You can install our site as a web app on your iOS device by utilizing the Add to Home Screen feature in Safari. Please see this thread for more details on this.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
No, the brakes can handle plenty of abuse.Slamming on the brakes repeatedly 100% from 70mph won't "hurt" the car?!
Most likely, yes.My brakes didn’t squeak for the first 4500 miles but started squeaking recently. Same issue? I need to do some hard breaking to fix it?
Reading this post opened the flood gates for me…
The sqeaking of my Model X is the most embarrissing aspect of the car.
I think Tesla is using the friction brakes less than even other EVs. I notice the few other EVs I've driven (Soul, Leaf, i3) all engage the friction brakes sooner even as they are doing regen. This lets them scrub the pads before the end of that first stop.
Sorry if I was not clear - I was talking about the first part of the brake pedal travel, when it is blending regen and friction braking. The friction engagement point on Tesla seems different than the other EVs I have driven. It's almost like the first part of the brake pedal travel slightly increases regen before the friction brakes engage. When departing in the morning I don't feel the rumble of the discs scrubbing until the third stop. On other EVs in the household you can feel it with the first stop.You control the friction brakes by pressing the brake pedal. They are not applied by the car when you release the accelerator and regen.
Sorry if I was not clear - I was talking about the first part of the brake pedal travel, when it is blending regen and friction braking. The friction engagement point on Tesla seems different than the other EVs I have driven. It's almost like the first part of the brake pedal travel slightly increases regen before the friction brakes engage. When departing in the morning I don't feel the rumble of the discs scrubbing until the third stop. On other EVs in the household you can feel it with the first stop.
Then why do I occasionally see the green indication on the energy meter go all the way to the dotted line when first touching the brakes? I suppose it's possible that I'm still in the dead part of the friction brake pedal travel during the first two stops, then in the active zone after.
So there is absolutely no effort made to integrate the regenerative braking with the hydraulic braking? How is it that Tesla has such better transition from regen to hydraulic braking than any other EV I have ever driven?The two systems are independent and separate from each other. The regen kicks in immediately once you let go of the accelerator pedal. The brake pedal actuates the hydraulic brakes, just like a "normal" car.
So there is absolutely no effort made to integrate the regenerative braking with the hydraulic braking? How is it that Tesla has such better transition from regen to hydraulic braking than any other EV I have ever driven?
Because it doesn't try to muck around with blending the functions of the Go pedal and the Stop pedal.So there is absolutely no effort made to integrate the regenerative braking with the hydraulic braking? How is it that Tesla has such better transition from regen to hydraulic braking than any other EV I have ever driven?