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I have a solution if you wanted to cut out the big heavy battery for storage… Even works as a replacement to motor boats. Totally free energy for propulsion. Might even be able to adapt it for flight, although not strictly wind powered.

Apparently not. A recent comparison /test of several Chinese solutions, including by people well versed in autonomy solutions with no bias, apparently showed that the Chinese versions were far more capable than Teslas offering. And tbh, EV efficiency isn’t really a useful benchmark as long as...

I’m not fussed about missing out on new functionality with OTA as tbh, it’s never happened to any of my other cars and potential 15 years or more later, It’s performed as well as the day that I first too delivery. But unlike my other cars, where all the delivered features were finished and...

What bit do the Chinese need Tesla for? I suspect his recent trip to China (after pissing off India by cancelling them, possibly a decision he will be regretting) will have opened his eyes about how far Tesla are behind the Chinese wrt EV and self driving. His trip coincided with Beijing motor...

With ICE cars, nicking catalytic converters seem to be a common thing to make a few bob. On a Tesla, a few bumper clips would soon be worth more than a whole car.

Car does not have fuses that blow and need replacing/manually resetting. They self reset and have had long enough to do that.

Good luck with your new car. Nice to have something different. We had ordered an EV6 until second hand market normalised and couldn’t justify the cost to change. So sticking with our legacy Tesla that still only does 90% of what we ordered nearly 5 years to the day when Tesla was a very...

What happens if you are navigating to a destination which, like OP, estimates 7% arrival but nearest supercharger is 30 miles away. How did that work? Also, is it still using ‘as the bird flies’ distances when calculating distances to superchargers? Long time since I checked. My nearest...

I see this but attribute it to BMS calibration (ie not sitting at a stable % for the appropriate amount of time) and method used to determine current range (reads % as an integer so can be ~3 miles out depending on where charge stopped) rather than any physical degradation. It soon sorts...

This arrived in post today. Not sure what I’ll do with it though. Scratch or stick… what surprises lay hidden? Anyone got any earlier than first 8000?

Is the crack in the screen profile aware ?

Ok. What I meant was, what value or algorithm does the car use to determine a minimum arrival % before it starts suggesting mitigation strategies, ie charging stops.

It’s a feature I have long wished was available- along with the obvious missing/fix for poorly implemented features and a speed limiter, it’s probably with them at the top of the list. Thankfully waypoints help some use cases but not all, but they are a fairly recent addition and Tesla seemed...

There is a similar situation where, in inner lanes, the car detects a speed sign for the Terminal 5 slip road running parallel with the M25 clockwise at Heathrow. Thankfully our car does not change its speed according to speed signs. But for those cars that do, the M25 is normally running less...

I would still get Tesla to take a look. It’s likely to be remote diagnostics so won’t be any hastle. And as it sounds like the car is not a keeper, if you get it checked then at least you aren’t passing the buck to the new unwitting owners. Also covers your arse if they have the same fault and...

We have a mid engined sports car in the family and recently we had the bonnet up when a policeman came round to make some neighbourhood enquiries/chat. I think he must have seen the electric charge lead and (seriously) asked if we were electrifying it. We politely pointed out that the engine...

The plastic bag label description looks right. In the nicest possible way, I suspect user error or an equipment failure or the wrong type of charge point, maybe non type 2 socket. I would be surprised if Tesla supplied a standard part that was labelled seemingly correctly on package but wrong...

Autonomous, as per SAE definition, is Level 3, 4, 5 The big difference between L3 and L4, is that L3 requires a legal driver to be at the wheel (and be in a position to take over in a controlled manner when vehicle leaves its ODD, maybe speed limit or type of road), where as L4 (or L5) does not...

The package label looks right but the labels on each plug looks to be the same part number. Each plug (type 2) should be nearly identical, but one end will be for car and the other for charge point. So, are the labels on the plug for the plug, or for the cable. That’s the $6M question. If...

Our Model 3 MCU ‘car computer’ failed in a similar way, although we got no on screen message as we only have a single screen and no aux drivers screen. I don’t know what runs that drivers screen, ie is it independent of the MCU. Various parts of the car worked, but with no screen and having...

Also as per @Pagemakers recent post, it’s also described as features being ‘temporarily limited’.

It’s a convertible, it’s never going to be as efficient as you will get with a hard top. But 400 mile city range is not too shabby. I’ve done 120+ in a convertible, it’s top speed is plenty. Lots of things to like - including many features not on a Tesla. But it’s a completely different type...

You can just ask for the cost of the parts in the app as well as cost of fitting. You can find exact part numbers in the online electronic parts catalog (epc.tesla.com) for your car. Otherwise something like mirror glass they would hopefully just go on your description. Sounds like you have...

You will probably get a quicker response raising a service request in the app, or maybe not...

