I picked up the car today. Plugged in the phone with the cable and CarPlay fired straight up, was rock solid all day.
Journey stats:
Started with 99% according to the display, and two stops along the way.
Tesla Supercharger at Raymond Terrace: 30.309 kWh / 39 minutes (lunch stop). $23.03
Evie Taree Service Centre: 31.858 kWh / 44 minutes (cup of tea and some phone calls). Free as I had a $50 gift charge voucher which was put towards that charge (else session would have cost $23.58).
Max power at Tesla stop I saw was ~ 53 kW while Evie tells me it was 58 kW. Much slower to charge than my MG4 (64 Essence), which I was expecting. I thought perhaps it might be a little faster but it's no big deal, this is not the car we'll do long trips in, this is for my wife's local driving.
Pacific Highway had been cleared following the recent floods and both lanes each way were open. They must have done a lot of work over the past week to get it back in good order, what a mess it was.
A 1 in 500 year flood.
Set to charge back up tonight during super off-peak. Here it is at the Tesla charger:
Not bad for A$26k (~UK£12.5) with less than 10 km on the odometer.
It drove well, very comfortable and quiet. The LKA wasn't as severe as my MG4, never tried to take me off the freeway like the MG4 does but it was still annoying. However I learned that when I disabled it, it stayed off when I got back in and restart! What a blessing.
The adaptive cruise control is better than the MG4. It's much smoother, doesn't over react so much to other vehicles and going up/down, over crests and the like.
Level 3 regen is not nearly as strong as the MG4 when I lifted my foot from the drive pedal, found I still needed to use the brake pedal more than I've grown accustomed to. This will actually suit my wife.
Also the infotainment touchscreen responds far better than my MG4. never had to keep tapping an option for it to take, it would move to the next screen faster and the screen would quickly scroll when desired. The MG4 infotainment head unit was a step backwards compared with this.
My final 2 hour leg I started with only a 30 km buffer between claimed range and actual distance to go, and since I didn't really want to stop for a quick third charge at Macksville I just set the cruise to follow a BYD Atto 3, then when they turned off the truck that was in front of them. 100 km/h and watched the gap between estimated range and distance to go climb slowly. By time I got home there was 65 km of estimated range remaining.
There are two USB A ports under the entertainment unit. The one on the right works for Apple Car play and Android Auto.
The car I just picked up has two USB ports below the display screen, the left is a USB C, the right a USB A and that was the one I used for CarPlay.
