thanks to my awesome viewers what originally was planned as a three-part
video series is actually turning into a four-part now I put up last week a video
series based on beginners tips and trips with the introduction are a beginner
into the Eevee world some tips and tricks that would help them get them
along way that they would other figure out otherwise figure out the long way or
the hard way so I got some really great suggestions
from from the last videos things that I might have missed or skipped on those
tips so one thing I can completely don't think about which is kind of stupid
because this is Wisconsin it's winter driving no not this won't cover for
everybody watching but a lot of people drive in inclement weather
that deals on these slippery slushy and extremely wet so I mean Jeff most of
this is general common sense that you should already be practicing if you have
been already driving in any other vehicle on in the wintery roads but be
mindful of local laws meaning now this isn't a rule in Wisconsin but some
states like Colorado for instance have chained up laws when there is a
notification in of a snowy weather I see whether they actually require you
to put snow chains are on your tires now if you have a Tesla Tesla does have
their own set of snow chains / cables they sell with a really nice storage
container that you can keep right in your trunk or
so be mindful of whatever laws that you might have where you live
tire pressure just remember colder weather your tire pressure will drop if
you do nitrogen fill your pressure won't drop as much as it would if you just do
regular air now lately might tell your shop where I get my tires done I
switched over to nitrogen fill and they also give free top offs unneeded
so that wasn't normally I don't recommend paying extra for nitrogen fill
but if you can get it for free awesome if not I just you know check your tire
pressure and top up or or even let some out as needed now summer winter in all
season tires summer tires are great for the summer definitely do not under any
circumstances have run them in the winter time the material that they're
made out of even if you have a dry clean road in this winter time the material
that the summer tires are made of is designed to perform best in the warmer
temperatures like why is winter tires will probably
give you and I was nowhere near I have collision detection set too early and
that guy was making a right-hand turn now winter tires on the other hand are
designed to be softer in the colder weather so if you run those during the
summer they are going to last a very very short time on top of that the
winter tires are designed for the absolute best possible traction in
wet slick icy or snowy road conditions and then you have your good old all
season tires now all season tires I personally run all season tires on my
Tesla why because in Wisconsin we have such a swing of weather it's it's now
well you couldn't just put the dial your winter tires on and leave them on a
longer period of time but our our weather just swings so bad I mean
literally I have the kids at the pumpkin farm in October on a Saturday it was 85
degrees out the next day on a Sunday it was in the 30s and we had snow welcome
to Wisconsin all seasons are great general-purpose just be a little more
careful in the winter time now the only reason I'd run all seasons and on the
Tesla in the wintertime too is because the traction system on these cars is
second to none and I have never gotten stuck with my all seasons in the winter
here in Wisconsin but if you have any kind of bad weather maybe even think
just consider having a second set of rims with your off with winners winners
on them resist the urge for fast acceleration just take your time I know
it's very tough to do and a Tesla or even any electric car just because the
acceleration is just so amazing but resist the urge the floret on wet or
slick or snowy or icy roads accelerates slowly and try and plan your stops and
so you can decelerate slowly that way you don't lose traction and end up in a
skid or a slide and before avoid those hard brakes as much as possible now I
found a discovered if you have a dual motor Tesla this might help you a little
bit now in general I recommend range mode off or excuse me range mode on
gives you better range in general the the activation
deactivation of the rear drive unit as needed is in foreseeable to a human in
most cases now the only downside to this if you're cruising along on a snowy or a
slicker road and that rear drive units no longer being used
you're basically front-wheel drive you have the potential to lose a little more
traction so having having range mode off in those cases will keep the rear drive
unit always turning under its own power not not just going into sleep mode and
can help with your traction just a little bit there's also the feature if
you go to your controls menu and the driving tab if you have a dual motor car
you will have what's called slip start and you use slip start by turning that
on what I'll do is it will turn down the traction control a bit and allow your
wheels to still turn even if you're not getting any traction which will help you
get out of snow sand mud help you move creep along on an icy icy surface to try
