In-car Hard Drive

[Zas]

Model S has one. Access to it has not been written into the software yet. Early adopters! (Although IMHO its capacity is too small).

Merry Christmas all!

Thanks Todd, glad to hear it ! Do you have link / source where I can read more about it ?

 

[youlikeadajuice]

Thanks Todd, glad to hear it ! Do you have link / source where I can read more about it ?

Model S Options Pricing | Tesla Motors

It's under the "touchscreen" subheading! Standard audio system has room for 500 songs.

 

[TXjak]

Model S Options Pricing | Tesla Motors

It's under the "touchscreen" subheading! Standard audio system has room for 500 songs.

I don't see it in the owner's manual. How do you load your songs?

 

[Zas]

I don't see it in the owner's manual. How do you load your songs?

the website state below - so it is there, but hasnt been 'released' with a software update yet. When i spoke to Factory Service, they didnt have any news of its impending release.. unlike the phone app, which they knew about , and said were working on.


200 watt, 7 speaker stereo system includes AM/FM/HD Radio, dual USB ports, and storage for up to 500 songs.

 

[jandkw]

Does anyone know if the in-car USB ports, 2.0 or 3.0?

 

[Zas]

Does anyone know if the in-car USB ports, 2.0 or 3.0?

Found below post by Vall on another forum :

Vall | DECEMBER 1, 2012 NEW
USB 3.0 is backwards compatible with USB 2.0 and tesla is very unlikely to have support for USB 3.0. Even if you plug in a USB 3.0 flash drive in a 2.0 port, you will still get a reasonable transfer rate, up to 30 MB/s read and write depending on the drive. The higher transfer speeds of 3.0 don't really benefit model S in any way, since it has no internal memory to speak of, it had something like 2 or 4 GB if i remember correctly, which probably means the write and read speeds are around 6-10 MB/s based on experience with mobile phones, the NAND chip inside can't be much different. So even if your stick was 3.0 and the car had a 3.0 port, and you wanted to copy to or from the car, the bottleneck is the internal NAND flash. Playing content directly from a USB 2.0 port is also a non-issue, even bluray video has a bitrate of 4.5 MB/s, plus 4MB/s for uncompressed LPCM audio... and you can't even play the video part. It is also very unlikely that tesla will add support for DTS-HD Master audio, with bitrate of 25 Mbit/s (3 MB/s) used on bluray. Even if they did it would be well in the specs of usb 2.0

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[jandkw]

Thanks Zas. a little disappointed though.