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Construction on a 12-stall location started at the Airport Road Meijer about a week ago according to someone I know in the area. I stopped by today and took a couple of photos: The plugs were the normal Tesla variety; there did not seem to be any support for CCS. From what I can tell, it...

It’s now showing up in the navigation! Yay!

The rate seems ok. At least for me, I only hit the 250 kW goodness in the low teens percent. It drops off pretty quickly.

@corywright @MarcoRP @Chuq That should do to get the orange cone, right?

At least there's a CHAdeMO plug in Norway (just east of Iron Mountain) now, so you can use the CHAdeMO adapter to get something quicker than a campground. Maybe 20-30 minutes would be enough to get your buffer. It's a bummer that Tesla still isn't making the CCS adapter available. That station...

I’m seeing every site in Michigan labeled as “Q3 2021”. I found a site in Indiana labeled “Q4 2021” and a site in Wisconsin as simply “2022”. Looks like the plan is to have a team swing through the state. I’d still take anything Tesla puts on that page with multiple truckloads of salt and not...

I'm still looking forward to updates on the coffee shop -- I need to find out how close the "race" turned out to be. :p

You’re welcome! If it helps for your travel plans, it’s being reported that Schwartz Creek is running, but the dot isn’t on the map yet, so you probably shouldn’t rely on it.

Lately, when I’ve used it, I’ve only been able to pull high-60’s kW, even with an hour’s preconditioning, when I would normally expect higher. Last night, coming back from a trip, I pulled 75 kW when I would have expected over 100, and that was the best I’ve seen for a while. So, maybe it’s...

146 miles to Copper Harbor one way. That’d be a *very* tight round trip in my Model 3. Good thing that Wilkins State park has 50-A plugs now and there are a few L2 chargers along the way. A couple hours in L’Anse should make the trip doable if you can’t reserve a campsite with a plug.

I've had similar things happen since I got 2019.5.15, as well. I'm also having more in the way of spontaneous decelerations than I've had in the past.

I used my Motor Vehicle Purchase Agreement in the My Tesla area. The first page is labeled “Vehicle Configuration”, and the first line on mine said “Model 3 — $35,000”. If they’ve changed how they write that document since April, I would ask Tesla to write something that specifically states that...

OK, here’s the promised update to my registration saga: The paperwork I got in the self-registration packet that was FedExed from California along with the Ohio title wasn’t enough. The final bill of sale included in it only showed the total purchase price, and the people at the Secretary of...

There’s an issue regarding delivering into Michigan: as I understand it, to sidestep the law, what you do is appoint the delivery person as your agent who accepts it on your behalf.

I got a Model 3.

Tesla offered to deliver the car to my door — it didn’t seem like it would involve any additional cost. I picked it up in Cleveland because it seemed like the paperwork with the Secretary of State would be less problematic and I would be able to look the car over before taking delivery.

Yes — I’ve had it for a bit over a month now! The invoice does show the base price as $35k and they only collected Michigan sales tax. I’m still waiting to get my title from the Ohio DMV (I’ve been told they’re notoriously slow), so we’ll see how smoothly things go at the Secretary of State when...

Just to follow up — the Tesla invoice does show the base price of the car as $35k. I’ve been waiting over a month for my Ohio title, so we’ll see how things go at the Secretary of State once it arrives. Good thing Ohio temporary tags are 45 days!

Of course — the day after I posted this, I saw a blue Model 3 on the road just north of Fenton and a silver Model 3 parked in Ann Arbor. o_O

The only production Model 3 I've seen in Michigan was the one I actively sought out. I did see a test vehicle at the Ann Arbor supercharger a few weeks before the very first deliveries.

Good to know! I’ll make sure to ask the people in Cleveland to provide something stating that the base price is 35k b

Is it pretty resilient to things like accidental drops?

