on this release case so I just went from firmware 9 version 2019 dot 12 to 2019
dot 12.1.1 2012.1.2
let's see what we got here and that a whole lot has changed navigate on
autopilot beta of course it's always in beta has not changed this is the same as
2019 dot 12 the software update menu that is the same Tesla tari is the same
sentry mode is the same once again this is autopilot 2 with the
original center screen not the next-gen center screen here in center console one
new thing that I have gotten is on route battery warm up whenever you navigate to
a supercharger station your vehicle will intelligently heat the battery to ensure
you arrive at the optimal temperature to charge reducing average charge times by
25% I have to test that out and now we're going into summer so kind of
useless at the moment my only concern is does it know how much power you planned
to arrive at because what if you're gonna be cutting it pretty close and
decides oh I'm gonna turn on the pack heaters start heating the battery for
you well too bad if you don't make it to
your supercharger as I think we we can use a warm pack and then just have a
nice warm pack motor waiting for the tow truck on side of the room so hopefully
it has some intelligence built in or if you're gonna be say arriving with less
than 10 percent or less than 5 percent remaining power at that supercharger
that it will not heat the pack personally at least for the s and the X
that have the range mode button I would prefer to do it manually or just have a
manual button to be able to do this sometimes automated is not better
additional language support is the same auto steer stoplight warning this
release contains minor improvements and bug fixes so auto steer stoplight
warning I apparently I did get it to work once haven't noticed it since so
this is supposed to do some improvements dog mode is the same now I will note
that C was I will note that this firmware release is supposed to be the
release that enables older s and X vehicle so anything built prior to
approximately April 20th 2019 it's supposed to get faster super charging
speeds up to 150 or 145 or 150 kilowatt and Gen 2 and Gen 3 super charging
stations there's no more gen ones out in the wild anymore so don't have to worry
about those those were 90 kilowatt and those were like Barstow
Harris Ranch some of those really the first like the first 10 stations were
like v1 they're all V tubes now and converting to VIII's on the new ones and
upgrades yeah no other nothing else on the books there so I'd be interested to
test out the upgraded super charging capabilities as this 70d they're 75 D
Model X met Tesla's requirements to have the
battery pack charge speeds restricted to 94 kilowatt charge rate same with my
Model S over there my Model S has been restricted to 94 kilowatt charge rate
since the second month that I owned it which was the first super supercharged
first road trip I did with it and that really has sucked since it just
ticked over 80,000 miles so I'm gonna be doing the comparison video that one
verse my old model s so I'm interested to see if the new super charging rate
updates will actually bump up the speed on vehicles that have been deemed to
have supercharged too much and that is it for this firmware release it was
mostly patches and bug fixes and in the like there that's one sexy beast and I
cannot do an Austin Powers voice no way