Hey
@dimitar.ns , thank you for this. Just got the full buttons pack and it works wonders. Already have 6 things programmed and am missing a few, but I guess long press will help me with that (like for instance I have a button on the steering that will double as horn and AP engage on long press)
Now, the only thing that I am badly missing is a dedicated "snow mode" button. The background is that the AWD is rear biased and it is terrible if not out right dangerous to drive it in snowy, windy roads with elevation and ice on it as it slides a lot. A lot, a lot!
The regen settings, bringing less regen will probably help (will test next winter), but I still need a way to make the car 50/50 front motor/rear motor, or ideally have lets say 25% increments for both and toggle between it (but just a button that says "snow mode" and puts the car in 50/50 will do).
This will essentially double as a sort of "dedicated track mode" for AWD cars without Performance boost.
If you can do that and if Bjorn does a review on this I am sure your sales will sky rocket!
In his video about the "smart snow mode" almost all the comments said they wished Tesla would put a
dedicated snow mode instead of this "dumb" feature.
Tesla has now since some of the latest version what it calls "smart snow mode" where it will "detect" slippery conditions, but it only triggers itself when you are already sliding and I already had 2 near collisions with oncoming traffic last winter until it finally engaged.
This is by far the "dumbest" "smart" feature they have done so far and it is useless, because it time outs after 5 minutes and then it is even harder to engage it/force it to slide again. As if the snow and ice on the road suddenly melts after 5 minutes of driving...It is having an AWD and driving on RWD 99% of the time without an option to use the AWD fully...Stupid.
I think the only reason Tesla doesn't add this as a dedicated "snow mode" settings is because of the EPA range test - I believe, might be wrong, that EPA needs to test the range with all the drive modes in, and if Tesla have a 50/50 snow mode setting, the EPA might need to engage it on their test and the car will be less efficient and show less range. Probably the same reason Tesla removed the regen setting to game the EPA a bit.
This feature will be god send for areas like Sweden, Norway, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Canada!
Also, in the service menu you can disable
battery heater on demand. If I can have that put on a button, this will also help me with the charging on 50kW DC chargers. As I always have to go to service menu to disable this stupid heater.
Maybe you can look into this?