I am a stat geek. I am also a new Model 3 owner. I was besides myself when I found TeslaFi.
Today I took the car out for a jaunt to an EV Show actually. Knowing I had charged the car on Thursday, I was surprised to see the % so low as I was coming back home.
Thu AM I charged to 85%. In that time, I took 8 short trips Thu & Fri then one big one today. Total miles driven: 48.74 miles Battery drained from 85% to 41% That's almost 1% per mile, or an effective 100 mile range.
I do not blame the car at all. I think this is entirely TeslaFi's polling of it. It is parked in my garage without Sentry mode enabled. Overnights, I was seeing TeslaFi showing double-digit "range lost" simply parked. I'll grant the car could/will consume some battery on its own, but it shouldn't be losing so much that my range is more than halved.
I disabled TeslaFi just now. Will be interesting to see my experience over the next few days and see if I get better experience. Now if you come home and plug in all night every night, this is not an issue. And I know, I can 'sleep' TeslaFi, but then I have to remember to turn it back on before I start a trip, kinda defeating the purpose of it capturing and reporting.
Just a warning to anyone who wants to use it, unless you plug in every night and leave it plugged in, it's probably gonna kill you. When I drive to little, I see no reason to "top off" nightly from just a few % points down back up to 80 or 85. Especially when I have free charging at work. My goal is to drive a few days, commutes and local, and when I get to 40'ish, then top it off at the office. I don't seem to be able to be able to do that with TeslaFi running in the background.
Here's hoping for a better few days on my Model 3 and some concern alleviated.
Today I took the car out for a jaunt to an EV Show actually. Knowing I had charged the car on Thursday, I was surprised to see the % so low as I was coming back home.
Thu AM I charged to 85%. In that time, I took 8 short trips Thu & Fri then one big one today. Total miles driven: 48.74 miles Battery drained from 85% to 41% That's almost 1% per mile, or an effective 100 mile range.
I do not blame the car at all. I think this is entirely TeslaFi's polling of it. It is parked in my garage without Sentry mode enabled. Overnights, I was seeing TeslaFi showing double-digit "range lost" simply parked. I'll grant the car could/will consume some battery on its own, but it shouldn't be losing so much that my range is more than halved.
I disabled TeslaFi just now. Will be interesting to see my experience over the next few days and see if I get better experience. Now if you come home and plug in all night every night, this is not an issue. And I know, I can 'sleep' TeslaFi, but then I have to remember to turn it back on before I start a trip, kinda defeating the purpose of it capturing and reporting.
Just a warning to anyone who wants to use it, unless you plug in every night and leave it plugged in, it's probably gonna kill you. When I drive to little, I see no reason to "top off" nightly from just a few % points down back up to 80 or 85. Especially when I have free charging at work. My goal is to drive a few days, commutes and local, and when I get to 40'ish, then top it off at the office. I don't seem to be able to be able to do that with TeslaFi running in the background.
Here's hoping for a better few days on my Model 3 and some concern alleviated.