Reply With QuoteThe car is going off your previous driving, not guessing your future driving. The figure is just an estimate and more often than not, an overestimate.Originally Posted by boris9
Thanks chaps. Appreciate there are lots of variables, but out the box 395 vs 330 odd seems a big adjustment.
How does the car know it is 2 degrees and that I’m going to tear around at 90mph?
I would have expected 395 miles on the screen but to get a very different figure once actually driven. To start in the 330s was a big surprise.
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The car is going off your previous driving, not guessing your future driving. The figure is just an estimate and more often than not, an overestimate.
Tesla do it slightly different to other manufacturers, by default in the U.K. it displays the official WLTP tested range at 100%, or any percentage thereof.
The lower figure is the EPA figure, generally more realistic, which you can switch to the default display via the Tesla App.
Other manufacturers do ‘on the fly’ range calculations based on recent and overall long term consumption, and results vary, just like ICE official mpg figures va real world ones.
That’s what doesn’t add up - when the car was brand new it was showing 161 miles on 51% at the point of delivery. No previous driving analysis to work from.
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On this logic, at 100% charge I should see 395 on the car’s display - is that correct?
From there, if I drive like a loon or the weather is atrocious it makes adjustment to the range in real time?
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If it’s set to WLTP range yes, which is a more optimistic number than the EPA one.
I pressed the battery on the screen and switched it to display percentage, and left it there, I then use the consumption app available from the bottom menu bar to show realtime consumption and range remaining.
The number of miles the car shows on the screen is irrelevant to how many it does anyway. If you spent all day driving around Central London you'd get 600 miles out of it. If you hooned it down the motorway at 85MPH more like 200 miles.
It really is a bit irrelevant - the car will adjust as you drive to show the true range left but again if that is based on the last 2 hours driving on B roads and then you smack it down the M3 then the range at the point of entry onto the M3 will be proven retrospectively to be wrong.
Having a few issues with my 71 plate Model 3 LR recently - wondering if anyone else experiencing similar?
1. Regular message (several times a day) to say Sentry mode is turned off due to a system error
2. The cameras are often blacking out i.e when reversing or when trying to use blindspots cameras they engage and it's like they are covered by something (but they are not). Eventually they sometimes start working, odd
3. Sentry is set to turn off at my home location, but the location accuracy seems to have gone away just a small bit in recent weeks. Never had a problem with it recognizing me as being at home before, but now shows me a few houses away, with knock-on effect that sentry stays on (which may be causing point 1.)
4. Speakers/sound system - today I tried to listen to Spotify and the radio and the speakers were crackly and coming and going, plus only the front ones seemed to be producing any sound
Have had no issues with the car in over 2 years but I suspect these issues might have been caused by the very low (for my area) temperatures recently. Anybody else seen these?
I've booked in for a service so will let you know how that goes.
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Seems like Tesla are considering moving their production from China to Thailand, building a gigafactory there.
Many manufacturers (Honda, Toyota, Mercedes Benz to name a few) already manufacture in Thailand so there's a skilled labour force there, and I'd imagine Thailand is seen as a much more 'friendly' location than China in the eyes of many western governments.
How did you get on?
Sorry should have updated! Not been on the forum for a while, life has been full!
Booked in for the service and it was great. Took into local Tesla, dropped car off for couple hours, came back and all sorted. Not had any issues since and that was weeks ago.
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Be curious to see what happens to the superchargers now the entire team has been made redundant.
Guessing no more supercharger sites and possibly the existing ones sold off at some point?
I don’t think it means any of that, indeed reports are that the team is being stood up again, albeit with fewer numbers.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05...mid-new-plans/
The Supercharger Network, despite some of it being open to all EVs now, is undoubtedly a strong selling point and drives sales.
Turning it off, or selling it, would remove the last excuse for a lot of people to stay in a Tesla.
I’ve used them in my wife’s Tesla, haven’t used them at all in my VW, I find plenty of options outside of the Tesla network, albeit the Tesla one is generally cheaper than a lot of them.
What a nutcase. The guy u-turns more than a politician.
Good to see it’s not completely gone as that is a big USP for the brand albeit diminishing over time as the others get up to speed.
Might be old news to some but I just found out you can still use Netflix and YouTube on Tesla when using the hotspot from your phone. Really useful.
They removed all use of it, or just whilst moving?
Can only use Netflix while in park but I refuse to pay £10pm for internet in the car and always assumed that meant Netflix was off limits. Didn’t think to hotspot.
Had a nice time watching Netflix and playing chess on my phone for an hour while my wife was in sing and sign class with the baby.
Had assumed it was a free subscription, nice work around then. My internet enabled cars have always been company ones & changed before charges happened, hence my assumption.
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Might be back with ya all by the end of the day.
Everything crossed it is as expected
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