I just ordered my Model 3 today, and I’m very excited! I drive about 40,000 miles/year, and I’m planning on getting about 60% of those miles from chargers at work, which are only slightly protected from the elements, including Michigan winters. What are people’s experiences with heavy use of...

Thank you! That’s less than I calculated when I tried to make sense of the SoS website. Finally, a bit of good news!

Good to know — my current plates expire in a couple of months.

Thanks! That’s good data!

Thanks!

My apologies if this has been answered somewhere else, but I wasn't able to find it when I searched: I'm planning on going ahead with ordering my Model 3 in the very near future, and I was trying to get all the costs nailed down. When figuring out the delivery and registration process, I was...

Sep to Nov 2018 for me. 3/31 reservation holder, first-time purchaser. Between possibly losing tax credits and having to buy the premium package just to get heated seats and fog lights, the numbers will be very tight for me since I need the long-range model for my use case. Here's hoping they're...

I'm a Michigan line-waiter (reserved early in the day). My estimate for AWD is Sep/Nov of 2018. That puts me in a bit of a pickle as I would guess that the tax credits will be in phase-down by the time AWD comes out, and I'm really not keen on getting RWD given that I live in the snow belt. It...

According to a friend of mine in the auto industry, most of the manufacturers are having problems offering regular white due to supply chain problems.

That seemed to take care of it. Thanks!

doug just changed the server settings, so here are the max quality photos -- thanks, doug!:

Thanks! I already downsampled the photos, but I'll try it at full res!

Now that I think about it, it might have been hung off the shoulder belt connection.

That was why I didn't get any closer, and I only had my cell phone readily available. On the driver's side, he hung his jacket in the window to make it hard to get a decent photo. On the other hand, perhaps that means there are coat hooks? From what I could see, it looked like the screen was...

I just copied them from my phone to my computer -- they ranged from 3.0 to 4.4 MB.

Spotted today at the Ann Arbor, MI supercharger: (Sorry for the poor image quality -- I had to drop it down quite a bit in order to upload the images.)

Using my iPhone, I tried just now to upload some photos of a Model 3 RC that I just took. The photos get about 97% uploaded and then I get an error that the photos are too large. Is there some other way to upload them? Apologies in advance -- I'm sure this is a well-understood issue, but my...

I don't think it's going to be too different from when I bought my Prius, except that the drive back will take a few hours since I'll probably have to pick it up in Cleveland and I live in Michigan. It'll probably take about half the drive to get everything adjusted the way I like. I have a...

0. I have a reservation myself, and several of my friends are interested, but they quite understandably find the lack of sales and service in Michigan to be a major stumbling block. (I have to say it weighs very heavily on me, too!) We're following the court case with quite a bit of interest.

I stopped by today, as well. One of the reps mentioned that a Detroit service center was "coming soon". When I pressed them on how they knew, they said it was based on the Tesla website. They were surprised when I told them that Detroit has been "coming soon" on the website for years -- I'd...

Thanks for the tip!

Heck, I'll settle for getting the drawing -- still waiting on that...

Nope -- still on both the original traction battery and the original 12-volt battery!

I have to vote for the used Prius, too -- mine is an '07 with a bit over 360,000 miles on it, and it still runs great. Toyotas from that era were tanks. You could probably sell one of my vintage for about what you paid for it, and you could put the gas savings toward the Model 3 kitty. When...

GM has had a history of running to state legislatures to push Tesla out. I interpret that as GM viewing their product as inferior. I will trust that judgment.

Yesterday, as I was running my errands, I saw a Model S heading northeast on Plymouth Rd. After an intervening car, there was *another* Model S! Typically, you see maybe one a month -- but, wait, there's more! I saw another one heading west on Ellsworth Rd., and a little while later I saw a...

Just stopped by on the way back from the Traverse City area -- nothing new to report. It seems like the food options will basically involve either going through a drive-through or to the Meijer's deli counter and eating in the car.

The version I learned had the punch line, "First, we assume the cow is spherical and emits milk isotropically." Still cracks me up, too. :p