Tesla Model 3 - V3.0

Yeah this should probably definitely have its own separate thread now at this stage………

On a happier note last night in a span of 2 minutes I've been blinded by 3 Teslas. Bloody Teslas everywhere now, and they can't fix they lights.

Joke aside after the last upgrade the auto high beam came on by default but I've changed that immediately. Hope they'll fix it soon or we'll get a reputation.

I almost always know it's a Model 3 coming towards me because of the sudden blindness it induces!!

I usually needed to 'level' my lights every few months, but I did it about 2 weeks ago, and needed to do it again a few days later as they crept up faster than normal.

As for auto high beams in AP, I don't have it!!!! So I must be in some sort of hybrid unicorn than prevents it from enabling itself (I have a 2020 Fremont car, but with the refresh steering wheel).

I've done it in the controls screen.

ON Note the symbol on the right hand side also tells you is set.

OFF

Also there was a question about auto heated seats

This is auto. Slight darker shade of ....

Manual once auto seats is disabled you see the slight border of the two buttons Auto and seats .

Tesla aren't interested and won't look at other people's regs due to GDPR

I asked them to look at the issue as a whole and they said they can't look at other customers cars unless they ask.

They are not arsed.

I had an SR+ before I got the RWD version a few weeks ago so I am well versed in what the car can and cannot do!

What I do expect though is that the car can do the advertised range using the actual figures that Tesla themselves provide and with this large buffer on the Sep delivered RWD that is just not possible so that is in fact my gripe!

He doesnt expect 491km.

He expected the mathematical numbers to add up. 491km is calculated using a constant wh/km figure. Yes it is unachievable in real life. However that's not important. What's important is the sum total. So 117wh/km gives 491km. That gives a total available kWh energy. However what he is experiencing is that the total energy available doesnt match what is shown at the start.

I expect the car to be able to do the theoretical numbers that Tesla advertised to me and know very well in the real world it is not possible but my car is not possible to achieve the theoretical numbers either so that is the issue!

Also yes we know it will be a software change from Tesla to lower the buffer so the theoretical numbers can be achieved but they are NOT listening so that is why we are highlighting it!

I think this would be key - I know that someone earlier mentioned that they had suggested to Bjorn to test with a Sept deliver M3 and he did a very thorough video on that.

It would be somewhere higher than Sandyford that this would need to be escalated, and (with all due respect to Boards) it would need to be somewhere that more visible public noise could be made about it that will likely see results (Not sure of where that would be: Tweet Elon?, EV press or wide visibility blogs like Teslerati / Electrek, etc?)

There is a post on Tesla Motors Club too and there are posts on Reddit and tweets to Elon Musk to ask him why the buffer is so big too but no further comment from Tesla.

And I completely agree that Sandyford is too low in the chain but to actually get this in front of someone in Tesla that can do something is proving very difficult.

Anyone got some email addresses for people in Tesla HQ that we could target and highlight this to?

The problem is that Tesla are well aware about what's going on here. Very well aware of it. All the cloak and daggers they have surrounding their batteries and the total lack of transparency around them is the exact reason that allows them to do whatever they want, like this.

It's extremely dishonest behaviour

But as they have such a cult following the masses just bow to them without question.

People on here and one in particular on the TMC forum actively defending Tesla and being pure apologists for them, is scary. They will spend plenty of time blindly defending them rather than try and actually take time to properly look at the issue.

For me that is the important question. Why did Tesla decide the need for this buffer. If it is for calibration purposes it is very possible it will revert back to the original size. There was a case on the earlier deliveries when the car remained without power even with the display saying 4% left or something like that. Would this increased buffer protect drivers from such issues. Are the LFP batteries dropping the energy suddenly towards the lower limit and they need to see their behavior? Unrelated but when I got my car I couldn't charge faster than 140 kW, then 170 kW and later on reached 237kW. It is kinda known they do this with new chemistries. Would it be possible they do the same with buffers and release them based on the driving patterns/usage?

Some nice software updates today particularly the energy app. More stats!