and get to a non icy surface if you're at a single motor car you will have
traction control on or traction control off now contrary to popular belief by
turning the traction control off on a single motor car doesn't actually turn
it off it just turns it down not to considerably either the reason behind
this is without traction control of any kind the torque on an electric car is so
insane that it is extremely difficult to operate if you want to completely turn
off traction control in every way shape or form you're gonna have to pull the
ABS views from the fuse box underneath your hood you will also lose I think
your center screen and a few other features of the car as well so unless
you're prepared to do that don't just take it easy
of course preheat the cabin or pre in or in the summertime pre-cool the cabin but
it's best to do this if you're plugged in why number one it will draw Shore
power and actually that's pretty much the main reason is it'll draw your shore
power instead of taking the power from your battery pack thus leaving you with
a little less range although it sure as heck nice to pre-heat your cabin in the
wintertime and get it nice and toasty warm and I mean you don't need to
preheat the cabin for thirty minutes it only takes maybe even not even five
minutes to get it warmer in the cabin unless you're someone like visiting
Wisconsin from Florida and you know you think 70 degrees is cold in that case I
have pre heat away don't forget your winter washer fluid
most washer fluids are summertime fluids they will freeze at 32 degrees
Fahrenheit or zero degrees Celsius get yourself some winter winter wash and
washer fluid so it does not freeze and then crack your winter washer reservoir
don't try to clean your windshield with your windshield wipers if it's covered
in ice this will rip the living crap out of
your windshield wipers and will require your new to get some new ones that's why
I'm my car's they generally last four or five years and still work excellent for
me now because we can free heat and pre cool our cars if you pre-heat your car a
little bit generally it will thaw out and allow the ice and snow to be free
from the windshield so in that case the winter wiper will just push it right off
the side instead of grinding at it likewise I highly recommend against ice
scrapers on your windshield they do a great job at removing the ice and
scratching your windshield in a lot of cases and if you hit it just a little
too hard you might end up with a cracked windshield
you're better off preheating your car and defrosting the windshield a little
bit only takes a few minutes and it happened so quick an electric car no
problem whatsoever additional charging tips always plug in whenever possible
even if 120 volt outlet is all that is available so if you have available even
120 volt elements see when the cars plugged in the car is able to do its
maintenance likewise in the winter time being plugged into 120 volt outlet even
if it's really cold you might not allow you to gain any charge you might lose a
slight bit charge but it will allow the car systems to maintain themselves and
keep the battery pack in its happy place temperature wise and keep it from
getting damaged
heat or cool on shore power I already mentioned this Tesla States Tesla States
negative 20 degrees Fahrenheit or negative 30 degrees Celsius for longer
than 24 hours without being plugged in will void your battery warranty and
that's because at that point your battery pack will be drained and damage
will occur because there will be no power left for the car to maintain the
safe nondamaging temperature to your battery pack but how often do we get
those temperatures for longer than 24 hours but as long as you are plugged in
on anything even 120 volt outlet the car can maintain all its systems free in
storage pretty much indefinitely and if you are storing your car set your charge
slider to 50% as that's the ideal storage percentage and and just plug her
in a lever leaver parked I was also asked about weird wheel covers and rim
types now the model 3 has Aero covers for the rims which increase efficiency
the Tesla Model S has what's called the Aero rims not too many were made most
consider them to be pretty ugly looking personally I could care less what they
look like this I'm in it for the range and I've noticed anywhere from 10 to 30
miles additional range so if you can still get your hands on the old-style
Aero rims from Tesla for the Model S awesome now for rim types usually the
smaller the better so 19 inch compared to 21 inch is going to be more efficient
I'm not as familiar with the model 3 but I think it's 18 compared to a 19 inch
you're gonna want to go with the 18 inch plus these smaller rim sizes will
generally last longer in a pothole II situation if you hit something
some things that I have seen done to increase range was to put pizza pans on
the rims and surprisingly that gave the best range out of everything cut down on
that side drag and you got about 50 miles more per charge if you have big
bucks to spend you can even get some ultra lightweight carbon-fiber rims and
also if you have a little money to spend you can get Tesla's with limited series
arachnid rims available only through the Tesla referral program and a lot of
