Model Year 2022 Refresh M3/MY

[milesr3]

Combined peak power is reached at 88kph showing a Bat Power of 425kW.

That is useful because at no point does the sum of front and rear motor power exceed battery power

At the peak battery power you have 425kW = 245kW rear + 180kW front. The rear motor is peaking at 260kW and the front at 190kW.

Assuming that the front motor is 93% efficient, then it's making 177kW peak. Assuming the rear motor is 97% efficient, then it's making 252kW.

Peak combined power = 245*0.97+180*0.93 = 405kW. Pretty close (within 2%) of 397kW.

 

[ZenRockGarden]

I'm not sure, but i think you actually can't tell using the VIN number. The VIN number is helpful in seeing which battery, which motor etc. you have, but doesn't show anything about the infotainment system. Maybe @eivissa can clarify further.

I don't believe the VIN can tell you.

Data point: I took delivery of MY LR yesterday (in USA) it has the older chip and 12V battery. I imagine we will gradually see the new stuff roll out across M3, MY over the next month or so as they use up supplies of existing parts at the Fremont factory.

 

[CarlThompson]

This is mistake/typo. Auto heater turn of heating.

A typo? It says the seats can be cooled in 6 separate places including on an image of the climate controls. That's some typo!

 

[MR F]

I don't believe the VIN can tell you.

Data point: I took delivery of MY LR yesterday (in USA) it has the older chip and 12V battery. I imagine we will gradually see the new stuff roll out across M3, MY over the next month or so as they use up supplies of existing parts at the Fremont factory.

Do you know your MY’s build date?

 

[ZenRockGarden]

Do you know your MY’s build date?

VIN is NF344xxx manufactured last week of Dec

 

[thinger]

A typo? It says the seats can be cooled in 6 separate places including on an image of the climate controls. That's some typo!

Spelling mistake. On that same image there is also lever for wheel.

They mean that when heating is off, then normal temperature on cabin do this cooling for seat.

If they add ventilation to 3/Y then those are moving and moving closer S/X which are premium and top specs Tesla’s. And that will not happen like air suspensions.

 

[volodymyrd]

It also says "The seat icon displays twisting lines that turn red (heating) or blue (cooling) to corresponding with the set level".

It actually makes sense I think. Since heated steering wheel and back seats are now base feature in all 3/Y models, they might now be offering seat ventilation as a paid option for RWD Model 3, for example. I don't think it moves 3/Y to S/X that much, there is still a huge gap between them...

 

[BigNick]

It also says "The seat icon displays twisting lines that turn red (heating) or blue (cooling) to corresponding with the set level".

It actually makes sense I think. Since heated steering wheel and back seats are now base feature in all 3/Y models, they might now be offering seat ventilation as a paid option for RWD Model 3, for example. I don't think it moves 3/Y to S/X that much, there is still a huge gap between them...

Wouldn't cooled seats require a change to perforated seat material in the cooled portions of the seat? Any past cars I have owned that contained this option had perforated leather material.

 

[eivissa]

Wouldn't cooled seats require a change to perforated seat material in the cooled portions of the seat? Any past cars I have owned that contained this option had perforated leather material.

Yes. Ventilated seats is an option that you will spot instantly, just by looking in from the outside. The main area were the body is supported by the seat has small holes, like black dots, in it.

 

[M3PDOC]

It also says "The seat icon displays twisting lines that turn red (heating) or blue (cooling) to corresponding with the set level".

It actually makes sense I think. Since heated steering wheel and back seats are now base feature in all 3/Y models, they might now be offering seat ventilation as a paid option for RWD Model 3, for example. I don't think it moves 3/Y to S/X that much, there is still a huge gap between them...

I think you’re right, most cars in the same price range have cooled seats

 

[MR F]

Supposed list of changes and timing:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1479493394254680065

 

[CarlThompson]

Wouldn't cooled seats require a change to perforated seat material in the cooled portions of the seat? Any past cars I have owned that contained this option had perforated leather material.

I did notice that nowhere in the 6 places that it mentions seat cooling was the word "ventilated" used. It made me wonder if Tesla has come up with a different method of seat cooling but I can't imagine they'd run refrigerant lines to the seats!

 

[chickensworth]

Supposed list of changes and timing:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1479493394254680065

still no word of the hairpin wound motors on the M3P.

 

[DVM3P]

still no word of the hairpin wound motors on the M3P.

Or rear laminated glass, or cooled seats.

 

[thinger]

Old news. I trust more eivissa data.
But retrofit that can be true because new battery is 15V.

 

[Soap]

Supposed list of changes and timing:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1479493394254680065

Isn't this person just posting the obvious and what we have already known since last month? That these changes are being phased in and starting to be reported?

 

[MP3Mike]

Isn't this person just posting the obvious and what we have already known since last month? That these changes are being phased in and starting to be reported?

Not exactly he added this:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1479528582661693446

He says no retrofits, which rumors have been there would be, and he thinks all of the changes are currently in production in Fremont.

 

[Soap]

Not exactly he added this:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1479528582661693446

He says no retrofits, which rumors have been there would be, and he thinks all of the changes are currently in production in Fremont.

Who is this guy anyway? Does he work for Tesla or does he know and guy who knows a guy? I am legitimately asking.

 

[ay221]

ah, I found the text on ventilated seats. Will be nice, once the model 3 has this plus dual pane rear windows and the faster processor I will be all in.

Tesla Model 3 and Model Y to gain heated wipers and ventilated seats?

The Model 3 and Model Y manuals have been recently updated to reflect a new feature for Tesla's most popular vehicles. The Model 3 and Model Y manuals no

www.notateslaapp.com

 

[thinger]

Who is this guy anyway? Does he work for Tesla or does he know and guy who knows a guy? I am legitimately asking.

Nobody. Posting old information as new.
Tesla don’t have made any retrofits for last 2 years.