Dont you love OTA! My Tesla is absolutely much better now than when I bought the car. Give an update on the software once you have a chance to test it!

 

I do love OTA! I will definitely tomorrow morning

 

I do like the fact that some of the OTA updates Tesla provides are worthy updates. Track mode is a big one that was a big update. Much better updates than BMW which I still haven’t done because I’m not sure how much I trust them. One thing I will say is my cars touch screen has been acting funky after the last update I did.

 

I would do a service appointment. They probably send a mobile tech to see whats wrong. Did you reboot? That helps a lot.

 

I forgot to mention I lost my seat memory which I unfortunately use every morning when I drop off my kids. I move my seat up when they are getting out and I hit restore to go back to my normal seating position and it doesn’t work anymore. I did a reboot to see if that would fix it but it didn’t. I have an appointment for my carbon fiber trim in a couple weeks (unless it gets pushed a 3rd time) and figured it could be fixed then but maybe I will try and schedule it sooner.

 

Geez. I'm sorry you are having these issues. I had an FM module go out in my first week of ownership and I thought, what have I gotten myself into! Since then, nothing. Its been a completely perfect car. I hope once you get these things resolved, you'll have smooth sailing.

 

said every tech support person ever.

 

In my early days of IT, I used to have a poster in my cubicle asking "Did you reboot yet?". I had another one saying "That's not a cupholder"

 

OK, so installed the update yesterday when I got home from work, interesting enough, it asks you to lock your car before it starts the install. Not sure why, but...OK. The screens go blank, and I went in the house. I didn't really stick around very long while the install was going on, but my car was occasionally making clicking noises, like something is moving or its going in gear. I came out 40 minutes later and the infotainment was booting up, and showed successful. Later on that evening I drove the car, and damn, that 100 more HP, I was ready to take on a Plaid...Ok no additional 100 HP, and no taking on a Plaid today . Anyway it seemed to accelerate a bit smoother, and they fixed an annoying issue where the autobrakes come on too aggressive while parking. It is also a bit more efficient, last night I had to pickup my wife's niece from UC Santa Cruz and drop her off in Oakland, a nearly 1 and half hour drive, a lot of it through a mountain pass Hwy (Hwy 17). I was using roughly 34.7 kWh per 100 miles, previous to the update I was around 35.7 to 38 kWh per 100 miles. I used in total around 54 kWh's for the entire trip. Costed me $0 dollars and .0 cents thanks to free charging at EA.

Nothing broken, so I'm happy for that. Next version coming out P2.0 is supposed to upgrade Android Automotive from 10 to 11

 

Looks like a good update. I didn't think you had Android auto...i thought it was native Android. Anyway, I think you'd need a little more than a 100hp to take on the Plaid

 

my update went smoothly as well. the app connection with the car seems more stable. when is CarPlay coming?!?

 

I need a lot, lot more to take on a Plaid . It's built on Android Automotive which is different from Android Auto. Android Auto is more for using your phone's apps on the infotainment screen (similar to Apple CarPlay), Android Automotive is Google's full automotive software. You can only pair your phone to make calls, stream etc. but Android automotive is a full on version, it also tapes into the cars system, controlling the HVAC and all other systems as well. It's independent so you don't need your phone

 

Installed 1.9 as we got home tonight. Really hope the rear auto braking is improved. Basically can't back out of our garage or down our driveway with it on as it currently is.

 

This weekend we were invited to a relatives house in Tracy, which is near Sacramento in the California central valley. We were originally going to take our Sienna, but with gas prices way up, including Costco (currently $4.89 for regular, good God!) and with it's lines going nearly a block long, we crammed into the Polestar for the nearly 70 mile trip. Google maps showed we would be at 70 percent charge on arrival and 39 percent getting home. There are about a dozen Electrify America's between Tracy and San Jose, so no worries if we get re-routed due to accidents or road closures. It's so freaking eerie how accurate Google maps is, we were exactly at 70 percent arriving, and 38 percent when we got home. Google maps accounts for everything, including the current temp, inclines, areas where regen braking will re-coup energy, as well as HVAC use, and even weight as we had 5 occupants in the car.

Since I still don't have fast charging at home, at 120v charging it would take about one and a half days to charge from 38 percent to 90 percent, so this morning on my way to work I stopped at an Electrify America and did a quick 20 minute session to 85 percent. Across the street from me I could see the Chevron was now $5.69 a gallon for regular and above $6 for Premium, my IS350 would cost me more than $100 to fill up right now! Had I fully recharged at home, the cost would have been around .20 cents a kWh, or roughly $8 for 40 kWh's, but since I have 2 years of free Fast charging, it was $0.

One last thing, the latest software update has definitely made electricity consumption more efficient. I would estimate that I've gained probably 4 extra percent, not a lot but I'll take what I can get!

 

How busy are the EA chargers? Are they mostly empty when you go or do they have cars using them. Tesla chargers are usually 75% full these days on busy areas. 25% in more rural areas. I've never had to wait.