Recent content by tnt1971

I have noticed that too with my car, that the system kicks in sometimes when you are pulling away from the supercharger. One time it happened when it was literally single digits out here and I was surprised, although I had been on the road for 2+ hours prior to charging. I know the system...

Been about 5 days with no issues and NY is dark in early January (late sunrise and early sunset). I think it was software.

2016 85D. My passenger headlight would periodically go out. If I turned the lights off then back on, it would come back. The problem seemed to get worse over time, happening more frequently. I took it to Tesla and mentioned the issue 3 times and they could never replicate the issue. I even had a...

My 85D car was on order when this happened. I originally wanted a May, 2016 delivery. They called me and tried to get me to pay the $3k for the 90 and I declined. This caused my car to deliver in March, 2016 because they were discontinuing the 85s. I have one of the last ones that was made...

So good and safe drivers do not have to drive anymore, but bad drivers still do? Seems backwards.

85D from March, 2016. 80,000 miles. 260 max charge (without range mode on). Supercharge 4 or 5 times a year. Only ranged charged about 7 times in car's life. Rarely charge above 70%. Supercharging will hit 115kw when SOC is very low, but quickly falls to about 80kw. I don't believe that I am...

I have a 2016 85D. I will tell you that it varies, a lot. Yesterday I lost 6 miles while working out at the gym for an hour. Then I lost another 8 miles in the few hours after I got home. Then I only lost 1 overnight. Is your consistently bad, or does it vary? If consistently bad, it could be...

I have a 2016 85D built in late February (old nose). I have avoided using the frunk because I found it very hard to latch. My son washed the car for me this past weekend and opened the frunk. He told me he could not get it to close. I tried, and it was in the unlatched position and I could not...

Except that I would tell a private party that my car was rarely over 70% SOC and never sat there, as well as the fact I babied my onboard charger, capping it at 32amps most of the time. I also have screenshots of every range charge, showing the degradation over the 5 or so years I have owned it...

There is a benefit to slower charging while not at a supercharger. The onboard charger in the car will last longer at lower amps and less heat. This is especially true for those of us that have the old, 40 amp onboard chargers.

If you want to baby it, don't charge it over 70% unless you need to. This is directly from Dahn, and he is Tesla's battery expert. The lower the SOC, the better, except if you go too low, like less than 10%-20%. I have heard that "depth of discharge", which is what you are getting at by talking...

Also, electric motors, which are in just about every other high draw item in a household (dryer, refigerator, pumps for heat, fans, etc.), use about twice the energy draw to start the motor as when they are running. You get a quick spike when you first start one of these motors.

I am assuming you turned on the energy savings and unchecked the "always connected" box in the settings. I noticed this reduces it a bit but not a tremendous amount. You can power down the car in settings as well, but I believe it comes back on when you open and close the door. I believe Tesla...

15 miles is roughly my commute to work. If I am traveling at a time where I know traffic will be minimal, I don't warm the battery. I do warm it if I know it will be a 40+ minute commute in traffic. My reason is the regen is all that is really lost with a cold battery. Without traffic and the...

I don't think it was. Rarely have I seen the car differ from the top rated miles. For example, at 262 a 50% charge gives me 131. Sometimes I will get a 130 and once in a blue moon I will see 129. When it was new I used to see 136 on a 50% charge and 138 when range mode was on. I take a phone...