Tesla referral people that have won the rims are also selling them rims I for
one am I got another set on the way there for sale if you're interested let
me know
from I'll X there's really no ultra efficient rim available all that's
really available are you know the 20 inch or the 22 inch rims and if a thank
you for those that corrected me from the last videos I was saying 23 inch it's
not 23 inch it's 22 or 20 you're gonna want to go with a 24 the
best range also if you're gonna be towing you can tow more if you get the
20 inch rims extension cords while not recommended by Tesla I have caught
Tesla's showrooms actually using extension cords on occasion sometimes
they just are necessary so if you're gonna use an extension cord use the
proper size so here's just a just a general general recommendation list and
if you can always use a size at least one larger than what is needed remember
most things do not use the power continuously now electric car charging
is using the power continuously which is technically why we're limited to 80% of
a circuit instead of being able to hit its maximum so this is based on the
American wire gauge also known as a WG now if your and also on a general if
least in north america if you're using an extension cord you're gonna be on a
hundred and twenty volt outlet of some sort so this is based on a 15 amp 120
volt circuit you're gonna want for 25 foot or shorter
14 AWG or gauge will just say gauge 14 gauge or larger if you're gonna be on a
50 foot or shorter cord then you want 12 gauge or larger and a hundred foot foot
cord you're long short er you're gonna want a 10 gauge or shorter 10 gauge on
240 volt could also be used for 30 amp circuits or 24 amp charging speed a 240
volt if it is about 15 feet or shorter
so like I said always trying to size it larger than what you actually need
because the one thing you don't want is you don't want that cord heating up too
much number one that's lost power that could have been going to your car and
number two it's a fire hazard and like like I said that is based on charging
off of a 15 amp 240 volt outlet and last for this part four segments are charge
port colors now the charge ports on our cars if you're driving a Tesla have a
couple different colors and series of flashes of course the most popular and
when the one that you want to see is green when you plug your charge cable in
and you see that green charge port that means everything's a-okay and you're
able to charge in that case also as the power is flowing into the car the charge
part fort I won't really save flash but a more of a a pulse the faster it's
pulsing means the more current is coming to the car more power the car is drawing
the slower pulses that mean you're nearing your charge and a charge
and you're not or you're not drawing as much power then you have blue blue is
what will come on when nothing's happening in the charge ports open that
just basically means I'm ready then you have red red red is usually bad
we don't usually like red on a charge port that means cable fault or a ground
fault there's some sort of fault that is not allowing the car to charge and then
you have yellow yellow is a hit or miss in general yellow mean if you see yellow
after plugging in the car will still charge but it will charge a limited rate
that usually means there's a there was something happened during that plug-in
period or there's something wrong with the UMC or your supercharger or whatever
station or plug or adapter you're plugged into however the most common
cause of a yellow charge port is people taking their sweet time to plug in when
you plug in your charging cable into the car you want to do it licensed wif Li
doesn't have to be fast just done if you go and get it in there and doesn't make
as good of a contact when the car is first looking for that and it thinks
there might be the cable might either not be in all the way or might have been
for contact or dirty so you want to do it a nice swift in now on a 1450 circuit
saw a 50 amp circuit you can charge up to 40 amps you'll generally be limited
to about 15 amp charge rate if you have a yellow charge port likewise on the
supercharger I'm not sure it varies a little bit on what the output you'll get
from that but if that charge port is yellow just it's it simple 99% of the
time just unplug it hit the button again wait for the charge port to unlock again
and then you'll be nice and Swift not fast just Swift and in and and you
should be good to go in most cases now I found it mostly happens that super
chargers but when when this happens at
superchargers and it might take four or five times that's usually because the
pins on the supercharger may be dirty from the excessive use all the different
cars that are charging there are going through and last but not least the
infamous rainbow-colored charge port yeah if you see the rainbow charge port
make a visit to Tesla service that means just some of the multicolored LEDs are
burned out so not everything's firing so you don't get your your blue charge port
anymore might even end up with a purple or a or
a puke or some sort of of tie dye that just means you've got some burned-out or
defective LEDs in your charge port that covers it for part 4 if you have any
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