Tesla Model S and car OS Experience evaluation report

Tesla's sixth charge station in China has been built in Hangzhou. In the novelty of curiosity, and with the company's leaders and small partners to go to explore the exact. Although there is no car, not very understanding of the car, but I was Tesla car occupies a huge screen of the car operating system (hereinafter referred to as "telsa os" bar) attracted, we have been in the car to experience a long time. So there's this article--a review of the Tesla OS experience from the IOS Developer's perspective ...

Of course, the ultimate goal is to the Tesla model S this electric car, there will be some of my experience of the car.

Let's start with this big screen.

Tesla Model S has the world's almost largest central control screen-17 inches, and two IPad mini on the same size. In addition to this screen, there are very few entity buttons, such as only two in the picture. It is visible that the control screen in the oversized touch is the centerpiece of this Tesla.

As an IOS developer, the first time I saw this screen was slightly more complicated, but after playing for a while I started. After all, the car is not the IPad, the design concept and starting point are different. Let's learn about it from the UI style and functional blocks.

Let's look at the UI style of this operating system, it's obviously "parody" (if you have to sort it), and the Tesla OS's parody is very specific, the entire UI has a very heavy metal style, and I wonder if there's no border around the screen, this OS The parts can be considered as part of the vehicle as a whole.

On the division of functional blocks, from top to bottom are:

Status and notification area: Display the outside temperature, current charge, notice and warning, Bluetooth/3g, there is time;

Media and other functional areas: This area is a bit like the Dock on IOS, with several big buttons being media, energy, networks, cameras and phones. Not sure if you can change the icon dynamically.

App Run Area: The middle two windows are currently running the app, yes, Tesla OS is a multi-task operating system that supports the split screen, the following will be specifically introduced;

Other equipment in the car control area: This part and the traditional car a bit like, even the UI is to simulate the real world, where you can control air-conditioning, ventilation and volume and so on;

I can't wait to open the browser to my Blog as soon as I get on this car, what about the experience of web browsing? I can say, so-so. But I'm comparing it to the IPad browsing experience.

Tesla OS browser opening and URL input is relatively fast, especially the screen appears under the virtual keyboard can be easily used. Web page rendering and display is also good, in line with the higher requirements, when I zoom, fast scrolling experience, still feel a very clear sense of the card (compared with the IPad). Of course, if only the usual slow drag-and-drop view is still no problem.

It is worth mentioning that, unlike the model above, the Tesla OS can also have a main App that occupies the entire screen, which is like this:

This browsing mode of the Web viewable area is really big can ...

After I've finished browsing the browser, I'd like to try the more commonly used with the iphone as a whole, although it doesn't support CarPlay, but we can still integrate it with the iphone via Bluetooth pairing, and then we can play the song on the iphone.

Originally I want to put in the webpage "watercress fm" to listen to, unexpectedly when I enter the main station, the defendant needs to install Flash Player ... Fortunately Tesla OS know Flash compare charge, not preloaded flash. Or not?

Then I tried to connect the IPhone and put up the Watercress FM. The result is a pretty good experience. Do not say the sound quality of car stereo, here I found the Tesla OS multitasking is very good.
For example, I can browse the page in the last half of the screen (drag), and then another person on the next half of the screen to switch songs or click Play, pause, the operation of the response is relatively rapid. You can also control air-conditioning or other equipment in the bottom area while browsing the web.

It can be said that this is a parallel task operating system.

Also worth mentioning is its upper and lower window switching mode. Touch the small icon on the right side of the center, which is interchangeable with the window below. So we can put the most commonly used applications in the area closer to the hand, but also a very practical function.

As I said before, Tesla's buttons are very small, and most of the functions are controlled by this large central control system, such as air conditioners, skylights, luggage boxes ... There are even ambient lights, reading lights.

Here, can also adjust the charging mode: each charge need to charge how much, a few start charging, can be adjusted.

The vehicle's movement mode can also adjust, for example: Normal mode and movement mode.

All in all, other than when it comes to driving, other things can be done here.

Finally take a look at the steering wheel dashboard, which is also a small screen, not the real meter, because we do not have the opportunity to test drive, so the current is in the car mode to view, and open up should not be the same.

The screen from left to right is: My iPhone is playing track, the current Tesla remaining (168 km), the most right is "since the last charge of the average energy consumption" ... Well, it's about the same as the power consumption information in IOS.

about Tesla Model S

This is not the first time I have been sitting in a pure electric car, Hangzhou is actually a lot of pure electric taxis, such as I took a taxi yesterday to sit a pure electric taxi. But Hangzhou's pure electric taxi is really weak point, Master told me, 2010 began to have this car, there has been no progress, has been only 40~50 kilometers, every day to change a 4, 5 times batteries. and model S a charge of 400 ~ 500 kilometers, a full of Hangzhou's pure electric taxi 10 times times, open a two-day does not need to charge, can be said that the practical extent of electric vehicles from quantitative change into qualitative changes.

So sitting in Model S inside still feel the power of High-tech besides this big screen, although the car hasn't started yet. I can imagine it speeding on the road. Also because of their own not very understanding of the car, there is no chance to carry out the real driving experience, I can not comment on.

One thing is certain: Model S of the air-conditioning is too full and too much power, sitting in after feeling into a very full air-conditioned room, very comfortable. Also because it is completely independent of the engine, but also very electricity, in the inside sat for one hours to use off about 5 kilometers of power, that is, if you take this car as a house, air-conditioning can play for nearly 100 hours ...

OK, the others do not comment on it, on a few pictures.

This is China's sixth, Hangzhou, the first Tesla Super charging station. Where is it super? First, the canopy is a solar panel that can work with the grid to recharge the vehicle, and second, it can give Model S half the power in 20 minutes. Finally, it's free ...

The picture is a Model S is charging, the three points flashing when charging is very technical.

This is the engine of Model S ... Because there is no engine and other complex car equipment, here is full empty, can put a lot of luggage.

This is the first experience of the Tesla Model S from the IOS developer's point of view, which almost satisfies my curiosity about half of it, as for the other half, I will find a chance to understand it later.