I accompanied my father today to bring his 85 in for his 5,000 mild tire rotation. They gave us a 60 and being in hot South Florida we immediately noticed the AC fan maxes out at 7 vs. 11 on the 85. I searched the forum and the tesla site for confirmation that this is indeed correct and could not find anything. When the service guy dropped of our 85 we asked and he confirmed the AC Fan is indeed less powerful on the 60. If you live in a hot climate like Florida this is an important difference and a big consideration when configuring your car. So, let it be known, the 85 has yet another benifit that the 60 doesn't.
I'm not sure about range mode on or off but the Service Tech confirmed he AC Fan is less powerful on the 85.
I suspect Range Mode was turned on (thought I thought that limited to 8). Even if the AC fan is less powerful on the 60, I doubt Tesla would limit that via the UI, 11 would still be 11, just with a lower output by virtue of the AC pump being smaller.
I thought this was just a FW change. My fan used to go to 11, but settings 1-4 were essentially useless. Now it goes to a smaller number like 8, but each number provides more power than before. I think cooling is far better on my car today than it was a few months ago. Now i can use "auto" fan speed and the temperature will get somewhat close to comfortable. Before I needed to do everything manually if I wanted a comfortable cabin.
Unfortunately, you can't trust Tesla employees to know what they're talking about. Some of them are great, but others seem to think it's fine to pretend they know something, when really they do not. I've encountered several cases of this.
I have a 60 and it maxes out at 11. oh and I got a loaner 85 recently and didn't notice any difference in the A/C strength.
I can confirm with btrflyl8e that the ac was quite strong in her car even in the back seat went to 11, rangemode off you were in rangemode om for sure or you had a weird software glitch
It was NOT illegal in most states (We were four up ) She was in front seat the whole time.lol Cruising Downtown ! Backseat is still Better in a Tesla than driver seat in an Ice!