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No, don’t think I’ve tried the Defrosy function, only turned on Climate (or set pre-conditioning). Is there a difference between the two functions?

A couple of times I've noticed that the part of the windscreen on my Model Y that covers the cameras hasn't defrosted in the same way as the rest of the windscreen. Is this normal, or do I have some sort of fault around the camera housing? With the very cold overnight temperatures this week...

Happened to me today (2023 MYLR). Mighty pleased I found this thread as I followed the instructions given by Tesla in the first post and the little stone dropped out on to the garage floor. Very relieved as I'm driving from the French Alps to London tomorrow, and the last thing I wanted was a...

Got the email from Octopus giving results of the saving session on 29 November which said I’d saved 4.83kWh earning 15,448 Octopoints. However, when I log in to my account on the Octopus website it shows that during that saving session I saved 2.94 kWh worth 9392 points. Anyone else have a...

Usually I pack sandwiches for the drive and just push on rather than stopping for lunch. Fuel & toilet stops normally provide enough of a break, so I’m hoping the extra time required for Supercharging will mean an even more relaxed drive than what I’ve been used to. I‘m in a MY, just me on the...

Thanks for the indication of how long it takes to warm the battery pack and what it is pulling from the grid. Much appreciated.

I remember reading those threads some time ago, but will re-read to double check. I’ve got the Schuko adapter, toll tag and Crit’Air so all good on that front. I do have winters but not sure about taking an extra wheel, it takes up so much space. Perhaps will see how much space I have left...

Thanks for the feedback, appreciate it. I’ll be heading to Les Arcs, and home is about 90 minutes from the Chunnel so I’ve always worked on the same 12 hours door-to-door principal as you when driving ICE. I’ve done a bit of route planning with ABRP and I’m assuming an extra 90 minutes journey...

That’s pretty much my thinking as well, for a drive to the Alps which I would like to do comfortably in one day. I figure if I start the journey fully topped up with electrons and everything reasonably warm at the very least I maximise my options should, for example, the Folkestone chargers be...

They’re not as good as chains, but I’ve found that in an AWD car with decent winter tyres it’s rare that you need to resort to chains (only twice I’ve had to do that, in quite a lot of driving in snow), so snow socks are a pretty good alternative as an emergency measure. The main drawback is...

In the next few weeks I have some long drives in cold temperatures and was wondering about pre-conditioning the car (MYLR) while it is plugged in to my charger before I start the first leg of the journey (it will be about 90 minutes to get to Eurotunnel at Folkestone, where I’ll have some time...

Thanks for the re-assurance. I appreciate that windscreen cracks are likely to be extremely rare. I guess one of the downsides of using social media to share experience is that while it is mostly very helpful to learn from more experienced Tesla owners, it is easy to dwell on rare examples of...

Mildly concerned to see reports of cracked windscreens (possibly) as a result of using the Defrost function in the cold weather we’re having. Usually I turn on the climate control about 10 minutes before I head out for my usual commute, and this is enough to warm the cabin and melt the frost on...

In most circumstances winter tyres and an All Wheel Drive car like your MYLR will be fine. But if the snow conditions are exceptionally bad there is a chance that local police will require you to fit chains (or snow socks) even if you have winter tyres fitted. I’ve seen it happen a couple of...

I installed 2023.44.1 this morning prior to my usual commute around the M25. Thought the skittishness when overtaking a vehicle which is wandering a little within its own lane had reduced noticeably. Only had one episode when my car slowed, and to be fair the van I was passing had its wheels...

I’ll be heading to a French ski resort, Les Arcs. There are 4 Shell Recharge 22kW chargers near my apartment, but they seem continually occupied either by EVs or ICEd whenever I’ve taken a look during the ski season. I’d like to have a fallback position just in case it’s impossible to get on to...

Thanks, if I go ahead with the plan I'd get a cable made with a heavy duty Schuko plug at one end and a waterproof UK 13A socket at the other, as the cable would stay in France so no need to convert a UK plug with an adapter. If I do use an extension cable it would be during cold winter...

Is there a maximum length extension cable for use with the Tesla granny charger? I’m taking a trip to France later this year and one charging option at my destination is to run a cable from the apartment to the car and use Tesla’s granny charger to top up the battery overnight. I’m not quite...

I have a 7kW charger (Ohme Home Pro) which seems to charge at its full rate all of the time, although not all 30-minute charging blocks are contiguous. You say that the solar batteries problem can be solved by setting the start or end time to coincide with the start or end of the guaranteed...

What time does your overnight block on discharging your home batteries kick in? In the last few weeks I've had several days when IO has started to charge my car during early evening hours, any time from 6pm onwards when I plug the car in. That's great for me as it means the rest of my...

Isn’t the whole point of IO that the customer doesn’t control when their EV is charged? You set at target SoC and a target time when charging must be completed, and the schedule is then set by Octopus against their own criteria rather than anything the customer might want (for things like solar...

With the Tesla API reporting the SoC of the car, I wonder if that means Apple Maps would be able to route plan with Supercharging? I think you can initiate pre-conditioning of the battery via the Tesla API, so Apple Maps might be able to act as a replacement for Tesla‘s built-in route planning...

For the sake of balance, I should report my experience with IO has been 100% reliable. I have a Ohme Home Pro charger and a MY. I had significant problems for the first week of being on IO, but that was because I set up the tariff incorrectly (connecting the Tesla to IO rather than the Ohme to...

I’ve used the Carlinkit (bought through Amazon UK) for a couple of months. It is sometimes frustrating that the various links between car, phone and Carlinkit don’t automatically connect, requiring unplugging the Carlinkit to re-boot it. But mostly it works pretty well for me, and it is...

