Óscar Vázquez

A guy bought a Tesla Model 3 last year. $42,990. Drove it home. Plugged it in. Thought he had figured out the future. His neighbor, a former Tesla service technician who had worked on over 800 Tesla vehicles, walked over to look at it in the driveway. He sat in the passenger seat. Looked at the 15.4 inch touchscreen. Opened the settings menu. Scrolled for 45 seconds. Then turned to him. “You have 11 features on this car turned off or set wrong. Your regenerative braking is running at half capacity so you are losing free range every time you slow down. Your charging schedule is costing you money every single night. Your Autopilot is not calibrated for your driving style. You have never activated the feature that tells you exactly when to charge to save the most money based on your local electricity rates. And Tesla pushed a software update 3 months ago that added 4 new features to this exact car that you have never turned on because the notification appeared at 2am and you dismissed it.” He stared at him. “I thought I just drove it.” “You do just drive it. But this car has more software in it than most laptops. Tesla ships it with conservative defaults because they cannot predict how every driver will use it. The settings that make this car significantly better are all in the touchscreen. Most Tesla owners never find them because nobody tells them where to look.” He spent 18 minutes in the settings menu. The car he drove the next morning felt like a different vehicle. Here are every Tesla setting and feature most owners never find: 🧵