Gravity at Natick, MA Studio

[64right1]

OK, road trip!

Not visible from this first picture, but the cargo area is exactly wide enough for two 27 gallon black and yellow totes side-by-side, and possibly two stacked as well. This can't be accidental, and is very convenient. Also, confirmed with the car full that there is *so much legroom* compared to our X, and the ride is fantastically more quiet and smooth.

Driving:
- Nothing new to add; continues to be a delight to actually drive.

- We're in stop-and-go traffic on RT 6 and DreamDrive sure nags a lot. "Pay Attention!" "Look at the Road!" My husband sneezed once and it thought he was drowsy and lit up the coffee cup icon. I'm sure we'll get used to it.

Charging:
- My closest Tesla Supercharger (Somerville, MA) shows up as compatible in the nav system, but does not actually work. Neither the Tesla app nor PlugShare show it as NACS, just the Lucid (HERE?) maps. It's odd, because it's a V3/V4 station but not NACS-compatible. That was frustrating.

- If I explicitly add a charging stop in the nav (vs. it auto-adding one), the route planning doesn't recognize that I plan to charge and says I'll run out of power before I get to my destination. I then added the EA charger in Plymouth as the final destination and it... routed me to a charging stop at the EA charger on the way to the EA charger. Literally a charging stop and then directions to exit, loop around the block, and return to the charger. Software is hard.

- There is a compatible Plymouth, MA Tesla Supercharger, but I wanted to try the EA site. I think I'm going to stick to Superchargers. All four stalls (2x150kW, 2x350kw) were taken so we had to wait a few minutes. A Rivian R1S at 25% SoC was sitting at one 350kW charger pulling... 35kW. Yikes.

- We got the other 350kW stall. Immediately ramped up to 325kW for a while and was still at 250kW at 50% SoC when we unplugged! 56.2kW delivered in 12 minutes... the entire charging session was about double the best case on our 2019 Model X. This will be a total game changer for long road trips. It also made the other people waiting very happy.

- I'm sure it's stable, but the huge CCS plug and adapter feel really wobbly. I also am not certain they latch in place. Not a Gravity-specific issue.

On charging; I thought all Teslas were NACS? Is there not an adapter in case emergency to use CCS vs the NACS?

 

[Bunnylebowski]

Where was the latch to open glove box? My rep had it programmed on the end of the buttons under display but this was a miss IMO; if the buttons are programmable why wld you waste one on a glove box vs having a button on the actual glove box itself?

There’s a screen button for the glovebox, I forget where but they showed it to me in my first test drive. The glovebox is HUGE, you can fit a laptop in there easy.

 

[Bunnylebowski]

OK, road trip!

Not visible from this first picture, but the cargo area is exactly wide enough for two 27 gallon black and yellow totes side-by-side, and possibly two stacked as well. This can't be accidental, and is very convenient. Also, confirmed with the car full that there is *so much legroom* compared to our X, and the ride is fantastically more quiet and smooth.

Driving:
- Nothing new to add; continues to be a delight to actually drive.

- We're in stop-and-go traffic on RT 6 and DreamDrive sure nags a lot. "Pay Attention!" "Look at the Road!" My husband sneezed once and it thought he was drowsy and lit up the coffee cup icon. I'm sure we'll get used to it.

Charging:
- My closest Tesla Supercharger (Somerville, MA) shows up as compatible in the nav system, but does not actually work. Neither the Tesla app nor PlugShare show it as NACS, just the Lucid (HERE?) maps. It's odd, because it's a V3/V4 station but not NACS-compatible. That was frustrating.

- If I explicitly add a charging stop in the nav (vs. it auto-adding one), the route planning doesn't recognize that I plan to charge and says I'll run out of power before I get to my destination. I then added the EA charger in Plymouth as the final destination and it... routed me to a charging stop at the EA charger on the way to the EA charger. Literally a charging stop and then directions to exit, loop around the block, and return to the charger. Software is hard.

- There is a compatible Plymouth, MA Tesla Supercharger, but I wanted to try the EA site. I think I'm going to stick to Superchargers. All four stalls (2x150kW, 2x350kw) were taken so we had to wait a few minutes. A Rivian R1S at 25% SoC was sitting at one 350kW charger pulling... 35kW. Yikes.