Indeed! Although you could buy a Model Y and a Fisker Ocean for the same price as the Electre...

It felt a noticeably smaller cabin and less boot space, although the rear of the car doesn’t slope down as much as the MY so maybe total volume might not be hugely different (I’ve not compared the stats). I didn’t look to see if it had a sub-trunk or frunk, which I think add significantly to the...

I thought the boot space is bigger, as well as having a hatch so gets a bigger opening. Internal cabin space felt the same the same as an M3, albeit a higher driver position. However, I’ve not spent much time in an M3 so take that opinion with caution. It’s a nice looking car, better than all...

It was much smaller than I expected, all round. I’ve seen plenty of review videos of it so shouldn’t have been surprised, but it felt considerably smaller than a Model Y, inside and outside. Not a bad thing at all, just not how I thought it would be.

Sure, there’s a difference. But the poster I replied to said that he was appalled the way that Tesla handles buyers these days. Buyers, not secondhand buyers. So I offered a counterpoint as a recent, and entirely happy, buyer. Is the experience described in recent pages here typical of buying...

I bought a new MY last month. Should have been 4 weeks from order to collection, but turned out to by 3 weeks and the price was reduced by £3,200 at the last minute. Whole purchasing process was just about perfect as far as I was concerned, and I’ve been very happy with the car since I’ve had...

How did you manage that? Significantly cheaper than the current IO rates I’m paying. Sign of a forthcoming price cut…?

OK, hope that happens. Perhaps someone might like to explain to the Service Agent who called me that the issue might resolve itself…

In what way? The Service Agent seemed clear that this could not be addressed.

I noticed that the eSIM in my newly purchased MY has a Netherlands-based IP location, which restricts what I can watch via Netflix, Disney+ and iPlayer (via the web-browser). It’s frustrating that I pay £10 a month for the premium data package yet it is hobbled because European Teslas are...

I have a MY and a Ohme Home Pro. IO is connected to the Ohme charger. When I plug the car in it starts to charge, but it is always just a matter of seconds before the charging is stopped and a schedule is calculated.

I don’t think you do. It’s not a rational, informed position they hold, so you’re not going to cure their mental malaise with rationality or information. Best move on, and be thankful that it’s one more conspiracy theorist who won’t be taking up a charging stall when you might need it.

It’s not entirely obvious, to me at least, what schedule has been set when I look at the Ohme app. However, I’ve not done a huge amount of mileage since getting my Tesla so haven’t needed much more than two or three hours of overnight charge on any individual day. This seems all to have taken...

I recently switched to IO when I bought my MY. Initially I connected IO to my Tesla and had no end of problems, basically it didn't work for a week, always charging at peak rate prior to 11.30pm despite me repeatedly stopping the charge when I spotted it was happening. Following advice from a...

My charge worked OK last night. MY located in London, with my Ohme Home Pro charger connected to IO. Plugged in around 8pm, charging started as normal, and then stopped within a minute (as usual) and I could see that a schedule had been created in the Ohme app. Only needed a little top up to...

If I had to pay 73p per unit for all my charging I'd not have bought an EV. As nice as my MY is to drive, the determining factor in buying the car was the ability to "fill 'er up" for £7.50 (at the current elevated, hopefully temporarily, rates).

Is it possible to separate the angry and whinging posts about the removal of USS in to another thread so that those of us who are genuinely curious about how Vision based parking will perform don’t have to wade through the bile? Please and thank you.

Is this guaranteed to be at cheap rate, even if it’s outside of the core off-peak hours? If I tick the pre-conditioning option in the Ohme app for a 10am charging requirement, will it pre-condition from, say, 9.30am to 10am at off-peak rate?

Octopus recently installed a Ohme Home Pro smart charger for me, for £999. Less than 10m from consumer unit to the charger, but two walls requiring drilling. I got four quotes and Octopus were the cheapest by £400, and could do it quicker than the other local electricians who offered a price...

Looking for two Tesla 19 inch Gemini wheels (with or without tyres). They’d need to be structurally sound, but happy with kerb rash. Anyone have any wheels they’re no longer using?

From what I’ve seen (including the latest 7.2 inch version from Hansshow) you can only pair one set of Bluetooth headphones to the device. No good if you have a couple of kids in the back who want to watch a movie without the audio distracting the driver and front passenger. If it’s possible to...

Apologies if this has been answered already (I did look but couldn’t see it), if you use a SIM card with the T2C rather than your phone’s hotspot, approximately how much data are people using per month? Assuming CarPlay is being used mostly to stream audio and for navigation with Maps or Waze. A...

No, we ordered a regular petrol version of the Sportage. A hybrid, including plug in hybrid, seems a bit pointless to me. If I was going to go electric it would be a full BEV not a PHEV. The Niro EV is OK, but a bit too small for us, doesn’t come with an AWD option and isn’t very long range...

Prior to January's price cut I'd discounted Tesla is too expensive for my family, so hadn't really looked in any detail about what the actual ownership costs would be. We needed to change cars so had placed an order for a new Kia Sportage just before the Tesla price cut. That lower price made...

I’ve just bought a MYLR, partly in response to the January price cut and then able to discount the price further with this weekend’s price drop on inventory stock. I know HW4 is on its way, but I have no interest in FSD (not least because I don’t think there will be much regulatory approval in...

Many thanks for the report earlier in this thread that Inventory stock has been reduced in price by £3k+. I had a new MYLR on order for collection next week, at the current price of £52,990 for white on black with standard wheels. Everything was set for collection, I'd been allocated the VIN...