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Interesting how my opinions aren't really about the Superchargers but about the conditions I encountered them in (which contrast with other opinions here) : Best: Tebay Southbound. Both visits were busy but had spaces available, didn't care because the facilities there are fantastic. And if...

Careful. Powerwall battery usage/attachment isn't the same as car battery usage. For starters, the Powerwall has to present itself to the grid and your home as good old AC mains power, so there's more conversions going on (with each conversion taking a loss). Newer Gateways can (I think - I...

Apparently I've just got 20.40.3 on my Gateway, I'm guessing around 21:00 this evening because that's when my logging script stopped recording meter data.... ...Has anyone else seen the meters at /api/meters/aggregates go from INT to FLOAT values? Just me? (Specifically the...

I've been on it since March (applied last December). But... Solar system (Panels + Powerwall) was only fitted in June. And the final pre-req - SmartMeter - was only installed last week and that's going through the "takes 2 weeks to filter through the system to Octopus" phaff right now. We've...

I have an S, 2018 with AP2.5. If under "full" autopilot - not just TACC but AutoSteer - then if I have set speed to (say) National Speed Limit and I pass through a village/area with a speed restriction (50/40/30), then the car will first slow down to that limit - all be it after passing the...

We do a camping trip every year (....except this one) and this was an area I was interested in too. We always Glamp it up with a power supply (who wants to sit around in the dark?) and I thought that would do us - even 10 amps would top us off over the course of a couple of days. However, the...

I had that problem with my Tesla Wall Charger setup but only after 18 months of perfect operation. It was a sign that the actual cable was going bad - one of the two signal cables inside the big bundle had got a crimp. Plug the cable in to the car and I'd either get "Charging Equipment Not...

Thanks for the responses. There's a chance the battery wasn't warm enough, I'd just driven 50 miles but it was pouring rain, and (crucially) I'd not had the SuperCharger listed as navigation destination to pre-warm the battery. SoC was about 55%. I was 4 stalls down from the next closest user...

I had mine fitted yesterday to my 2018 MCU-1 car. I scheduled the upgrade along with a 2-year mini-service a couple of weeks back. Cost was broadly as quoted above. Invoice has 2 parts - "CCS Upgrade" @ £233 + VAT (which must be the the adaptor which comes in a very Apple-esque box), and a...

My (first) TWC lasted 15 months. Well, to be fair, the TWC is probably still going strong. But one of the signalling (not power) wires in the cable went bad, rendering the whole thing belly-up. Fortunately the whole thing (Wall connector and 7M cable - they're one unit, even under the main cover...

I cannot answer for the roof box because I've not tried it with our Model S. I can say that putting 4 x bikes on the roof results in a 33% loss of range even when speed is kept to 60MPH. And I know this because we took our car in this configuration around Northern France a couple of summers...

I'm not a big fan of spinning rust in a moving car, but modern drives are fairly resilient. You may have issues with it needing more power than the USB sockets are capable of providing but that's unlikely. You have nothing to lose by trying it out, but it'd be worth planning a check in a month...

Anecdote isn't data, but I had one of these -the exact same model- in my S, put it in in September. Noticed it was totally dead a couple of weeks ago. Totally unreadable either in the car or on a computer - not even recognised as a disk any more. I've replace it with...

You're assuming I'm any sort of fan of boating. Whereas we all know water and electricity don't mix....

I tend to stick to the limit. Although I'm not adverse to using the available power to get to that rapidly, on occasion... (That big digital "70" right in my face - along with the current and recent consumption figures - is one of the best passive nudges I've ever seen to encourage a more...

Oh - now that's an interesting piece of information. Thanks. I suspect the main difference between most installations - yours included? - and Robert's is that he had to go to 3-phase power when he added the 2nd Powerwall and (IIRC) he added the Gateway at that time rather than originally. So...

If the grid was 100% renewable, you'd be correct. As it stands, I see the ability to feed the grid from the powerwall (which is one of the points of the Octopus deal) as making some contribution even if inefficiently - the point being that there's little to no grid-scale storage capacity (OK...

I've gone for the Octopus deal they were advertising before Xmas, waiting for the DNO to go through to get it all fitted. I'm starting from scratch - no solar yet, just a car and Tesla Wall Charger. I ran the numbers based on our current consumption and the quoted install costs. With all that...

I've got a 7m unit and I'm using the rear entry option. Not sure about low profile or anything - I'm just using the brackets it came with. Only thing to note is that to avoid stressing the cable I wrap it very loosely - easy because it's so high off the ground - and only ever go over the top...

Just got 2019.40.2.1 on my MCU1/AP2.5 Model S. All I've noticed different so far is that there's a permanent "Passenger Airbag: ON" in the top-right of the screen. Of course, it'd help if - like any of the V10 releases - I could read the chuffing Release Notes to work out what's supposed to...

I know this is late to the game but... I had the email recently. Intrigued enough to click through, I got the following info I've not seen on the thread: You can express interest if you don't have PowerWall or Solar. At the end of the process they say "we'll have someone in touch to give you...

I'm a PocketCasts user too. Up to now I've mostly used bluetooth and kept playing from the phone. Unlike many here I do think the built-in TuneIn is at least usable if not great. The comments about history retention etc are valid but the worst point for me is how it randomly forgets where...

The fact that it's not linked anywhere (that I could find...) from www.tesla.com/en_gb/ makes me wonder whether this is a "soft launch" or a mistaken configuration. I'd hope the former given the restricted range of products available so far. If they'd included clothing I'd have made a "test...

