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If the garage is only for your Tesla, then this just seems totally misguided. The Tesla has a heat pump in it already, a WAY more efficient heater than the electric heater being suggested. And if the Tesla is plugged in (the whole point) then you can run the Tesla heat pump whenever you need to...

That is absolutely not Elon Musk's current mission. It's just not. And Musk is not just the CEO of Tesla, he is a CEO with more power than almost any other CEO of any other company – so the fact that it's not his mission means it's not Tesla's mission. A $25k Model 2, a greatly expanding...

RWD There’s definitely some truth to that, but it totally depends upon where you are in the states. A lot of places the speed limit may be 55 or 60, but in some states 75 is common – with a couple of instances of 80 or 85. But what you say definitely applies to my trip yesterday: it was...

I wasn’t sure whether to start a new thread or post here. I’m in the states (though I used to live in the UK), but I figured highland efficiency numbers were still relevant. Got my car in March. Had about 600 miles on it when I set out today. Had gotten some good numbers (under 210 Wh/m)...

Ah..! Cool. I didn’t know you could get those things straight from the EPA site. EDIT!! Wait...I've read that first document for the 2024 Model 3 RWD and the range numbers reported there are certainly higher than 272. I don't know what to make of them, but they reported two instances of "charge...

I don’t know. But a few points I *do* know that might be relevant: The EPA website doesn’t have data on the 2024 Model 3. It’s as if they just used the info from 2023 for the Moroney sticker. From anecdotal reports from a large number of new highland owners and testers, it DOES seem to be a bit...

Just want to underscore the truth of this point. Insurers and police have been determining accident liability for a long long time, prior to the invention of dash cams. In most states one driver or the other is at fault. The other driver can tell whatever story they want, but they can’t just...

Not sure where you are getting your info, but almost all of the WSJ points are correct: $7,5000 tax credit ON A LEASE – yep 272 mile range on the RWD - yep LFP – yes, it’s LFP. And it is a new (refreshed) model, but you are correct that the switch to LFP in the RWD 3 happened prior to the...

I see a lot of truth in this position. If you want a great car with lots of storage space, get the Y. But the higher center of gravity means the Y is never going to be a performance car, even if you buy the really fast “performance” model. Honestly, for the joy of driving, I’m much rather...

Tesla says that with 5 passengers: the 2024 Model Y has 34.3 cu ft of storage space the 2024 Model 3 has 24.1 cu ft of storage space So the Y has 10 more cu ft of cargo space while carrying the same passengers. If you take the rear passengers out of the car and fold down the seats, I don’t...

I don’t know. When I was car shopping I did a DEEP DIVE on cargo space and here was one key conclusion I arrived at: there is absolutely ZERO consistency in the reporting of storage space with the seats down, on any car. You can find people spewing out numbers, but they vary dramatically, even...

I’ll throw in a vote for the Highland Model 3. A few reasons: The cargo space is impressive: over 24 cubic feet. That’s a LOT more than many mid-size SUVs. Does the Model Y have more? Yes, it does, but do you really NEED more than 24 cubic feet? That’s almost 50% more than a Porsche Macan. I...

RESOLVED First Tesla elevated this to a lead tech, and then to an engineer. Somehow (not sure how) engineer spotted an issue with my car's autopilot ECU. He then pushed firmware to the car, and that install finally went as planned (spent a long time on the ECU upgrade, but still finished in...

UPDATE2 Lead tech was not able to do anything remotely, other than "remove the update" which allows me to reboot the car and get out of the stuck install. I now have to take the car into the tech center. Not thrilled that my car won't install the update and that they can't fix it without me...

UPDATE: over 3 hours now and still stuck on "starting update." Tesla service messaged early this morning to say their Lead technician was going to look at my car (remotely) this morning. It's clear they are going to have to send me something other than the standard 2024.3.15 update, as my car...

I opened a ticket with Tesla yesterday, which is still open. They were able to do *something* on their end to get me out of the install so that I could at least reboot and get access to the car and its systems again. But it was Tesla who told me to go ahead and re-install 2024.3.15. Every...

The big concern for me is that if 2024.3.15 fails, I won't be able to get the car to reboot and get out of the install mode without intervention on Tesla's end. When it did this yesterday there was nothing I could do to get off the install screen. I looked at all the error messages in the...

I can confirm that rcho8's solution to my specific question is exactly correct. When I went into service mode and selected reinstall software, it redownloaded the car's current software (in this case, 2024.2.100). Doing that removed the downloaded update (in this case, 2024.3.15). Thanks! The...

Is it safe to do a reinstall even though I have made no hardware changes? Just being a bit anxious and don’t want to make things worse…

Title is the key question, but here’s the backstory: Highland Model 3 had been on factory software. Update (2024.3.15) became available a week ago, but I was out of town with car parked at friend’s house (car not on WiFi) Returned home today (150-mile) drive, and on departure the car...

The most recent post on the German thread makes a lot of sense to me, as it suggests that the catalyst for the problem is still the tires…though the sensitivity of the new steering column may exacerbate that fundamental problem.

The hypothesis was that the problem was not just how long the cars were sitting: it had to do with the way Tesla lowers the tire pressure and *secures* the cars to the boat for transport.

Ah, well would that make it a really crazy mystery. I had thought most people in that thread were focused on rebalancing the wheels, but if new wheels and new tire still vibrate…well, obviously the source of the problem lies elsewhere. But finding out where isn’t going to be easy. It does seem...

I’m really sorry you, and others, are having to go through this. But for both you and others reading this thread, it really does seem that for at least most people, the cause is clear: it’s NOT the wheels, it’s the flat spot on the tires caused during shipping from China to Europe. This is why...

I’ve set the limit in the Tesla app to 32A (the highest it goes for level 2 on my car) and I believe that’s what it was reporting. But I did notice that both the Wallbox and the Tesla Mobile Connector report a charging rate of 7kW in the app, but when hooked up to the Amazon EVSE the app was...

Updates: I just discovered that the second “charged stopped” message raised an alert in the car’s service menu, which specified that the car was not getting proper communication from the EVSE. This is consistent with the basic theory that this EVSE is not communicating properly with the car. I...

Yep, that was my understanding as well: the EVSE is *supposed* to communicate to the car the max amperage. But even though this unit is a 32A, it seems to be telling the car 35A. I bet this would work, but I’d have to drop down to 20A. And I still don’t know that I’d trust this cable. You are...

I’m new to Teslas and EVs, having picked up a 2024 Model 3 RWD last month. I’m staying at a friend’s house and the car has charged fine on his JuiceBox wall charger, using the J1772 adapter. I’ll need a mobile charger for an upcoming road trip, and may also use it as my level 2 charger when I...

I ordered CoCo mats. (I had them in my 1975 BMW 2002, and they are fantastic.) Unfortunately, the fitment tester they sent me was clearly not for the new Highland model, as it really didn’t fit – too small in some areas and too big in others. They have a whole system where you can alter the...

I don’t know who or how Doug Demuro “verified” this, but it seems like nonsense to me. I picked up my 2024 Model 3 RWD 1 week ago today, and as I was checking it over I found this factory sticker underneath the passenger side seat: