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Firmware 6.0
- Thread starter vgrinshpun
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Always did. This is just autumn beginning. Whami increases in winter driving, particularly @ startup and city traffic much higher, startles uninitiated.
SteveS0353
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I tried to record a video segment last night to see if this method is practical. With some finagling of the smart phone on the steering wheel spokes in my right hand with my left to finesse the cruise control stalk, I managed it, but I certainly would not recommend it.
The effect I am experiencing is small. An experiment such as you suggest may gather some evidence, but won't provide an objective comparison to 5.x regen performance on the identical hardware after upgrade to 6.0. In any event, because the effect is small, the experimental method would have to carefully control all relevant variables to be conclusive. The other variables at play which can impact the result include hardware configuration (45, 60, 85, Performance or not, + or not), miles driven on this battery, charge level, wind speed, ambient temperature, driver weight, wheel diameter, tire pressure, etc. I believe the result would end up being inconclusive.
Therefore, I will continue to enjoy my smoother ride, content in the knowledge that Telsa has confirmed that there were no intentional regen changes in 6.0, and leave it at that.
To add data on 6.0 and regen -- my regen is the same but I thought it was different because it's a little cooler here. Regen starts to get noticeably weaker if the battery is in the 60's F (not a typo). In the mornings I had weaker highway regen, looked down and saw it was making out around 50 kW (no yellow line). On return to home (warmer out, car in sun, etc.) I had the full 60 kW of regen.
The yellow line should start showing up if the battery is ~55F (assuming nothing has changed).
I haven't observed (or tried to observe) a difference in the regen "attack" rate.
The yellow line should start showing up if the battery is ~55F (assuming nothing has changed).
I haven't observed (or tried to observe) a difference in the regen "attack" rate.
I'm not talking about the "realtime" power meter but the average displayed in the trip meters.
Wasn't there talk about A/C and/or heating not being included in these numbers in FW 5.8 or 5.9?
Finding v6 to be really unstable. Nav keeps crashing. Parking sensors locked up yesterday, both displays showing 23in when the car was moving. Reversing camera failed to display. Reboot fixed that & sensors. Centre console rebooted itself this morning when changing from Rdio to DAB. Roll on 6.1...
My car told me to take an alternate route to work yesterday that was supposedly 8min faster than regular. As I pressed navigate, I noticed that the traffic lines were green all throughout my regular route. I canceled Nav and took the regular route, arriving even faster than usual. Why would it think that alternate (longer) route is faster than regular when there was absolutely no traffic?
mknox
Well-Known Member
Interestingly, my car gave me no heads-up yesterday but I got a Google Alert on my iPhone saying that there was severe congestion on my route to home. I'd never seen that Google Alert before. (new work phone... I must have something turned on that I didn't before).
Trip meter wh/mi and consumption has always included HVAC and battery heating, which is the reason WH/MI goes up precipitously in cold weather. You can check out detailed info in the lifetime wh/mi thread. No evidence that any firmware release has changed that in any way. I'm expecting the same wave of posts this fall as last: people who took delivery over spring/summer will experience their first cooling weather and start asking a lot of questions.
Are you disagreeing with me because you have some information or because you didn't like the fact that I gave such a definitive "no, never" answer?
It worked out that you've always been taking the longer route, even without traffic. It's just been too polite to say anything before
chickensevil
Active Member
So unfortunately for me, noone ever really seems to take the HOV lane into account, there should be a check box that says "Use HOV" or some such, just like Google provides an "avoid toll" option on their Nav. This is not just an issue with the car but with all forms of navigation. Once you get into the lane it seems to figure it out, at least where I live since the HOV lane is actually totally separated and in the center of the road (where the median usually is). The critical piece when deciding which way I need to go in the morning involves one of two HOV exits one of which takes me about 10 miles out of my way, but is faster since you loop around and come back thus going against the flow of traffic and the other involves getting stuck in the traffic. So depending on how well or poorly the traffic is flowing will determine which route I should take, but it seems like the car never wants to catch on to the alternate route (or really any other navigation for that matter) until I am actually already passing the first exit.
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