[ejdyksen]

The app and car communicate directly over Bluetooth for a number of functions, like lock/unlock, popping the trunk, and starting the car. This outage didn’t affect that (I drove my Model 3 during this time period).

You can start the car over the internet, too, but this is not typical, and the app actually warns you when you try to to do this.

Finally, the Model 3/Y have backup keycards that Tesla encourages you to keep with you just in case your phone dies. The app tells you this when you first pair your phone.

[shiftpgdn]

Yeah this article is complete bullshit written for clicks, like most other modern journalism. I have an $83,000 Audi e-tron. The app to unlock and lock the car, as well as remote start has not worked since they did a “back end upgrade” in July and Audi engineers can not figure out how to fix it.

There are no articles written about how “Audi users locked out of cars since July” since that doesn’t pass the sniff test but when you bring up Tesla all logic goes out the window.