When you take your foot off the accelerator, standard regen will pull your speed down pretty aggressively on level ground, eventually to 1 or 2 mph, so if you want to be moving at all, you have you foot on the accelerator to some extent. You would (I did) use the brakes a little when wanting to slow down for the tighter corners more than the regen would slow me down, but because the regen is NOT tied to the brakes, I didn't want to waste energy with the brakes, so I let regen slow me down when I wasn't wanting to maintain speed. It becomes very natural when you've driven it even for a day or two.
Did you have during the driving the feeling that the car needs a stop or that the power is getting less. Or was the power ok from the moment1 till the end?
No, I don't think it would go all the way using Autopilot. While AP would probably "see" and recognize the double-yellow and single white lines as lane margins, I think it would have trouble negotiating the tight curves at the minimum 18 mph for TACC, and would self-cancel alerting for the driver to take control immediately. The altitude would not provide any challenges that AP would handle any differently than it would handle on normal roads, in my opinion. (Of course AP is primarily intended for use on limited access, divided highways.)
Very nice, and the car accelerates easily. Can’t wait to get mine, I have planned lot’s of mountain road trips.
Real Skyscraper. Nice. Thanks for the Video.
How was regen on the way down? Did you have to use the brakes or was regen strong enough to keep your speed under control?
When you take your foot off the accelerator, standard regen will pull your speed down pretty aggressively on level ground, eventually to 1 or 2 mph, so if you want to be moving at all, you have you foot on the accelerator to some extent. You would (I did) use the brakes a little when wanting to slow down for the tighter corners more than the regen would slow me down, but because the regen is NOT tied to the brakes, I didn't want to waste energy with the brakes, so I let regen slow me down when I wasn't wanting to maintain speed. It becomes very natural when you've driven it even for a day or two.
Did you have during the driving the feeling that the car needs a stop or that the power is getting less. Or was the power ok from the moment1 till the end?
I was wondering how much was watt/mile usage driving uphill?
Looks like about 778 Wh/mi on the way up, and -347 Wh/mi on the way down.
Do you think it would go all the way using Autopilot?
No, I don't think it would go all the way using Autopilot. While AP would probably "see" and recognize the double-yellow and single white lines as lane margins, I think it would have trouble negotiating the tight curves at the minimum 18 mph for TACC, and would self-cancel alerting for the driver to take control immediately. The altitude would not provide any challenges that AP would handle any differently than it would handle on normal roads, in my opinion. (Of course AP is primarily intended for use on limited access, divided highways.)
What was your total time, you may have set a model 3 record
I really can't say. There was more traffic that wasn't caught on video.
I would imagine it was the only model 3 ever to climb the peak at the time. so probably a record. haha