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Battery Health Tips:
Here's some steps you could take to manage, maintain and maximize your battery's health:
Here's some steps you could take to manage, maintain and maximize your battery's health:
- Charge your battery to 90% everyday (Leave it plugged in after charging is complete and whenever its parked)
- Attempt to maintain regular use between 10% and 90% (Stay away from the extremes as much as possible i.e., 0% and 100% | Tesla's Battery Management System (BMS) will protect the battery even if you aren't paying attention)
- When you're below 30% don't attempt to launch the car or use the full potential of the accelerator
- Deplete your battery to just under 10% then charge to 100% (Then drive it down below 90%) about every three months to recalibrate your Tesla's range calculations
- If you need to leave your vehicle parked for an extended period of time try to keep your battery around 40%
- For the most accurate visibility of your battery's health consider changing the way you view your battery's state of charge:
- Switch your Tesla from Miles of Range to Percent of Charge [Car icon → Display → Energy Display → Energy]
- Use the Energy Chart to view your Tesla's Projected Range in miles [Up icon → Energy → Consumption → 15 mi → Average Range]
- There are three types of chargers:
- Level 1 Charger - 110-120 volts AC, 15-20 Amps | Standard wall outlet | 2 miles per hour
- Level 2 Charger - 220-240 volts AC, up to 80 Amps | Tesla Wall Connector, Dryer, Welder outlet or similar | 9-52 miles per hour [Recommended for daily charging]
- Level 3 Charger - 440-480 volts DC, up to 300 Amps | Tesla Supercharger or CHAdeMO DC fast charger | 200-1000 miles per hour
- Supercharging is DC (Supercharging is safe, but should generally not be used for daily charging unless necessary)
- The Tesla is designed to be primarily charged on AC
- Fast charging generates heat, so don't do it for extended periods of time
- Lithium-ion batteries are stressed when heated and also when cells are kept at high charge-levels (This is why you shouldn't charge to 100% unless your traveling on long trips)
- Exposing the battery to high temperatures and having a 100% charge for an extended time can be more stressful than cycling [This is the absolute worst for the health of the battery]
- Temperatures between 68° - 86° F (20° - 30° C) are optimal operating temperatures
- Batteries will normally begin to show degradation in about 7-8 years on average (Plus or minus, depending on how the car is driven)
Supercharging Tips:
Supercharging stations are available throughout most of North America, China, and Europe along major routes and in metropolitan areas. You can checkout the map here.
Here's a few things you should know about supercharging:
Supercharging Unwritten Rules and Etiquette:
Supercharging stations are available throughout most of North America, China, and Europe along major routes and in metropolitan areas. You can checkout the map here.
Here's a few things you should know about supercharging:
- The Supercharger's whips are just long enough to reach, so park close!
- You can open your Tesla's charge port door by simply pressing the small button on the end of the Tesla Supercharger's plug handle.
- Your battery takes a better charge when it's been preheated (preconditioned). Using the Tesla navigation system to get you to a Supercharger will run the ‘On-Route Battery Warmup’ feature and precondition the battery for an efficient charge. (Doesn't really matter how near or far the charger is using the nav will improve your charge.)
- The charging stations are divided into shared banks or pairs, such as 1A and 1B, and they share the same power source. So whenever possible plug into in an empty bank. For example, if a Tesla is plugged into 1A and you plugged into 1B you would not receive as much power as the person who plugged in first and will therefore charge at a slower rate. This is true at least until they're done charging; so if you are unable to find an empty bank, see if you can plug in next to someone who appears to be finishing up.
- Press the Tesla Supercharger's button 10-times in succession to discover one of the many hidden Easter eggs!
Supercharging Unwritten Rules and Etiquette:
- Supercharger stations are self-policed -- if the Superchargers are full and there are other Teslas parked near the Superchargers take note of who was there before you (take a picture if you need to). Your turn is after all the vehicles that were there before you have charged.
