I’m writing this post to highlight a few cool features that arrived with the most recent software update for my 2023 RWD Model 3. Unfortunately, the long-awaited FSD update wasn’t included. But what I did get follows:
Update screen
- Weather – Outside temperature now appears at the top of the screen and when you tap on it you’ll get a nice weather report. Now that’s ‘cool’, because it’s 76 outside and not 96. I think fall temps are around the corner…
2. Parental controls – Kids are out of the house, and knowing how well parental controls worked on their PCs, I’m not hopeful your new driver won’t figure out how to defeat these controls as well. But if your kids are starting to drive, and you’re actually letting them drive your Tesla (yikes!), then this is for you.
And here are your choices…
3. Charge scheduling – This is a welcome update, and although I haven’t tried it out yet, here are our options. Go to the ‘Schedule’ tab:
Select ‘Charge’:
This is actually pretty cool since I have an LFP battery in my Tesla and I typically charge to 100% (per Tesla’s recommendation) each Saturday night. With this scheduler I can now set my car to charge at midnight on Saturday. All I need to remember is to set the charge limit to 100% for the Saturday night charge. Then on Sunday I reset the charge limit to 65% which is where it sits during the week. That’s my routine, and I fully expect my LFP battery to outlive me at this rate…
4. Amazon Music – More music options! How cool is that… I subscribe to Amazon Music, as well as Spotify, so this gives me another 100 million or so listening choices. I guess this is good, though I’ll probably still only listen to Spotify which works well for me. Anyway, here’s an image of the current app menu – pretty impressive for this computer on wheels!
And this last item isn’t a new feature, but it’s a question for y’all. With this most recent software update I’m still seeing 3 options for ‘Stopping Mode’ – Creep, Roll and Hold. Personally, I’m a ‘Hold’ fan. But my question is, do you still see all 3 options? I hear that these options are going away and ‘Hold’ with the default.
I’m sad that FSD didn’t see an update with this release, but that’s just around the corner – right? My subscription is on hold at the moment, just waiting…