OffroadPupHauler
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(Apologies ahead of time for the venting. Trying to keep this productive / helpful. Maybe somebody in Normal is listening and can help prevent these issues in the future?)
I took the family skiing over the weekend at Mt Baker near Canada. It was wet! Snow in the morning, rain in the afternoons. But we had a great time any way. I was super impressed with my R1S's range. I kept the skis inside instead of on the roof rack - selfishly for noise reduction, but also for air resistance. It looked like we were just about going to make it to the mountain and back without stopping to charge, just topping off a bit each night using a level 1 charger overnight at our cabin. Going up the mountain cost a lot of battery, but going down the mountain the car actually gained mileage, which is fantastic and fun.
The last day when I get back to the parking lot, the battery had drained about 15% during the day while we were out skiing - too much. Also, strangely the screens were all on before we approached. After back and forth with the service folks, it turns out some sensor in the driver's seat is malfunctioning, and so it thinks I'm sitting in the car when I'm not, and so refuses to turn itself off. It also won't ever lock itself unless I open the app and tell it to. Also the screens and climate control stay on unless I explicitly turn them off, so the thing is draining its battery pretty heavily unless I do a bunch of work to shut it down when I'm done. And the soonest service appointment is more than two months out.
My best guess as to what happened was the day before when it was pretty stormy, the wind gusted hard when I was getting in, the driver's seat got splashed with rain. Not a lot of water, but it definitely got the seat wet. I noticed it and thought to myself "good thing this is an outdoor vehicle designed to get dirty." Or maybe that was naive of me to think? Obviously no modern car can survive getting submerged, but this was just a couple seconds of wind-blown rain. If the folks in Normal want these cars to actually be adventurous, I'd hope they'd do a better job with that kind of thing. Or maybe something else broke the sensor, but the timing is pretty suggestive.
I took the family skiing over the weekend at Mt Baker near Canada. It was wet! Snow in the morning, rain in the afternoons. But we had a great time any way. I was super impressed with my R1S's range. I kept the skis inside instead of on the roof rack - selfishly for noise reduction, but also for air resistance. It looked like we were just about going to make it to the mountain and back without stopping to charge, just topping off a bit each night using a level 1 charger overnight at our cabin. Going up the mountain cost a lot of battery, but going down the mountain the car actually gained mileage, which is fantastic and fun.
The last day when I get back to the parking lot, the battery had drained about 15% during the day while we were out skiing - too much. Also, strangely the screens were all on before we approached. After back and forth with the service folks, it turns out some sensor in the driver's seat is malfunctioning, and so it thinks I'm sitting in the car when I'm not, and so refuses to turn itself off. It also won't ever lock itself unless I open the app and tell it to. Also the screens and climate control stay on unless I explicitly turn them off, so the thing is draining its battery pretty heavily unless I do a bunch of work to shut it down when I'm done. And the soonest service appointment is more than two months out.
My best guess as to what happened was the day before when it was pretty stormy, the wind gusted hard when I was getting in, the driver's seat got splashed with rain. Not a lot of water, but it definitely got the seat wet. I noticed it and thought to myself "good thing this is an outdoor vehicle designed to get dirty." Or maybe that was naive of me to think? Obviously no modern car can survive getting submerged, but this was just a couple seconds of wind-blown rain. If the folks in Normal want these cars to actually be adventurous, I'd hope they'd do a better job with that kind of thing. Or maybe something else broke the sensor, but the timing is pretty suggestive.
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