Premium connectivity - £9.99 a month!!

[RemarkLima]

Just had an email from Tesla about the end of premium connectivity... We lease our model 3 and I'd have assumed that it would be part of the lease, but changes like this wouldn't be considered I'd think?

Before I kick off, we do stream Spotify and use the traffic on the maps, so if I were to setup my phone as a hotspot, would I still be able to use these features?

It seems crazy expensive to me, and wasn't part of the original deal so does leave a bit of a bad taste...

[Scrubs]

Irrespective of whether you tether your car to a phone hotspot or not you lose the satellite images if you have those turned on, and the traffic indication on the map, although live traffic info is still available for nav routing, as are superchargers, search, etc

You also lose the ability to view the cameras remotely when on sentry mode.

Of those, only the live traffic offers any real value to me and I can live with out. You may be different.

The rest of the stuff works exactly the same if you have a wireless hotspot from your phone including the free Spotify account.

[RemarkLima]

Thanks for that, yes pretty much the same - the live traffic is useful. So if you have a nav route it'll check traffic at the start but then the route is fixed?

Looks like a hot spot and a phone mount may be the weapon of choice :-)

[annodomini2]

It's an unlimited data, multi network data SIM, how many of those can you get for £10/m?

[RemarkLima]

If I was buying thousands then I'm sure I could get that price... But to remove other features seems mean.

But that's what not clear, what does premium connectivity give you? Their email seems to suggest that you lose more, but I'll do some research...

[RemarkLima]

OK, so looks like a hotspot is the way forwards as already pay for more data than we can use...

https://www.tesla.com/en_GB/support/connectivity

So, you do not get the traffic display on the maps (the red and amber lines) - but the nav will still route depending on changing traffic situations. For convenience I could see it, but as it's easy to do a hotspot that's the way forwards I'd think.

[RemarkLima]

I was expecting just a year, but it seemed to carry on hence thinking it was baked into the lease... I guess I'll see at the end of April!

But likewise, just the Spotify and Traffic re routing is fine with me...

[C.A.R.]

Does anyone know how to access receipts for the Premium Connectivity service if you Lease?

Tesla haven't got back to me. There's a 'glovebox' function on your Tesla account if you own the car and have added it to your profile / account, but the car doesn't appear on my account in the same way because it's a company car lease.

As it's primarily for the traffic function I want to put this through expenses, but I can't do that without a receipt...(they didn't email me one, just a confirmation email that I had subscribed)

[C.A.R.]

CheesecakeRunner said:

You’re aware it does traffic-based routing anyway without Premium Connectivity? All PC does is give you the pretty colours on the map to show you where traffic is. The nav takes it into account when routing anyway.

Great - pretty colours is fun, as-is being able to watch Netflix whilst I'm charging. And if I can get £120/year billed through work - even better! Trouble is I can't find the bloody invoice...

[RemarkLima]

I'll be hotspotting as if I could pay annually, I may think about it, but the PITA of monthly invoices just make me think "nah"... Plus we do not use that much data, and our phones have tons to spare.

I've been using this in my other car:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com....

Works really well, when your phone connects to selected bluetooth devices, the app will turn on the mobile hotspot, and turn off once disconnected. There's probably an iOS version out there.

[VTECMatt]

CheesecakeRunner said:

You’re aware it does traffic-based routing anyway without Premium Connectivity? All PC does is give you the pretty colours on the map to show you where traffic is. The nav takes it into account when routing anyway.

Do I need to switch this on, I PC but it never shows traffic status?

[RemarkLima]

VTECMatt said:

CheesecakeRunner said:

You’re aware it does traffic-based routing anyway without Premium Connectivity? All PC does is give you the pretty colours on the map to show you where traffic is. The nav takes it into account when routing anyway.

Do I need to switch this on, I PC but it never shows traffic status?

If you tap the map, you have a bunch of options at the top left of the map, like satellite View... Is traffic in there?

[Whistle]

Mine ran out last week.

I renewed it and everything seems to work except the colours of traffic conditions have not reappeared on my maps.

Any ideas?

[MaxFromage]

The red traffic density came back immediately after I subscribed on mine. I'd do a reset if you've tried more than a a few times.

[Whistle]

Sorted, it’s the icon on the left, a rectangle with 3 dots in it.
This turns it in and off.

[RemarkLima]

Just navigated back home yesterday night, and the notification was "routing without traffic data" - so it seems that you'll only get the traffic based routing if you have a WiFi connection...

So, once on the move without a hot-spot, I'd assume that there is no nav changes based on on changing traffic.

[Heres Johnny]

RemarkLima said:

Just navigated back home yesterday night, and the notification was "routing without traffic data" - so it seems that you'll only get the traffic based routing if you have a WiFi connection...

So, once on the move without a hot-spot, I'd assume that there is no nav changes based on on changing traffic.

You probably have the setting not to share data set somewhere on the screens. Change that and it will work.

Been running ours for months without PC and it's fine.

The only thing to be wary of if you're using a hotspot is if they decided to collect a load of data fromn the car or send down a big update. My mobile data consumption went up a fair bit although still well within my data plan (and my whole mobile contract is only £10 a month).

[lizardbrain]

RemarkLima said:

I'll be hotspotting as if I could pay annually, I may think about it, but the PITA of monthly invoices just make me think "nah"... Plus we do not use that much data, and our phones have tons to spare.

I've been using this in my other car:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com....

Works really well, when your phone connects to selected bluetooth devices, the app will turn on the mobile hotspot, and turn off once disconnected. There's probably an iOS version out there.

This is a good idea. Is there an IOS version?

[VTECMatt]

RemarkLima said:

VTECMatt said:

CheesecakeRunner said:

You’re aware it does traffic-based routing anyway without Premium Connectivity? All PC does is give you the pretty colours on the map to show you where traffic is. The nav takes it into account when routing anyway.

Do I need to switch this on, I PC but it never shows traffic status?

If you tap the map, you have a bunch of options at the top left of the map, like satellite View... Is traffic in there?

Thank you, that did the trick 👍

[Zoon]

Just be aware that since the last update you cannot use the hotspot trick now to access the Cars Spotify Account.
For the sake of a tenner for unlimited data I've subscribed.