Recently, many new Tesla owners said that they recently saw the news that the regenerative braking displayed on their car monitor has been temporarily reduced, and Tesla's statement is: "The regenerative braking is temporarily reduced, and this situation will improve as the vehicle is driven." ”
And on foreign social media platforms, there have been quite a few people who have expressed their doubts, and many people have asked the meaning of the message, some experienced Tesla owners explained the meaning of these words: this message will appear when the battery is cold or fully charged, when the vehicle displays this prompt, the vehicle will appear If the user removes his foot from the acceleration pedal, the vehicle will not slow down too much, or will not slow down at all (kinetic energy recovery decreases).
To eliminate confusion, Tesla updated the wording of the message in a recent software update that did not mention regenerative braking, but said: "Deceleration is limited when releasing the accelerator, you can drive, you can use the brake pedal as needed", we saw Tesla add the phrase "can drive", this phrase usually appears on the vehicle display when the car has a problem, such as the message "Power limited, can drive - but please arrange service" or "can drive - please arrange service", It's just that it remains to be seen whether this new information is clearer and easier to understand for new owners.
In the previous incident we mentioned, Tesla has removed the option in the menu option to change the regenerative braking level of the new vehicle, regenerative braking is a unique feature of electric vehicles, when the user removes the foot from the accelerator pedal, the car will slow down (in other words, kinetic energy recovery), Tesla provides two options for improving the comfort function, the driver can choose "low" or "standard", the former setting allows the driver to drive with a single pedal, almost without the use of the brake pedal.
However, it has been reported that Tesla will no longer provide drivers with the option to change this setting, but will directly set the default setting of new cars to the "standard" setting, and according to multiple reports, this option will no longer appear mainly in Model S, Model X and Model Y vehicles produced after June 2020.
While this may not seem like a big problem for the average user, it can be a big problem for many drivers in cold climates, where setting the regenerative braking to standard can be too strong when driving in snowy or icy conditions, and can cause the car to slip easily when parked (we advised drivers in the Winter Driving Tips to change the regenerative braking setting to minimum in the winter to improve safety).
While Tesla didn't turn on certain features when releasing new cars in the past, especially when the Model Y was first released in March 2019, there was no option to divide the HVAC into dual climate zones for drivers and passengers, Tesla later added that option in a software update, which also means tesla can change those options in software updates, but the situation with these regenerative braking doesn't seem to be the case.
In addition, according to the information we learned, this option actually disappeared on the Model 3 made in China in September 2020, when many people asked Tesla's China sales consultants about this change, the sales said that these measures can now improve the user's driving experience and can improve vehicle efficiency.