First 9 Miles Driving Home From Dealer: Regrets? First Impressions: Things I Dislike, Not Sure What To Like.

[FutureTruck]

Update 2024.8.8 seemed to fix/help this issue. My iPhone was doing the same thing. It would get really hot and barely charge. Now it seems to charge and not get hot. I don’t have any proof of this except that before, even a few minutes of charging would bake my phone. Since the update, It has not gotten as hot even once.

Other vehicles have fans that cool the wireless charging pad, don't think CT has one which will cause phones to cook. Haven't tested the last couple days but will give it another try.

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[EXPTREVER]

I hope I'll fall in love with it later.

I'm from Benz and I've used gas and hybrid vehicles, this is the first time with electric one.

Things I dislike:

- Gas pedal: it startled me when first time I released the gas pedal to put my foot on the brake. It brakes immediately when I removed my foot off the gas for re-gen. I know I can adjust it later but still I just want to put my foot on brake when slowing down or braking. There's a thread a member hit the light pole when turning I guess because of this.

- My aging eyes, just a few more years to retire, don't like the screen no matter the brightness. I need glasses to see that screen but not for driving. So I put my glasses down on the center console and use it to see what's going on behind me with that little rectangle screen of the rear camera, or read what data on it.

- Arrows of the turning signals: I prefer the levers better.

- Side mirrors: small with weird shapes.

- My iPhone's battery is draining faster.

- Road noises: I hope it might get better because of new tires. The ODO was only 14 miles when I picked up yesterday.

- Too much attentions from people.

Things I like:

- Not sure what. Probably the tough body and glasses: the reason I put down $100 deposit in Nov, 2019. I hate to see the first scratch, dent, ding, ... on the new car's paint.

All the things you list as a dislike are actually features of a Tesla that most of us enjoy. Not sure why you would get a Tesla if you don't like regenerative breaking, minimalistic interior with just a screen, phone key, and no turn signal stalks. As for the attention, you had to know that is what you will get with a cybertruck.

 

[Woodrick]

That's exactly what I don't like about it. You have to be using your foot all the time. I hate it. I need to relax. I can't hold it so exactly.

-Crissa

In normal driving, you may get a little time to relax, but not much and then your foot has to rotate to go to the brake.

But once Tesla let's the bells and whistles of Autopilot and FSD out, it's a different game.

But I hate going back to classic cars, the foot has to do so much more work.

 

[Woodrick]

Other vehicles have fans that cool the wireless charging pad, don't think CT has one which will cause phones to cook. Haven't tested the last couple days but will give it another try.

Why should Tesla have to overcome an Apple flaw?

 

[Crissa]

Why should Tesla have to overcome an Apple flaw?

Excess heat in wireless transfer is usually a sign of a mis-aligned field.

Which would be the pad's fault, not the phone's.

-Crissa

 

[Woodrick]

Excess heat in wireless transfer is usually a sign of a mis-aligned field.

Which would be the pad's fault, not the phone's.

-Crissa

So, Android phones and Tesla all have it wrong and Apple has it right?

 

[Crissa]

So, Android phones and Tesla all have it wrong and Apple has it right?

No. I didn't say that.

I said the pad alignment is off while the phones are charging. Apple designed it so that magnets would align the coils, following one part of the standard - while my Pixel requires physical alignment.

The pad is wrong because it's sending excess energy into the phone, or not aligning it properly. Fitting only some of the standard is the wrong part here.

It's almost certainly some third-party part that's out of spec in some way that some android phones are also okay with.

-Crissa

 

[Woodrick]

No. I didn't say that.

I said the pad alignment is off while the phones are charging. Apple designed it so that magnets would align the coils, following one part of the standard - while my Pixel requires physical alignment.

The pad is wrong because it's sending excess energy into the phone, or not aligning it properly. Fitting only some of the standard is the wrong part here.

It's almost certainly some third-party part that's out of spec in some way that some android phones are also okay with.

-Crissa

So indeed, Apple got it wrong. They moved the charging coils for which AFAIK, they went through a big deal defining the location with on their earlier phones. And now they are upset when they don't have proper alignment?

For some reason, I believe that I've heard of Apple phones having the same issue on a lot of charging pads.

If the iPhones are getting hotter than spec, I'm pretty sure that there is an option for the phone to turn charging off.

 

[Crissa]

So indeed, Apple got it wrong.

That's not how that works.

If you build it to work to the standard...

...And the pad supports a different part of the standard...

...It's up to the pad to support the wider breadth of the standard.

-Crissa

 

[Woodrick]

That's not how that works.

If you build it to work to the standard...

...And the pad supports a different part of the standard...

...It's up to the pad to support the wider breadth of the standard.

-Crissa

Let's think about that a little. Tesla built it to the standard. Apple them came up with a new standard.
Tesla stayed with the old standard to support the existing iPhones and non-iPhones.

How many people bought new mag-safe chargers for their new iPhones?
That's another place where Apple bucked an existing standard to their advantage. Just like the avoided USB-C.
Still along the lines if it ain't Apple proprietary and completely controlled, it ain't an iPhone.

I just looked up the Tesla specs on the charging.

Wireless Phone Chargers

Wireless phone chargers are integrated into the front console, each providing up to 15W of power to charge Qi-enabled phones. Simply place your phone on the charger, phone screen facing you. Your device may feel warm while charging, but this is a normal effect of inductive charging

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So I guess that the problem is all the iPhone folks who are using it as a mag-safe charge when it isn't one.

 

[Crissa]

Let's think about that a little. Tesla built it to the standard. Apple them came up...

Evidence not provided.

And no, Apple used USB-C before pretty much anyone else.

-Crissa

 

[Woodrick]

Evidence not provided.

And no, Apple used USB-C before pretty much anyone else.

-Crissa

Not on my iPhone they didn't

Why no evidence. I posted directly from the Tesla manual. It doesn't indicate magSafe charging.

 

[Crissa]

Not on my iPhone they didn't

Why no evidence. I posted directly from the Tesla manual. It doesn't indicate magSafe charging.

You know they make more than iPhones, right? And they chose the Lightning when there wasn't a USB-C, let alone a USB-C that was as water resistant, right?

-Crissa

 

[Woodrick]

You know they make more than iPhones, right? And they chose the Lightning when there wasn't a USB-C, let alone a USB-C that was as water resistant, right?

-Crissa

Yes, I know that the use Lightning before USB-C existed, but USB Mini and USB Micro existed and worked on all the other phones.
A USB-C or micro or mini can all be equally as water resistant as a Lightning.

And yes, they do sell a few other things. Which is one of the bigger indications of just how proprietary they want the iPhone platform to be.

But this discussion is about the newer iPhones with magsafe that don't seem to be playing well with the other wireless charging standards.

It all comes back to the fact that it doesn't appear as if the newer iPhones with magsafe technology work well with others.

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