I’ve been a happy Model 3 owner for several years. About a year ago we bought a brand new Raven Model X to support our growing family.
I’m not sure when it started or if it has always been like this, but here what I noticed:
I used to commute with the Model 3 with ability to charge at work. The X would just be parked in the garage most days and top off to 80% or so most days.
Since the start of the pandemic we’ve been driving both cars much less. And most trips we make involve the children, so we barely drive the Model 3.
But even then, the barely drive the X. Maybe a couple dozen miles a week at most.
What I have noticed is that the Model X’s Phantom Drain was really high. We could let the Model 3 sit for multiple weeks without having to recharge it, but the Model X had to be charged at least weekly, even if we barely used it.
Whenever the Model X was parked in the garage for charging I could also occasionally hear it making weird “clacking” noises, as if some mechanical part in the car engaged and disengaged.
At the time I contacted Tesla because I supsecte the car making noises every 30 mins or so all night long might explain the high phantom drain. After remotely looking into it the tech told me everything was fine and I should expect higher consumption from my X than my 3.
I started investigating this a little more and got some software that uses the Tesla API to monitor battery state, driven miles, the cars online state, etc (Home Assistant Tesla Integration, in case you’re wondering).
mit quickly became apparent that the phantom drain on the X was through the roof. I easily have up to 10%
drain / day, even when not touching the car. The Model 3 for compuions has maybe 1% drain / day.
From the instrumentation I can also see that the Model 3 has long periods of being offline (basically whenever I don’t drive it), whereas the X is *constantly* reporting online through the Tesla API.
In the Last 7 days I drove the X ~50 miles and I had ~150 miles phantom drained from the battery state.
I’m looking to hear from some other Model X owners to see if they are having similar experiences with their cars. I plan on pushing on Tesla to look into the issue some more. Right now the car will drain power worth ~$50 every month just for sitting around doing nothing. That doesn’t seem normal and is probably more than I would be spending on gas right no if it was a gas car.
I’m not sure when it started or if it has always been like this, but here what I noticed:
I used to commute with the Model 3 with ability to charge at work. The X would just be parked in the garage most days and top off to 80% or so most days.
Since the start of the pandemic we’ve been driving both cars much less. And most trips we make involve the children, so we barely drive the Model 3.
But even then, the barely drive the X. Maybe a couple dozen miles a week at most.
What I have noticed is that the Model X’s Phantom Drain was really high. We could let the Model 3 sit for multiple weeks without having to recharge it, but the Model X had to be charged at least weekly, even if we barely used it.
Whenever the Model X was parked in the garage for charging I could also occasionally hear it making weird “clacking” noises, as if some mechanical part in the car engaged and disengaged.
At the time I contacted Tesla because I supsecte the car making noises every 30 mins or so all night long might explain the high phantom drain. After remotely looking into it the tech told me everything was fine and I should expect higher consumption from my X than my 3.
I started investigating this a little more and got some software that uses the Tesla API to monitor battery state, driven miles, the cars online state, etc (Home Assistant Tesla Integration, in case you’re wondering).
mit quickly became apparent that the phantom drain on the X was through the roof. I easily have up to 10%
drain / day, even when not touching the car. The Model 3 for compuions has maybe 1% drain / day.
From the instrumentation I can also see that the Model 3 has long periods of being offline (basically whenever I don’t drive it), whereas the X is *constantly* reporting online through the Tesla API.
In the Last 7 days I drove the X ~50 miles and I had ~150 miles phantom drained from the battery state.
I’m looking to hear from some other Model X owners to see if they are having similar experiences with their cars. I plan on pushing on Tesla to look into the issue some more. Right now the car will drain power worth ~$50 every month just for sitting around doing nothing. That doesn’t seem normal and is probably more than I would be spending on gas right no if it was a gas car.
