You'll get a little more range if it's warm when you set off although I imagine it won't be too noticeable
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You'll get a little more range if it's warm when you set off although I imagine it won't be too noticeable
Actually it will feel “better” / more consistent. But the cost of reheating the battery for charging will be more than the savings due to increased regen. You need to measure at your home electric meter delivered from the grid for a cost per mile, not measure from the cars watt meter that was consumed from the battery.
webbah
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I love creating driver profiles for different circumstances. Examples:
- Mechanic profile. I set this up so when my car is in service and if they change anything it doesn't mess up my settings
- Summer profile. All the settings I like for summer driving with full regen, sport, etc
- Winter profile. All the settings I want for winter. Chill mode accelleration, stop mirrors folding in park, low regen
- Mechanic profile. I set this up so when my car is in service and if they change anything it doesn't mess up my settings
- Summer profile. All the settings I like for summer driving with full regen, sport, etc
- Winter profile. All the settings I want for winter. Chill mode accelleration, stop mirrors folding in park, low regen
Glan gluaisne
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Very true, as the charging efficiency changes quite a bit for a range of reasons.
Best option, and a fairly simple one to add to many UK charge point installations, is to fit an energy meter in the supply to the charge point. These are pretty cheap (~£20 or less) and fit to the standard DIN rail inside UK consumer units. These meters are available in both single module (17.5mm wide) and double module (35mm) widths, so if there is any space in the CU feeding the charge point they are usually pretty easy to install. If there's room, get the double module unit, as they are easier to read (don't have to turn your head sideways to read them).
Adding meters to anything in the house that has a hefty power consumption can be quite revealing. For example, I have two of the smaller single module meters inline with the supply to our water heater. One measures the "free" electricity that is supplied by the solar panels, the other measures the paid for electricity used to boost the water heater when there's not enough sun. These show that roughly two thirds of our hot water over the past few years has been "free":
One thing I found today I didn’t know about was if you the rear camera on, then swipe up it shows the view from the wing cameras...much more useful for seeing kerbs than just the rear camera
Looks like mainly model 3 but good to know cheers!
This a link to little known facts for Model S, but there is mention of Model 3 right at the beginning of the video.
Not sure if it will be of use, but one never knows
spooksman
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mpandrew
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Hmm, not tried this myself but users had reported it working on reddit. Phone needs to be unlocked for access to NFC, bluetooth should be turned off. I'll give this a try later.I may be dumb, but I can't make this work...
MrBadger
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Not always useful as valet mode doesn't allow access to the front boot.
Tesla do have 'Service Mode' which does restrict some of what they can do or adjust.
Sorry everyone, just tried this but seems not to work.
Here was my source:
Fun fact, your phone is a literal card fob if you have NFC turned on : TeslaLounge
webbah
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This is not ideal. Can't let them open the boot among other things. Second, I don't always use Tesla for service. I use this for any garage. Where I change my tires, do my suspension mods, etc. It takes less than one second to change profiles to Mechanic and it's done.
This might be to do with the calendar appointment that appeared on my phones calendar rather than some automatic Tesla thing although I haven’t seen it do it before; but the car this morning was aware it had a service appointment and automatically set the navigation to the service centre when I got in.
MrBadger
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You can have the car set navigation to calendar events in the phone so expect it to be related to the calendar event in the phone rather than anything clever in the car.
That’s a shame - thought the car was being clever as that would of been a cool little feature
MikeHolliday
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Dave, I have been really spoiled with Voice Commands
1.) Set Temperture - 72 degrees, etc.
2.) Decrease Fan 2 (lowers fan 2 levels), Increase Fan 3 (increase fan 3 levels).
This is the one voice command that I have experienced that should be changed to Fan Speed 1, Fan Speend 2, etc.
3.) Drives Seat On (Full Heat), Drivers Seat 1 (Level 1 heat), Drivers Seat 2 (Level 2 heat), Drivers Seat Off, etc.
4.) Call "Name"
5.) Text "Name"
6.) Dome Light On, Dome Light Off
7.) Windshield Wipers Auto, Windshield Wipers 1, Windshield Wipers 2, etc.
8.) Display Energy
9.) Fold Mirrors, Unfold Mirrors
10.) Rear Window Heat On, Rear Window heat Off
11.) Window Defrost On, Window Defrost Off
12.) Display Easter Eggs
I have found the list to almost be endless...
Keep your commands as short as possible.
And pressing the button on the Tesla Gen3 Wall Connector 10 times will put the charge light into Rainbow Mode.
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