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.
Update 2024.26.1
Percent of Fleet
Installs on Aug 14
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’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.
