Tesla Model 3 - V3.0

Thanks, good to know, 3 times this morning in the space of 6-7Km, my wing mirrors fogged up, they cleared up themselves fairly quickly, but nice to happen on a motorway

Regarding the wipers which i had to use a lot yesterday - they really are a pain. The auto wipers are very poor and are pretty much unusable in any sort of heavy rain. It's mad to think that they are this bad when the tach in some parts of the car is so amazing.

It's mental how i have so much phantom wiping on AP but then they don't come on quick enough when its actually raining lol

Look, i've had other cars where the auto wipers were nothing to write home about but at least they were adjustable on the stalk - the fact that you need to use the touch screen to alternate between speed settings is just a right pain and quite dangerous in reality.

Simple solution would be to be able to click the wiper button to toggle between speeds - this would mean you could change the settings without having to take your eye off the road.

Anyone know if i am missing something and there is a way to toggle the speeds by using the stalks or buttons?

Rear visibility is pretty bad in general on the Model 3. I'm quite tall, so it's acceptable, but the way the back curves up means my wife can't see anything at all. It's a little awkward using a combination of turning on the back cam and using the mirrors when wanting rear visibility. I don't think wipers would change or help a whole lot.

Not sure if you are aware, but you can bring up the wiper menu by half or full pressing the screen wash button (activating a wipe brings up the wiper menu).

I know it doesn't solve your issue as you still need to look at the screen, but doing this means you already have the wiper menu up so only 1 press is needed to change the setting as opposed to going into a deeper menu to find the same options...

And in a similar vein, a flash of the headlights brings up a small lights menu in the same place as the wipers menu so you can adjust the setting, rather than having to open the main menu to do it.

Yes, not the best feature of Tesla. Suggest using Voice commands to action these items. Its surprising how many things can be controlled with voice avoiding distraction and danger of interacting with screen whilst driving. I use all the time and its great if you are like me always keeping an eye on Trips. Simple voice command like "Open Trips". "Open Maps" does it without having to lose concentration etc....Wipers are controllable also

I looked at scanmytesla recently on my Sept M3 RWD and it said :- Nominal Full Pack 60.7kWh; Nominal Remaining 58.4kWh; Energy Buffer 5.50kWh; Full Pack When New 60.5kWh; Usable Remaining 52.7kWh.

The battery was at 95% full when I recorded those figures.

When i say open trips with my accent it says "open trucks" and tries to navigate me to the nearest truck stations! Maybe its just my accent, but i find the voice commands very flakey and thats why i dont use them - having to repeat a command over and over is annoying. I never have any issues with google voice commands on my other devices so i guess i do find it strange that Tesla one doesnt work for me.

Not trying to be negative, its just how i find it.

Cheers - 60.7 nominal full is big. And the "hard" buffer seems to be 2.3. "soft" buffer 5.5.

So in line with what a lot of us have seen give or take a few decimals here and there.

Interesting the changes made in the LFP with the hard buffer - i'm not sure that even existed in the earlier models but is a good idea to protect against fatal battery damage.

So in and around the 52kWh as the 0-100%. Thanks for posting this information - great to see it came from the SMT app so no guessing and cannot be disputed by anyone.

Out of interest what is your WLTP rated range on your certificate of conformity (on the 2nd page)?

55 would tie with what I had calculate manually but there have been reports of a lot of new cars having less than that available - like approx 52kWh only

I just ran my September delivered RWD from 100% to 0% and according to the trip meter it used 52kwh.

So I charged it back up again and the Tesla app said it put 59kwh back in versus my Zappi that said 61kwh back in.

I have now used 50% of that charge and used exactly 26kwh so it would seem there is still only 52kwh available so where did that other 9% go????

I am not happy that my car seems to have that very large buffer and you cannot get 491km from it with only 52kwh useable so I think we need to try and take this a step further with Tesla if we can and get them to reduce the buffer…

if there is 10% below 0% then what is the actual point of saying that it is 0%?

That just makes no sense….

Just leave the 10% on the bloody battery percentage and then everyone knows how much is actually left!

The thing is the range is there, it's just beyond 0. It's the same for petrol/diesel cars. The "range" based on the pie in the sky MPG test figures is only achieved if you drain the tank

I've kindof come around to agreeing to your POV, especially since seeing Bjorn's video. Those are all valid points you make - but these have been sent mostly to tesla already and the "It's below 0" is what they have said.

I sent you my Reg by PM, would be interested what (if anything) Tesla say when they see the critical mass of differing experiences. I've had to threaten them with SCC just to get back my 2k refund that they have had for a month after trade in. My average ratio is 5 emails to one response. They have a long way to go.