Recent content by fronesis

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...