New driving screen battery icon

[SabrToothSqrl]

I don’t think the battery icon is a safety issue. And before you get all huffy puffy and exclaim that’s because YOU aren’t paying attention longer to look for a grey icon keep in mind that IS YOUR problem as your eyes should always be on the roads.

that's the same excuse I tried when the cop pulled me over for 80 in a 65.

 

[AmokTime]

The green-yellow-red change as battery approaches empty was not visible to folks with color blindness, so Tesla probably applied HMI design standards to the UI. This could be to meet government requirements in this upcoming federal fleet electrification program - federal government has a pre-qualification process for folks wishing to act as vendors to federal govt that requires adherence to guidelines that include accommodations for color-blindness. My company was forced to do this with our UI in order to sell our products to a govt agency.

I should probably qualify this. When I say we were “forced” to do it, I don’t mean we would not have done it eventually anyway - we want everyone to be able to use our products effectively - but the rules changed the priority of its implementation from “do it when we have time and people so everyone is accommodated” to “do it now unless you want to turn down a large sum of money and surrender business to competitors.”

 

[M0del3At5paceX]

Don’t even need a battery icon. Just display the percent value in text. The icon isn’t really necessary, other than to say, “this % value is for the battery.”

 

[CYBER_Y]

I think the new color scheme would fail ADA compliance standards as there is not enough contrast in the colors but maybe it doesn’t need to be ADA compliant?

 

[Silicon Desert]

Many are thinking it's a mistake since it still shows up as green in the S & X after the update.

yup, my MX still shows green.

 

[Silicon Desert]

Don’t even need a battery icon. Just display the percent value in text. The icon isn’t really necessary, other than to say, “this % value is for the battery.”

or in my case, I prefer to show miles which is what I do. Yea, I know there is a big debate about which display is better, but really just a personal preference for me.

 

[timk225]

When the bigger battery display is up on the screen, the green / yellow / red colors now appear more dull and muted than before. Bring back the nice bright colors! And as someone said, put a little "Battery 53%" up in the corner to make it user friendly for everyone, don't ruin the nice big picture for everybody to appease a few!

 

[r1200gs4ok]

It means both the Dev and QA teams are asleep at the wheel.

yea....they are in the FSD mode

 

[glide]

yea....they are in the FSD mode

You mean they are working on video games and fart sounds, right?

 

[r1200gs4ok]

You mean they are working on video games and fart sounds, right?

no.....earlier poster said "they were asleep at the wheel" (sleeping).....I just said they were in the FSD mode.....driving "while asleep at the wheel".

 

[Richard Denton]

RANGE DISPLAY shows battery icons in green colour but on the drive screen the battery is sull a muddy grey. It used to be green originally but an update sometime ago changed it to grey. I hope they change it back to green. Looks so much better and is easier on the eyes.

 

[BellaBoo19]

Anyone else out there that would like the "green" back on the battery icon when you have plenty of power left?

 

[Kimmi]

Yes.

 

[nayr14]

Yep. They removed it with the update from January 2021, along with botching the rest of the UI.