I'm glad I decided on taking the MX vs our MY. The MX was a pleasure to drive on our Western US road trip with some caveats.
We drove from SoCal to Wester Washington up the I-5. We didn't have any issues on this leg with charging or with the MX being comfortable.
We returned from W. WA via Northern Oregon, Southern Idaho, Utah & Nevada, so this was a longer trip and had more issues. Some stations had stalls which were down and we had to use an EA station once, which only worked on the 3rd try.
The main issues we had were the follows:
"Tesla Autopilot Engaged in Model X" by Ian Maddox is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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We drove from SoCal to Wester Washington up the I-5. We didn't have any issues on this leg with charging or with the MX being comfortable.
We returned from W. WA via Northern Oregon, Southern Idaho, Utah & Nevada, so this was a longer trip and had more issues. Some stations had stalls which were down and we had to use an EA station once, which only worked on the 3rd try.
The main issues we had were the follows:
- Phantom braking, when trying to pass trucks (with ACC/Autopilot on). More than a few times it acted like we were going to rear-end the truck in the lane to the right and slammed on the brakes. This was especially frequent when the sun was coming from the front left and reflecting off the trucks.
- ACC/AP doesn't like it when the right lane merges in. It tries to center the car instead of holding the left line and it caused a couple wild swerves where I had to take control.
- The HVAC simply couldn't keep up with the heat thru Nevada. It was 109 outside and even with our tinted windows and the AC running at nearly full-tilt the entire time, the cabin temp didn't get under 85F. Thankfully, we brought two battery fans to help as we anticipated this problem.
- Average efficiency was 361 wH/mile (360 up and 362 back down).
- When #1 above happened, there was an audible clicking noise coming from the front. I don't normally slam the brakes, but AP sure did.
"Tesla Autopilot Engaged in Model X" by Ian Maddox is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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