Ok so after this reply I don't think I can really have any kind of decent discussion with you as you seen to only complain about your issues and not trying to resolve anything... Also you seem to have some kind of selective reading.
I respond to what others write. The problem seems to be that I was trying to discuss the abetterrouteplanner tool and many people seemed to think that was me asking for advise in driving the car. Go back and read the thread. I think you will see this clearly if you look.
I drive an x100d for the 4th time and until the car seems to be way off why would you not trust it to a degree? Obviously anyone buying this car I would hope is smart enough to not blindly trust everything 100 percent but obviously you think that is the case with me. So I'm letting you know since everything has to be explained to you word for word that you have to trust it with some thought. Yes the estimates are exactly that, estimates, but it is fairly accurate regarding trip planning (not the miles left on bottom left dash).
See, there it is again. Nothing at all about the planning tool. Just your personal experience with the car on trips where you got lucky and the navigation prediction was close enough that you managed to arrive with only 3 miles of range left.
You could check with the personal experience of others. Bjørn Nyland had a model X quit with 14 km left on the range. The car said he could make it to the next charger but he was left stranded a few km away. While he was sitting there trying to get help the gauge changed from 14 km to 0 km. lol That's a great reason to not trust your car to give you every last mile it says you can use. But you can rely on your personal experience until you are left having to transport your car on a flatbed. Even then, if your 12 volt battery is not in good shape, you will be left with a car you can't even charge... again, check the Bjørn Nyland videos.
When I'm driving back home and put in navigation it tells you what percent you will arrive with and it must calculate temperature also. It has specifically told me that my 100 mile trip back home I would have 3 percent left if I drove under 60mph and it was like 28 degrees. When I got home after driving an average about 60mph I had roughly 7 miles left... Yes that's closer to 2 percent but I would say that is pretty accurate and it's been like that on multiple occasions. So would it be accurate to say I can trust this thing to some high degree?
Yes, it will calculate based on the current temperature. But it doesn't know what the temp will be by your trip end. It may not make a large difference, but you said you have driven home with 1%. Above you say the prediction was off by 1%!!! All this after driving the car just 2 weeks.
Unless you are driving erratically every car I have driven send to be pretty accurate to their epa estimates... My other car is an s8 plus which epa estimates are 18 City and 26 highway... Obviously if I floor it everywhere I go all the time I would never get those ratings however when I'm cruising on the highway at 78mph I'm averaging 27mpg and every car has been that way for me.
I don't know what you are trying to say here. Are you suggesting you can get the epa rated range on your typical trip in the X?
Also regarding planning... No one said you should not plan and I never said you should not plan. I said you should plan with the navigation on board as that seems to be extremely accurate. And I don't see how you don't understand what accounting for something means unless English is not your first language... Yes you should account for your charging stops so you are not late for your meetings (common sense I would think).
Perhaps it wasn't you, but someone was saying just get in the car and go! The thread started because I wanted to plan the trip the night before so I could email my arrival and set my alarm. That's part of planning. Since the car was not fully charged and I didn't want to go out in the rain doing it in the car was a bad idea. So how would that have worked exactly???
The context of "accounting" was on the fly. By definition "on the fly" means things didn't happen the way you had "accounted" for them. I don't think I am the one who needs English lessons.
But again this whole thing with you seems to be more about you just complaining about every little thing and not trying to lose an argument. Most people here were commenting trying to help you or I thought.
I think it is clear we have exceeded a point of communication. You don't seem to actually read what I post and continue to claim that it should be reasonable to plan to drive to a charger with only 1% left on the battery. Sorry, that won't work for me ever. I don't care how many times you made that work in two weeks of driving.
And as far as degrading battery we will see what happens but I didn't buy this car to preserve the battery and if it degrades rapidly I'm covered under the 8 year unlimited mile warranty. I bought the car hoping to get as close to 295 miles as I can as I drive a lot... Why should I have to charge less and not run the battery down? That is Tesla's problem not mine as they advertise 295 miles at 100 percent charge. If I charged to 90 percent everyday then most likely I would have to charge in between on half of the days which I would not like but luckily I have installed a hpwc at one of my stores.
The degradation has to get to some large number before they will replace your battery. Maybe 20%. I don't even want 5% degradation if I can easily avoid it as that makes all my trips harder to complete. Once the charger in Frederick is open I will be a lot happier with the car. Until then I will plan every trip I go on and maybe I'll be able to get some help with the abetterrouteplanner tool. That was the purpose of this thread until people started telling me I was wrong to use it.
Either way if you are not satisfied with the car you should definitely get rid of it.... And if you didn't do enough research buying into a new technology then that's your fault.
Should have known you would get to this point. lol Love it or leave it. So now I was wrong to buy the car. Ok, thanks for the advice.
