Recent content by sule

At what rate are you charging? Charging slow = little battery heating. Also, if you are preheatin the cabin at the same time, much of that power may be going there, not into the battery, leaving less to charge (and heat) the battery. I have original dual chargers that let me charge at 80A and...

This is a normal cabin heat ("climate") screen. The only thing new in it I noticed is the battery icon. It may only be an indicator of state (cold battery) and not of heating but I am hoping for something more - if it isn't already there it should be "soon" (the Tesla kind of "soon" ).

Yes, but it is still proportional to v squared per distance driven, because as you increase speed you reduce time to get there.

Well, look at the screenshot below. Now there is that battery icon in there that wasn't there for years - it is relatively new (I've seen if at least a few weeks now, maybe longer). *EDIT*: Note - the icon appears a little while after the heating is turned on, not immediately. Almost enough to...

Tesla app showing heating

Actually, that was wine talking. It isn't all true. You say "Energy lost in electrical resistance is proportional to power squared at constant voltage". There are multiple ways and places you can approach this. In a DC world the voltage would NOT remain constant. It would change and would be...

All true. But these are internal losses, not about the main power to move the car. If we get to this level of detail we'll never stop. These losses are not only nonlinear but also have a non-zero most efficient speed and other factors - if you go slower they can increase, in fact. So, if you...

Oh ... and range mode is useless from my experience. Accomplishes nothing but a colder cabin, which I can better achieve otherwise.

I'm a long time Model S owner but... Drag (force) is. But power to fight it is not - it is proportional to the cube of the velocity. However, because at that power you're traveling faster, when you divide that by velocity to figure out how much energy you need per distance you get back to the...

I went to Gaspesie. It was great but our hopes of seeing a moose were not met with an actual sighting. Didn't expect so much gravel roads and climbs but Tesla did it... and gained 5 km on the way down :) Well, yes, I knew about that but my wife didn't have enough days off left, she had a tough...

An update Re CHAdeMO adapter.... FLO sent me an email: Hello ..., Just a word to inform you that our engineers had to do a lot of reverse engineering with regard to this issue but we believe the solution has been found. The fix was applied to a few 1st generation AddÉnergie DCFC’s last week...

I seem to need help finding something in Charlottetown. I will arrive near empty and need to charge overnight for roadtrips around PEI and, at the end, before I leave. Right now I can see: Most reliable charger seems to be over at Stratford: Sheppard Drive Parking/Charging | Stratford, PE |...

Thanks all! I was doing some planning and was initially thinking of something like shown on this map (was gathering data): Toronto-Quebec-PEI trip (public) Still not 100% set on this but getting there. Presently the plan is to skip the whales on the way from Quebec City towards PEI and use...

I just confirmed that all works fine with AAC-00057 - the Brampton station.

Good catch. Somehow I was able to miss that.