The Tesla Thread
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I understand. My normal commute is only 30 miles so while waiting for a charger to be fitted, plugging every night isn't that much of a pain. There is the grand total of 1 charge point at work but not sure on the rules as currently only 1 person uses it. I tried looking at what comes standard and I believe all UK model 3s come with a 3 pin to type 2 charger, is that right?
That's correct, it'll come with a 3-pin to Type 2 adapter/cable; it's a good few metres long.
The official advice is to keep it plugged in when able anyway so even if you had a charger installed you'd still be plugging it in every time you got home.
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That seems a bit daft imo, I've got loads of range and a fastish charger, why do everyday?
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Numerous reasons, but in short it's better for the battery, and certain functions such as preconditioning only work when it's plugged in. See page 188: https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/model_3_owners_manual_europe_en.pdf. It's even in caps and bold.
I'm not fortunate enough to be able to do that, but if you are, I don't know why you wouldn't. Point being it takes less than 10 seconds so don't see plugging it in/charging etc as a hassle.
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Yes, it’s been mentioned elsewhere including all the gory details.
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That's a shame, I thought you'd be able to set aircon so you can come out to a nice cool car after work. It's not like it's got a massive battery in it or anything
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Soldato
That's a shame, I thought you'd be able to set aircon so you can come out to a nice cool car after work. It's not like it's got a massive battery in it or anything
You can if you do it manually. I agree it's a strange thing to limit, but there's obviously a reason.
In the winter I just go into the app 10 mins before I leave (usually whilst I'm having a ****) and it'll get up from 5c to 20c in that time, vice versa for the summer evenings. Unless you leave home/work on the dot every day then it's more efficient to do it manually anyway, and I guess that's where the restriction comes in because heating up from zero in particular does zap power, and if that was scheduled on the battery but you never actually rocked up because you were ill or something then it'd drain the battery very quickly.
Soldato
use Alexa/Siri etc to set it via voice command or automation. Integrate with calendar as well..
It sounds like two things are getting conflated:
1) automatic pre-conditioning which Tesla calls this scheduled departure and needs to be plugged in
2) turning on the climate control manually in the app which can be done at any time
As @kitkat9933 said, you can easily create a Siri/Alexa shortcut and activate it using a button on the home screen or a voice command to automate it.
1) automatic pre-conditioning which Tesla calls this scheduled departure and needs to be plugged in
2) turning on the climate control manually in the app which can be done at any time
As @kitkat9933 said, you can easily create a Siri/Alexa shortcut and activate it using a button on the home screen or a voice command to automate it.
scheduled precondition works even if not plugged in, happed to be a patch bug that turned it on late last year, took a couple weeks before i noticed and then navigated the ui properly to disable 
was waking my car ay 8am and heating each day despite me working from home!
not ideal but the car still did it, using battery power rather then mains. the tech is cool but not perfect.
roll on FSD and will see how close to elons fantasy we can get.
was waking my car ay 8am and heating each day despite me working from home!not ideal but the car still did it, using battery power rather then mains. the tech is cool but not perfect.
roll on FSD and will see how close to elons fantasy we can get.
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It can use battery power for all I care, that’s the cheap stuff and you don’t need the range every day surely?
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My commute is 30 kins but last week it must have been 30 degrees in the car when I first got it. 5 mins of ac would just make it so much more bearable. I do actually leave work on the dot each day.
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That's a shame, I thought you'd be able to set aircon so you can come out to a nice cool car after work. It's not like it's got a massive battery in it or anything
I do this all the time on my (non-Tesla - crazy right!) BEV, such a useful thing. Pre-heats in the winter and clears the screen (heated screen) so no scraping or deicing - such a treat. Nice and cool for the drive home in the summer months.
You can, it was clarified in the following posts.
Caporegime
Ah no worries.
Soldato
Ugly, poor feature, one of the worst in my book.