- We got the other 350kW stall. Immediately ramped up to 325kW for a while and was still at 250kW at 50% SoC when we unplugged! 56.2kW delivered in 12 minutes... the entire charging session was about double the best case on our 2019 Model X. This will be a total game changer for long road trips. It also made the other people waiting very happy.

- I'm sure it's stable, but the huge CCS plug and adapter feel really wobbly. I also am not certain they latch in place. Not a Gravity-specific issue.

While I have not investigated the Gravity route planning, in the Air you can manually add charging stops, I think you have to delete the recommended one and it will say you won’t make it, then you search and add another charger as if it’s your destination, then once you plug in and start charging at that charger add your next destination and it should update estimated SOC% on arrival as you’re charging. I think the Gravity also allows you to tell it what SOC% you want to arrive at in its settings like A Better Route Planner but I don’t know if that’s active now or coming via OTA.

 

[64right1]

There’s a screen button for the glovebox, I forget where but they showed it to me in my first test drive. The glovebox is HUGE, you can fit a laptop in there easy.

Awesome to hear we can access without using a programmed button. I was blown away by how deep the box is. I have a Tumi man bag and should have tried to slide it in but it seemed like wld fit. I’m doing a f/u test drive when back in town at end of month.

 

[BTBP]

On charging; I thought all Teslas were NACS? Is there not an adapter in case emergency to use CCS vs the NACS?

Old Tesla superchargers (Gen1 and Gen2) use the same connector as NACS, but are not capable of the NACS communication protocols. Only Teslas can charge at these old superchargers.
Newer Tesla superchargers (Gen3 and Gen4) are capable of NACS communication and are identified as "NACS" or "Open to all EVs" on charging apps. All Teslas and NACS EVs can charge at these newer superchargers.

Gravities come with a CCS adapter that can be used at EA and other CCS chargers.

 

[iThinkEV]

There’s a screen button for the glovebox, I forget where but they showed it to me in my first test drive. The glovebox is HUGE, you can fit a laptop in there easy.

If you slide down on the pilot screen. You get a quick access menu to a variety of functions. Including glove box open button.

-iThinkEV-

 

[Bunnylebowski]

OK, road trip!

Not visible from this first picture, but the cargo area is exactly wide enough for two 27 gallon black and yellow totes side-by-side, and possibly two stacked as well. This can't be accidental, and is very convenient. Also, confirmed with the car full that there is *so much legroom* compared to our X, and the ride is fantastically more quiet and smooth.

Driving:
- Nothing new to add; continues to be a delight to actually drive.

- We're in stop-and-go traffic on RT 6 and DreamDrive sure nags a lot. "Pay Attention!" "Look at the Road!" My husband sneezed once and it thought he was drowsy and lit up the coffee cup icon. I'm sure we'll get used to it.

Charging:
- My closest Tesla Supercharger (Somerville, MA) shows up as compatible in the nav system, but does not actually work. Neither the Tesla app nor PlugShare show it as NACS, just the Lucid (HERE?) maps. It's odd, because it's a V3/V4 station but not NACS-compatible. That was frustrating.

- If I explicitly add a charging stop in the nav (vs. it auto-adding one), the route planning doesn't recognize that I plan to charge and says I'll run out of power before I get to my destination. I then added the EA charger in Plymouth as the final destination and it... routed me to a charging stop at the EA charger on the way to the EA charger. Literally a charging stop and then directions to exit, loop around the block, and return to the charger. Software is hard.

- There is a compatible Plymouth, MA Tesla Supercharger, but I wanted to try the EA site. I think I'm going to stick to Superchargers. All four stalls (2x150kW, 2x350kw) were taken so we had to wait a few minutes. A Rivian R1S at 25% SoC was sitting at one 350kW charger pulling... 35kW. Yikes.

- We got the other 350kW stall. Immediately ramped up to 325kW for a while and was still at 250kW at 50% SoC when we unplugged! 56.2kW delivered in 12 minutes... the entire charging session was about double the best case on our 2019 Model X. This will be a total game changer for long road trips. It also made the other people waiting very happy.

- I'm sure it's stable, but the huge CCS plug and adapter feel really wobbly. I also am not certain they latch in place. Not a Gravity-specific issue.

Under the EV Charging menu you can adjust all sorts of parameters like state of charge you want to reach the charger at versus state of charge you want to reach destination at, or at least that’s what Kyle Connor could do in his out of Spec review. Had you adjusted things in there and it still chose a charger you didn’t want but wouldn’t accept one you wanted?