Chill Mode usage

[afadeev]

“You can improve efficiency of the cabin heating by reducing your selected acceleration mode, allowing the heat pump to take more heat from the battery to efficiently heat the cabin instead of maintaining the battery’s ability to provide peak acceleration performance.

There is a presumption behind the above statement that one has been accelerating hard enough to require aggressive battery temp management efforts. In the winter.

That assumption is both season-dependent, and not valid for every-day casual driving.
In the latter case, throttle curve mapping has ZERO impact on efficiency and energy consumption, assuming the driver is aiming to achieve the same level of acceleration in the first place.

Common sense to the rescue!

HTH,
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[Sorny]

I put Acceleration Boost on my car before I ever put it in drive... Having said that, I put it in chill mode once and quickly put back to sport due to how gutless it is in chill mode.

Tesla's throttle mapping is great when you're not in lame (chill) mode. It's stupid easy to accelerate gently, or with vigor.

 

[Miata Head]

My default mode is chill and I like it that way. Pop it into standard on occasion when I want to be a little more peppy, but no often.

I noticed better Wh/mi numbers in chill and like you say, it's plenty quick and fast in chill compared to ICE for most SoCal traffic.

 

[hey kupo]

So when the big day came to pick up my own car I set it to chill and have not changed it since.
Anybody else doing the same?

OP asks if anyone else is just chillin'. Never fails to attract those that "can do it on their own in standard/sport" to respond with justifications.

 

[PianoAl]

Good for you, but be sure not to set it to Standard, because you may never want to go back.

I've always had it on Standard. I got 25K miles on the first set of tires (original Michelins), and 60K on the second (Vredestein Quatrac pro), and I don't think I changed my driving habits.

Still considering the accel boost.

 

[Apprunner]

Chill mode? I don't think Performance models have chill mode...

 

[ODWms]

Sure, they do.

 

[TomT]

Chill does nothing that you can't also do yourself with the accelerator so I leave it in Sport. Plus, if I should suddenly need that extra acceleration, it is there....