Model S Delivery / Strategy Change / Connecting to WiFi

[MarkR]

Personal in-home delivery old be awesome, but delivering 27 cars a day, seven days a week for the second half of 2012 seems like a crazy huge task. Maybe the marketing and data ollection would be worth it, but the task is massive.

[Norbert]

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll check them out.

[Jason S]

Will this work in a Condo? My living unit is far from my under ground parking spot. Not sure how the S will get on my home network….help!!

I think you may be screwed and need to use a laptop plus local wireless (bring your router to the car rather than the car to the router) for the transfers.

I plan to hook my car up to work wireless and home wireless.

[strider]

I think you may be screwed and need to use a laptop plus local wireless (bring your router to the car rather than the car to the router) for the transfers.

I plan to hook my car up to work wireless and home wireless.

Also I assume you could purchase a data plan and push stuff over the 3G/4G connection. Most of those have a 5GB/month or so cap on them now but that's a fair amount of data. You could do the initial upload with a couple trips on a thumb drive.

[Mycroft]

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll check them out.

Even if the location that you can run the Ethernet cable doesn't have power, say the eaves of your house or something, you can also buy a wi-fi router with POE (Power over Ethernet). So all you have going to the router is the Ethernet cable.

You should be able to get someone to set up something that works for around $500-$600 at most.

[rogbmw]

I think it would be great if Tesla delivers the cars. With only one store in our state (Florida), and some states not having a store, it would mean stopping for a recharge just to drive home a new car.

[W.Petefish]

Take delivery at the nearest Tesla Store or at home. I think that delivery at the Tesla Store w/ a full charge would be -really- good press.

[onlinespending]

Take delivery at the nearest Tesla Store or at home. I think that delivery at the Tesla Store w/ a full charge would be -really- good press.

So would getting the car delivered home with a full charge!

[Norbert]

Even if the location that you can run the Ethernet cable doesn't have power, say the eaves of your house or something, you can also buy a wi-fi router with POE (Power over Ethernet). So all you have going to the router is the Ethernet cable.

You should be able to get someone to set up something that works for around $500-$600 at most.

Just went into the building's garage with my laptop. Turns out I do have reception here. Perhaps through the ceiling. Sorry, false alarm, thanks anyhow. Posting from the garage.

[gjunky]

There are routers out there with extended range (check out Amped routers) which you could use if you have poor or no signal now