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Driving down the Vic Hume Hwy tonight in torrential rain, I experienced what one poster has reported previously: With wipers on Manual IIII (because, well you know why) - suddenly they just stopped wiping. Completely stopped. I pressed the button on the stalk (with completely zero vision...

Or whether they will just look like the Evie site at Avenel: broken for a month. (Again.) It's hard to get excited about new sites when they can't keep existing sites working.

True, but the interface and mechanism to achieve this is clunky at best description. The navigation system is smart enough to look at your calendar to predict your destination each day. The charging system is so primitive it assumes you work a 5-day week. Many of us don't. *Roll-eyes*

It was initially a distraction seeing the road verge flying past on the edges of the wide-angle video feed, but I got used to it after a couple of days and it didn't bother me any more. It was just the night time stuff that continued to annoy.

You'd think I would have learned by now - sorry for the inaccuracy.

Just to report back from my experiment: Charging from 0 to 100% did not improve the energy buffer significantly (I think it went to 5.6kWh). However, after driving down to about 50%, one further charge to 100% restored the energy buffer to 2.6kWh (normal). This time I let had it sleep at 100%...

Ahhh, so that's how it is. Highland drivers only acknowledge other Highlands... Sharing that fellowship and camaraderie that only stalkless drivers appreciate. At least now I know where I stand... :p

So, I guess they are still "working on it"... 😜 I had it happen a second time a couple of weeks ago, and implemented the same "solution" as last time which was to walk away and then come back to it later and it had resolved itself. Both occurrences for me have been after charging in rain...

My ICE 4x4 ute has one of those. When I mounted a camper canopy on the rear tray, the rear view mirror became a garden gnome with no purpose. So I fitted a rear dash cam screen which is the same shape as the rear view mirror which just clips over it. It's great until the camera gets covered in...

I suspect that is partly true, but also a big part of it is the lack of eye contact. I think when most pedestrians venture out onto a road expecting vehicles to give way to them, they establish eye contact with the driver which gives them some confidence the driver is aware of their presence...

To the best of my limited knowledge, it's worked perfectly. I haven't heard of any successful jamming attempts by the Russians. The only issue I have heard of is that Elon got annoyed when they started affixing them to uncrewed surface vessels and he geo-blocked them for that purpose...

You know that I do. But not with a good ODD.

Preconditioning is everything with LFP in cold weather. I have only been watching battery temps recently since I have S3XY commander, and have been surprised with what I have seen. It really likes the battery up around 20C for decent regen (60kW) and 22C to get to max regen (85kW). It takes...

Working at a level of reliability and confidence that the authorities will approve to operate autonomously (L4) and the public are prepared to purchase individually and/or a large company or startup will be prepared to purchase a fleet of them. If you build it they will come. Waymo have a...

Who with? Which distributor? Unless you export more than you import, you are unlikely to win with Amber in winter in VIC. Current range of 24 hour import prices in Powercor VIC are from 34c to 98c.

I said a working prototype. They don't have one yet.

Oh, I don't think any company with a sound working prototype will have any shortage of investors. Getting to that point is the difficult part.

Meanwhile the Amber price in VIC was $0.44. Don't they have a wire across the Murray River?

Just turn up during the even hours of the day. It's the odd hours of the day that are busy. Except 5pm. 5pm is ok.

Yep, like the Irish pub I worked at as a youngster. It takes 2 minutes to pour a Guinness properly. If someone orders a Guinness 1 minute before the end of happy hour, you have to pour half the Guinness, leave it to settle, and then pour the other half. But when you pour the other half, it's not...

There used to be a road I used regularly where according to the nav you couldn't do any turn that crossed the opposing traffic - it was a 4 lane road with just a painted line in the middle and even had extra turn lanes. The nav would do what it is doing in your description. Apple and Google...

Do we need the Florida vote in the next election? Genuine question.

A mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, a mining engineer, an aeronautical engineer, a chemical engineer and an electrical engineer all walked into a bar... They all turned up in Teslas. There is one 32A GPO, but numerous cables and power boards hanging on hooks with every conversion possible...

Yes indeed - and that is an important point when playing with fire. At the time of the photo it was actually still under a load of 5.83kW (see top part of photo), as I still had defrost running at max (I stopped it after I took the screenshot).

I agree. Same as NMC/NCA. I don't know what the guy in the video is talking about when he says there is a 5% top buffer, it makes no sense. This looks correct - it appears that Tesla are happy to push the cells to 3.8V. I don't know if they will normally charge the car up to that voltage - I...

April 2023 Model 3 RWD Made in China 60.5kWh LFP pack.

