How Do I Do That in My Tesla? : The Quickest Ways to Do the Things You Want to Do, Right Now! / Scott Kelby and Terry White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelby, Scott, author.

White, Terry, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tesla Motors.

Tesla automobiles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

[S.l.]: Rocky Nook, 2025.

San Rafael, CA : Rocky Nook, [2025]

Summary:

The unofficial manual that should have come with your car! Become a Tesla pro in no time with over 250 Tesla tips and tricks to get the most out of your electric vehicle! Scott Kelby and Terry White, both renowned tech experts, long-time Tesla owners, and bestselling authors, have teamed up to create an entirely new concept for learning about your Tesla--a simple guide designed to get you straight to whatever it is you need to know about your Tesla right now, provide quick answers, and get you back to enjoying your awesome car. Teslas are "tech cars," with so many remarkable features, but a bunch of them are kind of buried (you'd swear some are almost hidden by design), and a lot of them just aren't obvious. There will be times when you need to do something in your Tesla right now, but you're not sure where that feature is, what the "secret handshake" is to uncover it, or if that feature even exists in the first place. That's why this book was created--to get you to the feature, or the right button, or exactly the right setting you need, right now. Here's how the book works: When you need to know how to do a particular thing, you turn to the relevant chapter (Charging, Navigation, Autopilot, etc.), find the specific thing you want to do (each page covers just one topic), and Scott and Terry show you exactly how to do it as if they were sitting right there in the car beside you, using the same casual writing style as if they were talking to a friend. You're going to learn so much about your Tesla, and you'll uncover lots of cool features you might have missed otherwise. This isn't a book of confusing jargon only car nerds can understand. This is a practical guide that tells you where the thing you're looking for is, which settings we recommend, and exactly how and when to use them, so you're never stuck wondering how to do something in your Tesla again. This will be your go-to resource for learning everything you need to know about your Tesla and uncovering cool new features you didn't know were there (and there are a ton of them!). You're going to love having this type of help right at your fingertips. There's even a bonus chapter on how to deal with the electric vehicle haters and naysayers (they're out there, and you'll run into some, but at least now you'll be ready for 'em). Whether you're a new Tesla driver or you've had one for a while now and you're looking to make the most of it, keep a copy in your glove box (or the eBook version on your phone), so Scott's and Terry's super-helpful tips are right there when you need them. Table of Contents Chapter 1: How to Do the Essentials Chapter 2: How to Do Everyday Driving Stuff Chapter 3: How to Use Climate Control Like a Boss Chapter 4: How to Charge Your Tesla Chapter 5: How to Use the Entertainment System Chapter 6: How to Use the Navigation System Chapter 7: How to Use the Tesla App Chapter 8: How to Use Autopilot & Full Self-Driving Chapter 9: How to Use Superchargers Chapter 10: How to Be Safe & Secure Chapter 11: How to Service & Maintain Chapter 12: How to Deal with the Haters

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Scott's Acknowledgments

Terry's Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. How to Do the Essentials: Stuff You Gotta Know Up Front

Find My Car Keys?

Get In If My Phone Won't Unlock My Tesla?

Get Out of My Tesla?

Get Out If the Door Button Doesn't Work?

Adjust the Seats?

Adjust the Front Passenger's Seat?

Adjust My Mirrors?

Adjust the Position of My Steering Wheel?

Save My Seat Position, Mirrors, Steering Wheel Position, and Other Preferences?

Save Seat Position, Mirrors, etc., for a Second Driver?

Start My Tesla?

Use a Regular Key Fob Instead?

Put My Tesla into Drive (or Reverse or Neutral)?

Have My Tesla Automatically Shift into Drive or Reverse for Me?

Put My Tesla in Park?

Use My Turn Signals?

Have My Tesla Automatically Turn Off My Turn Signal When I Change Lanes?

Get an Alert When the Traffic Light Turns Green?

Turn On My Headlights?

Turn On My High Beams?

Use My Windshield Wipers?

Wash My Windshield?

Use My Brake Way Less?

Turn on My Parking Brake?

Know How Far I Can Go on My Current Charge?

Know If I'm Running Out of Battery Power?

See How Long My Current Trip Has Taken?

Plug In the Charging Cable?

Open My Garage Door from My Tesla? (Option #1)

Open My Garage Door from My Tesla? (Option #2)

Make Getting In/Out of My Tesla Easier?

