I took a trip to Boston along which I Picked up my new Model Y. Description here.
Once in Boston, I spent a morning with the manual and online trying learn what I hadn't before.
The drive home was going ok, and the nav system reported I had more miles on the battery than the actual distance to home (per Waze), so I figured I was ok. However, the remaining miles eventually dropped below the actual distance. Luckily there was a supercharger station coming up, so I topped up and got home fine. It was so close however, that I shut down everything I could - radio, heat, dimmed the screen, etc. - until I got there. So, questions from the trip home:
Richard
Once in Boston, I spent a morning with the manual and online trying learn what I hadn't before.
The drive home was going ok, and the nav system reported I had more miles on the battery than the actual distance to home (per Waze), so I figured I was ok. However, the remaining miles eventually dropped below the actual distance. Luckily there was a supercharger station coming up, so I topped up and got home fine. It was so close however, that I shut down everything I could - radio, heat, dimmed the screen, etc. - until I got there. So, questions from the trip home:
- How much can I trust mileage estimates in these types of situations? What's the best way to handle it when things get this close?
- One the way in, I missed a station but the nav system didn't re-route me or alert me. What's the correct way to set up a trip with charging stops built in so this doesn't happen?
- When the car is steering itself, it seemed as though trucks were passing too close on the left (though I know the car WAS properly centered in the lane - it was just my paranoid perception). However, IF a passing vehicle DOES get dangerously close, how will the car react and what will it do?
- Precisely how does the NAV system get its information ? What is it communicating with? At one point on the drive home when I was trying to plan a route listing supercharges, it never found them and kept spinning its wheel "trying to connect". Once I cancelled the trip and reset the destination, it was able to connect.
- Same question for the radio stations and music streaming services. It it through my iPhone's wi-fi hotspot?
- When I ask the car to play a particular artist or song, what is it connecting to and what determines the list of songs that follow?
- Now this is probably a dumb one, but more often than not, when the Nav screen is up, the top right icons for earth view, POI, charging stations, etc.,don't display. What's the trick to always having them available?
Richard