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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!

Yes, it does appear odd that they are keeping them there, but it could just be a short term thing. Notateslaapp are saying that vehicles on 2024.3.25 are eligible for the update, but at the moment Teslafi are saying that all 301 vehicles so far with the update were on 2024.8.x. Edit: There is...

Except that DCFC stations are not a "non-fossil fuel technology". Coal in this country is used for one thing: making electricity. That's the stuff that DCFC stations use.

It's quite confusing. I think this is what is happening: 2024.14.5/6 includes FSD V12.3.6, and is for those in USA/Canada who were on 2024.8.x - which is basically everyone who did not have FSD V12 (either didn't have FSD or they had FSD V11). Since you can't go backwards, anyone in USA/Canada...

OK, so let's look at what it doesn't say. It doesn't say that the NSW and QLD projects committed to but yet to be commenced will be built. "Continue to move forward with participating" means nothing. It doesn't say that any projects anywhere else in the country announced but not commenced...

It's more of an alternative journalism thing... Here's why you should call that storage compartment in the front a Froot not a Frunk...

According to TeslaFi, all in USA only at this stage. There are no streetlights where I live - every night driving home (unless bright moonlight) I will get multiple warnings, sometimes one pillar camera, sometimes "multiple cameras".

Yep. I do about 120km per day and charge overnight on a 15A GPO and it just covers it in the 6 hour cheap window (sometimes a bit over depending on weather and sentry mode). For what it's worth, if you want to buy the 32A adapter locally as you suggested, I bought this one...

I'd love to see a charging station in Betoota! I've already submitted my survey, and forgot to suggest it, dammit... But I would have definitely suggested they make it 16 bays. Then the Betoota Advocate can publicise it to the world as the "first future-proofed charging station in the world"...

I went for a drive in the rain today, and tried out the 2024.14.3 change to the wiper controls. When they first introduced the wiper controls on the left scroll wheel, I instantly ridiculed it, because you had to long-press the scroll wheel, then use it left/right to adjust the wipers. Whereas...

These are interesting questions. I noticed on the kerbside charging thread that it is possible to reserve some of these chargers. Regardless, I'm not sure how I feel about the ability to reserve a DCFC. Depending upon how it's implemented, I guess I can see pros and cons. Pro: if everyone...

I believe that was the intent of @bcarp's suggestion. I don't believe it to be true, however. I was having a bit of a look at that today out of interest. The furthest car ahead that I observed displayed on the visualisation was less than 200m ahead. However it was certainly dimming the pixels...

My plan is to future proof even more than that. I have 2 carports - one on the side of the house and one on the front. I'm going to install a sub-board with 10mm cable to the main board on a 40A breaker. Then I'm going to install 2x Tesla Wall Connectors (or 2x 32A GPO's - haven't decided...

That's a good location. There is already a single 50kW CTR Evie Tritium, but the Melbourne-Mildura route could really use some more redundancy in the middle of the route. Even better if it's going to be more than 50kW (edit: not disclosed, but the proposal is for 2 EV Chargers servicing 4...

I still have my Amber app and just had a look. Over the 24 hours of today (midnight to midnight) Amber is varying between 42c and 52c, and their FIT is varying between 25c and 33c. So different distribution areas make big differences. My AGL plan is 26c with the 8c off-peak 0000-0600. My May...

The video doesn't give the whole story - we don't really know why the Waymo initially changed its mind - maybe it got stuck in the intersection because of traffic ahead of it, and decided to find a safe solution rather than blocking the intersection. A human driver may have done exactly the...

Wow, I take it you would be with Amber then and not AGL for that kind of FIT? What was the peak FIT you were seeing? The corollary would be that if you were importing power with Amber you would have been paying megabucks per kWh instead? When I tried Amber (without a solar or battery system) I...

Adaptive headlights on pre-highland Model 3 review: I tried it for the first time tonight driving home late on the highways/freeways, with just the right amount of traffic for it to be having to constantly adapting from cars to no-cars (following and on-coming), so quite a good test. All in...

From what I've learned following the V12 FSD development in the USA is that the V12 end-to-end NN based stack has one thing in common from all the various reviews and opinions: it's smooth. For now, in the US, the V12 stack only operates for those with FSD, and even then, only on city streets...

I don't think a lawyer would have much trouble with that. Tesla would have to provide evidence that the product has been ready for years but it's just the regulators that are holding it up. That is clearly not the case. (Edit: Although it could potentially become the case once Tesla gets it...

I've got it! Just in case you were thinking of using that isolated charger on the right with a trailer attached, they put a bollard there to prevent you from doing so.

Yeah - same here. Very annoying. So it seems the Adaptive High Beam is a bit like the old Auto High Beam. With Auto High Beam active, there was no way to manually select High Beam, although you could manually select Low Beam. So it was either Manual Low or Auto. Now with Adaptive High Beam...

From my experience, during the day it's all about the particular road. The highways I spend most of my time on yield at least 95% success rate of auto-lane-changes (some days 100%), expect for a couple of sections which it just doesn't like for reasons that I've never worked out. There is...

I also took a photo of the low beam on a gravel road at night (I chose a gravel road because it shows the light much better than a black tarmac road surface). The way it blocks the beam to the right is very evident with the sharp edges of the pixels. The suicidal kangaroo waiting to hop in front...