Lock the Doors When I Get Out?

Connect to My Home WiFi?

Connect My Phone to My Tesla?

Use Voice Commands to Do Stuff?

Customize Which Apps Appear at the Bottom of My Touchscreen?

Change My Touchscreen from Light Mode to Dark Mode?

Make My Touchscreen Brighter or Darker?

Close the Control Screen?

Get a Better View to Clean My Touchscreen?

Chapter 2. How to Do Everyday Driving Stuff: Let's Take Her for a Spin.

Add an Additional Driver With Only Phone Access?

Make Sure My Driver Profile Loads Instead of My Spouse's?

Have My Mirrors Fold In Automatically When I Park My Car?

Have My Mirrors Fold In/Unfold Automatically When I'm Home?

Open the Trunk from Inside My Tesla?

Open (and Close) the Frunk (Front Trunk)?

Have My Trunk (or Frunk) Open for Me?

Open My Glove Box?

Control the Rear Touchscreen from the Front Touchscreen?

Adjust the Front Passenger's Seat from the Rear Touchscreen?

Fold the Rear Seats?

Bring Up the Headrest for the Back Middle Seat (on a Model Y)?

Turn On Dog Mode to Keep My Pet Safe While I'm Not in My Tesla?

Turn On Camp Mode So I Can "Camp Out" in My Tesla?

Lower the Volume of the Interior Car Alert Sounds?

Customize My Walk-Away Lock Sound?

Unlock My Doors While I'm Inside My Car?

Get a More Comfortable Ride Overall?

See How the Weather Is Looking?

Turn On My Overhead Dome Lights?

Find My Cigarette Lighter (the 12V Power Socket)?

Charge My Phone?

Make a Phone Call from My Car?

Have My Fan Speed Automatically Turn Down When I'm on a Call?

Read or Respond to a Text Message?

See My Phone's Calendar on My Touchscreen

Find Features/Controls When I Don't Know/Remember Where They Are?

Name My Tesla?

Change My Tesla's Illustration Color on My Touchscreen?

Control the Wraparound Accent Lighting?

Chapter 3. How to Use Climate Control Like a Boss: Too Hot? Too Cold? Too Bad!

Adjust the Air Conditioning?

Turn On the Air Conditioning for My Rear Passengers?

Schedule My A/C to Automatically Turn On Before I Get In?

Keep My Tesla's Temperature Cool (or Warm) While I Dash into a Store?

Set the Driver's and Passenger's Temperatures Separately?

Add the Passenger Side A/C Vent If There's No One in the Passenger Seat?.

Change the Fan Speed from My Steering Wheel?

Recirculate the Air?

Quickly Adjust the Climate Controls?

Use the Rear Touchscreen Climate Control?

Turn On or Adjust the Front Heated Seats?

Turn On or Preheat the Rear Heated Seats?

Cool Down My Seats?

Turn On My Window Defroster or Defogger?

Chapter 4. How to Charge Your Tesla: There's More to It Than Just Plugging It In

Know the Difference Between Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 Chargers?

Decide Which Charger to Buy?

Charge at Home on a 120v Outlet?

Get a 240v Outlet (NEMA 14-50) Installed?

Use Other 240v Outlets Besides a NEMA 14-50?

Get the Tesla Wall Connector Installed?

Know How Often I Need to Charge My Tesla?

Open and Close My Charge Port?

Plug In and Unplug My Tesla?

Know If I Need to Unplug My Tesla After It Finishes Charging?

Charge at a Tesla Supercharger?

Take Advantage of Destination Charging?

Use an Adapter (J1772 or CCS) to Charge at a Non-Tesla Charger?

Charge for Free?

Precondition My Battery?

Set My Charging Limit?

Avoid Going Down to a 0% Charge?

Schedule My Tesla to Charge at Night?

Minimize Battery Drain While My Tesla Is Parked?

Get an EV TOU Rate with My Utility?

Find Non-Tesla Branded Chargers?

Display My Charge as a Percentage or Miles?

Chapter 5. How to Use the Entertainment System: This Is Where It Gets Fun

Quickly Listen to Music in My Tesla (LiveOne)?

Listen to Music on the Radio?

See My Music Streaming Options?

Access More Features from the Mini-Music Player?

Listen to Songs I've Loaded onto a USB Flash Drive?

Connect Someone's Phone So They Can Play Music in My Tesla?

