Greetings fellow TMC members,
For a couple of months now, I've been working on a website to track various vehicle stats for the Model S. That website is called tripography.com, and this week I've started opening it up to a limited number of Model S owners. You can find my public vehicle stats at PureAmps on Tripography. I'm looking for a few additional Model S owners who are interested in being beta testers for the site.
Background
I, like many others on this site, have been experimenting with the vehicle's telemetry data since the Tesla mobile app was released earlier this year. I have done a few things for fun with that data like have my car send out automated tweets via @PureAmps. I also provided real-time telemetry data for the Tesla Road Trip drivers who recreated Broder's infamous drive. I realized after the Broder incident and the Telsa Road Trip team's recreation of that event how powerful data can be in shedding a light on the fear, uncertainty and doubt that currently surrounds electric vehicles. That event was the impetus for creating this site.
What is Tripography
Tripography is intended to be a community resource for Tesla owners (and future owners), and the EV community in general. It is somewhat inspired by Volt Stats, a website created by a Chevy Volt owner for tracking Chevy Volt statistics. Volt Stats is currently tracking ~1800 Chevy Volts and has recorded over 16M EV miles. I'm hoping we can do a little better (over time).
Tripography is a website that gathers information about your driving and charging behavior directly from your vehicle. That data is made available to you for your own personal use. But more importantly, that data is aggregated across all tripography users by geographic region, vehicle type, etc. for use as a community resource for all Tesla owners (current and future).
The site is still in its infancy, has only been live for a few weeks, and is currently only tracking daily driving distance for a few vehicles. For example, here's my daily driving for the past few weeks:
Looking at this graph, I remember that great trip I took up to Sonoma over Memorial Day. No problem in my Model S.
Here's the distribution of my daily driving over that same period:
With only a few weeks of data, I can already tell from looking at the graph that most my Model S daily driving seems to be in the 40-70 mile range per day.
Beta Testers Needed
Interested? Great! Here's what you can do to help.
Go to tripography.com and request an invitation by submitting your email address on the home page. I'm giving priority access to TMC members, so if you would really like to have an invitation sooner rather than later, please send me a PM with your email address, your vehicle type and general geographic region. In particular I'm looking for:
Security and Privacy
Security and privacy are a top priority to me in operating this website as they should be for you. I'm currently finalizing the site's official Privacy Policy. But the goal of Tripography is to share some limited data about your vehicle with the community at large. So if you have severe qualms about that, this is not the website for you.
So what type of data will be shared and aggregated?
About Me
My name is George Scott, I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and I have owned a Telsa Model S P85 (VIN #2817) since December 2012. I'm a software/technology entrepreneur who has founded several companies in the Bay Area. I'm currently a private investor and always at work on "the next big thing". Hint: tripography.com is probably not it.
Tripography.com is owned and operated by RumbleWare Inc., a corporation I own and use to launch websites and apps from time to time. The site's official terms of service and privacy policy are currently being finalized, and will be made publicly available soon, but will largely be in line with the thoughts expressed in this post and standard industry practices.
For a couple of months now, I've been working on a website to track various vehicle stats for the Model S. That website is called tripography.com, and this week I've started opening it up to a limited number of Model S owners. You can find my public vehicle stats at PureAmps on Tripography. I'm looking for a few additional Model S owners who are interested in being beta testers for the site.
Background
I, like many others on this site, have been experimenting with the vehicle's telemetry data since the Tesla mobile app was released earlier this year. I have done a few things for fun with that data like have my car send out automated tweets via @PureAmps. I also provided real-time telemetry data for the Tesla Road Trip drivers who recreated Broder's infamous drive. I realized after the Broder incident and the Telsa Road Trip team's recreation of that event how powerful data can be in shedding a light on the fear, uncertainty and doubt that currently surrounds electric vehicles. That event was the impetus for creating this site.
What is Tripography
Tripography is intended to be a community resource for Tesla owners (and future owners), and the EV community in general. It is somewhat inspired by Volt Stats, a website created by a Chevy Volt owner for tracking Chevy Volt statistics. Volt Stats is currently tracking ~1800 Chevy Volts and has recorded over 16M EV miles. I'm hoping we can do a little better (over time).
Tripography is a website that gathers information about your driving and charging behavior directly from your vehicle. That data is made available to you for your own personal use. But more importantly, that data is aggregated across all tripography users by geographic region, vehicle type, etc. for use as a community resource for all Tesla owners (current and future).
- Want to know how much to charge your car each night for your typical daily drives? Tripography can tell you that.
- Want to know if there is a difference in driving behavior between 60 kWh vs 85 kWh owners? Tripography can tell you that.
- Want to know how long it takes for a typical road trip from SF to LA in a Tesla Model S? Tripography can tell you that.
- Want to know the on-peak/off-peak supercharger times? Tripography can tell you that.
The site is still in its infancy, has only been live for a few weeks, and is currently only tracking daily driving distance for a few vehicles. For example, here's my daily driving for the past few weeks:
Looking at this graph, I remember that great trip I took up to Sonoma over Memorial Day. No problem in my Model S.
Here's the distribution of my daily driving over that same period:
With only a few weeks of data, I can already tell from looking at the graph that most my Model S daily driving seems to be in the 40-70 mile range per day.
Beta Testers Needed
Interested? Great! Here's what you can do to help.
Go to tripography.com and request an invitation by submitting your email address on the home page. I'm giving priority access to TMC members, so if you would really like to have an invitation sooner rather than later, please send me a PM with your email address, your vehicle type and general geographic region. In particular I'm looking for:
- A 60 kWh Model S owner
- A Canadian owner (I need to do some metric testing!)
- Owners in the Mountain and Central timezones
Security and Privacy
Security and privacy are a top priority to me in operating this website as they should be for you. I'm currently finalizing the site's official Privacy Policy. But the goal of Tripography is to share some limited data about your vehicle with the community at large. So if you have severe qualms about that, this is not the website for you.
So what type of data will be shared and aggregated?
- Daily Driving distances (aggregated to the country/state/county/city levels)
- Daily Charging habits (time/duration/soc) (aggregated by location to a specific charger if it is a public charger (e.g. a supercharger).
- Road Trips (start city/destination city and all stops in between, including charge times/locations (if public))
- Your car's exact GPS location
- Your VIN
- Any other personally identifiable info (your name, your email, etc.)
About Me
My name is George Scott, I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and I have owned a Telsa Model S P85 (VIN #2817) since December 2012. I'm a software/technology entrepreneur who has founded several companies in the Bay Area. I'm currently a private investor and always at work on "the next big thing". Hint: tripography.com is probably not it.
Tripography.com is owned and operated by RumbleWare Inc., a corporation I own and use to launch websites and apps from time to time. The site's official terms of service and privacy policy are currently being finalized, and will be made publicly available soon, but will largely be in line with the thoughts expressed in this post and standard industry practices.
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