Show Vampire/Phantom Drain on App

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Description

Show the current and daily vampire drain when not charging and not driving on the phone app.

Competitive/Pricing/Notes

Simply noting the remaining range when parking and then again just before putting the car back in drive would give essentially the same results, but when you add a third-party app to track it for you, the number goes up quite a bit.

Though there is a Tesla API that allows this tracking w/o entry into the vehicle, it still has a negative impact on the car’s reserves to track the car’s stats. The Phantom Drain is still a Health number worth tracking. And if Tesla tracks it they could perhaps track it in kWh’s which is more precise than a percent.

Moderator: I suspect Tesla doesn’t want or like 3 party apps, especially when they cause a significant vampire drain by forcing the CPU to remain on.

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     Created 29-Jul-2018
israndy
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I share concern over 3P apps and vampire drain. The only one I really like is not an app at all but a website, TeslaFi, and really use that for long term monitoring and statistics. I like it that because it is a website there is only one stream of Tesla API communication from it for my car, regardless of how many places I am logged into it, or whether my spouse also uses it. It appears this is not true of smartphone 3P Tesla apps. I put one on my phone and also tablet, then noticed that both were actively communicating, instead of going through some central database, not good.

I would like to see Tesla continue to beef up their own app, albeit very carefully and cautiously, so that I can use that as the only smartphone app.
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    Created 2-Dec-2018
VValleyEV
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