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Interesting, I just tried planning my trip from Ottawa in ABRP and it also offered the same route the Tesla map took me on as the first choice. It did provide two alternate routes, one of which was the Rt 81 trip I show above. Part of the reason I like that route better is that there are more...

Ah, good idea. I could have added superchargers along Rt 81 to keep it on that highway.

I went on my first long trip in my 2022 Model 3 Tesla. We drove from NJ up to Toronto and then Ottawa, Canada. Most of the time the trip mapped out by the Tesla map worked well, but on the drive home from Ottawa to NJ, it picked a route that went through a bunch of back roads where there wasn't...

That's just like the U-Turn issue off the highway I saw. Before I owned a Tesla I had a car with Apple Car play. Even though Apple Maps has it's issues, I don't ever remember it doing this particular type of error.

Ok, that makes sense.

I've had a few issues using the Tesla map for navigation. I searched for McDonald's and the map showed a list in order of closest to furthest. The closest one was claimed to be 4.5 miles, but when I selected it the actual distance was 15 miles! How could there be such a large difference in...

On the touchscreen you can lock the back windows and doors (child lock). But what about in an emergency if somehow the touchscreen is damaged and we can't disengage the child lock. Is there a manual override of some kind?

I used the scroll wheel a lot more on my trip today using autopilot. It did help when I anticipated things up ahead like cars turning, slowing down with the scroll wheel avoided any sudden decelerations. Thanks for the tip!

I did a software update on Thursday, so maybe that was the cause. Thanks for the suggestion.

I've had my Tesla Model 3 for about 2 months now. I've had mixed success with autopilot. It seems to work best when I'm driving on a highway where there is light traffic. If there is stop and go traffic, I find that it can over accelerate or over decelerate as the cars stop and go in front of...

This did the trick, in the morning I was able to step on the brake and use the touchscreen within seconds of getting into the car. So should I be "rebooting" the car in this way on a regular basis? I reboot my computers once a week to chase the gremlins away.

Thanks, trying the power down tonight. I will report back in the morning if it fixed the problem.

I notice that when I have the car in the garage overnight, it is quite sluggish when I first get in it to drive in the morning. I will get in the car and step on the brake, but it won't switch from Easy Entry to my driver profile. When I try to use the touch screen it will be frozen. I will have...

Thanks, I think I'll charge it to 90% then. My last trip to the city I charged to 90% at home and the driving I did in the city it went down to 53%, I visited those 2 chargers in Brooklyn above more to see what my options were than because I really needed it. I charged back up to 90% and when I...

I’m wondering what the best strategy is for the days I’m in NYC. I can charge in my garage in NJ at least once a week. Should I top off to 95% there and just not charge for the days I’m in NYC? I’m not driving that many miles in the city. Is it harmful to the battery to charge up to 100%?

So I read through this long thread and couldn't find anything about this part of my question. When I turn the auto wipers off, it seems to turn back on again when I engage autopilot. Is this by design? Is there a way to have autopilot on and auto wipers off?

This has happened a couple of times over the past week. I've had the auto wipers start wiping the windshield when there is no rain. It happened again tonight, there was actually a light rain, but then after the rain stopped it would intermittently start wiping the dry windshield. Another thing I...

Yes, I'm painfully aware of that! Funny that they supposedly support mass transit but can't build anymore subway lines. It took 50 years to build 3 extra stops on the Q train, pathetic. Read this to see what I'm talking about.

Thanks, I didn’t see that, it must be a separate section of the garage. Of course the garage staff was not helpful. They probably have no idea what the difference is.

Thanks, I just tried the Brooklyn Superhub, parking was in fact free. Charging was also much faster. It took 30 minutes to go from 60 - 90% SoC. Compared to yesterday where it took 70 minutes to go from 53 - 70%.

I took a picture, it says Tesla on it, could it be anything other than a Supercharger?

I’m struggling to find good places to charge my Tesla in NYC. Most of them are in parking garages which will charge you a parking fee. I found this one that will only charge you $5 to park and charge for 1.5 hours: Atlantic Center 625 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217: Atlantic Center | PlugShare...

Over the weekend, I drove to NYC and parked the car in a garage. It was valet parking, so the attendant had to actually park the vehicle. When I got home, I noticed that my front bumper was scraped and some paint was chipped off. Unfortunately I didn’t notice this until I got home, so I can’t...

Wait, does this imply the higher the charge percentage the worse it is for the battery? I thought the whole thing about lithium ion batteries are the load cycles. Going from 90% to 70% should be the same as going from 50% to 30%.

I have the LR AWD. Should I charge it up to 100% to see what it shows for the miles? I'm stopping at 90% now.

I don’t actually mind resting my hand on the steering wheel, but apparently that’s not enough. So I don’t understand how they want you to apply steering motion and not disengage the autopilot. Seems like a dumb thing to me.

I’ve only had my Tesla for 5 days now, so autopilot is a new thing for me. I drove from NJ into NYC and hit a lot of traffic on the highway. Autopilot made the stop and go traffic a lot easier to take. My old car had cruise control, which is useless in stop and go traffic. I’ve tried autopilot...

So I did the calculation: 172 Wh/mi * 388 mi projected range / .85 (SoC) = 78.5 kWh, does this mean I have the 82 kWh battery, but it has already lost some charging capacity?

I see on this Wikipedia page that it can be anywhere from 54 to 82 kWh. But how do I find the size of my car’s battery?