Tesla Model Y

[AlexIT]

Still Mulling said:

One more thing: is there a way to send a driving route to the car? I've adjust one in Google that I want to enforce (it's not the fastest nor shortest, but runs the lowest risk of delays).

Not AFAIK: you can send the destination via G-Maps, but then the car's going to calculate the routing. However it will take into consideration real time traffic, so it should guide you via the quickest way. In the settings you can set the delay it should consider before directing you on an alternate path: as standard is 5 minutes, I set it to 2 minutes and it superposes exactly on Google's navigation.

[Fastlane]

Still Mulling said:

One more thing: is there a way to send a driving route to the car? I've adjust one in Google that I want to enforce (it's not the fastest nor shortest, but runs the lowest risk of delays).

You can create a trip under Location in the Tesla app, including additional stops and send that to your car.

[Still Mulling]

Nice, thanks Folks

[DrJFoster]

Maybe you can send a route as opposed to just a destination, even if its just one with waypoints, but the car now has alternative routes built in so you typically have a couple of options which may or may not be worthwhile.

What I have also found useful is addresses in diaries. You can easily select a destination that way

[sidekickdmr]

Boring Question(s) alert,

1. What side is the charge port, images seem to indicate the left passenger side, but I dont know if that the yank version and ours is on the driver side?

2. With this in mind, if it is on the left, and my charger is also on the left, I can see myself forgetting its plugged in and unable to see it on approach to the car from my door to the right, I assume it would not let me drive off if plugged in?

[RichA35]

It’s on the left

[Gone fishing]

sidekickdmr said:

Boring Question(s) alert,

1. What side is the charge port, images seem to indicate the left passenger side, but I dont know if that the yank version and ours is on the driver side?

2. With this in mind, if it is on the left, and my charger is also on the left, I can see myself forgetting its plugged in and unable to see it on approach to the car from my door to the right, I assume it would not let me drive off if plugged in?

Left rear and the car won’t let you drive if you’re plugged in

[FWIW]

sidekickdmr said:

Boring Question(s) alert,

2. With this in mind, if it is on the left, and my charger is also on the left, I can see myself forgetting its plugged in and unable to see it on approach to the car from my door to the right, I assume it would not let me drive off if plugged in?

The car won’t let you do anything that stupid

[Still Mulling]

225 mile round trip completed just fine. From 100% charge, 4.2 mi/kWh left me with 62 miles left upon arrival at home. Mixture of driving conditions, including motorway speeds. Very impressive!

Anybody have any thoughts/advice on the somehow combining navigations to have Tesla superchargers and live traffic without paying the £10/mo for premium connectivity?

[Gone fishing]

Still Mulling said:

225 mile round trip completed just fine. From 100% charge, 4.2 mi/kWh left me with 62 miles left upon arrival at home. Mixture of driving conditions, including motorway speeds. Very impressive!

Anybody have any thoughts/advice on the somehow combining navigations to have Tesla superchargers and live traffic without paying the £10/mo for premium connectivity?

You don’t need premium connectivity at all for supercharger functionality, there is a subscription option but that’s only so non-Tesla's get the cheaper rate. Any Teslayoj own gets the cheaper rate automatically

The navigation also uses live traffic regardless of premium connectivity, the only thing you’re lacking is the physical display of traffic info on the map. Theres no way round that without paying.

[Familymad]

Gone fishing said:

You don’t need premium connectivity at all for supercharger functionality, there is a subscription option but that’s only so non-Tesla's get the cheaper rate. Any Teslayoj own gets the cheaper rate automatically

The navigation also uses live traffic regardless of premium connectivity, the only thing you’re lacking is the physical display of traffic info on the map. Theres no way round that without paying.

That

[Still Mulling]

Thanks. For the superchargers I meant the linking into navigation, but it sounds like that’s baked in.

So if I don't go premium I’ll get suggested route updates when traffic adds more time than the tolerance I set, but no red and yellow lines on the map?

PS: after one week we are so impressed that my wife is suggesting driving to Italy or France at Easter, and I’m entertaining the idea!

[Gone fishing]

Still Mulling said:

So if I don't go premium I’ll get suggested route updates when traffic adds more time than the tolerance I set, but no red and yellow lines on the map?

Yes, in fact the sat nav uses a different source of traffic information to what’s displayed, it also uses a different map too. It’s not quite smoke and mirrors, but what’s on the screen isn’t actually used at all by the nav.

[Still Mulling]

Gone fishing said:

Yes, in fact the sat nav uses a different source of traffic information to what’s displayed, it also uses a different map too. It’s not quite smoke and mirrors, but what’s on the screen isn’t actually used at all by the nav.

Seems logical I guess I have no need to go premium then!

[Gone fishing]

Still Mulling said:

Seems logical I guess I have no need to go premium then!

Logic and Tesla are rarely words found in the same sentence

[James6112]

Gone fishing said:

Still Mulling said:

Seems logical I guess I have no need to go premium then!

Logic and Tesla are rarely words found in the same sentence

The opposite is true.

[DrJFoster]

James6112 said:

The opposite is true.

Illogical and Tesla are often found in the same sentence?

4 years of wipers that don't work because they thought it was logical to take away the rain sensor before they'd invented a viable alternative is one of my biggest frustrations, made worse because they thought it was logical to turn them to Auto every time I activated autopilot.

Given what I've seen protruding out of various orifices over the years and the explanantions offered, nothing suprises me what some people think is logical
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[Seasonal Hero]

Model Y RWD collected yesterday, and the handover was extremely smooth and easy. What a lovely car it is. Had the Tesla wall connector installed this week and took about ten mins to get it all set up with Octopus. Charges happened as planned overnight and woke up to 100% for not very much money at all.

Build quality seems pretty good to me. Smooth, quiet, very good audio and just a very nice place to be.

[Familymad]

Welcome to the future! Enjoy it

[Zcd1]

Seasonal Hero said:

Model Y RWD collected yesterday, and the handover was extremely smooth and easy. What a lovely car it is. Had the Tesla wall connector installed this week and took about ten mins to get it all set up with Octopus. Charges happened as planned overnight and woke up to 100% for not very much money at all.

Build quality seems pretty good to me. Smooth, quiet, very good audio and just a very nice place to be.

Indeed - enjoy!

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