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Surely a Tesla-driver's tattoo would use Neural-ink. Then you would be just a firmware update away from being able to control your car with your tattoo.

Yeah, a modular design that allowed upgrades to parts like the computer, cameras, mobile network connection, etc would have been really nice and make good use of the "always being upgraded OTA" ethos that Tesla espouses.

Actually, yeah. I did that for a living for a year. My Tesla is the first car I've owned with a reversing camera. If you read a little higher up in this thread, I was advocating for drivers maintaining the habit of using their own direct vision when reversing instead of being totally reliant on...

Yup. All fun and games until the camera fails.

While the turning circle is so bad that it is worth mentioning twice, I meant to say "The Model 3 has a wide turning circle and less-than-spectacular rearward vision." The cameras do really help with reversing, but I would prefer that all drivers - and especially novices - be incentivised to...

I think the OP is asking a sensible question with a couple of components. Should I buy a new car, or something older in case I damage it? And, should I buy a Model 3? Inexperienced drivers are more likely to make small mistakes like hitting curbs, swinging the front of the car into an obstacle...

It could be worse. Nevyn72 could be asking you for a lot of Dalmatians.

Mine are still poor. I drove in rain today and needed to press the button frequently to see through the windscreen. Then, when the rain slowed to a few spots, the wipers went to full speed for about 30 seconds. Still so much worse than just old-style intermittent wipers with a frequency control.

Yep. I'm still waiting on my favourite "The Harley Davidson".

Tesla were telling me "very soon" in March for a car that eventually arrived in late June last year.

I wondered if there was some kind of mix-up in the terminology. A Faraday cage would be effective, but I suspect (just from the tin-foil-hat way they are marketed) that a lot of the products marketed to block RFID chips are of very low quality. I could be wrong, but I am reassured that they...

Sorry to hear about your trouble. Tesla took no interest in repairing the damaged paint on my June 2023 MY. I decided it wasn't worth the misery of trying to deal with them through legal channels as they have vastly greater resources than I do. If you are going to take them to an...

How so? RFID is used for lots of things.

Or the creatures that Tesla bugged...

Yeah, it works sometimes but not others. I went to my garage and opened the door. The app showed the car unlock, but was still showing "X minutes since last seen" and hadn't updated any of the charging information. I am still on 2024.2.7, so this wasn't caused by the recent firmware update.

I think that is the disconnect that happens in a lot of these discussions. On the one hand "Holy moley, look at the robot parking itself!". On the other hand "There is no way I would consider that a good job of parking a car. It was slow and inaccurate and I would be worried to trust it to park...

Hi @bcarp, Sorry to hear about the damage. I definitely took a couple of months to calibrate myself to the cameras lack of depth perception, and just the fact that you are mentally switching between views with different angles and magnifications when looking at the side and rear camera feeds...

I hear you. It helps a little to be able to drag the camera window to another part of the screen, allowing access to whatever controls it was covering.

What kind of highway range do you get in the sandwich maker? Btw, thanks for all of your informative posts in this and other threads. You do good work!

I am in the latest Android app, the car is 2024.2.7 like yours. CoS set to charge from any source to 30% and CoS to 100%. My SoC car was at 88%, PW2 at 10% when I started this morning. The car is charging via UMC. I have a 20kW PV array and 15kW inverter, so have enough production on all but...

Great work, Vostok! I am trying that for the first time this morning and it seems to be working. It is a bit annoying to need this manual step to prioritise the PW2, but it is a good technique to know. Edit: Nope, it just switched back to prioritising the car. Dang it.

Yeah, me too. June 2023 MYRWD. Maybe our vintage are receiving updates on the same schedule?

How is your new job going at the SA Tourism Board? 🙂

I meant that it adds about 10% above my reserve (so I end up with 20% or so in the battery) before it prioritises charging the car.

Brisbane to Rockhampton is easy. Even the QESH has frequent enough chargers, they are just limited to 50kW. If you have the range to get from Rockhampton to Mackay in one step, you can use Superchargers (otherwise you do have to take your chances a little bit at Marlborough or Carmila). From...

"Meh Plus", obviously. Although, "Meh 2: 2 Meh, 2 Furious" has a certain ring to it.

Mine is set to Self-powered, but has been charging the battery initially. I can't work out the pattern, but it adds roughly 10% to the battery before it stops and switches to charging the car (and then eventually charges both when the solar production reaches a high enough level.

