However, that move has left Tesla facing an onslaught of legal clashes between independent car dealer associations in many states the company sells cars in.įor example, in Texas, Tesla’s new home, vehicles manufactured there cannot be sold directly to consumers in the state. But as classic American automakers sneered at the nascent electric-vehicle startup, Tesla executed a shrewd business strategy that forwent typical marketing campaigns, and cut independent car dealers from the equation by deploying a direct-to-consumer (DTC) purchasing model for its electric vehicles. From the disastrous Cybertruck announcement, to viral clips of exploding cars and Teslas under computer control attempting to drive into oncoming traffic, the company and its egomaniac CEO Elon Musk have lost much of the shine they had five years ago. It’s become trendy to mock Tesla in recent years. It is best to have the car connected to reasonably fast internet connection if possible as this reduces the time to download the update.This article appears in the December 2022 issue of The American Prospect magazine. If you notice the car not sleeping or having excessive drain after a software update, manually reboot the computer by holding down the scroll wheels.Ĭars may also not sleep when they are downloading an update or new navigation maps. It has been known for the car to end up in a perculiar state following a software update which prevents the car from sleeping. This preconditions the car on a daily basis which consumes energy. It actually disengaged automatically after 12 hours but the car may still have consumed a lot of energy in that time.įinally, turn off Scheduled Departure. You may have Cabin Overheat protection and we'd recommend turing this off too. It rarely works well and can result in the car heating itself up even when you have no intention of using it.ĭog mode, Camping mode etc all use energy from the battery, and while fine for short periods, they should be left off when leaving the car for any length of time. Simply NEVER use Smart preconditioning if your car has it. In day to day use, many leave Energy Saving off as this is still reasonably efficient. The most efficient combination is Energy Saving = On and Always connected left unticked. Within some older cars, usually Model S and Model X, there is a power management option for energy saving and "Always connected". To minimise vampire drain, review all 3rd party access and if in doubt, change your Tesla password which will invalidate all third party apps and prevent them accessing your car. The Tesla security is not sufficient and the Multi Factor Security and Pin to Drive are generally bypassed if the Tokens are available to a 3rd party. Unfortunately, these apps do this even when the car is not plugged in, as a result they could be constantly waking up the car while you have left it in a car park.Īs an aside, we do not recommend any 3rd party app that retains your any of your details or tokens. To get this information they must wake the car to find the state of charge. These query the car to see the state of charge at times when charging would be available at a cheap rate. These are typically linked to either solar power at the home, or low cost electricity tarrifs. There are also some services that use the API to control charging. As a result settings should not be required. Some apps are less well written, some even suggest sleep settings, we think these should be avoided as the API now has a specific wake command which should only be used if the car is asleep. While the API has improved over the years, and well written applications will not wake up the car when not needed. Tesla talk to the car via an API and many 3rd party developers have reverse engineered this and use it for alternative purposes.
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