New interior update on 2020 model X wireless charging

[walotab]

Picked up my Model X from the Marina Del Rey delivery center and my model X came with built-in wireless charging.
My wife got hers a month ago and didn't come with one. Both are 2020 Model X performance.

 

[Nuclear Fusion]

Hopefully Taptes does a cheap copy

 

[glide]

Is it me, or am I not seeing it charging your phone at all?

Normally the iOS battery indicator will change when charging.

 

[lowtek]

That plug in your USB, is that from the wireless charger? Surely Tesla didn't choose to charge a built-in component by jury-rigging a USB power cable?

 

[Krazaak]

That plug in your USB, is that from the wireless charger? Surely Tesla didn't choose to charge a built-in component by jury-rigging a USB power cable?

Why not, the charging cable already did and it almost looks like that wireless pad could slide off, revealing the original tray and lightning/USB3 mount.

 

[lowtek]

Why not, the charging cable already did and it almost looks like that wireless pad could slide off, revealing the original tray and lightning/USB3 mount.

Well, because it's a $120K car and that's cheesy and cheap. How much effort would have been to put a real wireless charging pad in there? Heck, my wife's Ford Edge has one and you wouldn't know it was even there, it's just seamlessly built in to console deck.

This isn't "built-in" wireless charging, it's a wireless charging accessory lazily thrown in there so they can say the car has "wireless charging".

Would have been better just to leave it out and sell them on shop.tesla.com as an accessory.

 

[walotab]

Is it me, or am I not seeing it charging your phone at all?

Normally the iOS battery indicator will change when charging.

If you go past 40 seconds you can see it indicate that it’s charging.

 

[walotab]

That plug in your USB, is that from the wireless charger? Surely Tesla didn't choose to charge a built-in component by jury-rigging a USB power cable?

Yes it is. Pretty lame. If it were hard wired rather than using standard USB they could have made it a fast charger. Unless they swapped to type c which I don’t know why they haven’t done that yet. Wait ellonsnturning into an accountant. Gotta save as much as they can for the investors.

 

[lowtek]

Yes it is. Pretty lame.

Is it removable?

 

[powaking]

You could also just print one yourself.

Tesla Phone Qi Dock

Tesla Model S/X Phone Qi Wireless Charging Dock

 

[tnots]

You could also just print one yourself.

Tesla Phone Qi Dock

Tesla Model S/X Phone Qi Wireless Charging Dock

Print where? Any recommended places for printing?

 

[powaking]

Print where? Any recommended places for printing?

You can check your local public library, some have 3D printers for use (mine does not but a co-workers local library does). Can also check some folks here on the forums if they would be willing to print for you at their cost. I do not have one but hope I can get one printed myself.

 

[bob_p]

Tesla S/X console support for phone charging has been a challenge, because the supplied slides don't work with any of the phones we've had (and we typically get new phones each year). There is such a wide range of phone width and depth, plus different width and depth of phone cases, that trying to get the slides on either side of the phone plus the USB plug at the bottom of that area all to line up for easy charging; has been a major challenge.

Wireless charging is a much better solution - and if all it takes is to replace the rotating cover that has the phone dock with a new version that includes a wireless charger, with slides that can basically accommodate any phone in any case (that supports wireless charging) - this is a significant improvement.

And if Tesla offers this as an upgrade for current S/X owners, we'll order one each for our 2017 S and 2018 X the day it's available.

 

[tnots]

Hi All, update on the 3D Printed route, overall it went very well and we now have an awesome wireless dock solution. Using the 3D print file from here:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3099354

I picked the iPhone 8 Plus Apple Case file and then headed on over to Reddit to r/3Dprintmything and asked for bids. Found one for $13 including shipping and a few days later we are good to go. It’s awesome and works great! If you don’t care about aesthetics its a very low cost solution.

 

[MCSX]

Does anyone know what VIN# the wireless charging started being introduced at with the 2020 models?

 

[eye.surgeon]

Picked up my Model X from the Marina Del Rey delivery center and my model X came with built-in wireless charging.
My wife got hers a month ago and didn't come with one. Both are 2020 Model X performance.

Why do you have two of the same car, same year? Seems kind of redundant.

 

[wamsankas]

Why do you have two of the same car, same year? Seems kind of redundant.

If you need two cars why wouldn’t you get the two best you can afford?

 

[SD Diver]

Picked up my Model X from the Marina Del Rey delivery center and my model X came with built-in wireless charging.
My wife got hers a month ago and didn't come with one. Both are 2020 Model X performance.

Any chance that I can get a photo showing the charge pad and the usb plug? Just took delivery of an inventory model that lacks both the wireless and the wired charger. Service center tells me that I lack the required wiring harness for the new charger. I’m trying to show that it lugs into the USB port.

 

[bob_p]

A 3rd party wireless charger, comparable to the Tesla charger, is available from a 3rd party - Green Mission.

 

[dapope]

Does anyone know what VIN# the wireless charging started being introduced at with the 2020 models?

I'm not sure anybody is going to know the answer to that as things change all the time. Would be nice to know if this is a certain accessory code so we could look it up in the "Option Code Lookup" over at evo.cpo.com