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I wholeheartedly agree. I cannot quite conceive the mindset of those defending Tesla on this matter. If he was authorized AT ALL to communicate with sales prospects by e-mail, any guidelines should have been made clear and in writing PRIOR to a snafu. If they weren't, it's just one of many...

The Tesla Model S DC-DC converter is rated at 2500 watts. That's a little over 200 amps. I see know reason you couldn't do 2000watt inverter with 3000 watt surge off the 12v battery. You would need to connect it directly to the 12v battery terminals of course.

We have a 20kW inverter now that runs directly off of a full Tesla battery pack. Shuts down automatically at a little over 300v. Will make power up to 450v. You can power your entire house with your car. Provides 240vac split phase power. EVTV Motor Verks Store: 20kW Inverter for Tesla Full...

I am working on a system to incorporate a battery pack from a Tesla Model S into a Solar system for the home. This uses the entire pack from salvage as is. Yesterday, I discharged the pack down to about 1.4% state of charge using a 20kW inverter to the point where the internal BMS master board...

Magnetic phone dock for Tesla Model S: $19.95

Magnetic Smart Phone dock for Tesla Model S. $19.95.

Elon Musk Bobblehead phone dock. $69.95

We have 18 automatic limited slip differentials for the Tesla Model S 350kw drive units just in from Quaife Engineering. $1995. ATBLSD by jrickard posted Jul 20, 2016 at 10:54 AMATBLSD by jrickard posted Jul 20, 2016 at 10:54 AM

So, not to be condescending, but it would appear my inquiry has indeed hit a nerve. I'll drop it. It appears it is you with product plans... Your characterization as to my contribution in all of this displays kind of an all encompassing ignorance of the thread. I've been working with Jason on...

Well,....er.....we hope. Now if you fully DISCHARGE your car and take the same readings, I think you'll find things don't match quite as well. This offset/scalar combination or "linear equation" comes up a lot in CAN. I think we're pretty close. You're at 3072/2.379. At 392 volts...

I guess I don't see the point. The Tesla SavvyCAN box is a box, a harness, and the EVTVDue CAN Microcontroller. That board is $99. The expense comes in connectors, wiring hte harness, and the enclosure. Which is why the Tesla box is $299. If you want to do it yourself, the board is $99...

Well, if your interest is temperatures from the drive train, the Inverter actually has SIX sensors. I haven't had much luck mapping WHICH sensor is WHICH byte, but it looks pretty good. 0x306 1000 ms 8 bytes 4F 4D 6F 52 4D 4E AE 7D The first six bytes all seem to be temperature...

Yah. It's 24 messages with four battery voltages in each, followed by 8 with temp sensors. The first byte is an index so you know where in the pack you are. The other 7bytes are a 56 bit packed array with each value being 13 bits and a trailing flag noting whether it is voltage or...

Well yes, that's rather the issue. The dongle doesn't matter as long as it works. Unfortunatelyl, the Tesla does some higher packet loads than like a VOlt or a Leaf so you need something moderately quick. But after that it is a software game. I don't think anything can touch Collin's...

Well yes, this is a quick and dirty that spits out ASCII text through thte USB port of an Arduino Due. If you want to glam it up, a 5 inch LCD display would do nicely. CAC? Not sure what you mean there. You can toggle debug by entering a D and actually see ALL the CAN messages appearing on...

We've sold a fair number of our SavvyCAN for Tesla Model S http://store.evtv.me/proddetail.php?prod=TeslaCANKit&cat=28. But this tends to be for the real deal geeks out there that want to log off and analyze CAN message traffic primarily from the Drive Train CAN bus. However, Arthur Hebert...

I guess you would call it a checksum or CRC in a way. Tesla does some very tricky stuff that initially looks like it is trying to prevent tampering. I guess with some further experience with it, I think it's more a data integrity thing applied to a number of messages that are kind of critical...

This is causing an awful lot of hand wringing here guys. But you're frothing at nothing here. Sure, you should take it very seriously in the matter of people braking into your car over the wireless or via the Tesla computer system. Those kinds of vulnerabilities can cause damage and there are...

I might suggest a possible cause for these geardrive bearing issues. AC induction motors are a bit peculiar. The field in the rotor is the result of currents "induced" by the field in the stator windings. But this obviously causes a bit of voltage differential between the rotor and frame...

Ok. I can't take it anymore. I try not to post to these forums because it enrages all the poseurs and wannabees. But I can't take it any more on this supercharger thing. There is no magic. they are 12 chargers JUST like the ones in your car. When you connect AC to your car on your home...

Most of this discussion of rights is theoretical. But the concept of right to repair is not. The interesting thing about the Massachussetts law, aside from Tesla attempting to ONLY make their service.teslamotors.com site available there, is that it passed with an 85% margin. There is NO case...

It is all there to view JRP. And your characterizations are a deliberate and malicious lie. I've never been kicked off of any board anywhere. I've resigned from several cess pools that you love to inhabit. And have had to DEMAND my account be closed on several occasions when they simply...

QWK. You really do have some sort of reading/writing thing going on here. I'm not certain you're serious. The entire premise, of essentially a GUESS, is that electric motors apply torque in a much faster moment of inertia than an ICE engine car. It doesn't matter if you make 1600 foot lbs of...

