I use chill mode all the time, I drive in DMV traffic so I don’t use sport mode often. But when I do switch to sport, it is like a new car, so I get the whoa factor like when I firs drove a Tesla...
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P3D+/P3D- Owners: Do You Ever Use Chill Mode?
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jkoya
NA2 NSX
I use it occasionally to reset myself. Its real easy to get used to the speed we have. A day with Chill mode on will get you back in line. But yeah other than that theres no real use for it. Just press less. Has anyone ever checked to see if it increases efficiency?
PianoAl
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On the Leaf, "eco mode" corresponds to chill mode. With that car, we used eco mode exclusively because our range was about 70 miles, and it's 30 miles to town.
We will never use chill mode with our Tesla.
We will never use chill mode with our Tesla.
I use chill mode on longer trips over rough pavement. Sport mode can be too twitchy on a bumpy road where the bumps in the road translate to micromovements in my foot resulting in jerkiness. However, chill mode is too laggy as depressing the pedal to the floor only receives like 50% power at a very delayed rate. My ideal chill mode would smoothly transition to sport mode depressing the go pedal more than 1/4 of the way
Burrito
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My wife has her profile set to chill and low regen, she doesn’t like the power and regen. So chill and low make it drivable on the rare occasion she drives. I have a wife’s mad profile for me too which sets chill and low regen for when she’s extra cranky and I’m driving. Aside from those scenarios it’s sport all the way
bondo
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ElectricGhost
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They should probably change Chill Mode to Accelerator Sensitivity and program three levels of it. It should never really reduce any power, it should just change how linear the power delivery is based on the percentage the accelerator is applied.
On some other cars I have owned the throttle sensitivity has been tied to a particular drive mode, such as comfort, sport and track. Each mode would alter the sensitivity a bit. In comfort the first 25% of the throttle feels kind of flat or dead, you still have full power if you plant your foot, sport would liven up that initial 25% and track would make it even more sensitive to help with blipping the throttle for heal/toe shifting.
On some other cars I have owned the throttle sensitivity has been tied to a particular drive mode, such as comfort, sport and track. Each mode would alter the sensitivity a bit. In comfort the first 25% of the throttle feels kind of flat or dead, you still have full power if you plant your foot, sport would liven up that initial 25% and track would make it even more sensitive to help with blipping the throttle for heal/toe shifting.
Do we had data that backs up the increased efficiency some folks here are stating? Especially when in non stop and go type
Roads.
I do make an occasional trip to the mountains and back that I need every bit of my LR AWDs range to get back and with my ever dropping max range I doubt I’d even make it this summer.( still crossing fingers it’s a display/algorithm issue)
Roads.
I do make an occasional trip to the mountains and back that I need every bit of my LR AWDs range to get back and with my ever dropping max range I doubt I’d even make it this summer.( still crossing fingers it’s a display/algorithm issue)
Zcd1
Active Member
The way I see it, the advantage is that it makes it more difficult to "get on it" and decrease efficiency. Someone nitpicked my original post and said there was no benefit of it but I disagree. While I don't know of any official efficiency from the mode itself (i.e. Tesla made it somehow more efficient through software), better efficiency should be inherent with it since you lose so much power with it and you use less energy since you don't have the rapid acceleration. That being said, I have only used it once and it was for like 20 seconds.
Since I can’t edit my last post:
In other words, Chill Mode makes the acceleration so slow that you get better mileage. Maybe “efficiency” is the wrong word.
In other words, Chill Mode makes the acceleration so slow that you get better mileage. Maybe “efficiency” is the wrong word.
Zcd1
Active Member
Not really, or at least not if you accelerate at the same rate in both modes. Takes the same amount of energy to accelerate the car’s mass at a given rate.
Now, if you accept slower acceleration in Chill mode and don’t/won’t adjust your pedal pressure in Sport mode to equal Chill mode’s acceleration, THEN Chill could save some energy.
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