SidetrackedSue
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So far no cars on 3.25 have moved to anything looking at TeslaFi data. I would guess the large majority of these cars are people who aren't subscribed.
I hesitate to assume the TeslaFi subscribers mirror the makeup of the general tesla ownership. I could be wrong but my gut tells me that people willing to pay for the data their car generates are also those willing to pay for FSD and who are curious about knowing all about the tech their car has.
I could very well be wrong, but I'm the sort of person who had a 'car book' that tracked every fill-up, every bit of maintenance and service, and tracked road trip mileage. That's how I knew what sort of 'hit' my tesla range would take in winter (I was coming from a hybrid so had a bit of experience with traction batteries.)
When we got Casper we set up a google sheet we could update in the car. It took so long to enter in stuff, I started to think about getting a car book to write in because it is less aggravating. Then, cuz I was on TMC to find out about all the tech features of my car, I learned about Teslafi and subscribed. I'm annoyed at having to pay for my own data but on the other hand, it means I no longer have to write anything but maintenance and service on the spreadsheet. (And we make written notes on the receipts and then enter those from a computer rather than on the screen.)
Even though I want to use my tesla as a car not some sort of project to advance driving capability, and though I hate the car (because the advancing driving capability updates eff me over almost every time), I'm still on teslafi. But I doubt other people who bought teslas to function as just cars, are as obsessed with data and on Teslafi. After all, I've seldom met anyone with a 'car book' like I had, and shut up many of those without when I would pull it out and point out the price of gas was NOT as cheap as they remembered 3 or 4 years prior. (Or shut up 'mechanics' insisting my car needed additional service during my oil change because I could tell them the part had been swapped last time and did that mean they'll replace the 'faulty' part under warranty?)