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My understanding - based on what I have read online and talking with (most) tire shops - is that you can safely go down one notch in the speed rating (unless you are doing high speed-track driving), but you don't want to mess with the weight rating. I.e., for the Model 3 LR you can put on a tire...

If you are like us, you will worry less about range with a bit of experience. Even beyond daily driving, we road trip regularly and find that relying on the Tesla trip navigator allows for comfortable trips between brief Supercharger stops at about the same interval and for about the same...

Welcome. How are you finding the ownership experience so far?

I believe there is a setting you can choose where cooling goes on automatically beyond a certain temperature.

Some vastly different experiences and levels of satisfaction have been reported by different people in this thread. For example, my experiences, mentioned somewhat earlier, were not nearly so positive. And I was far from alone. But the good experience of ajstan quoted above also has parallels...

But how is Tesla going to do this? Who is going to be doing the work?

I just do not understand what is going on. Has he fired the Supercharger team, plans on rehiring, and then intends to proceed with a further expansion of the Supercharger network? Or is he perhaps going to reallocate other still-existing Tesla resources to do this? Or is he going to contract...

I wonder if the reliability and accuracy of Tesla FSD may vary according to the area in which the car is driving. My own experiences detailed above were in three different areas. One area was downtown and suburban Ottawa; that was the area where FSD was basically unusable for me. The other big...

I am glad that at least one of the departing senior employees has had the courage to speak frankly – even if not in detail – about conditions within the company right now.

I am certainly not an unreserved Tesla fan - and especially NOT an Elon fanboi - but I will say this: My own experience with our Model 3 over the past four years has been one of minimal service requirements. The only two things that have gone wrong have been a creaky front suspension/steering...

I will add one thing to my previous post above. As I said, while my experience on the freeway was better than the basically unusable FSD for urban driving, it was still far from great. One area in particular where the Tesla FSD failed to perform was in thinking ahead and adjusting to allow...

Good to know that FSD works well for some, even if my own recent experience with it was not so positive. Your account makes me more hopeful that it will be more generally usable in the future for everyone.

My own experiments with it over the past weeks have been less positive. While the technology is extremely impressive when it works, it often does not. FSD is constantly being disengaged - either self-disengaging or being manually disengaged by driver interventions - when it cannot handle...

Good video. As I noted in an earlier post, Tesla has not accompanied the Supercharger layoffs with responsibly communicating its future plans to its customers who rely on the network. Based on what we know, and as further indicated in the video, it also has not responsibly communicated its...

I have still not seen a sourced credible explanation of why the Supercharger layoffs were done and how it might constitute a good idea for Tesla and the larger EV project. A reliable, easy-to-use, quickly-expanding, Supercharger network was a significant reason that I bought a Tesla 4 years ago...