Premium connectivity - £9.99 a month!!

[RemarkLima]

Just had an email from Tesla about the end of premium connectivity... We lease our model 3 and I'd have assumed that it would be part of the lease, but changes like this wouldn't be considered I'd think?

Before I kick off, we do stream Spotify and use the traffic on the maps, so if I were to setup my phone as a hotspot, would I still be able to use these features?

It seems crazy expensive to me, and wasn't part of the original deal so does leave a bit of a bad taste...

[RemarkLima]

Thanks for that, yes pretty much the same - the live traffic is useful. So if you have a nav route it'll check traffic at the start but then the route is fixed?

Looks like a hot spot and a phone mount may be the weapon of choice :-)

[RemarkLima]

If I was buying thousands then I'm sure I could get that price... But to remove other features seems mean.

But that's what not clear, what does premium connectivity give you? Their email seems to suggest that you lose more, but I'll do some research...

[RemarkLima]

OK, so looks like a hotspot is the way forwards as already pay for more data than we can use...

https://www.tesla.com/en_GB/support/connectivity

So, you do not get the traffic display on the maps (the red and amber lines) - but the nav will still route depending on changing traffic situations. For convenience I could see it, but as it's easy to do a hotspot that's the way forwards I'd think.

[RemarkLima]

I was expecting just a year, but it seemed to carry on hence thinking it was baked into the lease... I guess I'll see at the end of April!

But likewise, just the Spotify and Traffic re routing is fine with me...

[RemarkLima]

I'll be hotspotting as if I could pay annually, I may think about it, but the PITA of monthly invoices just make me think "nah"... Plus we do not use that much data, and our phones have tons to spare.

I've been using this in my other car:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com....

Works really well, when your phone connects to selected bluetooth devices, the app will turn on the mobile hotspot, and turn off once disconnected. There's probably an iOS version out there.

[RemarkLima]

VTECMatt said:

CheesecakeRunner said:

You’re aware it does traffic-based routing anyway without Premium Connectivity? All PC does is give you the pretty colours on the map to show you where traffic is. The nav takes it into account when routing anyway.

Do I need to switch this on, I PC but it never shows traffic status?

If you tap the map, you have a bunch of options at the top left of the map, like satellite View... Is traffic in there?

[RemarkLima]

Just navigated back home yesterday night, and the notification was "routing without traffic data" - so it seems that you'll only get the traffic based routing if you have a WiFi connection...

So, once on the move without a hot-spot, I'd assume that there is no nav changes based on on changing traffic.