The Tesla Thread

[Jonnycoupe]

Dunno. Electricity is electricity isn’t it.

Unless a good trip mpg consumption allows you idle an engine to warm before resetting the trip and doing the journey?

I’m just jealous with only 3.4mile/kWh

 

[paradigm]

Dunno. Electricity is electricity isn’t it.

Unless a good trip mpg consumption allows you idle an engine to warm before resetting the trip and doing the journey?

I’m just jealous with only 3.4mile/kWh

I was genuinely hoping you had seen some research into which was more efficient

There’s probably little in it either way, but I know I’d rather the cabin be how I like it before I set off (be that heated or cooled).

 

[Jonnycoupe]

There’s all sorts of things going on with battery heating and cabin heating. Also getting the data to compare. I know technically on mine the fully battery preconditioning can take 4 hours!

The way you can warm an EV or cool it in a non antisocial manner is the biggest win.

It will 100% use less energy for the trip portion with precondition and cabin conditioning but that all wraps up into a similar overall usage really, a warmer battery and coolant may pay dividends for motor warm up too but it’s all much of a muchness as ultimately we are dealing with heat and you can’t invent that, just move around. Biggest grid consumption improvement over next few years will be just getting the chargers more efficient.

 

[theone8181]

Exactly. Not sure how having a card isn’t read of a key is any better. You still got to hide it. As said earlier some OEMs have wrist bands.

Just have a "top heavy" partner, or some swim shorts have pockets, must be able to get some with zips.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

To be clear, the stats I posted above don’t include preconditioning from the mains… it’s using the battery to precondition the battery and cabin.

 

[SDK^]

going for a swim at the beach on Sunday morning ... how do I secure the car - anyway obviously not a problem you've encountered.

Polestar 2 comes with a small sports keys water resistant to 10 meters for 60 minutes - problem solved.

 

[Jonnycoupe]

Jpaul goes to deeper depths than that when searching for obscurity.

 

[jpaul]

Polestar 2 comes with a small sports keys water resistant to 10 meters for 60 minutes - problem solved.

10 metres should be fine , I'm not jean mark barre (some osbscurity) , zips pffh - strictly speedos in France.

Biggest grid consumption improvement over next few years will be just getting the chargers more efficient.

are the decent 800V, like ev6, systems, more efficient (as well as faster) for car charging.

 

[Jonnycoupe]

Your house isn’t 800V so no. It’s the AC rectification and voltage boost where home charging losses occur.

 

[theone8181]

10 metres should be fine , I'm not jean mark barre (some osbscurity) , zips pffh - strictly speedos in France.


are the decent 800V, like ev6, systems, more efficient (as well as faster) for car charging.

Speedos must mean your 60+ with overhang, or at least that seems to be the only ones I've seen (should be banned imo).

 

[thewanted]

For those with the white interior, have you used a seat protector under an ISOFIX car seat base which didn’t stain or leave permanent imprints in the seat?

I’m currently using a white towel which isn’t very elegant or easy to fit.

 

[Em3bbs]

Polestar 2 comes with a small sports keys water resistant to 10 meters for 60 minutes - problem solved.

The Tesla card is better than that to be honest for swimming. I mean, I never swim in the sea anymore, but looking at them both I'd take the card every time. I actually find that little Polestar key a waste of time and wish they had supplied two 'normal' keys, which apparently was the case for older cars.

Also with the Tesla app being so good vs. the Polestar one (which frankly I find is worse than a 10 year old Windows Phone 7 app looks and feature wise), that I'm comfortable just using that alone.

 

[paradigm]

Anyone else having app/API connectivity issues today? Neither the Tesla app nor Tessie seem to be able to connect to the car

 

[FerretBoy]

Anyone else having app/API connectivity issues today? Neither the Tesla app nor Tessie seem to be able to connect to the car

Fine here

 

[paradigm]

Fine here

I ended up having to manually defrost the car so I could get into it. Rebooted the computer seems to have sorted it.

 

[theone8181]

I do occasionally get issues where the car doesn't unlock when I try the handle, but I'm asking my phone has put the app in a deep sleep. I did have issues one time, that I think was caused by poor data connection (I'm assuming the car and/or phone need to verify on teslas servers).

 

[{SAS}TB]

I do occasionally get issues where the car doesn't unlock when I try the handle, but I'm asking my phone has put the app in a deep sleep. I did have issues one time, that I think was caused by poor data connection (I'm assuming the car and/or phone need to verify on teslas servers).

Same here - reopen the app and it works fine

 

[peige]

Bluetooth on and off again and the door will open.

 

[paradigm]

Bluetooth on and off again and the door will open.

Was going to say, the app data connection has no bearing on whether or not “phone key” works. A restart of bluetooth makes more logical sense.

In my case, no amount of re-opening the app made any difference to app connectivity (not phone key, that worked fine after defrosting the handles and windows), only re-gained app control once the computer was restarted.

 

[Dr House]

I have had the model 3 since December now, absolutely love the car but I'm tempted to try out the polestar 2 just for a change.

Anyone tried both?