I'm on 2019.32.12.2 like most of you. Unlike previous releases, rebooting does not make the browser work at all. And I'm less bothered by the lack of browser than I am by the fact that it's taken the Release Notes and User Manual with it (not surprising, behind the scenes it's all just...

This probably isn't strictly just a Tesla-only thing, but it was new to me in terms of car ownership: Calendar integration. I get into the car in the morning, it pops up my calendar, I tap the first entry and the satnav sets itself up, and away we go. Repeat throughout the day. No more...

Based on the cases you've described, the one common point is the onboard AC charger unit on the car. If CCS (DC) and Supercharger (DC) works fine, there's nothing wrong with the connector or the actual battery. If only the Rolec caused the issue, it would be home supply or the Rolec. If the...

There is no onboard storage by default, you need to supply your own. Dashcam won't work at all without some local storage; Tesla are a bit cagey about "Cloud storage" for Sentry mode (as in it's supposed to send clips to the cloud but no-one's ever got access to them afterwards as far as I know...

Didn't visit, but West Drayton's been showing as available on my S as I've driven fairly close to it the last few days....

If you've logged in with the same Spotify account, it should sync over. My experience, though, is that changes you make on other devices can take quite some time to show up in the Tesla client. It obviously doesn't sync back to Spotify that often (it's taken days before now for tracks I've...

The B-Pillar cameras are not sealed units (AFAIK) and thus the air-con (with it's drier air) should clear condensation there once run. Windscreen cameras are (semi) sealed from the rest of the cabin and thus have their own independent electric heating elements which should automatically run to...

Condensation on the B-Pillar cameras is "normal" and cleared by the air con running in the car. Condensation in the windscreen cameras should be (automatically) cleared by the heating elements there. I had that fault last winter and Tesla - after diagnosing no other issues - replaced the whole...

I find tapping the brakes provides sufficient illumination for the camera when reversing. Not ideal but better than relying on the single reversing LED...

I regularly have trouble getting Spotify to either load at all or to load my library. For the first case, a scroll-wheel reset will usually fix it. For the second case - when the library won't work (Main Spotify screen loads, but hitting "Songs" results in infinite loading.... screen) - the...

I've just checked my document copies and the date on the invoice is 3 weeks prior to (planned) delivery. And my actual delivery was 2 working days after that planned date (thanks to Easter getting in the way). It's not massively unreasonable to assume they've streamlined the process somewhat, so...

Thank you for that - my initial comment was as much tongue-in-cheek as anything but your response is great data. I'm only a 75D - quite a bit slower than you but not that much lighter, and I confess I wasn't expecting much in the way of tyre life (I've ahem made sure I've used the full...

The quoted difference in range is effectively the penalty of carrying around the bigger performance motor on the rear axle and all the gubbins that hangs off that (i.e. the effect of the extra mass and any additional friction losses). It really doesn't have anything to do with how the car is...

I've seen reports that, in order to comply with late night quiet time legislation, there should be a "disable" button for the noise. Which might be to your tastes. As has been pointed out in lots of places, it's sensible to have at least a reversing noise because the whole...

A well-developed camera based system should have no trouble navigating a complex roundabout system PROVIDED it's well marked out. The challenge comes when the markings are faded, or obscured by vegetation or a car blocking the way. And don't get me started on the 3-way junctions they've turned...

Accepting that neither of us knows for sure and we're just speculating... I can believe what you're saying about the development timelines, but we know now that AP2/AP3 is reading STOP signs and traffic lights (in the US), so it's the tiniest of stretches to believe it's also capable of reading...

If I were a betting man..... I'd bet that the system is technically capable of reading road signs but that Tesla have run into Patent / Contract / Licencing issues with the Mobileye system they used previously (AP1). That can read road signs on AP1, and all the other cars it's fitted to....

I use TACC quite a bit on the country roads around me, and I'm starting to use Auto-Steer more as it's getting much better. I particularly like the way it'll slow down to make sharper corners and speed up after. But then I'm more intrigued by the capability than relying on it, and I'm...

Can confirm - booking by mobile app just sticks things in a queue. There's a triage system where an actual, real-life person looks at the booking request and details and determines what to do about it. I've used the app twice now for booking - the first time actually required a visit...

You only get the notification that a Software Update is available after the download has completed. Signal strength can have an effect on how long that download takes but the actual install process is independent of that. Different people's installation times will be because of different...

No no *no* - we all got a new Chess game this time around. How exciting is that? (haven't drive on it yet, but online reports are snappier lane-changes and better bluetooth connection)

It tells me that a proper statistical analysis would mark you out with a big "Anomaly" marker, and the associated chart would just have a bigger error-bar associated with it :cool: Or as an alternative explanation, if you like: You've become a full EV convert and have entirely ditched the...

But with proper use of auto-hold, I only use foot on brake to come to a halt anyway.... once (H) shows, my foot moves back above the accelerator just like yours would... except I know the car's not going to roll away with the brakes applied.

I have a theory.... People coming from Automatics (e.g. most US purchasers) prefer Creep=OFF because that's new behaviour to them that makes the car feel a bit different & special. People coming from Manuals (most Euro drivers?) prefer Creep=ON for exactly the same reason - new behaviour making...

You can also engage it (fully) with Creep mode ON too...

Almost certainly using Autopilot (either TACC alone or TACC+AutoSteer). I do the same. Makes traffic jams so much less stressful. Stop worrying about whether you're going to hit the car in front, have more attention available to monitor rear-view / sides as necessary. Getting upset about a...

Answers from my Model S 75D - don't see why they'd be materially different for other cars but the scale of effects might vary for lighter / more powerful variants: Yes. But the incline has to be very slight. My driveway is ever so slightly inclined - 1 in 20 maybe? - and the car will creep up...