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Leg 2 -- Sunday evening, October 24 -- Foxborough, Massachusetts to Bernardsville, New Jersey - 251 miles (422 so far) Because of the temporary recall of FSD 10.3, this drive was done on the old highway FSD stack, though it was 99.9% autopilot nonetheless. One thing that was noteworthy...

A long-planned trip in my Model Y was due to start at 7:30am Sunday. I'd carefully guarded a 99 Safety Score over 1200 miles in hopes that I'd get the FSD beta and be able to write about a nearly 2,000 mile drive from Quechee, Vermont, to Naples, Florida on FSD 10.3. A 100 score on my Model 3...

I am currently receiving 36.5.3 over cellular while driving, not on WiFi. In fact, the area I'm in says 3G, and it's still downloading. Based on my experience over the weekend, FSD Beta updates appear to be enabled for cellular download, not requiring WiFi.

Thanks for that reply, @manttium. Yes, it is definitely apples-to-apples -- at least in the first 2/3 of the chart. At least until 50,000 miles, the fleet benchmark is 13 other vehicles; by 70,000 miles there were just 3 other vehicles, and the flat line after 80,000 miles suggests that I'm...

I've been tracking battery range degradation religiouslyon my two Teslas -- a four-year-old Model X and a two-year-old Model 3, and differences in battery performance versus the fleet average are truly remarkable. My Model X 90D, delivered in June, 2016, started at 264 miles of range, but is...

No, unfortunately it was in warranty when I first saw the light intermittently, but it wasn't clear it was a real problem (lots of people on the forum were reporting these warnings as a software bug) until the light became continuous and the ride got sloppy. By that time, I was over 50,000 miles.

Yes, that was my plan too...but the warranty mileage crept up on me, since 50,000 miles came a lot faster than 4 years did (2.5 years to be exact). Given their connected-car telemetry, I was surprised not to have gotten a notification and offer from Tesla shortly before I hit the warranty wall...

When I left a Tesla Service center a couple of months ago after a complete tire swap-out for my MX 90D, I noticed an "Air Suspension Needs Service" warning. But after I made a stop on the way home, the warning disappeared. Then I saw it again several times, and it rarely stayed on for more...

I have experienced this, too, on 2018.42.3. Last several charges:

In the Rte 2/128 area northwest of Boston, I often see 4 or 5 a day, not counting my two!

The Woburn Supercharger location appears to have totally dropped off the newly-revised Supercharger map from Tesla. There is now one planned in 2018 for Burlington — the only Find Us | Tesla Does anyone know the backstory around dropping Woburn?

Actually I just got it OTA on my Model X because a mobile service tech worked on my car this morning. Here are the release notes -- tire pressure units and automatic heated steering wheel.

A group of graduate students I know from Harvard and MIT are looking for volunteers to participate in a machine learning / data-mining project designed to give new insights about driving, performance, routing, etc. to drivers of Tesla automobiles. They're seeking Tesla drivers who are willing...

All -- I know the leader of the team who's conducting this study. They're solid, reliable graduate students at Harvard and MIT who are committed to really using machine learning to help give insights to us Tesla drivers. I'm participating, and I recommend this to my fellow Tesla drivers. Michael

I hadn't noticed it, but during some minor maintenance on another matter, Tesla Service swapped compressor lines on my car. I have no idea the impact, since that work was done in January and we don't use a whole lot of A/C around here (New England) this time of year!

I agree, and TeslaFi (the source of this logging data for my car) doesn't chart data for the intervals (I.e. Instead of "1-5 miles" one can only get "over 1 mile", so the long drives get averaged into the "over 1 mile" trips). I've put interval plotting in as a feature request.

Temperature and trip distance have a dramatic effect on efficiency in Model X. Here is my current chart of energy consumption vs. temperature on my X 90D for different drive distances over 18,000 miles in New England (hilly, but not mountainous) -- 339 Wh/mile lifetime. Note that rated...

One critical detail is missing from your report, and that is what your strategy is for charging -- that is, what is the average state of charge (%) when you decide to charge, and what is the average SOC when you finish with the Supercharger? My understanding of the supercharger performance...

There is a pair of shops next door to each other in Stoneham, Massachusetts, that do really excellent work. JK Automotive Designs has a really nice custom installation for the BlackVue dashcam as well as radar detectors, if needed. And right next door (they share a parking area and driveway)...

Mine was active the next day, but it took a full 20 hours.

@ohmman, you were absolutely right on. My car just came out of service and they found swapped compressor lines, just as you said. Of course, here in Massachusetts in January, it will probably be awhile before I can test noise and consumption on the A/C!

On my Model X, rated range is based on 327 kwh per mile, and over the course of 14,494 miles, my average energy consumption is 324 kwh per mile, so I've done about 1% better than rated range. With winter's onset, though, average range is creeping down as climate control takes a big bite out of...

Hmmm...I don't see the pull request. Maybe @wayner has some advice, since he's successfully generated pull requests that could be merged back into the main code branch with a single click.

@Cyclone, feel free as you make enhancements to generate a pull request back to the main code, so we can merge your enhancements into the main code base. That way, we'll be all running off the same code and benefit from each other's insights!

Ahhh, that's good info. I've been running Nikola on a paid Cloud9 account, and it stays running for weeks at a time. I know that @wayner has been working on a solution with AWS Lambda, which may be the best option of all for this. I'm looking forward to seeing his solution!

I have now merged all of @wayner's changes into the main branch of my original code in my GitHub repository: Nikola: An Alexa Skill (and Python intent handler) for Monitoring and Managing a Connected Tesla Automobile @wayner and I are working together to keep our versions coordinated. If you...

