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The cyber truck is amazing! If you're trying to evade 80's Soviet radar.... That's about it

Or you could move?

I woke up this morning, checked my facebook feed, and this truck is being absolutely shredded by friends and family back in Texas. And almost all of them don't follow Tesla. That's how bad Tesla screwed up. The negative word of mouth this truck is generating is astonishing. If Tesla doesn't do...

Well. It's a hot looking car, and I'd definitely buy one if it had 6 seats (number 3 kid is on the way. Goal is eventual four kids). It'd be a great commuter/friday night cruiser taking on high school kids haha.

Does anybody see on the leaked website the seat count? I won't lie I'm very impressed with what Ford has pulled off here, but I need a 6 to 7 seat car. If they want to claim Model Y competitor, they need to do better than 5 seats.

Fellow Red Raider here.. What's the problem getting back? Are you wanting to leave after the game? That's almost a six hour drive to get back to Paris.

Follow up from over a year later. Late last winter (February) I finally had the time to knock out installing my EVSE. I had it previously installed at our home in New Mexico, but when we moved, the EVSE found itself in the back corner of the garage for the last couple of years while bigger...

Can you plug into a 120V wall outlet while you're in Lubbock? I'm assuming you're going down there for work, so if normal 8 hour work day, that'll get you ~ 40 miles back into the battery before heading home.

Lol I'm from/grew up in Lubbock Texas. Only way you're going to get EV chargers set up there is if you can convince a business owner it'll make them money. Given the amount of pickups and tahoes/suburbans everyone in Lubbock drives, it's not a high possibility to say the least.

If they make the Model Y with third row they have a customer in me. Third kid is on the way, and it's going to be a tight squeeze in my Leaf when number 3 arrives. I've already got the Pacifica Hybrid, so I don't want another. I just need an A to B car, and the Model Y would fit nicely into that...

Another follow up. Right before we hit the highway, the van had been essentially driving all city for over a month and a half. It was hitting 70 mpg average. That to me is awesomesauce.

Makes about as good of sense as any I can think of. You can charge before hopping on HW 84 if you're road tripping to New Mexico.

It's been almost all city driving. When I drove the van cross country on I-40 I was in the mid to high 20's for MPG.

As I suspected a couple of weeks of warm weather, and my MPG numbers passed above 50 MPG for the first time (this is average MPG that's now a few thousand miles). So yeah I'm definitely not complaining. 50 mpg for a full size seven passenger car for $29k? I'll take that any day of the week.

I guess write to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission and ask them to push Xcel to acquire the system? Not sure how much they can mandate something to a private company, but a little political pressure never hurt a utility. Other than that I'd say call Xcel customer service and tell them if...

I bet those damned Norwegians have and they're holding out on us haha.

Same reason I didn't buy a Model X (other than it's too cramped). I'd rather not spend over $60k for a family hauler.

Plus the kids I have now are all in car seats, so heated seats wouldn't be effective for them anyway :p

I did not. I got the more basic model. I wouldn't have gotten those features if I were buying a gas version of a van, and I wanted my incentives (federal/Colorado) to get be below $30k for the cost of the van. If I got those options it would have basically cancelled out my Colorado incentive.

I wanted to follow up with MPG performance now that I've had a few more months of driving. For normal city commuting I've been hovering in between 27 mpg, and 45 mpg. Most of the time I'm averaging around 32-36 mpg. This may not seem like a lot, but the reason is because of our Colorado...

I doubt it does, but maybe? It does have an LTE connection for the UConnect apps, so I'm hopeful they do push occasional updates. I can't imagine Chrysler isn't collecting real world data usage on these vans, considering it's this, and their Fiat 500e being the only two that have batteries in them.

Here are numbers I've seen so far. Keep in mind Chrysler isn't giving me any data read outs other than MPG. When I drove the Pacifica from Virginia to Texas during thanksgiving day weekend, I was averaging around 30 mpg pure highway driving. When I'm driving pure electric, it's averaging out...

2018 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid Review So I wish to premise this review by first stating I've never owned, or even drove a hybrid car before. It's always either been pure gas, or pure electric for me. So if I say something that's been standard and obvious in hybrids for years, I apologize. I'll...

Just pulled the trigger on the 2018 hybrid version yesterday. After a week in DC, going to do a 1,500 mile road trip to Texas. Should give me plenty of time to think up a review.

So looks like I was correct in battery amounts. Even though Tesla hasn't released their battery back size yet, some back of the envelope math can tell us how big they are. They're saying < 2kWh/mile in usage. Let's go with a high 1 number, say 1.7 kWh/mile. With that number, Tesla also give us...

Well some back of the envelope math would say the battery pack is probably around ~ 850kWh. The website is saying < 2 kWh/mile (not sure why they're throwing the 2 number out there, but ok). So let's say its in the high 1's, for shits and giggles we'll say 1.7 kWh/mile. 1.7X500 miles like...

The financial risks posed to the rest of the EU from Greece have more or less been contained. And by that I mean still not solved, but it took six years for the ECB to isolate the systematic risks Greece posed. The only reason Greece is still even functioning as a nation state, as opposed to...

