Will go by your list.
So adding to
@MikeATL 's earlier list of reasons to use TeslaFi:
- Understanding energy use and recharging times on long Supercharger trips. Informative and highly useful if you make the same road trips regularly.
If you do regular supercharging trips you will know how much you charge by the 3rd trip by heart. Also abetterrouteplanner.com can do that better than you will ever be able to.
- Knowing when the car is awake vs asleep. Useful if you’re using Sentry Mode often or if the car is often left unplugged for long periods of time.
Simple. If you use sentry mode - car is on, if it is off, unless you use apps like TeslaFi - the car is sleeping. 99% of the problems with cars being awake, TeslaFi or similiar apps are the cause.
Also - just open the Tesla app - if it is saying waking up - then the car is sleeping. TeslaFi is actually contra productive here as more often than not it is the cause of wake ups.
- Tracking the energy used to charge the car if you want to understand and track the costs of charging.
If you charge on Superchargers - you have this information detailed for you by Tesla, If you charge other places - they have payment systems too. If you charge at home - install a meter for the car plug (very cheap) or just reset a monthly kWh meter on the trip meter in the car.
- Tracking mileage if you need it for business or tax reimbursement.
That might be something useful, not sure how useful will be something like this in your country - wether the IRS uses such information.
- Track battery degradation
Not accurate and misleading - the OBD II adapter for about 50$ will give you way more access to the battery. TeslaFi just does basic calculation, but doesn't tell you anything about the state of the cells, temperature or battery degradation - real battery degrataion in kWh!
- Monitor quality of home charging at different properties.
Why? You set the charger and see how fast it charged - then you do basic math kW*hours or hours/kW
If at some point you see deviation you can do the math again.
- Easy to setup
- Keep a record of all your trips and where your car has been.
Privacy issue here is huge.
- Continually available and no need to connect a device to car to access the info.
Get's me back to the waking up the car issue for the logging - which ends up eating more kWh than it is beneficial for.
I don't think I can sway you out of doing it, but for anyone reading that - hopefuly you will decide against it!