Oh sure, depending on weather and parking. We park inside so don’t need to warm that much. Have to test the nav to see how the new features work. The 3 doesn’t have it yet, some reason the X has been getting the updates. Need to check the 3 and make sure it’s on wifi properly.
It takes almost no energy to stop the vehicle with permanent magnets (it actually keeps generating energy right up to the point where it stops completely) whereas it would have to be an active process with induced magnet motors to prevent them freewheeling. That doesn't mean it's impossible, and I would still like to see this option provided in future for all the vehicles to behave similarly, but there's no mention of whether this is on the cards, and they could not promote this as a further energy saving feature, but a convenience one only.
It has to with how regen works. The AC induction motors require a current to get them to induce a magnetic field that moves or slows the car. The newer raven and model 3 permanent magnet motors do not.
What's the difference the car will automatically apply the friction brake or the driver will apply it? They can always make that a feature that drivers can disable.