It was a Model 3 but was missing a few bits. Based on purchase price and what Tesla delivered, ours could be thought of as a Model 2.7 because its missing 10% of the functionality, by cost, that we paid for.

I had a big long scratch on inside of windscreen from factory. Tesla first suggested that I try and polish it out, before they tried and ultimately replaced the windscreen. It was a very deep scratch in places, and polishing made no difference to those, but I recon it did a bit in the less deep...

As is navigating by pub names...

We had to use public charging for first few months - trust me, the novelty of making a special trip to charge the car soon wears off. We have been using 10A home charging since, in addition to a typical weekly free 30-40% topup regular visit that typically uses 15-20% for the round trip to get...

Several people have made RFID rings by dissolving the key card and forming the internal chip and antenna into working ring. That’s far more severe than a surface scuff. Typical Tesla BS excuse. Thankfully they are cheap and trivial to self program but that’s not the point.

Our previous car was bought via a broker and was effectively a Dutch order of a RHD car but first registered in UK and collected/paid for from a large UK dealership. Nothing at all to know that it was not a UK order other than the pre order paperwork/build schedule. Can’t remember what we...

Is that right? I thought it was 3 months, hence I haven’t been back for them to re-do what they supposedly fixed* under warranty in September. * I don’t actually think they fixed the original cause of the fault (seems to be a common cable issue caused during build of a part that was never...

I think this is what you are looking for What's people's experience with the M3, towbar bike carriers and bikes?

You can actually get tow bars that will only fit certain bike racks. I don’t know how common these are but it will limit bike rack that can be fitted. I know our bike rack is not compatible but a slightly different version is (and with standard tow balls). I think the bike rack only tow balls...

That’s follow distance. OP is talking about speed.

It’s been doing it far longer than 2024.8.x i recon I’ve seen it for at least 6 months. Maybe it was a nav update?

Sounds like it’s limited at 16A. If you have DNO permission to output more than 16A, then hopefully it’s a setting in the inverter. Worth checking the fuse size for the inverter circuit. If it’s 16 or 20A, then likely the 16A limit is for a reason, ie that’s the limit of the circuit.

Just be aware that pre conditioning when plugged in is not cheap as it’s likely to be peak rate electricity and potentially higher carbon than an off peak charge, especially something like an Octopus IO charge that may have been optimised for carbon. Tbh, we dont bother pre conditioning unless...

So where does it get its tiles when you are in an underground car park with no connectivity? Its a rhetorical question. It use to allow significant panning of the map, but I don’t think it’s as far reaching as it was. Ie map data is probably cached but not so much now.

It use to be silky smooth, so clearly not a CPU constraint. Just a hunch, but I suspect things have got a bit more bloated so it’s got less memory to play with so cannot cache as much. It was once very rare to see it waiting to load a map tile.

Random traffic lights on motorways and especially in tunnels is not a new thing. The latter is totally reproducible in same locations and pretty obvious what is causing the confusion. Traffic lights on motorways seems to be caused by spurious lights on gantry’s, especially red dots. But I have...

I moved away from Apple back to Windows for precisely that reason. I use to regularly run software that cost quite a few thousand quid. Apart from a few minor cosmetic differences, it was identical on both Mac and Windows. Keeping it, and other software up to date just to keep it compatible...

Whilst it’s a minor inconvenience, I do actually like to detect when car is offline. Previously it was an indicator that all was not right running up to our MCU failure. I still get it occasionally, most notably when parked in partially underground car park, so that can be ignored. But other...

From the TeslaMate thread: What’s the latest on this? Car, connectivity or software specific? Is this the new normal?

Historically, Tesla have a track record of releasing on latest hardware first then implementing on legacy hardware later if capable (or they have the will or desire). Just because it’s not being released on MCU2 now does not mean it’s not capable to be. It just means that it’s been implemented...

Are you using sentry (or other things that may not allow car to sleep) ?

Don’t be hung up about south facing. That may best for peak power, but east/west may potentially give peak energy. And this time of year, even north facing becomes an option.

Any numbers for ‘thefts from’? There was quite a spate of cases in US where rear quarter light panel was being broken and contents of boot accessed. It looked to be trivial to do from some of the videos at the time. Sparked some third party devices to lock the rear seats in place. Not sure if...

It wouldn’t surprise me if Tesla release new features to current hardware now, but filter down many to older hardware later. Its happened in the past, including several HW3 features that apparently were too complex for HW2.x, but over time we’re implemented. I think similar also happened when...

When we got our model 3 in 2019, with mass collections and regular pickup day ‘training presentation’ groups, pretty much the first thing Tesla said to each group was to turn on pin to drive. I suspect P2D use is very widespread, especially for those who had a basic handover.

A few years when I was involved as a moderator on here, the forum had an upgrade that was going to result in an extended downtime. Moderators had a back channel to keep abreast of progress. In the end, the update took longer than expected, extending well into the period close to the start of...