Bring Back The Green Mileage Icon - Please!

[TESLEV!]

Lousiest software upgrade this new grey milage icon is. Please bring back the old green icon today!

 

[Peace1946]

Excellent idea. The grey is hard to see.

 

[No Shrtz]

That was an unintended hairball.

 

[GtiMart]

I've seen a similar discussion elsewhere. My guess is that it's a user interface decision. Color attracts attention, and the battery doesn't need our attention when it's high. There should be as little attention - grabbing things as possible so we concentrate on driving, or on any other important things. I believe it still turns yellow at 20% and red at 10%, which is where it should attract our eye.

 

[cypho]

I've seen a similar discussion elsewhere. My guess is that it's a user interface decision. Color attracts attention, and the battery doesn't need our attention when it's high. There should be as little attention - grabbing things as possible so we concentrate on driving, or on any other important things. I believe it still turns yellow at 20% and red at 10%, which is where it should attract our eye.

I agree but wish there was an option to take it further. An option to remove the battery icon entirely (when the battery is not low). I want to monitor the battery closely when I'm on a road trip, but when I am driving around town the battery display serves no purpose other than to cause range/degradation anxiety.

 

[GtiMart]

There's a minimum level of importance of the battery level indicator, like a fuel gauge, it shouldn't disappear. It belongs with the main car information. It just doesn't need to constantly beg for attention

 

[bohenriksson]

Green is a de facto standard for battery icons in all sorts of gadgetry.
Make Battery Green Again please Elon!

 

[RTPEV]

AMEN!

 

[kpeng]

It really isn't hard to see. It's just not what you've been used to seeing.

Why are you constantly staring at your charge anyways?

 

[MorrisonHiker]

I've seen a similar discussion elsewhere. My guess is that it's a user interface decision. Color attracts attention, and the battery doesn't need our attention when it's high. There should be as little attention - grabbing things as possible so we concentrate on driving, or on any other important things. I believe it still turns yellow at 20% and red at 10%, which is where it should attract our eye.

It's still green on the Model S and Model X so it was probably a mistake that it was updated on the Model 3 and Model Y.

 

[qdeathstar]

Green is a de facto standard for battery icons in all sorts of gadgetry.
Make Battery Green Again please Elon!

the iPhone battery is black...

 

[qdeathstar]

It really isn't hard to see. It's just not what you've been used to seeing.

Why are you constantly staring at your charge anyways?

The green feels better.

 

[kpeng]

The green feels better.

Put a piece of green vinyl over that part of your screen then.

 

[SSonnentag]

I want battery percentage and range displayed at the same time. Seems like a simple software change.

 

[drift]

the iPhone battery is black...

So? Doesn't change the point.

 

[kpeng]

I want it to fart the battery percentage to me in morse code every time it changes. WHY WON'T ELON DO THIS!? IT'S A SIMPLE SOFTWARE UPDATE! CATER TO MY NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDS!

 

[Lloyd]

Also make the Blue tooth Blue/? when connected and RED when not. It would help prevent me from leaving without my phone.

 

[qdeathstar]

So? Doesn't change the point.

your point was that all battery icons were green. No no dey isn’t.

 

[Tundrok]

I've seen a similar discussion elsewhere. My guess is that it's a user interface decision. Color attracts attention, and the battery doesn't need our attention when it's high. There should be as little attention - grabbing things as possible so we concentrate on driving, or on any other important things. I believe it still turns yellow at 20% and red at 10%, which is where it should attract our eye.

I strongly disagree, not because the general argument is wrong, but that electric cars have such high variability in range based on temperature and driving conditions/style. I’m pretty regularly a bit surprised in how off my mental model is of the remaining rage.

 

[Tundrok]

the iPhone battery is black...

Looking at an iPhone is fundamentally different than looking at a car instrument panel as the required focus in each use case is dramatically different. The battery icon on iPhone doesn’t need to be so obvious since it’s a couple inches outside the center of current focus.