Adjust the Volume?

Set the Tone (EQ) for My Stereo?

Watch Netflix or YouTube (or More) on My Touchscreen?

Get Access to More Video Streaming?

Browse the Internet on My Touchscreen?.

Browse the Internet Full-Screen?

Use My Phone as a Hotspot If I Don't Have Premium Connectivity?

Hide Streaming Services I Don't Use?

Play Music and Videos on the Rear Touchscreen?

Connect Wireless Headphones to the Rear Touchscreen?

Play Games in My Tesla?

Connect a Game Controller?

Turn on Romance Mode?

Enter Santa Mode and See My Tesla Cruising Along as a Sleigh?

Bring the "Boom" to My Audio System?

Play Music Outside My Car (This Turns Your Car into a Giant Boombox)?

See My Tesla Perform a Christmas Music and Light Show?

Do Karaoke in My Tesla?

Chapter 6. How to Use the Navigation System: How to Get Where You're Going

Set My Home and Work Addresses?

Enter an Address to Navigate To?

Navigate to a Place When I Don't Know the Address?

Navigate to an Address in My Phone's Calendar?

Save a Location as a Favorite?

Change My Map from Pointing North to the Direction I'm Going?

See My Map Options Toolbar?

See a Satellite View of My Map?

See Traffic Info on My Map?

See Points of Interest on My Map?

See the Nearest Charging Station on My Map?

See What the Weather Looks Like on My Map?

Add Stops to My Current Route?

Raise (or Lower) the Volume of the Navigation System's Voice?

Automatically Reroute If There's a Lot of Traffic Ahead?

Stop Having It Automatically Navigate Me to Work or Home?

Have an Address I Put into My Phone Automatically Go to My Nav System?

Know If I Need to Supercharge on My Road Trip?

Know If I'll Have Enough Battery Left to Get Back Home?

Stop the Navigation?

Call a Business I See on My Map?

Know What the Different Symbols for Chargers Mean?

Quickly Find Which Restaurants and Stores Are Near a Supercharger?

Remove a Location from My Recents Navigation List?

Chapter 7. How to Use the Tesla App: Yes, There's an App for That.

Open My Trunk or Frunk?

Lock/Unlock My Doors?

Manage My Tesla Keys?

Warm Up/Cool Down My Tesla Before I Get In?

Not Forget to Turn on Dog Mode?

See Where My Tesla Is?

Remember to Plug in My Tesla?

Plan My Road Trip?

See Available Superchargers?

Set Up and View My Charge Stats?

Set My Tesla's Security Features?

View My Sentry Mode Cameras?

See Sentry Mode Notifications?

Talk to Someone Standing Near My Tesla Remotely?

Flash My Lights or Honk My Horn?

Check My Tire Pressure

Check My Odometer, VIN, or Software Version?

Schedule a Service Appointment?

Request Roadside Assistance?

Reset My Driver's Profile?

Access My Owner's Manual?

Start a Pending Software Update?

Read Software Update Release Notes?

Use My Control Buttons?

Customize My Control Buttons?

Sync My Calendar?

Check My Financing Status?

Buy Tesla Accessories?

Use Siri Shortcuts to Voice Command My Tesla from My iPhone?

Add Tesla Widgets to My iPhone's Home Screen?

Add Tesla Widgets to My Android's Home Screen?

Chapter 8. How to Use Autopilot &amp

Full Self-Driving: The Future of Driving. Or Not

Use Autopilot?

Use Enhanced Autopilot?

Use Full Self-Driving (Supervised)?

Subscribe to Full Self-Driving (Supervised)?

Set My Autopilot Settings?

Set My Full Self-Driving (Supervised) Settings?

Engage Full Self-Driving (Supervised)/Autopilot?

Know If Full Self-Driving (Supervised) Knows I'm Paying Attention?

Know What "Five Strikes You're Out" Means?

Take Over from FSD/Autopilot in an Emergency?

Report Errors and Mistakes?

Know How Bad Weather Conditions May Impact Using FSD (Supervised)?

Make Full Self-Driving (Supervised) Full-Screen?

Know What Will Happen When I Arrive at My Destination via FSD?

Use Autopark?.

Use Dumb Summon and Actually Smart Summon?.

Notes:

Electronic book.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-88143-78-0

979-88-88143-77-3

OCLC:

1506480777