Randomly web surfing and found "Tesla" Online: 3-2009.
Reservation: 8-2009.
Committed reservation: 8-2012.
Arrival: 12-16-2012. On time.
Owners delivery stories, photos and first impressions - Page 43
Today - Six months - 11,600 miles.
Average wh/mile: 356.
Last gas station: December 16, 2012. Imagine that.
Last Oil Change: October, 2012. Yep: Jiffy's Duped.
Total HOME FUEL BILL: $240
Total on the road fuel bill: $30, exactly.
Number of Superchargings: Five (CT twice Del x 3).
Longest Road Trip: 1,400.1 miles, eight states. Fuel cost: $30.
East Coast Model S Road-Trip: Eight States and Two Six-Strings, a Father and his Son
Most number of Models S's driven with at one time: 12 others, 13 all together - The Teslachusetts Sunday Drive.
Bringing back the Sunday drive - Page 8
Most unexpected moment: Telling Henrich Fisker, face to face, I had a Model S reservation (was funnier before we felt bad for him).
Number of test drives given: Certainly over fifty.
First Test Drive given: At Mile 2.5. Really. Ask Ed A - he was there.
Number of people I'd never met (aka total strangers) before the moment I offered and gave a test drive: Four. Try it - you REALLY get that Tesla Smile from them.
Number of test drives definitively leading to a Tesla purchase: at least three.
Number of hours spent watching Ben Goodwin Videos: more than I spent studying Gross Anatomy.
Most Southern Charge: Berlin, Maryland.
Most Northern Charge: Franconia, NH.
Lowest charge car has been allowed to savor: 2 miles.
Longest range car has achieved between charges: around 330 miles.
Car-washes: dozens.
Thumbs-up: eight today alone. Today! So hundreds and hundreds in 6 months.
Oil changes: none.
Gas stations: zilch.
Days leaving the house without a "full tank": Nada.
Days I worried about charging" Niente.
First Song: Jackson Browne: "Running on Empty".
Favorite Slacker Tune I'd Never Heard Before: Colin Hay, "Waiting For My Real Life To Begin".
Why I would buy a Model S (really): If I am going to buy a car, let me buy one that will give me crazy acceleration, a perfectly smooth ride, will give my family the room the five of us need to travel and the safety we so very much want to arrive safely, and will give back to the universe one less-dented world.
Why I would NOT buy a Model S: I like the smell of gas on my hands. No - wait. I like Meineke! No - I miss the rattle of my muffler and the risk of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, and transporting hundreds of pounds of liquid gasoline in a car going 70mph, and I miss my mechanic (sorry Joe!), leaving the house and realizing I have no gas in the car, and I miss oil changes and timing belt changes and I miss the time my fan belt broke and the alternator went and I miss the brown crusting rust that a non-aluminum car offers, and the chance to have the brake pads replaced and learn the rotors are scored so deep they need to be replaced and I think I also miss the chance to buy a car that has little or typically no update-able software, is outdated before it is bought, has no guaranteed resale value, and would have cost me well-over $2,000 (minimum $1,856 in fuel, $150 in Oil Changes) to drive for 6 months instead of a documented $240, and I'd miss waiting for my gas car to warm up while my fingers freeze on a frigid winter's s morning because the Model S's heating takes seconds to turn on - if the Mobile App has not already warmed the car), and I would not buy a Model S because then I couldn't sit down with those nice dealers and wait while they "speak to their managers", and I'd miss the chance to drive behind an engine which, when I hit a tree, has to be displaced under my family's feet at 70 mph, and finally I'd miss the chance to help payback that loan we gave General Motors.
Best Mobile App Moment: Leaving Salt Lake City and turning on the charging port in Boston so my car was warma nd charged when I landed.
Most Important Mobile App Moment: Showing friends in Times Square the Tesla Mobile App and realizing that the frunk was open on my car, which was miles away. Oopsy.
Fastest Speed Achieved: I'd rather not say. But Chuck Yeager would be proud.
Favorite unexpected thing about the car: One-Pedal Driving/Regenerative Braking.
Favorite unexpected thing about Tesla's community - The Good Folk at TMC.
Favorite Unexpected thing about Tesla: Meeting or beating every deadline for four years.
This has been six months of just wicked fun driving. For those of you who know what I mean - know what I mean?
For those of you who could but don't: Your Car is Waiting to be made. Bought mine on an iPhone. Got phone? Get Car.
(Thanks to all at TMC for making the ride even smoother. Suggest all who have not give a little donation at the Support TMC link above to support this valuable resource).
