srs5694
Active Member
Yes, it should. I use TeslaFi, and one or two updates ago I noticed something interesting: My car went to sleep, then woke up for no apparent reason for an hour or so, then went back to sleep. (IIRC, it woke up early in the morning, like around 1:00 AM, but I could be off about that detail. I definitely had not been messing with the Tesla app or doing anything else to wake the car up, though.) I noticed this in the morning via TeslaFi, and when I opened my phone (which I had not done that day until then), I saw a notification from the Tesla app to the effect that a new software update was available for my car, and asking for permission to install it.
This makes me think that either Tesla's servers tell cars to download an update at some point in the future, if possible, and the car will wake up at that time to attempt a download; or Tesla's servers contact cars via the cell connectivity to wake up and download an update immediately, if possible. This conclusion, though, is both an inference on my part and tentative. It could be something else is going on, and I just haven't figured it out. It could also be that this is only one way that updates are triggered, and maybe not even the most common one. I am quite certain, though, that my car woke up late at night without prompting by me, and a few hours later I noticed that an update was available.