Do you have any numbers regarding the lack of heat and UV rejection? Are you saying that a significant amount of heat and UV penetrate the glass? I would assume that anyone in the industry who made claims like that would have some objective information to support those claims, so would be...

How do you set Powerwall as the priority for Charge on Solar? CoS was only recently deployed here in Australia and we don't seem to be able to set the priority. Many of use would like our Powerwall to charge before the car, but can't make that happen. Am I missing something?

That probably depends on the extent of the damage. If the contact was so minor that the other party might not have realised any meaningful damage was done, I don't think the police should be involved. If you think they knew they damaged your car and decided not to leave their contact details...

My Charge on Solar behaviour has changed slightly so that it now prioritises charging the Powerwall 2 first from my 10% reserve up to 20%, then prioritises charging the car over the battery. That is better than just completely prioritising the car, as it did initially, but I would still before...

I just use the mats that came with the car. They have been pretty decent. You may want to just wait and see before buying aftermarket options.

Touch your climate control (where the cabin temperature shows) and look for the icon shown in yellow here (which means it is on). To access the Owners Manual inside the car, tap the car icon, the Service, then Owners Manual.

I am not sure what the photos are showing. If you think the rear demister lines are visible because the demister is on, have you checked to ensure it isn't manually set to "on"?

Time to find someone with an older car who can update the UMC for you.

That is interesting. Proserpine already has one QESH (DC and AC) charger and a two-berth Evie charger. The proposed site is very close to the existing QESH charger. I wonder if they will be adding a charger or moving one of the existing chargers.

Using the media player to access an SSD gives only a very basic user interface. There are no playlists, but you can arrange your music into folders (using your computer) and access those folders through the media player. I greatly prefer to use my own music instead of streaming, and find...

I was wondering whether Sarina would be an option instead of Mackay. Frankly, I would settle for the Carmila charger being more reliable. From Rockhampton to Mackay? Mine absolutely will not make it at highway speeds (100kph, using TACC, A/C set to something reasonable like 23C). What...

Getting slightly off topic: The fastest Android equivalent that I am aware of is the long-press a location in Google Maps and the GPS coordinates will appear and can be copied to the clipboard. Unfortunately, "Hey Google, what is my location" opens Maps and verbally names the suburb, but...

They actually need a charger between Mackay and Rockhampton, which is further than a MY RWD can drive on a full charge. That stretch of road is also home to two of the least reliable QESH chargers. If we charge in Rockhampton and then Carmila (QESH) that gets us to the Evie at Proserpine, then...

That's fair. I wasn't sure whether using the wall charger would make a difference, but I guess not. That's a shame, it would have been cool to have a charging station that only offered green energy for any EV the charge, without needing to pay for a more expensive setup. Oh well, at least my...

Thank you. I did that and have now been able to set up Charge on Solar. For anyone waiting to do this, the app warns that logging out will lose your data, but my app is behaving normally after logging back in (as you would expect it to). Setting up CoS requires that you pair your phone with...

The app update has broken the icons in my widget (on Android).

Samme for me. I guess there is still something Tesla need to do in the background to roll it out.

I just checked again. On Android, I am up to date on 4.30.0. Good to see others are receiving email notifications, hopefully mine will come through soon.

My Powerwall 2 has been on version 23.44.0 for a while now. My car is on 2024.2.6 and my app is up to date (4.30.0). I've seen no sign of Charge on Solar yet.

Push the right stalk up. My problem is that there is no way to turn Autosteer off without turning TACC all the way off as well. Turning TACC off abruptly activates full regeneration. The only way to avoid that is to apply throttle, preferably just the right amount of throttle to allow a...

You could also tell them about the 50kW DC charger on Flinders St in Townsville. It is provided free by the city council. It is malfunctioning at the moment, but Plugshare shows heaps of use (which would also be a small subset of the actual use) over a period of years.

The USB stick they provide is adequate for dashcam and sentry footage, so long as you don't want to keep a huge back library for some reason. I upgraded because I wanted to be able to have my music library in the car (although the music player interface is rudimentary and pretty terrible)...

I don't know the maximum capacity, but can vouch for a 2Tb Samsung T7, which is larger than most people would need, but the one I had to hand.