Perhaps we should start a spreadsheet to record all of these datapoints, maybe an Admin could turn this into a Wiki
3/20 Y No, 6/20 Y Yes, 7/20 Y Yes, 12/20 Y Yes, 6/21 Y Yes, 9/21 Y No, 10/21 Y No
Oh no, you voiced my trigger word--"spreadsheet."
Interesting. I am new to this particular issue and don't understand why slightly older Model Ys are CCS1 enabled but not newer ones. Something to do with a necessary chip? Is this happening with Model 3s, or the other two models? (I'll cruise the postings and try to get up to speed.)
Meanwhile, would you want a proposed spreadsheet to contain something like this?
But I am getting ahead of myself. What is the purpose of the S/S? To pin down exactly when new Model Ys became CCS1-enabled and then when they ceased being enabled again? Collecting and collating such data would take some time and effort. As much as I like S/Ss, I'm not sure you would really need one just to answer those questions. To start with, do we know whether the questions can be satisfactorily answered?
Assuming that a chip on a printed circuit board somewhere is necessary for CCS1 adapter support, I see at least two possible scenarios for trying to determine the dates:
- There was perhaps logic and intention for the presence/absence of the necessary hardware, and as a result there were definite starting/ending dates.
Feedback from enough owners (sampling from, say, 25-50 people per model, maybe less) should establish the dates in question reasonably well.
- The presence/absence of the necessary hardware was more arbitrary--perhaps caused by external forces outside of Tesla's control. Presence/absence dates may be quite soft or even random.
Feedback may produce confusing, contradictory information preventing establishment of hard dates.
Regardless, what would be nice is if TMC readers could voluntarily enter their own data. (Is that possible?) They would exert an individually tiny effort to provide car-by-car data that collectively gives you a powerful answer. Something like this would be fairly definitive (data totally made up):
Whereas something like this (also completely fabricated) would be informative but less satisfying (as a predictive visual model):
(Instead of "compatible" and "incompatible," maybe "supported" and "not supported.")
If you
did get something like the first result, you could then question the smaller subset of owners of cars from November-December 2020 and June-July 2021 to pin down exact milestone dates (as are known for some features and hardware).
I am aware of the polling feature, but not sure how that could be used to gather the necessary data.
Anyway, here are some ideas.
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Just searched for "wiki." Didn't know that was a thing. Perhaps you could build a TMC Forum table as a Wiki post and let people add info? Trouble is, the table feature is pretty crude (compared to Excel or other actual spreadsheet programs). I've learned that it
can do interesting things, but that it can also be pretty frustrating to manipulate, and the size is obviously limited.
