Recent content by Spinkick

7 year old hardware, not everything can simply be updated

Noticed that you are going to have a bunch of telemetry data. Is it possible to have the battery temp up near the battery on the main screen? Instead of having to always go in and manually check, it would be cool to just have it available all of the time.

m'planet

Get the physics PHD back in here. It uses 0 battery due to using stored gravity as energy converted to motion

Flat earth is more efficient

I think they just pushed an update recently that will change battery conditioning based on the supercharger type you are heading to. hey, nerds gonna nerd! 🥸🤓

What really helped me is when I left it on percentage. Its kind of like using a laptop or cell phone; you dont track how many minutes you have left, you just plan to charge when you need to.

I'd be interested to understand why the Engineers designed it that way. It seems like if it was net less efficient to drive in chill mode in very cold temps, at the very least the energy app would say so. Then again, the energy app is also not saying to use chill mode when its very cold.

At a certain point when its cold enough the heat pump cant pull heat from ambient air. I'm guessing 10C is probably still warm enough where the car doesnt have to spend time heating the battery. I wonder what the temperature cut off is for that? It would be cool to get that scanner in a colder...

Some data in another thread. Cold weather drivers probably do see some improvement from chill mode as the battery is allowed to get cooler and the heat pump is allowed to take heat from the batteries in exchange for not as high acceleration: https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/posts/7872766/

I get that chill mode doesnt improve efficiency, but is it true in the manual "You can improve efficiency of the cabin heating by reducing your selected acceleration mode, allowing the heat pump to take more heat from the battery to efficiently heat the cabin instead of maintaining the...

This is a stupid question, but how do I turn on seat warming and steering wheel to “auto” in the Tessie app? I can find it in the regular Tesla app. Did they not open this up in the api?

Will there be a way to get battery temp, etc and other geeky stuff at some point? or are we pretty much just limited to the API?

I had the same type of thread a few weeks ago, I cant find it. Must be going somewhere that the topic is already covered but cant find it.

Wipers have not really improved as far as I can tell. That, along with wipers being innefective that far up on the model Y windshield makes it a real pain. I am not sure how something like this can get by a huge company like Tesla, but I bet they save enough money per car that they are willing...