HankLloydRight
No Roads
This. I think he just doesn’t know the reality.
Maybe we could call it the Musk “Reality Distortion Area”
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Tesla infotainment system upgradeable from MCU1 to MCU2
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This. I think he just doesn’t know the reality.
Maybe we could call it the Musk “Reality Distortion Area”
aesculus
Still Trying to Figure This All Out
When I was a young boy my 3rd grade teacher was quick to point out the difference between can and may. When a student asked her if they CAN go to the bathroom and she said probably or yes, they were alarmed when she yelled at them for leaving their seat without first asking if they MAY.
Cheburashka
Active Member
Silicon Desert
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your teacher must have been related to mine. If I asked can I go to the bathroom, I would usually hear her say "I don't know. Can you?"When I was a young boy my 3rd grade teacher was quick to point out the difference between can and may. When a student asked her if they CAN go to the bathroom and she said probably or yes, they were alarmed when she yelled at them for leaving their seat without first asking if they MAY.
FlatSix911
Porsche 918 Hybrid
ucmndd
Well-Known Member
Yes, you definitely can. You’ve always been able to.
As a bonus, the upgrade comes with a brand new car.
As a bonus, the upgrade comes with a brand new car.
HankLloydRight
No Roads
your teacher must have been related to mine. If I asked can I go to the bathroom, I would usually hear her say "I don't know. Can you?"
That was everyone's third grade teacher!
I’d list my 100d for sale and immediately buy a p100d Raven tomorrow, if I knew FUSC would still be available. Since it’s not, it’ll be a long time before I upgrade.
They should stop cutting the prices, and keep that for MS and MX, or sell it as an option.
Just put $1000-$2000 into a second checking account, get a debit card for it and attach it to your Tesla account. That's effectively the same thing as paying for FUSC.
That may be the average, but not in my case. I make long drives, and I make them regularly.
ucmndd
Well-Known Member
But really, like how much? How many miles do you estimate you’ve driven on supercharger energy in the last year?
I think most people dramatically overestimate the value of free supercharging. Strong psychological value, not so much monetary.
So there’s lots of talk here about it, but what’s actually involved? I have a late 2017, with AP2.5. I expect I would need the MCU itself, at least the wiring harness for it. But what else? I mean, once the dash is out, what’s the difference between it and a 2018 from six months later? I doubt the wiring in the doors, trunk, seats, etc would need to change. Perhaps a few other little changes, but what are they? Couldn’t a parts list be drawn up, and it ACTUALLY be upgraded?
50-60 thousand kms per year. My warranty is done, and I took delivery in Dec 2017. Locally, you’re right, it’s all home charging, but my car has traveled most of North America at this point.
I was over 10000 kms in the first week of ownership. (About 6000 miles).
I figure it’s about $2500/year. More when it’s colder, and I live in Canada.
Over the approximately 6.5 years I've had my S we've driven about 90 trip days. Each trip day is about 700 miles.
Assuming each stop at night is destination charging and 200 miles are gained, that's roughly 500 SC miles for each trip day.
500 miles X 90 days = 45,000 SC miles
45,000 SC miles X 260 Wh/mi / 1,000 = 11,700 kWh
If SC cost is $0.28/kWh, then 11,700 * 0.28 = 3276 ~= $500 per year. Or approximately ten weeks of groceries for the two of us.
But note that if you do the same calculation using 600 miles per day, the miles obtained from SC are 15% less, but the value received from SC goes down 20%. This is because the miles you obtain from destination charging doesn't change while the miles you receive from SCs is less, so destination charging becomes a larger part of the trip.
Whether this is psychological or not depends upon your cheap scale score. And this doesn't count those who use SCs because they have no home charging available.
HankLloydRight
No Roads
It's not a 'drop-in' replacement. The wiring harness are different. The instrument cluster also needs to be replaced as it's just a screen driven by MCU2 and not a separated computing unit like MCU1. People have said there are different antennas in the folding mirrors (and a different harness there too). And replacing an entire wiring harness isn't for the faint of heart. Sure, it probably could be done, but it's far from easy or straightforward and by the time you're done, you are better of buying a new car.
Then why does Elon keep dangling this? Or is talking about the replacement being the car. Dang literal engineers.It's not a 'drop-in' replacement. The wiring harness are different. The instrument cluster also needs to be replaced as it's just a screen driven by MCU2 and not a separated computing unit like MCU1. People have said there are different antennas in the folding mirrors (and a different harness there too). And replacing an entire wiring harness isn't for the faint of heart. Sure, it probably could be done, but it's far from easy or straightforward and by the time you're done, you are better of buying a new car.
(And I'm one of them, so I can say that, lol!)Edit: Just read back a couple of pages.... Sigh, about ready to put a deposit on a Y for next year at this rate.
@HankLloydRight I've assumed that MCU2 could still drive the old IC over the bus. May limit features. I would think an integrated IC controller could facilitate displaying video on the IC. Any chance of this? Also, old antennas would still work if they simply disabled 5ghz WiFi.
