it is set up correctly for the circuit it is on). Just plug in and charge.

The Model 3/Y have never had an instantaneous Wh/mile readout. Thankfully the cards were brought back a little over a year ago to at least bring back the Wh/mile for the current drive display.

Even with no wifi you will still get updates over LTE, Just a lot less of them (only the 'greatest hits' in Tesla's eyes). While I was abstaining from updates, my car would still get about 4 updates a year downloaded and ready to install over LTE (I had wifi off during that time). I just ignored...

It was just one install.

I opted out of updates for close to 2.5 years in my Model 3 and absolutely nothing bad happened. And I managed to skip the worst of the Holiday Update UI regressions (both 2020 and 2021). Supercharging continued to work. Only started updates again once there were features actually added that I...

The sales ratio of 3/Y will be an interesting metric to watch, as we will have data from Y and 3 stalked, and Y stalked 3 no stalks. This will probably give a more clear picture on any impact than the absolute numbers.

Just an FYI, this will do nothing to improve efficiency (at least between hold and roll). The amount of energy you can recapture between 5 and 0 mph is a rounding error.

Yep, just another thing removed. I knew they did this for the refreshed Model 3, did not know they were inflicting it on the Y as well. I don't know if the S3XY buttons can bring this back like they can for the regen level control.

Ford barely has a fan base? What rock are you living under?

This was posted by a member of our local State College Tesla Facebook group. He gave me permission to repost here (photos are his). He reports 12 stalls, Sheetz in Montgomery, PA (5676 US-15, Montgomery, PA 17752).

The S3XY buttons appear to give you half-steps between the normal manual wiper settings, but I have not personally used them. It appears to give you a setting below the lowest Tesla setting as well, at least according to this page...

Very nice! Will use this a lot probably!

According to my charging stats for the last year 67% home charging 27% Supercharging, 6% 'other' (random Level 1 at friends places).

Not just old timers. All my younger friends hate touch-anything in cars as well and strongly prefer tactile controls. And all my friends are very tech-savvy and many work in tech/engineering/science.

Correct me if I am wrong, but has Tesla/Elon every actually said that the stalk removal has anything to do with cost reduction? As far as I recall, this is just community head canon. The explanation is probably far dumber/simpler: Elon likes no stalks. I don't really buy the cost-reduction...

I have driven my Model 3, and I have driven my friends Ioniq 5. The materials quality felt very comparable actually, the build quality felt generally better, and in terms of a human-centric design the Ioniq 5 wins. I expect the underlying EV drive-train and battery engineering in the Tesla is...

I am torn on this. I love what Hyundai is doing with EVs, and I think it is clear they are one of the only OEMs that actually take it seriously. I think the Ioniq 5 is a lovely piece of design but is too big for my taste. I really want to like the Ioniq 6, and on paper it should check all my...

Tesla has gone out of their way to not take feedback from customers, so there will be no 'perfect the outcome' happening. It is a amazing that the yoke managed to be retired as standard, but they have still managed to keep their fingers in their ears regarding the stalks even though that has...

Tesla lost way more potential S/X refresh sales than they can ever acknowledge just based on the stalk removal and (initial) instance on the yoke. We will see the same thing with Highland Model 3. There is no fundamental reason a body design can't stick around for a very very long time, it has...

It will still be really good. An Ioniq 5 on 800V does 10-80% in 18 minutes, but it only grows to 25 minutes on a 400 V charger. Should be exactly the same for an Ioniq 6 on a Gen 3 Supercharger.

Until the next holiday update where the indicator buttons are taken off the main screen and put into a sub-menu. And an auto-blinker feature is introduced that only guesses correctly about 60% of the time. Just like the seat heaters :)

Yet laptops with physics buttons have not been displaced by tablets, despite all the 2011 tech industry analysts predictions. Almost like physical buttons are better for some things. Crazy.

After every update somebody always comes in and says they are substantially better. However, after 6 years they are still hilariously bad. They don't really improve anymore, they just change behavior from time-to-time with updates. Some of those changes end up working better for some, but worse...

Prior to April 2019 basic AP+TACC was a package you had to buy. If you did not, you got traditional speed-holding cruise control. That is what I have, and it is fantastic.

The prompt for any given update will go away after a few weeks. Disconnect from WiFi will also mean you get far less updates actually downloaded and waiting to install (only a few a year). I did not update for over 2 years.

Safelite did mine no problem, but that was in January 2020. Genuine Tesla glass and everything.

I was off of updates for a little over 2 years, stopped right before the 2020 Holiday update to avoid the UI changes and continued skipping until late spring 2023 (when they introduced the wiper speed scroll wheel controls, first compelling new feature for me in that time). Had no trouble...

Please no.

Ethernet and CAN bus are two different things.

Plenty of roundabouts here in the northeast. Not as many as Europe of course, but far more than California. I love em, safer and faster. Unlike touch screen controls :)

I love how whenever somebody brings up wanting more physical controls in their car the Tesla stans immediately claim that the only two choices are absolute Tesla minimalism, or a sea of hundreds of buttons throughout the cabin. Please. Good tactile but minimal automotive controls/interiors have...

Exactly, the lack of tactile controls and reliance on the touch screen was a major turn-off to me at purchase time (and still is). When I got the car the rest outweighed dislike though (and still do). However, the further changes with Highland, etc push all new Tesla's into the 'never' column...

I bought it for the battery, motor, and aero, and in spite of the lack of sensible controls.

Very useful. But yeah, DC-DC converters like this are a commodity item. The surprise to me is not that it could be done, but that Tesla actually did something HELPFUL two owners/service people.

Stuff that should go on physical controls never ever ever needs to be updated (turn signals, wiper controls, headlight, defrost, gear shifting, etc). That's part of the advantage. Those things changing is BAD.

If he is mostly charging at home, just have him calculate based on miles traveled per month and his typical efficiency (or just go by EPA if actual efficiency is hard to keep track of). Yeah there are also efficiency charging losses, but not a huge effect. Just come up with a good cost/mile.

Also some trivia: Ethernet (in some form) is actually a slightly older standard than CAN, though both are from the 80's. Both have had updates since then though. Neither is 'obsolete' or anything.

Not totally clear what year their car is, but it sounds like it is a recent owner and car. In which case no way to set the regen to low (without 3rd party controls).

I agree with you on switches, I have also never had one fail. Though the turn signal stalk did start to act a little funny in my rusted out 1987 Camry (in about 2008). But you (and tones of other people) seem to misunderstand the networking stuff. Most cars have been on CAN bus for 20 years for...