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Well, it is a California car. All the heating features work only in California.
Did you guys press the red battery icon?
As far as I can tell, it's not a button (at least not on Android), just an indication that the battery is preheating. I tried pressing it and nothing happened.Did you guys press the red battery icon?
orientation towards Fremont for activation of specific powers not possible due to geographic & economic limitations.I think the whole vehicle needs to be oriented towards Fremont for that upgrade trick to work. After all they use GPS to locate the most devout during releases and especially at Christmas time.
Tesla tells you to start pre-conditioning your car an hour before you leave. What a thoughtfully, delightfully manual, non-automated, completely lazy way to implement a feature. The right way to implement this feature is by allowing drivers to specify a departure time and THAT'S IT! The car should know what it needs to do, and should do it automatically, so your car is ready to drive off at the prescribed time. Whether that's charging, or pre-heating, or even pre-cooling. No rain dance required.
This is how the i3 implements battery preconditioning - set a departure time in the app.Tesla tells you to start pre-conditioning your car an hour before you leave. What a thoughtfully, delightfully manual, non-automated, completely lazy way to implement a feature. The right way to implement this feature is by allowing drivers to specify a departure time and THAT'S IT! The car should know what it needs to do, and should do it automatically, so your car is ready to drive off at the prescribed time. Whether that's charging, or pre-heating, or even pre-cooling. No rain dance required.
Tesla tells you to start pre-conditioning your car an hour before you leave. What a thoughtfully, delightfully manual, non-automated, completely lazy way to implement a feature. The right way to implement this feature is by allowing drivers to specify a departure time and THAT'S IT! The car should know what it needs to do, and should do it automatically, so your car is ready to drive off at the prescribed time. Whether that's charging, or pre-heating, or even pre-cooling. No rain dance required.
As far as I can tell, it's not a button (at least not on Android), just an indication that the battery is preheating. I tried pressing it and nothing happened.
Also, I installed 2017.50.2 last night. This morning I couldn't get preconditioning to turn on (it would appear to turn on, then turn off a minute or two later). I went out to the car, closed the release notes and rebooted both screens. That seems to have cleared the issue.
It's been said around here that the battery and cabin heaters are both 6kw. You can't run both on a 24A feed without draining the battery a bit.I have firmware 2017.50.2 and app version 3.2.3 and I have Range Mode off.
Yesterday morning, after the car sat overnight at about -25C and it had warmed up to -20C (-4F), I plugged into a 30A 240V outlet and turned climate control on. The battery heating icon came on in the app and it was drawing 24A (6kW), but in an hour and 45 minutes, the charge level went down from 54% to 53%. The car was nice and warm and regen was available but limited to 30kW for about 1/2 hour after I started driving. There was also a power limit due to the cold.
So it's clear that the battery was warmed up, but it wasn't enough to eliminate the regen limit. That seems similar to what I've seen before this update, but I've never seen charging get completely stalled like that due to the cold, other than on a 15A 120V outlet. Maybe there's more power going to the battery heater than before when pre-heating, at the expense of charging, but it doesn't seem able to charge and preheat the battery at the same time when it's that cold.
It was 1.75 hours for me but yes, I would think after more time - 3 hours, 4? - the battery would have been fully warmed and it would have started to charge.I wonder if longer preconditioning would have changed anything - e.g. 2 hours? With the smaller i3 battery it was a 3 hour process.