The Tesla Thread

theone8181 said:
Not sure I'd want to go with percent over miles though.
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Do you have your phone battery in percent or minutes remaining?

Each to their own but the vast majority consensus is to use percentage, which also entirely avoids/negates your next comment since it could never be 100% accurate on range.
 
Russinating said:
Do you have your phone battery in percent or minutes remaining?

Each to their own but the vast majority consensus is to use percentage, which also entirely avoids/negates your next comment since it could never be 100% accurate on range.
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Bit different in a car. Normal cars have a range based on actual use. You don’t have % of fuel tank normally. Or litres left. You rely on miles. Whilst most Tesla owners seem to think so, a car isn’t a phone
 
Every car I have driven has a fuel gage in % (effectively), some of the later cars had a trip computer which gave an estimated range remaining but it was wholly inaccurate and never to be trusted.
 
It should be inaccurate. It knows consumption and energy. Why they over estimate I don’t know. 10% left in my ‘300 mile range’ electric car would be 30miles. How does % help when you still have to guess. Sorry don’t understand
 
My range computer in my VW Touareg is deadly accurate. it uses what you are consuming to estimate the range left. the only time its wildly wrong is when you first fill it up as it assumes you will drive everywhere like a granny but soon resets itself to a more realistic estimate of actual range.

When it finally gets down to zero miles, it really does mean 0 miles as I discovered once. :(
 
Greebo said:
My range computer in my VW Touareg is deadly accurate. it uses what you are consuming to estimate the range left. the only time its wildly wrong is when you first fill it up as it assumes you will drive everywhere like a granny but soon resets itself to a more realistic estimate of actual range.

When it finally gets down to zero miles, it really does mean 0 miles as I discovered once. :(
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You played fuel tank roulette and lost:p.

Nit sure you can have phone battery in minutes remaining but it find that more useful that a percentage:D.
 
Percentage for me too. Anything else varies too wildly depending on weather etc. At least with percentage it'll nearly always drop whereas having the battery set to range can make the figure go up/down.

Anyway....

The car is back at Tesla AGAIN. I'm on the verge of handing the car back by driving it through the showroom tbh.

  1. It was delivered with paint issues (water marks on the paint, various little scratches). They were polished off.
  2. I got a stone chip dead centre of the bumper travelling to the service centre. I paid for a respray of the bumper.
  3. The dashcam only worked in park and refused to record drive. The SC couldn't fix it but the latest firmware update cured it.
  4. Cabin overheat protection was greyed out. They escalated it to a senior team who fixed it remotely.
  5. The charge port would flash a "cable not fully inserted" warning message even if you rammed the cable home. They replaced the entire port and HV cable to the battery.
  6. I went to get the car following the full detail they arranged to see the scratches hadn't been removed despite the garage telling on the phone they were.
  7. Collected the car the following week to see that they'd marked the passenger door. The door and passenger wing were resprayed. I argued the toss as they wanted to "patch" the damage.
  8. Later that week after I picked up the car and found they'd destroyed my wheel covers. On the weekend I pressure washed the car and removed the cover finding damage to the underlying alloy and....



They're saying that it wasn't caused by them (in fairness I blame the body shop) but there's lots of sentry footage of the journey between the SC and the body shop EXCEPT for a mysterious 12hr section where the wheel was kerbed. By this I mean there is NO entries at all in the car until the car is 5 minutes away from the SC, where suddenly I have all the footage again.

I'm guessing it was reversed in to a hedge because only the rear quarter and light cluster are scratched. They've agreed to replace the lights on a mobile visit as there's no current stock in the UK but damn... so much paint has been removed from polishing it'll be silver before long :(

update: they couldn’t get the scratches out, so it’ll need to go back. Again.
 
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Simon said:
Bit different in a car. Normal cars have a range based on actual use. You don’t have % of fuel tank normally. Or litres left. You rely on miles. Whilst most Tesla owners seem to think so, a car isn’t a phone
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Literally every car or vehicle's fuel guage is a percentage bar... except maybe a VERY small few?
 
Well picked her up and Over the moon - love it !

Came with 40 odd percent charge and 7miles on the clock - very happy :D

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Model 3 is the 11th best selling car this year, with ~26k registered, on par with the 3-series from BMW. Mighty impressive, also still a whole month to go and literally a boat load of new ones to be registered still. Considering lots of people wrote Tesla off just a few years ago, goes to show how quickly markets can shift
 
Russinating said:
Literally every car or vehicle's fuel guage is a percentage bar... except maybe a VERY small few?
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Most made in last 10yrs have range which is actually accurate too.

I really don’t get how you can say percentage is better. You don’t even know how many miles a percent does
 
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Simon said:
Most made in last 10yrs have range which is actually accurate too.

I really don’t get how you can say percentage is better. You don’t even know how many miles a percent does
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My first car had a % fuel level, every car I've owned since has a % fuel level, the most modern forms of transport such as electric scooters have nothing but a % battery level, and the vast majority of EV owners (based on advice I received and have seen on similar forums) use and advocate a % level.

You can't even follow Tesla's guidance on battery usage and maintenance (ie avoid driving below 20% and charging over 80% for regular trips) unless you use %.

I own a Model 3 and have used % for the last 2 years, as have many other owners here.

I've double checked your posts in this thread and I can see you don't own an EV or a Model 3 yourself and the all of your posts are anti-EVs or negative generally, so I can't see the point in discussing something you have no experience using and a clear bias against.
 
You’re right. I noticed earlier a few road signs were using % battery now rather than distance.

and the last sentence is just a massive assumption and why there is such a ICE vs EV on online forums. I have plenty of EV experience. And also my ICE car I literally ignore the fuel gauge and just use range as it’s an improvement over a rather crude energy stored level. Hence why it is in all cars now as an evolution of the fuel level. Relying on % just seems so backwards. You can have range go up if driving carefully as it’s is based on consumption vs stored. Fully understand battery tech and % but it doesn’t mean it’s better for knowing how far you go.

Seems Tesla just use 1% = 3 miles regardless of consumption rate ? This seems to be crap but woe betide someone saying something negative about teslas on the internet. The reality is every car has an algorithm for dynamic range. Seems Tesla do not and it’s hardly difficult to do. Maybe they should focus on that rather than whoopie cushions and other pointless stuff
 
Simon said:
and the last sentence is just a massive assumption and why there is such a ICE vs EV on online forums.
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Do you own an EV or a Model 3? If not, then what assumption have I made?

Share a link to a positive reply you've made to this thread and I'll take it all back. You've got 49 replies to pick from.
 
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