By Tesla Apps Staff
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Hold Mode: Hold mode (when enabled) prevents the vehicle from rolling after it has come to a complete stop.
Previously, when your vehicle was on “hold,” a hold icon would appear where your vehicle’s speed would normally be displayed. With this update, Tesla will now display the hold icon next to the other indicator “lights” and will continue to display the speedometer at all times.
update: The hold icon, which appears below the speedometer instead of replacing it, has been available in Europe for some time now and there are no plans to bring it to other regions.
New WiFi Menu
There is a new WiFi menu that allows you to easily connect your vehicle to WiFi. The new menu is:[コントロール]>[WLAN (WiFi)]is located.
The updated menu replaces the old dialog box that appears when you tap the WiFi icon at the top of the control menu.
The status icon at the top of the screen is still visible, so you can quickly see if your vehicle is connected to WiFi and what its signal strength is.
New Bluetooth menu
Like WiFi, the Bluetooth menu is not an on-screen overlay.[コントロール]>[Bluetooth]was placed under.
To make room for additional WiFi and Bluetooth options in the left column, the column can now be scrolled vertically. WiFi, Bluetooth, Upgrade is now the last option.
The Bluetooth icon also appears at the top of the screen, so you can quickly see if your Bluetooth device is connected.
These changes come as Tesla continues to improve its software, making options faster to find and easier to use. Given the number of options and devices you connect to WiFi and Bluetooth, it makes sense for these options to have their own menus rather than little dialogue windows.
The turn signal and hold mode changes are also welcome, bringing Tesla more in line with other vehicle displays. The speedometer and turn signals provide important information that can be seen at a glance while driving. In hindsight, replacing the speedometer, which drivers expect to be on screen at all times, with a hold icon may not have been the best choice.
Last updated: August 16, 2:35 AM UTC
These changes come just two updates after Tesla was required to change its vehicles’ indicator lights to meet minimum text sizes mandated by the U.S. government. The turn signal icons in particular are small, but they’re necessary changes that may help Tesla get ahead of potential problems in the future.
Karan Singh
Tesla has made some significant changes to the Model 3 rear-wheel drive sold in Mexico – in fact, the company is launching an all-new textile interior option for the market.
There are some big changes throughout the interior, but first let’s take a look at the new textile interior.
Textile Sheet
Tesla has been well known to date for offering vegan leatherette as the only interior option on all of its vehicles, primarily available in black and white on the Model 3 and Model Y, and cream on the Model S and Model X.
This new textile interior is the only option currently available for the Model 3 RWD in Mexico. It comes in grey and is listed as “standard fabric.” This textile-only option is not available on Long Range or Performance variants, or on Model Y variants.
Heating and cooling functionality has been removed
Tesla didn’t just stop at the seating materials with these changes, they also made some somewhat surprising changes to the entire interior: Mexico’s RWD Model 3s no longer have a semi-premium interior, which means all of the Alcantara fabric has been replaced with the same textile fabric as the seats.
In addition to the loss of vegan leatherette, Tesla has also dropped the heated front and back seats, as well as the heated steering wheel. This isn’t a surprising move in a warm market like Mexico, and it makes sense as Tesla expands into other markets where heating isn’t necessary, such as India and parts of Africa. However, ventilated seats have also been dropped from this model in favor of fabric textile seats.
While I can see the benefits of not having leather seats in the Mexican heat, the lack of ventilated seats is a real shame.
Rear screen removed
There are some changes that seem odd: the rear screen is powered by the same infotainment unit as the front screen, so it costs Tesla very little — think of the rear screen as an extra display for your computer.
It’s unlikely that Tesla will make a custom harness to power the rear screen on this vehicle, so it’s possible that the rear screen can be retrofitted on these models.
Ambient lighting, glass, speakers
Additionally, Tesla replaced the RGB ambient light with a white-only version, which seems like an odd choice, especially since on the open market the price difference between color-enabled LED strips and single-color strips is just a few dollars. This may not be a huge savings for Tesla, but it could be a strategy to upsell higher-end models that include RGB functionality.
The colorful and customizable ambient lighting feature is likely what drives the sales of many of the cars. Tesla has recently expanded the functionality of the ambient lighting feature. Update 2024.26 added the ability to choose the brightness of the ambient lighting, as well as the option to have it on only at night. Both of these features are expected to be kept in this Mexican version. However, the feature that turns the ambient lighting red when the service mode is active is not available.
In addition to changing the ambient lighting, Tesla is limiting the acoustic glass, which helps reduce road noise, to just the front windshield.
This model also sees a step down in audio performance, with the number of speakers reduced from 17 to 9. Additionally, both subwoofers have been removed in favor of a single amplifier.
price
Instead of abandoning all these changes, Tesla has lowered the price of the Model 3 RWD by 50,000 Mexican pesos (approximately $2,680 USD at the time of writing this article). It is unclear whether these significant changes will have a positive impact on sales in Mexico. Tesla may be testing the waters with these changes, and if sales show positive signs, these changes may be applied to other factories and markets.
Next-generation vehicles
Most interestingly, this new format could become the standard for Tesla’s next-generation vehicle, which is expected to cost around $25,000. Earlier this year, Tesla reversed course and announced that its next-generation vehicles will be built using the same manufacturing process as the current model, rather than a new unboxing process that Tesla is currently saving for robotaxis.
The changes seen in this Mexico model are noteworthy. The lack of a heated steering wheel and heated seats will not be well received in colder climates such as most European countries, the northern US states, and China. It will be interesting to see if this model makes its way to other regions. For now, the Model 3 Long Range and Performance comes with all the usual features we have come to expect.
Karan Singh
Tesla has launched the new Cybertruck Cooler on the Tesla webstore.
The Cybertruck Cooler retails for $700 and is currently only available in the U.S. Links to the Canadian version of the product go to a 404 page, but Canadian deliveries for the Foundation Series begin in October, so we expect it to be available in Canada sooner or later.
You must have the Cybertruck in your Tesla account to purchase it, as it is not available to all other users at this time.
Cybertruck Cooler
The cooler itself has a stainless steel finish and a boxy design that mimics the look of the front of the Cybertruck. It’s fairly large, measuring 38 inches by 16 inches by 12.5 inches, with about 56 quarts of space, and weighs 31 pounds when empty.
It holds about 90 cans of drinks in total, more than enough for a neighborhood tailgate party, and has two removable interior ice compartments so you can separate drinks for your non-Giga Bier drinking friends.
Tesla claims that the stainless steel exterior and high-quality insulation will keep perishables cold and frozen for several days. I’d like to see how well it insulates, because at this price, it’s pretty pricey for a non-powered cooler. The Cybertruck’s front trunk is powered, so it seems odd that Tesla didn’t go for a powered cooler that relies on the 48V front trunk power.
Interestingly, the Cybercooler isn’t so big that it takes up all of the space in the Cybertruck’s trunk, and if placed in the center, it leaves a lot of space in all directions. barely It fits in the trunk of a Model Y (if you squeeze every last inch into the footwell).
If you’re interested in purchasing the Cybertruck Cooler, you can do so at the Tesla Shop. Let us know what you think on the forum.
