Eliminate the blue snowflake ❄️

[devdrone6]

Do you have a guess on the run cost.

See post #7

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[FlykidCT]

The battery will be at the percent you set (with some BMS sway), but a few percent will be decreased for the cold battery. Even at 50% and it said like 44% available. By the time you drove that 44% the battery would be warmed up enough to utilize that extra 6% (and some because of a buffer below zero). If you want it to say __% just set it 4-5% above.

I’m scratching my head as to why it hasn’t been brought up before as of yet.

there are two ways to warm your pack or clear the snowflake with out driving or pretending you are going to a SC.

scheduled departure- I set my departure to every day (day tiles) when I’m home (location at top) to finish at a time before low electricity rate jumps in price.

or

Select Climate and select Defrost Car- that will warm the pack with energy from your charger when plugged in or your pack when not.

even if none of those are done, driving will warm the pack. Honestly your range isn’t lost it’s just unavailable at the moment. Countless members have brought this element up. However range will be lost (compared to summer driving) warming the air in your cabin… seat heater use and setting cabin temp to a lower than normal temp will help mitigate this effect.

using the seat heaters and cabin 70 instead of setting the cabin to something hot like 78 was a technique that I used in the old resistive heater model 3 - that worked well to not bleed energy crazy style when on a cold weather drive

 

[Jack27]

I woke up this morning in LA at 55 degrees and I had the snow flake ? wtf the CT must be like me. If it drops bellow 60 degrees you can Assume I’m not leaving the house. bRRRR

 

[Jager]

As noted here many times, the SOC reported by the CT (on the display and in the app) is not the actual SOC. It is the usable SOC and will trail the actual SOC by as much as ~6% when the pack is colder. As the pack slowly warms, that usable number will approach the actual.

The CT pack is quite cold-natured. The snowflake will not go away until pack temps reach ~59-71F (coldest module to warmest module).

I'd recommend hitting the Climate button ~30 minutes before a drive in colder weather, but otherwise not worrying much about the snowflake.

Do pay attention to the bacon strips...

 

[Travis64]

Snowflake all winter here and have charged to 95 in 10deg.snowflake should not stop you going to 80 i would bring it in to tesla

 

[henchman24]

Snowflake all winter here and have charged to 95 in 10deg.snowflake should not stop you going to 80 i would bring it in to tesla

The vehicles are still charging to whatever is set (plus or minus some BMS sway), but they don't have the full availability until the battery warms up. That's shown by the blue section on the bar.

 

[REM]

The battery will be at the percent you set (with some BMS sway), but a few percent will be decreased for the cold battery. Even at 50% and it said like 44% available. By the time you drove that 44% the battery would be warmed up enough to utilize that extra 6% (and some because of a buffer below zero). If you want it to say __% just set it 4-5% above.

I don't know why people can't understand this lol. I guess it just takes getting used to. Add 6-7% to your spring/summer charge habits and you will be just fine.

 

[Crissa]

using the seat heaters and cabin 70 instead of setting the cabin to something hot like 78 was a technique that I used in the old resistive heater model 3 - that worked well to not bleed energy crazy style when on a cold weather drive

Exactly!

But uhh... geez, sounds like you're cold blooded like my mom or spouse. I hate putting the temp above 68 and usually run from 60-66 when I drive a car x-x

-Crissa

 

[FlykidCT]

Exactly!

But uhh... geez, sounds like you're cold blooded like my mom or spouse. I hate putting the temp above 68 and usually run from 60-66 when I drive a car x-x

-Crissa

My preference is 71 in the truck. But I know some folks will use the heater like in ICE car heater - that will smoke your range big time but really just skyrocket your energy consumption.

How I do temp in the cold though depends on if I’m trying to stretch my range and get back on planned arrival SoC

 

[Woodrick]

Temps got your charging slow or range lost due to cold!?

a cheap remedy is a propane heater like Mr Buddy.

I hooked up my tank to the 4k btu low mode and went from 21f to 56 last night and 27 to 67 this evening

1-hour run time no insulation garage. This allowed me to charge past 67% to 80% the blue bar was restricting charge limit.

I'm completely lost as tp what you seem to be complaining about. You are plugged into a 120V 15A circuit, in the best of times, that's only 1-3 mph charge rate. And since you probably have woken the truck up, 1 mph is exactly what I would expect.

Even setting a departure time would be minimally advantageous on a 120V 15A circuit, there's really not enough current to heat AND charge.

I charge a Model 3 and a Model Y off of a single 120V 15A plug by alternating access, but long ago decided that 120V 15A wasn't enough to even think about charging a Cybertruck in WARM climate.

Find a way to move up to 240V, at least 30A and you problem should go away.

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