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I bought excitedly a new Model S LR in Dec 2019. Have a Tesla Wall Charger running from the breaker panel. Still learning about charging limits, battery degradation, phantom braking, vampire drain, ghost cruise, monster space, etc. from these discussions. I am running 2020.32.3.
Need help on two fronts please:
(1) What is the good value-for-money approach to know reliably how many kW I am actually pumping into the car when I plug it in? For security reasons I prefer not to use 3rd party software like Teslafi.
(2) The vampire drain surprises me! For 10 days I had not moved my Tesla out of my garage (lovely weather so used my Miata a lot). . but the charge level dropped from 85 to 68%! That is 17,000Wh consumed in 240hrs which is 70Watts drained each hour. Sounds realistic?? Very surprised/disappointed. Sentry Mode is off; relatively cool temperatures in upper midwest. What's going on? At 17kW-hr per 10 days drain, am I looking at 50kW-hr of vampire drain per month, or half-a-tank of electricity poof every month! Wow.
Thanks for any help. . .
Need help on two fronts please:
(1) What is the good value-for-money approach to know reliably how many kW I am actually pumping into the car when I plug it in? For security reasons I prefer not to use 3rd party software like Teslafi.
(2) The vampire drain surprises me! For 10 days I had not moved my Tesla out of my garage (lovely weather so used my Miata a lot). . but the charge level dropped from 85 to 68%! That is 17,000Wh consumed in 240hrs which is 70Watts drained each hour. Sounds realistic?? Very surprised/disappointed. Sentry Mode is off; relatively cool temperatures in upper midwest. What's going on? At 17kW-hr per 10 days drain, am I looking at 50kW-hr of vampire drain per month, or half-a-tank of electricity poof every month! Wow.
Thanks for any help. . .