About Idle Tracking
Tessie's cloud platform monitors your vehicle 24/7 and automatically records all idle activity.
What is idle activity?
Tessie defines an idle as any period of time when a vehicle is not driving or charging.
During this time, the vehicle may experience what is known as "phantom drain", where the battery slowly drains over the course of several hours.
Tessie tracks this idle activity to give you insights into energy efficiency and vehicle behavior.
Requirements
Create an account in the Tessie mobile app or at tessie.com.
No app, mobile device or vehicle hardware is required.
How to enable or disable idle tracking
Idle tracking is automatically enabled after setting up your account.
To disable idle tracking, visit Settings > Connectivity and select Disable Data Logging.
How to view idles
Visit Idles to view your vehicle's idle activity, maps and analytics.
How to export idles
Tessie provides data-rich CSV exports, allowing you to easily export idle activity for analysis.
- Visit Idles
- Choose Select
- Select the idles to export or choose Select All
- Choose Export
How idling data is used
Idling data that Tessie collects is on your behalf, for your exclusive use only. It's not shared with anyone or anything.
Visit Privacy to learn more.
Battery impact
Tessie's idle tracking features are precisely engineered to incur no additional battery usage on any device.
Visit Direct Telemetry to learn more.