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What is your top Battery and Charging Feature/Bug Request

Does it have Lithium in it? Involve plugging something into your car? Are you concerned about when your car is charging? Is your car a Tesla or do you plan on owning a Tesla? If the answer to many of these questions is yes then your idea probably fits in this category.


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Enter departure time instead of charging start time and have the computer figure out when to start charging so the battery is warm at departure time. If find myself doing the math every night. The computer should to that for you.
by Gavine
 
Computer should be programmable with your exact power rate schedule, desired final charge %, and ... more
by Fred
5
 
I have a program I wrote to do this for me but it should be built in, either set a start time or ... more
by Kirk Bauer
1
 
This needs to allow a configurable buffer. The system calculations are dependent on events that c... more
by gpetti
 
I dont care for the departure thing as now we have "trip" thing that is basicly the same. but i w... more
by Sindre Langberg
 
In theory this is nice, because it is the most energy efficient. But there are scenarios (like t... more
by Duma
1
72
Vote

David_Cary, John Hunter, Pilot_51 and 69 more

Further ideas

Ideas
Pros and cons
 
Votes
Battery Pre-Heating
by Andy
The ability to preheat the battery (traction pack) when on shore power or from battery power, to ... more
 
My suggestion above basically addresses this concern.
by Gavine
1
 
The departure time charging does not address the concern of battery pre-heating for two reasons. ... more
by Andy
7
 
This suggestion may be better than the one above in that it allows the battery to pre-heat (on a ... more
by gpetti
1
 
Combine these two thoughts, because, the battery needs to be correctly "pre-warmed" to function a... more
by KellyGb12
44
Vote

Amy Lee, Duma, Pilot_51 and 41 more

Warn if not plugged in
by Kirk Bauer
Official MS app should warn if your vehicle is in a known charging spot (your home, supercharger,... more
 
This was the main thing I used visible tesla for. Tell me if my car isn't plugged in at 10pm at n... more
by Teslaliving
1
 
Very true, as time advances, my memory fails me more and more. I would prefer that the app let me... more
by KellyGb12
1
25
Vote

Pilot_51, jpcarreiro, Andy and 22 more

Both % and Rated Range
by Jeff
Presently we have to choose between displaying the rated range and the battery charge percentage.... more
 
I think most people think just one way or the other. Once you start thinking in % the range part ... more
by Teslaliving
 
It is useful to have both as the rated range changes with consumption and use while the % will on... more
by Bertrand Roy
3
 
Or at least be consistent everywhere. eg. switching to rated range on the trip energy graph.
by Dave85D
 
I like the granularity and usefulness of "Range" units when driving, but charging should be in Vo... more
by ken830
 
It is already possible to configure this, why not allow the ability to display both as an alterna... more
by gpetti
2
 
Also windows and sunroof opening/closing in a percent ratio.
by Martin Lehmann
24
Vote

Amy Lee, Duma, Andy and 21 more

Scheduling a charge by day/time
by Korben
Scheduling should allow for day and time of day start/end settings. This helps with TOU metering.
 
Interestingly few votes so far. I thought this would be a popular feature to take advantage of ... more
by Korben
 
Yes, at the very least we need a weekend setting to disable the charge timer.
by Ingineer
 
The first two suggestions for "complete by a certain leaving time" and "pre-heating the battery",... more
by KellyGb12
19
Vote

David_Cary, Pilot_51, Mike Snow and 16 more

Allow toggling of Amperage through mobile app
by Johan H
Sometimes it can be really useful to be able to decrease or increase the charging current from th... more
 
Useful also if charching from a solar array to maximize self consumption.
by Mike S
1
 
Also useful if trying to get charging to complete just before departure, or when finding out it n... more
by Pilot_51
3
13
Vote

David_Cary, John Hunter, Amy Lee and 10 more

Battery charging log
by doctor who
This could be implemented on the phone app so that it could be printed out. I'd love to able to r... more
 
Aside from business expenses, this would be great to show to prospective owners.
by John
 
When talking to prospective new Tesla converts, I like to stoke their dislike of having to buy ga... more
by KellyGb12
1
 
I charge with my dad's electricity and am required to track and pay him for my usage. This would ... more
by Pilot_51
12
Vote

Pilot_51, Andy, Brock and 9 more

Battery Charge Level Scale in Miles Instead of - No Indication
by Brian Manke
The current interface does not tell you how many miles of range you are charging too. Instead of ... more
 
Miles (or kms) should ALWAYS be shown ALONG with % on all berry gauges.
by Vjargiro
2
 
We're talking charge limit. As you slide and set in car and app, % or RR or both should show. Thi... more
by Dave85D
1
 
Include elapsed charging time, say "+34km in 23min"
by Dave85D
 
I suggested this to Tesla back in 2012. Would be nice if it happened.
by TXjak
9
Vote

Andy, Frej Christophersen, paulwesterberg and 6 more

Add the battery icon on the 17" screen again with the % level next to it.
by Bertrand Roy
 
Or on/off option.
by Supratachophobia
2
8
Vote

HLR, Andy, Frej Christophersen and 5 more

Allow option to show battery charge in available kWh, not just percent or km's.
by Brock
Given that trip meter shows Wh/km, why not show battery with the same measurement? Would make tr... more
 
Tesla needs to stop being coy about the well-known fact that maximum available capacity (kWh) is ... more
by Duma
1
 
The energy app already uses the available kWh to show the average Wh/mi and compute the correspon... more
by Duma
5
Vote

Amy Lee, Duma, HLR and 2 more

Show kw/h added with last charge
by Kyrios
Useful to keep track of charges. Currently the information is lost when starting the car.
 
This can be tracked with VT (check the [VIN].charge.json file). The energy displayed by the trips... more
by Pilot_51
4
Vote

HLR, Pilot_51, Andy and 1 more

Ability to toggle units in charging screen
by Brock
Why should we have to go to the setting screen to toggle the units on the charging screen? Someo... more
3
Vote
Andy
Brock
Pilot_51
Charge limit by location and DWK
by paulwesterberg
Sun-Thur when charging at home I want the vehicle to charge to 60%. On Fri/Sat night it should ch... more
 
This sounds like a duplicate of Korben's idea above.
by TXjak
 
I'm not sure if it is coded into the charge procedure, but, the last time I forgot to reset the c... more
by KellyGb12
1
Vote
paulwesterberg
Show calculated range based on the last 10km in the energy app in addition to Wh/km or even as replacement.
by Martin Lehmann
1
Vote
Martin Lehmann

Comments

Hakon

Automatically engage parking breaks (if not engaged), whenever a charging cable is connected.

To avoid charging port damage if the parking brake is forgotten, and the car starts rolling.

Thu, Mar 15, 2018

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Hugh Rice Kelly

I haven't spent the time to carefully correlate the suggestions, but I'm pretty sure that the app "Remote S" already presents data that would resolve most of these questions.

Sun, Nov 22, 2015

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