Thankfully landing SpaceX on Mars and returning to earth seems more straight forward .....enjoy the car
Somebody reversed into my nearly 1 year old 3 today whilst it was parked. Fair bit of damage to it but just the one panel where the charging port is will need to be replace hopfully. Thankfully the guy came forward, apologised and gave his details.
Couple of questions.
Hi all, thanks for your eh.. varied advice in relation to charging to 100%! What I've done in the end is as much based on circumstances as logic, so it's a bit convoluted:
Charged to 80% at work then stopped. Then later charged to 100%, and left work about 90mins later.
Got home with 94%. 90mins later drove round trip of about 55Km.
85% when I got home.
Scheduled to charge so it's at 100% when I leave tomorrow at 8.30am.
Reckon driving tomorrow will use about 86% of range, so it'll be good to have a buffer in case any family members want a spin in the new Tesla 😜
May stop at Enfield Supercharger on way home to use my 160km free charging + I've never used public charging before.
Btw - I'm also having those connectivity issues, intermittently, but not today funny enough.
Really getting used to the car now, surprised by how fun it is to drive. I miss two main things from my last car - rear wash-wipe and a subwoofer.. would love the premium sound system. But the calm, smooth comfort of the Tesla is really appealing and charging for free at work is such a benefit...
I received similar and when i go into the app it says reason is credit card expired (which it hasn't). I suspect from messages above it is a glitch and most likely will be resolved.
Hopefully it's just a software bug and not the car so!
I got that too, the message came through at 18:44. The Only thing I could see was that my Eircode had changed to "-Z" and thought that was it.
Yes I'm getting that as well.
5 minutes ago I got a message in my app asking me to update my payment details. Nothing has changed on my side so when I tapped on the card details they have, it says I may lose my connectivity if I don't update my details (which haven't changed!!).
Is anyone else on 2023.26.9 having connectivity issues?
I'm regularly having to reboot the car to get the connectivity to work.
Things like chunks of the maps not loading, no traffic data, YouTube not working when parked, and Spotify not loading songs that aren't already buffered.
There seems to be no relation to location, the signal indicator is either full LTE or just one bar short of full, and most curiously when I connect to my hotspot nothing changes. Only a reboot will work.
Interesting - Can you put figures on what you’ve seen?
IF you use Tessie or TeslaFI for a while it would show estimation of capacity once you had one longer charging session. I think it compares SoC with range in car, as I noticed that range at 100% keeps dropping for me with time.
Mines a 201 (March), and I’ve 84,000km on the clock….
In the last year I’ve only been to 100% once… been to 99% a few times waiting for it to balance the pack but it was always time to leave so rarely made it to the 100% mark….
did a few Supercharges to 100% trekking across Europe last year, but would always have left with minutes of hitting 100%
Id love to actually know the degradation so far…. But I’ve never really noticed any lack of range over the years, but it’s be very hard to notice in fairness with degradation being so gradual…
Id say probably 98% of charging was AC too but seemingly that doesn’t really matter anymore..
It would be interesting to see if your strict routine has benefited the battery in anyway.
I assume you have a 192 M3?
Id expect that battery to be at about 90% SOH
I'd charge up at work on Friday aiming to be home at 90%-93%, then do the final 7%-10% the morning of the departure...
I've a non LFP SR+ and whenever I do go to 100%, it's left sitting at 100% for as little time as possible (less than 30-60 minutes anyway....).
I'm sure I'm being overly cautious in doing that, but I wouldn't be leaving the car above 95% overnight... and certainly not at 100%
It doesn't sound to me that Patch's decision is to do with convenience, unless they have an unusually onerous charging set up at home. Patch, fwiw, we've a non LFP that I'd charge to 90-95% on our night boost rate (12c) between 2am and 4am. And if I needed the final 5% I'd put it in just before departure on the full rate.
Try not to overthink things. Recommendations on battery charging relate to optimum but charging to 100% and leaving at that for short periods will not cause any harm at all.. so give priority to your convenience!
Hi all,
Probably dealt with before, but would love to hear some advice on the following - I've a long trip on Saturday and want to charge to 100% (Non-LFP Model 3). Is it okay to do this at work on Friday, and leave the car near 100% overnight. The alternative would be to top up to 80% at work on Friday, and then schedule charge to 100% at home before I leave on Sat morning. But really, does it make much difference in terms of battery health, or is this only an issue when you leave the battery at near 100% for extended periods, say a few days or longer?
Function over form.
The hub caps and the wheels underneath are not nice design and I wouldn’t pick either from a bunch.
Id splash on the 19” Sports if I was buying RWD or LR. Or search out a set of 20” Performance wheels if they fit.
It’s purely for efficiency….
its between 3-5% efficiency gain with them on, so why not…. I’ve my car 3.5 years and they’ve been on probably 85% of that time….. (they are much easier to clean also)
thanks, the hud caps are not great on a medium/higher value car, some of the upgraded ones including yours are decent obviously. Seems odd to have a decent alloy under the pretty average caps they supply with it.
There's always an alloy under the 18s. Efficiency is about 3% better with the covers on.
There's other options, such as what I have, which doubles that efficiency (supposedly), but also look way better. They give the appearance of a 19" alloy and help protect the rim of the alloy if someone scrapes a kerb. I have replaced 3 of these inside of a year and the rim was protected each time.
is there always an alloy underneath? What sort of efficiency do they really generate?
How do you know. She could drive like a lunatic when you're not with her.
If anything it would be the other way round 🤣
It adjusts on the fly. Your wife may have been driving a bit more erratically 😂
Does Tesla use driver profiles and driving style to guesstimate arrival percentage?
we are on our way to Rosslare and I was driving. It was estimating we’d arrive with 55%. Swapped with the wife and she selected her profile and the % dropped to 46%, confusing.
pretty sure it’s the Same route at the arrival time is the same.
It's 620km WLTP. Hopefully the facelift model will come in a long range RWD, should bump it up to about 670km.
https://www.tesla.com/en_IE/m3/order/LRW3240_8131cfdef6c32ba5b9f4d1713c497664?postal=E53®ion=IE&coord=52.9511,-7.8017&titleStatus=new&redirect=no#overview
And it needs that range pulling a fully laden trailer. With a roof rack. And 5 adults in the car. Uphill. In December. In the snow. Where's it minus 15. Without stopping for a break. Driving 15 solid hours.
Roadster for you so!
Nah, not going EV until there's real world range of 700km 🙂
Definitely. WLTP of 620km with a 78 kWh NMC battery is impressive.
