Guides

Concrete answers to the questions Tesla drivers actually ask: the built-in browser, charging and its costs, speed cameras, the screen. Written to be useful first.

• Your Tesla's built-in browser can do much more

  Every Tesla ships with a real Chromium browser on a fifteen-inch screen. Most owners never open it. Here is what it can do, what it cannot, and how to make it useful every day.

• What does charging a Tesla really cost?

  The formula fits on one line: energy received times price per kilowatt-hour. All the work is knowing those two numbers, and that is where the math usually goes wrong.

• Speed cameras on your Tesla screen, legally

  Rules differ by country: some allow precise camera locations, others only danger zones. The data itself is public and community-maintained, and here is how iCar turns it into an announcement on the car screen.

• Charging your Tesla off-peak

  On a time-of-use plan, the overnight kilowatt-hour costs 30 to 40% less. Over fifteen thousand kilometers a year, that is hundreds in savings, provided the car actually charges at the right time.

• Get iCar for Tesla

  iCar turns your Tesla's browser into a home screen you control from your phone.

• For developers: make your website work inside iCar

  iCar is the home screen of the Tesla browser. When a tile points to a site that allows it, iCar opens the page inside iCar, under a header with a Back button, instead of sending the driver out of the app. Here is what your site needs, and how to get listed.