but not schedule charging stop within the car
If you schedule to start charging at, say, midnight ... but you don't come home until, say, 2 AM what then? Currently the car will charge (can't remember what the slack period is, but its "generous"). If you have more sophisticated scheduling then its going to catch some people out ... there's also the whole "Charge to finish at 6AM" and then you get a power cut at 4AM .... what it really needs is "
do most of the charging as soon as Off Peak starts, and the last bit just before departure IF the battery would be cold by then" which is all getting a bit complicated for Mr and Mrs Average Joe I reckon.
V9 took away the "
Override schedule (i.e. at THIS location)
and charge NOW, just the once" My take is this is typical Tesla's lousy regression testing of their software for introducing this bug. So you have to disable Schedule in order to "charge now" ... and then, of course, you have to remember to re-engage scheduled charging next time, otherwise you pay peak Rate for charging until you do remember ... or get a whopping bill at the end of the Quarter.
That said, they could have something on the APP that allows all sort of "just this once" type charging scenarios. Personally I use TeslaFi's scheduler for that kind of stuff, but the one thing I would like, "
Charge last 10% an hour before THIS departure time" TeslaFi doesn't have (but TeslaFi does have the ability to Honk the Horn at a particular time .... Hmmm ...)
Pity the iPace users (unless its been fixed?) they have scheduled charging, but its not tied to a GPS location, so its "scheduled charging, or not". Yeah, and as
@Peteski said, you can only charge those to 100%, so no regen in the morning, in particularly annoying if you live at the top of a mountain.
My TeslaFi scheduler includes:
TRIP: 1.h30m before departure change charge limit to 100%, wait 5 minutes, start charging. 15 minutes before departure turn on Climate, and turn it off 5 minutes after departure (does nothing if driving, so only if "didn't actually leave
). I have to ENABLE those tasks, and manually change the time (of each sub-task), every time I do this AND remember to disable them all afterwards, otherwise I get a charge-to-100% the following day too ... not exactly ideal, but its better than me remembering to do it on the actual day at the exact time ...
DAILY AM : Turn on Climate 15 minutes before normal departure. Turn off again (if I don't leave, as above). Only if parked at HOME.
PM: Same thing before leaving WORK, but set the temperature to 22C as well but only if plugged in.
Plug in reminder: if below 70% and parked at home (and not plugged in
)
Charge Limit Reminder: if set above 90% remind me at 6PM (any location)
I charge at work and sometimes the wall connector trips ... so based on how fast it normally charges during the day I have set up "Plug in reminder" if less than 40% at 12 noon, below 50% at 1PM and so on ... to make sure I don't get tot he car at 6PM to find "nothing happened all day". Of course if I am out in the morning and rock up at 11:59 at 39% I get that warning, although the car would still be charged in time.
I don't use TeslaLog any more, it hasn't had any love lately, but that had a feature to geo-fence somewhere, I geo-fenced the the local Supermarket car park, and set "keep the AirCon on". I used to brag about that to my Range Rover driving mates "Does your car stay cool when you park at Waitrose?".. but Tesla have added that "
keep Climate on whilst parked" feature, although I have to remember to turn it on when I'm at Waitrose. The stress of these 1st World Problems, Eh?
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