I stayed close to home at 3% doing some laps down to 1% then put the car in defrost mode down to 0%. I was also keeping an eye on Cell Volt Min. Can’t advance science without taking some risks haha! :cool:

I have just come to the conclusion that LFP batteries have 108 cell bricks not 106. I made a post in the Australia thread which I won’t cross post here, but my Battery voltage is 343V and divided by 108 that equates to my Cell Volt Average. Also my Cell Volt Min brick ID coincidentally happens...

Interesting. I don't have Tessie, but I recently got SMT. Here is a screen shot when I intentionally took my battery down to 0% recently (on the screen - it was actually 0.48% SOC according to SMT). You can see that my Nominal Full Pack (which I think is what Tessie is reporting in your chart)...

LFP's are very sensitive to a higher voltage. You must not charge above 3.65V or risk damaging the cells. Normally you charge at 3.65V until the charging current drops to a nominal cutoff value (not good to float charge at 3.65V) - the cells are then nominally at 100%. You can still charge again...

I tried it last night on 2024.14.3 - can confirm the same. Although my memory is that my vehicle was always like that - I couldn't ever confirm with a pull/push on the steering wheel. Which was why I never used it. I'm not 100% sure on that though. I tried it when the car was new about a year...

Last time I went to Toyota I was offered a bicycle...

I went for a drive at 0930 this morning and the outside-air-temperature on the display was stuck on -5C for the initial 15 minutes of the drive. It may have got that cold here last night (there was ice on the ICE windscreen (pun intended), although not on the Tesla due to automated...

That's interesting. I hadn't heard of that one. I'm still on 2024.14.3, but I don't use the lane change confirmation function, I just let it go for it (or cancel the indicator with the stalk if/when I don't want it to change lanes). I'm doing a couple of hundred km today on highways so if I...

The first mover advantage will likely only really apply to the first company able to scale rapidly. Uber did this, spending way more than it was earning in the early years - presumably trying to get in everywhere around the world before anyone else. But now that Uber has competition, the...

That was my first reaction. It may have been identifying the tree as an obstacle rather than a vehicle, and the NN kept figuring that it had to go around it rather than follow it. But the "obstacle" kept changing position and it kept going through the same little decision-making loop. This could...

Not the same thing. LTE/NR networks are optimised for download not upload. The download is often way higher bandwidth than the upload. Elon's own V12 live demo on Twitter in Palo Alto was really crap video quality - probably because upload bandwidth over LTE/NR. Yes, the car uploads clips from...

Yes, and I read somewhere that it’s only a passive balancing implementation, which means the only way it balances is by bleeding the highest charged cell bricks at a slow rate. It doesn’t take that energy and feed it into the lower charged bricks which is what an “active balancer” would do...

The company I work for suffered badly during COVID. They stood a lot of people down on no pay/Jobkeeper and offered a lot of VR’s. The trouble was that the highly competent employees that could walk into another job easily, departed, and only the dead wood stayed. Particularly in the departments...

It's a very valid point. If Musk was a normal person he probably would never have achieved the BEV or Reusable Rocket dream. Because any normal person would have worked out that it wasn't achievable (under the normal rules). No normal CEO would have risked that kind of money. And for those...

Some of what you suggest seems obvious. It shouldn't take much compute to recognise roadworks, for example, and simply upload some metadata about a lane being closed. Whether that's really necessary is questionable though - we already have live traffic data that provides the information we need...

Kangaroos are a thing now! 🦘 While avoiding kangaroos on the road last night, I happened to look down at the visualisation and for the first time (must be part of the new visualisation in 14.3), they are actually displayed on the screen now. Well, they don't look like kangaroos, of course...

I'm pretty sure Elon specifically said in his original introductory V12 live demo something along the lines of "there are no lines of code saying 'this is what a stop sign looks like' and no lines of code telling the car what to do at a stop sign". I haven't been back to watch the video again...

I don’t live in Melbourne, I live outside. I drive to the edge of Melbourne for work and that’s usually as close as I want to get. But on the occasional trip into Melbourne for an event, the place spins me out, they make up for weather with goings on. Music, art, theatre, sport, whatever you...

Except in a Supercharger... The electrons move into your car down one wire and back out the other wire, so they must all be renewable 😜 There we are... back on topic...

That is both very funny, and also a very valid point. Does the car need some way to communicate with others? A little emoji display? 😈 or 😇

It's a bit hard to tell the renewable-sourced electrons apart from the coal-sourced electrons when they are all flowing together down a wire. Especially during times of day/night when there simply aren't many renewable electrons in the wire. When you Supercharge during a non-windy night in...

Nobody did. I merely pointed out that a coal baron investing in DCFC stations is not ironic - if anything TSB was investing in something that would actually add to the demand for electricity, which is what a lot of the coal is dug up to produce. I'm not saying that was his motivation though - he...

Haha, after I posted I thought someone would bring that up. Yes, it is also used to make steel!