As part of update 2024.26.1, Tesla is bringing some oft-requested user features, including two of the biggest ones — the ability to schedule climate and charge cycles.
Although both of these options were available before, they were very limited in features, for example, if you wanted to precondition your cabin, you could only choose between weekdays or weekends, not anything in between. Scheduled charging was better, but you couldn’t pick the days of the week to charge, or choose a stop time. For owners with a time-of-day electrical plan, where the price goes up after a certain time, the ability to stop charging before the price increases is beneficial.
For now, this update is in a very limited release with only about 0.1% of the fleet having access to it, but it’s expected to go out to more vehicles soon.
In settings, there’s a new tab called Schedule, right after Navigation. There’s also a shortcut in the climate menu that will take you to the same location.
Schedule Location
Schedules for preconditioning or charging your vehicle are location-dependent, so your vehicle will only precondition at the selected time if it’s at the location you picked.
With the new scheduling options, you’ll be able to pick the location from a drop-down menu of saved locations, including your current location, Home, Work, and labeled Favorites. You can set a different schedule for each location. You can now set a schedule for any location even if you’re not physically there. Previously, setting a preconditioning or charging schedule only applied to the vehicle’s current location.
Start Times, End Times & Days of the Week
In the precondition or charging sections, you’ll be able to see any schedules that were already created for the selected location. Tapping on the + button will reveal additional options to create a new schedule.
From here you’ll be able to select a start time, end time, which days of the week the schedule should apply to, and whether this is a one-time occurrence or if the schedule should repeat.
These new options let you quickly set up temporary preconditioning or charging schedules when traveling.
You can set climate and charge schedules
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You’ll be able to add multiple schedules, for example, you can have the vehicle precondition the cabin at 8 am during the week, but then create a second schedule for it to also precondition when you leave work at 5 pm, or create a completely different schedule for Saturdays, etc. Likewise, you can have different charging schedules during the week versus the weekend when electricity is sometimes cheaper.
Tesla App
In addition to setting schedules up through the vehicle, you’ll also be able to create them through the Tesla app once your vehicle receives update 2024.26.
Those with Tesla Solar and Tesla Powerwalls will find that this new interface is already compatible with Charge on Solar. Charge on Solar overrides the schedule settings when excess energy is available but will fall back to these settings if energy isn’t available.
These are two very welcomed features that will save some owners some money, while also reducing electrical loads on the grid by letting them set charge stop times.
If you have a consistent schedule, the preconditioning options are a huge improvement as you won’t have to remember to manually precondition anymore.
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With Q1 2025 now behind us, another round of Tesla’s Supercharger Voting has wrapped up. The previous vote took place back in December, and we now get to see which locations came out on top.
Let’s take a look at the Q1 2025 winners of the Supercharger Vote:
North America
🇺🇸 Lake Wales, FL
🇺🇸 Henderson, NV
🇺🇸 Clarksville, TN
🇺🇸 Roswell, NM
🇺🇸 Long Beach, CA
🇺🇸 Decatur, IL
🇺🇸 McAlester, OK
Europe
🇬🇧 Bournemouth, United Kingdom
🇮🇹 Bari, Italy
🇵🇱 Wrocław, Poland
🇨🇿 Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
Asia-Pacific
🇰🇷 Namyangju - South Korea
🇦🇺 Nicholls, Australia
Supercharger Voting Q2 2025
Another quarter means another round of Tesla's Supercharger Voting, giving Tesla owners the chance to influence where new Supercharger sites will be built. Following the Q1 2025 voting round, Tesla is now opening the polls for Q2 2025.
How to Vote
To participate in the Q2 2025 Supercharger Voting, visit the Tesla Supercharger Voting page and sign in to your Tesla account. You can vote for up to five different locations, with a limit of one vote per location, every three months. The most popular Superchargers are displayed on the leaderboard, and you can also suggest new locations for future voting cycles.
We’ve known for a while now that Tesla has been using a custom build of FSD to allow its newly produced vehicles at Giga Texas and Fremont to autonomously navigate themselves from the production line to the outbound delivery lot.
While we knew they were using a custom build of what was likely FSD Unsupervised, thanks to a recent post from Tesla AI on X, this has now been confirmed. Tesla has also confirmed it has accrued over 50,000 driverless miles, totalled from vehicles autonomously driving themselves to delivery lots.
Giga Texas production now uses FSD Unsupervised to deliver cars from end of line to the outbound logistics lot.
Over 50,000 driverless miles have been accrued between California and Texas factories so far pic.twitter.com/79zKY0U6Ox
For most of Tesla’s vehicles - that’s a 1.4-mile trip that is shared with pedestrians, cars, trucks, and construction equipment. You can see in the video that the Teslas are navigating public roadways and encountering real human drivers.
That’s great news, especially since many were wondering whether Tesla would secure the necessary approvals in time to launch their Robotaxi network in June.
Increased Confidence
Following Tesla’s post to X, Musk followed up by saying that when Tesla launches FSD Unsupervised soon, it will be the first time there will be a generalized, pure AI solution to autonomy. Tesla and several executives continue to post more content about autonomy and the Robotaxi network, leading us to believe they’re feeling confident in the June launch.
Model Ys autonomously navigate a 1.4 mile trip on a road shared with pedestrians, cars, semi trucks, construction equipment & more pic.twitter.com/iPx2fs78v2
Back when Tesla initially announced the autonomous travel of its vehicles from production to loading lots, they mentioned that the Cybertruck was the only vehicle at Giga Texas not receiving that same treatment.
Now, that’s changed - Cybertruck is now also navigating through the Cybertunnel to make its way from the factory directly to the loading docks, all on Unsupervised FSD. And that’s making us even more excited, especially because Tesla was supposed to launch an FSD Update for the Cybertruck a little while ago - but it hasn’t made it to production yet. This update is set to bring Start FSD from Park, as well as Actually Smart Summon - bringing the Cybertruck to feature parity with Tesla’s other AI4 vehicles.
Cybertrucks autonomously navigate a 0.6 mile route traversing beneath one of America's fastest highways, emerging through a steep 17% grade to reach their destination pic.twitter.com/3ZMYCRPhIj
Now that Tesla is confidently using a build of Unsupervised FSD to navigate the tight confines of the tunnel and park, we’re pretty sure that Tesla will likely launch the expected FSD update in the near future.
FSD Update Soon?
It’s been a while since any FSD hardware variant has received an FSD update. It appears that Tesla has been focused on Unsupervised FSD and launching FSD outside of North America.
It seems like we may get a new FSD update soon, and we don’t believe it’ll be just for the Cybertruck. Those who have the opportunity to sign up for Tesla’s new Early Access program will likely be some of the first recipients to receive the FSD update, so stay tuned.