Leaving country for 10 days, charging / setting ideas?

[Ivessm]

I sometimes book a night @ a local hotel near the airport. Have a relaxing wake up, breakfast, and then shuttle to the airport. Fly and return, hop the shuttle to the hotel and get dropped off at my CT. Open it up and drive home. I tip the shuttle driver well, Parking is free, all works just great. Be it a week or 2, no problem with the hotel. Just make sure all the sentry mode is OFF and all the other junk is OFF too.

Another option: I use is ENTERPRISE CAR RENTAL. They have a program for one-way-rentals to/from airports. It's cheap, convenient, and your in control. I pick up the car about 10 blocks from the house in the morning. Stop by home to pickup baggage and any passengers, drive to airport and drop luggage off at the curb and then go turn in rental. Price is generally right around $100-120. On the return I pick up another one-way-rental at the Airport, drive home, and turn it in blocks from the house. VERY CONVENIENT!!!

We are even using ENTERPRISE to go from Harrisburg PA to Buffalo NY this summer to hop on a Canadian train there. One way rental is $130. Super convenient and cheap. No rush on the rental because the charge is their minimum for 1 day (24 hr) rental.

All rentals are UNLIMITED MILEAGE.

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[bg002h]

I agree with Gigahorse. Uber if you can.
I store my CT through the summer and use it in the winter. I shut off the Tesla app and leave it alone. Half a percent per day. I checked it monthly and it only lost 15% a month. Almost lasted the summer without charging. So - Shut it down.
I have also noticed that people don't care about it any more. I turn my sentry off if I think I'm going to need the juice. No problems so far.

Thanks for the experience info. I probably didn’t need to charge upon arrival to airport…I do feel Tesla should suck less and manage power properly for normal uses cases like vacation via airport. Uber is impractical and sort of admits more defeat than I think Tesla warrants on this issue…it’s a matter of users rounding off the neglected rough edges and finishing off what Tesla engineers haven’t completed yet.

 

[bg002h]

I sometimes book a night @ a local hotel near the airport. Have a relaxing wake up, breakfast, and then shuttle to the airport. Fly and return, hop the shuttle to the hotel and get dropped off at my CT. Open it up and drive home. I tip the shuttle driver well, Parking is free, all works just great. Be it a week or 2, no problem with the hotel. Just make sure all the sentry mode is OFF and all the other junk is OFF too.

Another option: I use is ENTERPRISE CAR RENTAL. They have a program for one-way-rentals to/from airports. It's cheap, convenient, and your in control. I pick up the car about 10 blocks from the house in the morning. Stop by home to pickup baggage and any passengers, drive to airport and drop luggage off at the curb and then go turn in rental. Price is generally right around $100-120. On the return I pick up another one-way-rental at the Airport, drive home, and turn it in blocks from the house. VERY CONVENIENT!!!

We are even using ENTERPRISE to go from Harrisburg PA to Buffalo NY this summer to hop on a Canadian train there. One way rental is $130. Super convenient and cheap. No rush on the rental because the charge is their minimum for 1 day (24 hr) rental.

All rentals are UNLIMITED MILEAGE.

I agree sometimes ignoring the fact that I own a Tesla is a better option, but I don’t think it’s routinely warranted. I like being able to get to home airport at 3 am and have CB drive me home.

 

[bg002h]

So I’m on the last leg of my return journey. I stayed logged out the entire trip until now. Left car at 79% and in low power mode. Just logged in and CB was asleep for 2 days. I checked battery and it was at 77%. Of course there is a new software update I must download, so I logged out.

 

[espresso-drumbeat]

So I’m on the last leg of my return journey. I stayed logged out the entire trip until now. Left car at 79% and in low power mode. Just logged in and CB was asleep for 2 days. I checked battery and it was at 77%. Of course there is a new software update I must download, so I logged out.

What an excellent performance and thank you for the update. Hope you and missus enjoyed the trip

 

[bg002h]

Battery was at 76% when we got back to home airport about 6 hrs later. It seems to me that logging in, even once, at least after a software update demand has been issued by Tesla, starts battery drain…

But the moral of the story is that it is possible to render a CT usable for routine airport stays. To do so, you have to abandon all features that make a Tesla a Tesla and take special precautions with software settings…

From the available 12 responses to the poll, it seems knowledge off this topic was limited within the community (more than half the poll respondents were factually incorrect). And Tesla has for brains or malicious intent when it comes to draining your battery for you while you are gone.

 

[DrPhyzx]

I don't get how this thread is a thing. Can't Tesla fix this?

 

[bg002h]

I don't get how this thread is a thing. Can't Tesla fix this?

Of course it’s fixable. But the fact that it hasn’t been fixed I think speaks more to intent than ability.

 

[Cybertruck 1974]

So I’m on the last leg of my return journey. I stayed logged out the entire trip until now. Left car at 79% and in low power mode. Just logged in and CB was asleep for 2 days. I checked battery and it was at 77%. Of course there is a new software update I must download, so I logged out.

So, Im going on a trip for 5 days in the desert and will be camped right next to truck. You recommend just sign out of Tesla app and that will cut comms between my phone and truck? Also I will put in Low P Mode, Standard Software....anything else?

 

[65SoYoLO]

So, Im going on a trip for 5 days in the desert and will be camped right next to truck. You recommend just sign out of Tesla app and that will cut comms between my phone and truck? Also I will put in Low P Mode, Standard Software....anything else?

Bring a generator.

 

[Cybertruck 1974]

Bring a generator.

Oh, wow, a funny.

 

[65SoYoLO]

Oh, wow, a funny.

Not humor, if you are going to be off grid in an electric vehicle for a week, I would definitely bring a generator, not only for the truck but phones and laptops. But that's just me. Have fun

 

[Cybertruck 1974]

Not humor, if you are going to be off grid in an electric vehicle for a week, I would definitely bring a generator, not only for the truck but phones and laptops. But that's just me. Have fun

Naa. I Dont need no stinking generator. Not my first rodeo either. OG CT owner here...

 

[bg002h]

What an excellent performance and thank you for the update. Hope you and missus enjoyed the trip

Thx!

Wonderful trip. IceHotel is amazing and the cold weather isn’t as big a deal as you might think…they outfit you pretty well and all you really need are good thick wool socks (which they also sell).

I have been out of the country twice before only to find my CT with 10% ish battery left when I returned…even though I parked with over 50%.

I thought some power saving mode went on at 20%, but I’m not sure that’s true (or if it is, I don’t think it matters if you stay logged in).

But this trick works for me!

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