- If the station is busy, only charge to what you absolutely need (charging to 100% takes a long time; charge to 95% instead) as a curiosity to others who need to charge.
- If a Supercharger plug handle is not plugged in to the Supercharger's receptacle that means its not working. If you find a Supercharger that's not working correctly, don't plug it back into its receptacle, leave it unplugged then file a bug report from your car.
- Do not share a bank if there are other banks available to prevent slowing down your own charge and extending the time at the station. If multiple people share banks when its not necessary it could cause an avoidable backup at the station.
- Move your car when you're done charging -- its just a good practice and prevents idling charges (occupying a Supercharger while not charging).
- If you can, avoid nose-in spots; these spots are necessary for Teslas towing something.
- Mind your entertainment; if others are around they can hear your media and phone conversations if your volume's not low.
- Do not liter -- keep it clean!
TeslaCam (Dashcam/Sentry Mode) Tips:
What is TeslaCam?:
What is TeslaCam?:
- TeslaCam is a feature that takes advantage of some of the cameras located around the vehicle
- It can record video footage while you drive (Dashcam)
- You can pause, resume, or save video recording directly from your vehicle’s touchscreen
- It can also record events around the vehicle while its parked (Sentry Mode)
- It can record video footage while you drive (Dashcam)
- Dashcam and Sentry Mode requires a dedicated USB SSD or flash drive with FAT32 formatting (NTFS and exFAT are not currently supported). Before you can use the drive for dashcam and Sentry Mode, you must manually add a root-level folder on the drive called “TeslaCam” (without quotation marks)
- You can begin or resume recording by tapping the dashcam icon (the red dot will appear)
- You can save the last ten-minutes of footage and prevent it from being overwritten by tapping the dashcam icon (a green checkmark will appear)
- The dashcam will maintain about one-hour of footage before overwriting it in a continuous loop
- You can pause the dashcam by pressing and holding the dashcam icon (hold the icon until it "flashes," the red dot will disappear)
- If you need to unplug your USB drive make sure you pause it first or you risk possible corruption and losing the last 60-seconds of footage
- You'll need a drive with sufficient space to save your footage
- saving the most recent ten-minutes of video requires approximately 300 MB, and the hour-long video footage loop requires approximately 1.8 GB of free space
- In the heat of the moment, such as a collision, you might not be thinking about saving the last ten-minutes of footage to your drive
- You may be able to recover the footage using a data recovery tool such as PhotoRec, Digital Picture and File Recovery developed by Christophe GRENIER and its available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS (QPhotoRec is the Windows GUI for PhotoRec)
- Download the appropriate version for your OS and extract to a suitable location
- Create a new directory to save the TeslaCam recovered files in
- Run QPhotoRec (the tools require no install just extract and click to run), select the TeslaCam drive to be recovered, select the directory that you created to save the recovered files to and click "Search" (If you're not using Windows there is a command line version PhotoRec)
- Let PhotoRec run until its finished
- With any luck you should you should see folders filled with videos in the directory that you created earlier
Tesla Model 3/Y Aero Wheels:
What's with those Aero Wheels?:
What's with those Aero Wheels?:
- The fact of the matter is they do work, but what if you don't like the way they look
- The Aero Wheels come with aero wheel caps installed and underneath are hiding some real nice looking grey alloy skeleton wheels
18" Tesla Model 3 Aero Wheel
These are some of the lightest wheels that Tesla has developed and have an integrated aero cap that sits flush at the rim. The faster the vehicle travels the greater the effect. An increase in efficiency by ~10% can be achieved at highway speeds. If the vehicle is traveling at low speeds such as city driving very little benefit will be realized. SPECS:
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19" Tesla Model Y Gemini Aero Wheel
This was the wheel originally included as standard on all Long Range Tesla Model Y. This Tesla Model Y Wheel included a base split-7 wheel design with an Aero Wheel Cover attachment. The Tesla Model Y Aero Wheel was only available in silver color. SPECS:
March 2020 - Present
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