Things seem to be slowly getting worse for us living in the harder climates. Since there is no way to give feedback to Tesla anymore, I'm hopeful someone there could read this post and potentially drive things forward. I have both the 3LR and the XLR and the same issues are present in both.
1) The cruise control needs to revert to the regular cruise control if the adaptive cannot function due to sensors being blocked. This is basic stuff in any other car / EV I've driven.
2) Window defrost button is needed ALL THE TIME. It really needs to find its way back to the lower section of the screen without being hidden in the climate menu (v11).
3) Same with the seat heaters. I press these things 4+ times on every drive now, potentially up to 16 times depending on the amount of passengers in the car (v11).
4) We need proper controls for the battery heating / not heating, the car doesn't always know when we are navigating towards a charger or not. Alternative is to fix the 3rd party charger information but I really doubt this is going to happen and/or be kept up to date.
5) The battery heating when preheating should also be an on/off setting. Sometimes a warm battery is needed, sometimes not so much since all we're doing is a small loop around town.
6) Please allow the heat to be turned on via bluetooth / keyfob in case the car does not react to the network. It may not be possible to get in the car if the car is out of the network and the heat does not turn on. I'm currently in St. Petersburg, Russia with the car and there is no network here anyway. It's -20c out.
These would go a long way fixing the winter driving experience and they would be far more important than the games and light shows for quite many of us. I get this 'apple approach' when the car tries to be intelligent enough to figure this all out, but unfortunately it's not realistic. It really doesn't do telepathy just yet.
1) The cruise control needs to revert to the regular cruise control if the adaptive cannot function due to sensors being blocked. This is basic stuff in any other car / EV I've driven.
2) Window defrost button is needed ALL THE TIME. It really needs to find its way back to the lower section of the screen without being hidden in the climate menu (v11).
3) Same with the seat heaters. I press these things 4+ times on every drive now, potentially up to 16 times depending on the amount of passengers in the car (v11).
4) We need proper controls for the battery heating / not heating, the car doesn't always know when we are navigating towards a charger or not. Alternative is to fix the 3rd party charger information but I really doubt this is going to happen and/or be kept up to date.
5) The battery heating when preheating should also be an on/off setting. Sometimes a warm battery is needed, sometimes not so much since all we're doing is a small loop around town.
6) Please allow the heat to be turned on via bluetooth / keyfob in case the car does not react to the network. It may not be possible to get in the car if the car is out of the network and the heat does not turn on. I'm currently in St. Petersburg, Russia with the car and there is no network here anyway. It's -20c out.
These would go a long way fixing the winter driving experience and they would be far more important than the games and light shows for quite many of us. I get this 'apple approach' when the car tries to be intelligent enough to figure this all out, but unfortunately it's not realistic. It really doesn't do telepathy just yet.
