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Odd! "Ask EV Car to start climate control" works for me (yay). But "Ask EV Car to get location" never works: it instead replies "I missed what you said. Say it again?" or "What was that?"

The Missassauga location is moving this weekend to a temporary location, which is much bigger. I was told they hope to move to their final location for end of year. Update: The new (temporary) location is 420 Ambassador Dr, Unit B in Missassauga.

I was having heating issues too. But 7.1 (2.9.172) has fixed my complaints.

Everything in the GTA is a pain during rush hour!

I was contacted last week by Zane Mercey of Tesla Motors (title: Market Representative - Southwestern Ontario) who was contacting owners in Waterloo Region and surrounds. He wanted to make sure I knew of the new referral program, and he mentioned they were considering opening a store and...

I think the map databases for Canada have little information on speed limits. Navigon in Europe and the US show the current speed limits for the road and provide warnings when you reach, but never do for Canada. I started to fill in information in my local area on OpenStreetMaps and it's a bit...

To provide sufficient value to crackers so that they don't look for a 'customer' for their exploits. Tesla wants to be their best-paying customer.

Hmm they charged me for an alignment and I have the prepaid service plan. At least it finally dealt with the slight wobble in the rear I'd feel at high speeds.

You can put crappy products on time or put out polished products when they're ready. It's the Quality/Cost/Time triangle: choose any two, which determine the third. They have a high bar in quality, they've spent hugely already, so time must slip. I'd much rather a quality product that people...

Well, flat until Model 3 ;)

I have a S85 from Sep 2013 with 39200km. At 90% I get 376km rated and 435km ideal.

You have changed my life, scottm.

"This startup is gearing up to be the Tesla of electric buses" This startup is gearing up to be the Tesla of electric buses - Fortune

I have been charging using a UMC for 1.5 years now and it is pretty solid at 40A. Your UMC may be faulty but I wouldn't write them all off.

You're right: I don't know. And I've never been there after Q end to compare. The cars by the SC stalls had notes about being QC'd scrawled on their windshields and were 70D and 85D, but I can't generalize to the lot.

I'm charging at the Toronto Lawrence location and the lot has about 70 cars to be delivered.

You know you've hit the big time when other companies are being compared to you: https://twitter.com/techvibes/status/598184172616835073

I wondered if Elon meant that Tesla will help others build GFs for manufacturing of batteries. With 2 billion 1GWh packs required, there's plenty of money to be made. When he was showing the blue patch of solar required for covering US demand, I thought Elon might announce that Tesla was in the...

Woah, hyperbole check needed. They've only been selling the Model S for a couple of years. European sales were slower than hoped (Germany), but that hasn't stopped the roll out elsewhere.

My wife was limited to 80kW yesterday; said it felt like a normal car :)

I now walk more as I park further away from store entrances in the sparsely-populated parts of parking lots to avoid door dings.

That's right. I had to dial back the amperage on the car as the car would blow the breaker.

Where are you staying? Cabin, hotel? I haven't been to Tobermory yet, but have stated outside of Collingwood and on Pelee Island. I was in Collingwood over 5 days and managed to charge to full using just a 110v (incl some local driving during the day time). On Pelee Island I used a long NEMA...

As part of replacing a faulty 12V, I asked the SC to look at the HVAC: I've had the system blowing out cool air when it was -17°C outside and interior was set for 23°C. They updated the car to 6.0 / 2.0.xx and it seems to have made a big difference.

Reality seems to enjoy poking holes in theories: this cold spell combined with a petulant car that refused to sleep (!) meant that we returned to find just 5km of range remaining. We limped to the Hilton Garden Inn for an emergency charge (whose charger only provided 193V/51A once warmed up...

Fortunately on the prairies we'd be able to see that the chargers were occupied from miles away and adjust our speeds accordingly. (A one-time flatlander)

Saw the following about Citron on Yahoo: Hong Kong Securities Watchdog Sues Short Seller Citron Research: WSJ - Asia Stocks to Watch - Barrons.com

Auto works fine for me. We park our car in a car port and night mode is engaged except on the brightest conditions. Call Tesla.

It's a good sign that the ICEs are keeping clear.

To be clear, these comments were about the Park N Fly valet, not the Pearson airport valet. I typically lose about 8-10 km of range per night when I forget to plug in when it's hovering around 0°C. I figure worst case for YYZ should be 15 km. I'll be away for two weeks and figure worst case...

Hmm, some pretty bad user reviews on TripAdvisor. Oh well.

I noticed Park N Fly has a Valet Parking option featuring electric vehicle charging. Has anybody used this?

They're not wrong on that account: $50 would be *great* value.

The new calendar sync function will pull up addresses associated with calendar events.

Note that although the MS supports 3 configurations, only 2 can be used simultaneously:

I vaguely recall only having added 40-50km's range after 1.5 days. This was in Montreal in the summer. Like Zapped, I ended up charging it overnight at a Nissan dealership.

I haven't done any parts of your trip, but I have trickle charged the car on two trips from a 110V/15A socket. One trip was successful, but I was charging over 5 days. The other trip was not so successful (2.5 days but with poor wiring). Just be prepared to get half of what you expect. It may be...

Ah thanks — I had skimmed over that comment.

Why are you comparing a used ICE to. New BEV?

It also causes problems for those needing to finance their car. Bankers aren't too fond to deal with plus-or-minus $10,000. Oh, and since the biggest cost item on the car are the batteries, we should denominate in yen.

I understood that most aluminum smelters are found in places with excellent hydroelectricity generation potential. Certainly true of Alcan and I thought true of others.

Somebody has to build, pay, and maintain these facilities. And at these latitudes, solar is marginal for months due to snow cover and reduced & weak sun. In the areas where it matters, people already carry spare jerry cans of fuel. I carry some spare CR2032s for the MS keyfob, a portable...

I think you're forgetting remote and/or underpopulated areas. It's not even that Tesla or some third party won't install superchargers, but that these regions are off-grid. Al-Air provides a zero-emissions solution for those areas (they're already flying in fuel).

It doesn't sound any different from what was announced in April: Short-Term TSLA Price Movements - 2014 - Page 366 except no mention of limits?

Tour guide option?

My 2¢: rename the other thread as Short-Term News and this thread as Discussion. Aggressively move anything not news-related here. I kinda wish there was a reddit/digg style voting option so great posts could be surfaced into a highlights reel.

My car was in for its 1 year service today. They're quite serious about taking the cars out on the road to reproduce issues, but this seems above the call of duty:

Barron's notes:

As if on queue: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/former-fisker-ceo-tesla-needs-153544525.html

The PlugShare app supports recording such information. You can also checkin to a charger which has the added benefit that others can message you in case of needing an emergency charge.