Totally agree with this statement. I was at a family reunion recently, and due to logistics I had to drive my Leaf there. Getting there involved a stop at a fast charger in Golden Colorado, and another two hour Level 2 charge in Idaho Springs to get through Eisenhower Tunnel. Everyone was asking...

Agreed. Economics just aren't worth it unless you're in California. Too much regulatory uncertainty (hello Arizona and Nevada net metering changes), and well as the capital costs. Only reason Solar City and Vinvint were "doing well" was because they kept suckering people into 20 year leases on...

In his speech to the National Governors Association, he mentioned a possible scenario of a fleet wide hack, and the hacker would send all of the Teslas in the US to Rhode Island. It was funny, and I figured I'd follow with a humorous post here.

Musk laid down the gauntlet. If I weren't building satellites to send up on his rockets, I'd find this an intriguing idea to consider. Who among you is up to the challenge? And I just realized my grammatical error in the thread title.... Sigh.

While I have a feeling rising oceans will play a role in how Louisiana's coast line will change, I have to disagree this is all due to oil and gas wells. The fact of the matter is southern Louisiana is very dynamic, and has been changing constantly due to the Mississippi and Archafalaya rivers...

You may have your physics confused. Friction is friction no matter what speed you're going. Yes you have to use a boat load of energy to get a vehicle up to speed, but once you're cruising you're still using a ton of energy to keep the car moving from rolling resistance alone. You just add on...

So for Windsource I don't quite understand the program. Xcel had to build wind turbines to meet their state renewable energy mandate. So essentially you're paying more for electricity that they would have had to supply anyway? I don't think there are enough windsource participants to actually...

Wish they would have brought this to the US. All I want is an in town family hauler. (Seat 6-7). Between this, and Pacifica Hybrid we'd be set.

My parents had a 93 Dodge Caravan. The thing was a piece. Constantly needed to go in for repairs. At that point, I vowed never to buy a Chrysler/Dodge vehicle. The wife and I have been thinking about mini vans lately, and she has been impressed with my Nissan Leaf, and we had wished someone...

In fact so simplistic, that it doesn't tell the truth. It's not a free benefit. You have make a lease payment to Solar City each month. A lease you have to assume responsibility for decades. If you over use the system generation, you then have to make two payments. One to Solar City and one to...

That's precisely it. The buyers having to assume the lease. It's a complication within the already complex transaction of buying a home. Look how much you had to explain to sell your lease. Now try to do that through the real estate agents (some of whom aren't exactly the brightest crowns in the...

So I wanted to follow up on this thread about the Denver to Breckenridge trip with my Leaf. Made the trip to Breck on Sunday. And I have to say it was quite pleasant, and wasn't as big of a deal as I thought. Started out in Broomfield, battery heat gauge was at four, and stopped at the DCFC in...

That's what I'm thinking when Musk referred to the 350kw chargers as mere child's play. Those chargers would seem to be too powerful for the cars considering their batteries can barely discharge at full throttle at that amount. As for truck stops, yes it would make sense to put them there. I...

A point of view about the Tesla Semi. I've been trying to wrap my head around how Tesla is going to pull off the semi for a while. And the physics just don't make sense. I'm sure they have a product, but I'm guessing it's more short "long haul" transport at best. The energy density just isn't...

Looks like NATO is more or less dead now, so when does Russia make the move? For funsiess you can also predict crude oil price increase amount when it happens.

Is this car subject to the motor issues found in the early Tesla cars?

Thanks dude. I tried searching the mynissanleaf forums and this post never popped up. My 11' Leaf had the battery swapped out in summer of 2015, so the fact this guy in his 2015 Leaf made the trip easily, gives me confidence I'll be fine. I don't have Leafspy or anything, but I'm still showing...

Hey guys. I know this is a Tesla forum, but I'm guessing some of you have had Leafs at some point, and have tried what I'm about to ask. So there's a family reunion next week (June 5-8) in Breckenridge. I'd really like to take the Leaf there if we could. I'll be starting out in Broomfield, but...

If I remember correctly, in wk057's thread of his tesla battery/solar system he has a thermal video showing how much cooler his panels are versus the surrounding roof when they're generating current.

Great coherent argument. Just like there really isn't a premium (there is, but not enough to make up for the upfront cost of a solar system) when you sell your home with solar, this argument is moot. If I'm shopping for a home, and I see two that are exactly identical in the same neighborhood...

Yeah. I'm beginning to wonder how this couples up with Solar/Powerwall. Ideal situation is solar & powerwall take care of home loads, and then the car charges at night off the grid. (Which would be a large mix of wind of coal.) If we're talking 6.5 cents per kWh in off peak (kWh charge, and fuel...

Dude I hope so. I was expecting around $45k (usual quote I'm given for a solar system is around $30k) and the cost of an asphalt roof. Let's hope all the rich dude bring the cost of this system down quickly. I've been waiting for them to do so with the LG OLED TV's for a couple of years meow :P

The average American stays in their home for a total of 7 years. So taking into account the average premium of a house with solar is only around $5-7k there is no way you can make a return on investment this roof. And they're assuming the net metering laws will stay the same over the span of a...