How Utterly Cowardly - AND predictable. Yes We won't put up with any SNIPPINESS. What we WILL do apparently as moderator, is let SEVEN PAGES of vicious ad hominem attackes pass WITHOUT COMMENT. But if Jack (ie me) happens to get on and respond to ANY of them, let's trash the whole...

Well, GM has a new CEO and he's not very much in the Not Invented Here camp. In fact, he's slashed the R&D budget after noting that of the many celebrated patents in their portfolio, precious few have made it into a car in recent years. He's also set up a team to "study" Tesla. There are...

The document you cite shows the 80% capacity level as low as 600 cycles. 80% is the level customarily cited in life cycle testing. It is true it does flatten out a bit after that. But 70% is pretty much a substantial decrease in range. The second reference is for an entirely different 400...

Realist: Frankly there is nothing wrong with your thinking process. The series of well over a dozen bankruptcies of electric car companies makes your point that getting into the car business is hard work. I recognized kind of early on that the shorts would not have the deep knowledge to be...

Same guy Coconut. I've moved to my original hometown of Cape Girardeau Missouri. Today I do something very like Boardwatch, but it is a weekly two hour video, and it is about converting cars to electric drive. It's a lot of fun. We are having a convention in August -6th to 11 with a couple...

As I said. I think there will be a build in stock price leading up to the Q2 numbers and a bit of a dip after the announcement. But if they ARE up to 550 per week, and show say 450 average across the quarter, they'll be over 5000 units. The dip will be driven by more fundamentalist shorts...

Ok. A few words of help. I feel your pain. It's a bit of a mess. But for the past 20 years all the 10 baggers have been disruptive technology companies with huge growth factors. The key element to watch is of course growth management. That growth is the kind of problem to have doesn't...

Well let's not ignore it any longer. You have no idea what you are talking about. But it is very interesting to hear from the shorts on this forum. Thanks for posting here. I predicted the "short squeeze" on our weekly video at EVTV.me nearly two years ago. Took on some June $47 call...

Those are hurtful words caveman. I am pouring my heart out for two hours a week in those videos. I'm working 24x7x7 just to make those precious moments on video come alive. And you don't like me just because I'm little, and ugly and my mother dresses me funny? I'm crushed. I may never do...

That's because what I'm trying to say is that it will never happen, but go on to explain why it should. Jack Rickard

Actually, it reads APPLE ACQUIRES TESLA MOTORS On a Cold Day in July in Cape Girardeau Missouri. A rather obvious play on "a cold day in hell." This is also a tie-in, for those unfamiliar with some cold temperature battery testing we did during a very HOT week in July. Apparently our viewers...

Actually we talk about it quite a bit in the video. This blog is largely extra information, charts and links to accompany a weekly video on electric vehicle construction. If you don't watch the video, it probably doesn't make much sense on its own. Jack Rickard EVTV Motor Verks | Electric...

Not necessarily. If he was the CEO, he would still maintain control. What's hard about this? Jack RIckard

Why would they want to invest in a LOSER. The whole point is that Apple very much NEEDS acquisitions, and acquisitions of a size to do any good in their own space leads to a jungle of anti competitive hearings. If they move OUT of their space, that goes away. The automotive market offers...

Elon would have more actual cash on hand at his disposal than Barack Obama and the Untied States Congress.

Actually, I would like this story BETTER if Elon bought Apple. How about it Elon? Now if you think that sounds ridiculous, I went through this in 1998. I called a company that was 10 times my size and publicly traded that I was calling to buy their company. They told me that was ridiculous...

They cannot have 95% year on year growth by selling more iPads. At some point everyone has an iPad. At some point everyone HAS an iPhone. And actually they have a third problem. The Android movement, because it is much more open than Apple's IOS, is gaining sway. Some say Samsung phones are...

Actually, it would be a brilliant move for Apple to buy Tesla, as well as SpaceX and Solar City. Apple has a couple of looming problems. First is their CEO is an able administrator and really an accomplished executive. But he is not an visionary leader. The deal will be to buy all three...

Actually, I think you're all pretty much missing the point. Not only can Tesla switch from Elise to Evora for that, they would have very strong reasons to do just that. Evora is a larger car, and MUCH easier to get into and out of by all reports. More importantl, it is a 2+2, with a very...

The coast thing might surprise you. But I'm aware the regen thing might surprise me. I was never quite confused regarding the tail lights. I was looking to use them as the enable signal, and I was fully aware they come on on both Tesla and Mini when regen is activated. That said...

Charging Station I tried to talk David Kois into doing one of these a couple of weeks ago. His pumps are MUCH more attractive than the replica I got from Hickory NC. But he seemed a little busy at the time. Yes, we are going to replace the fuel hose on the LEFT with an SAE 2009-J1772 cable...

Texaco Fire-Chief Charger Why don't we have more stylish charge stations. Check out the Texaco Fire-Chief model. YouTube - 1 Texaco Fire-Chief Electric Car Charging Station Jack Rickard

Texaco Fire-Chief Charge Station Here's a Youtube on a Texaco Fire-Chief Charging Station. YouTube - 1 Texaco Fire-Chief Electric Car Charging Station Jack Rickard Electric 1957 Porsche 356 Speedster EV

How about a Texaco Fire-Chief Charger? Check this out.... YouTube - 1 Texaco Fire-Chief Electric Car Charging Station Jack Rickard Electric 1957 Porsche 356 Speedster EV