The ginormous camera bump combined with the charging rings being a bit too low in the car is putting the coils just a *bit* too far away from each other and unaligned...creating heat. This is, IMHO, an Apple problem and not a Tesla problem. Also, I'm not an electrical engineer by any stretch so my understanding of why it's creating heat might be wrong. This is the internet, though, so I'm sure I'll be corrected shortly. I look forward to that, actually!
I've solved this (mostly) with a MagBack charger that mounts on the top corner of the screen. It's expensive at close to $100 in the US but it's by far the best solution out there. I really don't like my phone on the MagBack for most driving since I'm not interacting with it, so I'll put it there until :
- it gets to a full charge, then put it in the car's charging dock or
- if I need to manipulate it (change song/podcast is about all I do) then put it back in the car's charging dock, or
- if I'm using the phone for navigation I'll leave it there since Apple Maps' voice commands and map display are light years ahead of Tesla.
I'm actively looking for something that will fix the MY charging dock space, but no idea what that might be. I'd love to see a 3-D printed spacer with a place to mount a MagSafe disk in or near the car's phone dock and then run it to the USB-C plugs somehow. There's room to have a stand that holds the phone angled just below the screen if I can just get a mount that works. At some point, I might give in and get a printer myself. Seems like an expensive solution.