Andyw2100
Well-Known Member
It would be great if it could be in all modes, agreed that's the most optimal choice (looks like you were the one that posted the comment I read this about earlier in the thread, but it might cause a slight delay, that while not that noticeable on the interstate, might still be sub-optimal for in city driving or full performance mode, if that's the case I can understand why it'd be a selector button, my contention is that it just shouldn't be automatically combined with the other range mode settings like HVAC/Heat.
If it's only a slight delay, and not combined with the previous range mode settings, there's no reason not to drive around in that mode most of the time. It could even have a setting where torque mode is turned off automatically (a choice to do this btw), when Insane mode is selected, i.e., you're about to toast a ferrari at a stop light and don't want those things slowing you down. There could even be a "launch mode" button that optimizes everything for a takeoff, i.e., turn car to insane, turn torque sleep off, turn HVAC/Heat etc. all off, (probably other things to optimize power as well).
It really doesn't sound like there should be any delay at all. Straubel was comparing it to computers that sleep between keystrokes, using words like "instantly", and wrote that "digital torque wake up is so fast that the driver can't perceive it." This definitely sounds to me like something that can be on all the time, with no degradation of performance due to a timing issue.
And I agree that it shouldn't be combined with anything else, like range mode. I have posts about that too. In fact, I wrote to [email protected] at about 2:30 AM this morning. Here's a copy of my message:
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Apparently the torque sleep mode to improve the P85Ds range to what it had been advertised as, as explained in JB Straubel’s blog post back on December 31, (http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/driving-range-model-s-family) is in version 6.1.139 of the firmware, which my car is installing as I type. From what I’ve seen, though, this is, I hope just temporarily, only going to be available if I turn on range mode.
Can you please confirm that this is only temporary, and that the torque sleep as JB Straubel described will not require that the car be in range mode? I do not want to have to limit my HVAC’s function in order to improve the range of my P85D to what I was expecting it to be at the time I ordered it, based on information on the Tesla website at the time. Also when in range mode it is not possible to heat the battery while preheating the cabin while plugged in. Living in upstate NY, where it is quite cold, we do this all the time. If we had to operate in range mode I fear we would forget to unset range mode when exiting the vehicle, and then we would not be able to preheat the battery when we preheat the cabin using the mobile app.
So my question again is will it be possible to use torque sleep without having to engage range mode? If so, when is the update that will enable this likely to be sent? Please note that this is what was expected by the end of January, based on the blog post referenced above. The range discussed in that blog post that the torque sleep update was to deliver was expected at the time my car was delivered, based on the specifications on the Tesla website at the time I ordered it.
If you’re not sure of these answers, could you please pass this along to engineering, and ask someone in that department to respond to me? I am very concerned about this matter.
Thanks very much.
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