Thanks for that additional info. I'm going to make a change today that can handle the case where a temperature query returns "None", so that the app reports that "Temperatures for your car are currently unavailable." That's better than failing.

@wayner revealed to me something overnight that affects Model S users of the Nikola skill code quite a bit. He reports that Model S does not report internal or external temperatures with the climate controls off via API, thought Model X does. Since Nikola was developed for my Model X, the...

@wayner - Thanks for posting those changes to GitHub. I merged them back into the main branch of application.py, though again, because Tesla is holding my Model X hostage at the Dedham Service Center, I am unable to test the changes on my car.

@wayner reports that dropping the quote marks around TESLA_USER and TESLA_PASSWORD in Line 36 of application.py may fix this. It should read: tesla_connection = teslajson.Connection(TESLA_USER, TESLA_PASSWORD) The Dedham Service Center is holding my Model X "hostage" (routine service that...

You may have been working with instructions before I amended them a couple of hours ago. You need to make sure to check PUBLIC box in the Cloud9 SHARE window in order to expose the server URL to Alexa. I had omitted that from the original instructions, but have amended them. The most current...

Actually, you're right. Come to think of it I checked the "PUBLIC" button next to the Application URL in the Share screen. I will add that to the writeup and post. I do need to do some regression testing on the utterances. This is work in progress, obviously. Unfortunately, my Model X has...

Sorry -- in my haste to write this up for you guys, I may have missed a critical step. In the Amazon developer panel, for your Alexa skill, you need to set the SSL certificate. For the Cloud9 instance, check the button that says: " My development endpoint is a sub-domain of a domain that has...

Since I posted the code Alexa Skill for Tesla that I call "Nikola", several people have asked how to deploy it so they can start playing around with it. At this point, this is for IT-savvy users only, since it has not been adapted into a multi-user environment. But in the interest of getting...

I have written a pretty complete Amazon Alexa skill called "Nikola" that monitors and manages my Model X (but can also be used with Model S). I have put the code out in as open source in GitHub: Nikola: An Amazon Alexa Skill (and Python Intent Handler) for Monitoring and Managing a Tesla...

I did get the exact times to Tesla, and they've promised to look into it, but it's now been two weeks and...nothing. I'm intrigued by the post by @gmtom1 -- that certainly sounds like a plausible explanation: doors open up, alarm goes off, drunk guy looks for a place to warm up and climbs...

I sent this to Tesla for analysis to pull the logs, and they haven't gotten back to me for ten days, so I offer this mystery to the TMC community for your consideration. Here's what happened: Monday Night Football at Gillette Stadium, with my Model X parked in the stadium lot. Walk-away lock...

I'm curious about the outside air temperature readings that I get on my Model X, which has me wondering where and why the sensor is placed. I find it strange that I only seem to get accurate outside temperature readings: 1.) after couple-minute delay; and 2.) when the car has been moving at...

That would be awesome -- thanks in advance for contributing! Next, I'm working on the whole "Get my car ready for a trip at 9:00am tomorrow" stuff. My Google Home arrives on Tuesday, so I should be able to test it all. M

Alas, no. Driver profile is not available via API. That would allow, for example, auto-tagging (e.g. choose one profile for business drives, one for personal drives), and all your tax mileage logging could be done automagically with a minor tweak to TeslaFi.com. Here is a complete dump of the...

Wow! @Jdeck just released an incredibly new TeslaFi.com feature: the ability to tag drives and display/download both summaries and details of just those tagged drives for any date range. Here's my specific use case: I drive my Model X for Uber, and for tax purposes want to keep track of total...

Great to hear! I'm continuing to add to the intent handlers every few days, so "Nikola" will keep getting more and more capable. Just added "Where's my car?" today -- returns the street address where your car is parked.

No, I haven't added Summon functionality to the Nikola app for Alexa quite yet. I'd really like to finish the "Get my car ready for a long/short drive by 9am" functionality first, and then the capper would be to have it pull out of the garage. That said, though, pulling out of the garage is...

I have written an "intent handler" called "Nikola" in Python that accepts Alexa requests (called "intents") specific to the Tesla and then acts via the Tesla API. Nikola currently accepts and answers requests like "How charged is my car?", "How far can I drive?", "How warm/cold is my car?"...

Moved this post to thread: Model X: Average Wh/mi Tracker

(Moved from separate thread) After spending a couple of months logging data on TeslaFi.com for my Model X, across a range of temperature conditions here in New England, I've started to develop some data on how energy consumption varies at different outside temperatures in my car. I'm a pretty...

By the way, I want to give a big shout-out to @Jdeck, who developed TeslaFi and made this analysis (and many others) possible. He's surprising us every few weeks with yet another way to understand how our cars tick (or whirr). I highly recommend this web application, which is worth every penny...

I've been keeping very careful records of all my 90% charges since the car was new in early June. Here is the average of the three charges closest to each mileage milestone, at intervals of 2,000 miles: 0 miles (new) - 236 miles @ 90% 2,000 miles - 231 miles 4,000 miles - 231 miles 6,000 miles...

After spending a couple of months logging data on TeslaFi.com for my Model X, across a range of temperature conditions here in New England, I've started to develop some data on how energy consumption varies at different outside temperatures in my car. I'm a pretty average driver (average 314...

My guess is that this is still a combination of caching and DNS propagation issues. On two different networks (FIOS and Verizon Wireless), I'm getting "Account Suspended" and a lightning-fast version of Teslafi.com!