Reservation: 8-2009.
Committed reservation: 8-2012.
Arrival: 12-16-2012. On time.
Owners delivery stories, photos and first impressions - Page 43
Today - Six months - 11,600 miles.
Average wh/mile: 356.
Last gas station: December 16, 2012. Imagine that.
Last Oil Change: October, 2012. Yep: Jiffy's Duped.
Total HOME FUEL BILL: $240
Total on the road fuel bill: $30, exactly.
Number of Superchargings: Five (CT twice Del x 3).
Longest Road Trip: 1,400.1 miles, eight states. Fuel cost: $30.
East Coast Model S Road-Trip: Eight States and Two Six-Strings, a Father and his Son
Most number of Models S's driven with at one time: 12 others, 13 all together - The Teslachusetts Sunday Drive.
Bringing back the Sunday drive - Page 8
Most unexpected moment: Telling Henrich Fisker, face to face, I had a Model S reservation (was funnier before we felt bad for him).
Number of test drives given: Certainly over fifty.
First Test Drive given: At Mile 2.5. Really. Ask Ed A - he was there.
Number of people I'd never met (aka total strangers) before the moment I offered and gave a test drive: Four. Try it - you REALLY get that Tesla Smile from them.
Number of test drives definitively leading to a Tesla purchase: at least three.
Number of hours spent watching Ben Goodwin Videos: more than I spent studying Gross Anatomy.
Most Southern Charge: Berlin, Maryland.
Most Northern Charge: Franconia, NH.
Lowest charge car has been allowed to savor: 2 miles.
Longest range car has achieved between charges: around 330 miles.
Car-washes: dozens.
Thumbs-up: eight today alone. Today! So hundreds and hundreds in 6 months.
Oil changes: none.
Gas stations: zilch.
Days leaving the house without a "full tank": Nada.
Days I worried about charging" Niente.
First Song: Jackson Browne: "Running on Empty".
Favorite Slacker Tune I'd Never Heard Before: Colin Hay, "Waiting For My Real Life To Begin".
Why I would buy a Model S (really): If I am going to buy a car, let me buy one that will give me crazy acceleration, a perfectly smooth ride, will give my family the room the five of us need to travel and the safety we so very much want to arrive safely, and will give back to the universe one less-dented world.
Why I would NOT buy a Model S: I like the smell of gas on my hands. No - wait. I like Meineke! No - I miss the rattle of my muffler and the risk of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, and transporting hundreds of pounds of liquid gasoline in a car going 70mph, and I miss my mechanic (sorry Joe!), leaving the house and realizing I have no gas in the car, and I miss oil changes and timing belt changes and I miss the time my fan belt broke and the alternator went and I miss the brown crusting rust that a non-aluminum car offers, and the chance to have the brake pads replaced and learn the rotors are scored so deep they need to be replaced and I think I also miss the chance to buy a car that has little or typically no update-able software, is outdated before it is bought, has no guaranteed resale value, and would have cost me well-over $2,000 (minimum $1,856 in fuel, $150 in Oil Changes) to drive for 6 months instead of a documented $240, and I'd miss waiting for my gas car to warm up while my fingers freeze on a frigid winter's s morning because the Model S's heating takes seconds to turn on - if the Mobile App has not already warmed the car), and I would not buy a Model S because then I couldn't sit down with those nice dealers and wait while they "speak to their managers", and I'd miss the chance to drive behind an engine which, when I hit a tree, has to be displaced under my family's feet at 70 mph, and finally I'd miss the chance to help payback that loan we gave General Motors.
Best Mobile App Moment: Leaving Salt Lake City and turning on the charging port in Boston so my car was warma nd charged when I landed.
Most Important Mobile App Moment: Showing friends in Times Square the Tesla Mobile App and realizing that the frunk was open on my car, which was miles away. Oopsy.
Fastest Speed Achieved: I'd rather not say. But Chuck Yeager would be proud.
Favorite unexpected thing about the car: One-Pedal Driving/Regenerative Braking.
Favorite unexpected thing about Tesla's community - The Good Folk at TMC.
Favorite Unexpected thing about Tesla: Meeting or beating every deadline for four years.
This has been six months of just wicked fun driving. For those of you who know what I mean - know what I mean?
For those of you who could but don't: Your Car is Waiting to be made. Bought mine on an iPhone. Got phone? Get Car.
(Thanks to all at TMC for making the ride even smoother. Suggest all who have not give a little donation at the Support TMC link above to support this valuable resource).
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