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I'm happy to report that it hasn't burned down. I also did the above after a year or two by replacing the mobile charger with a wall charger. It was a tight fit but was able to get it to fit inside the box. After a year the wall charger had a temperature sensor malfunction so I got to do the...

Please update if you do. I'll likely be driving through Susanville on the 11th, would be great to have a functioning Supercharger! I checked the car's map this morning and nothing showing up as of today.

I’ve only been doing short drives lately so it is hard to tease out any efficiency loss. With the increased grip, cool looking tread and no real noticeable noise increase I’m very happy with the CC2s. Will be a couple weeks until I take a much longer trip to hopefully see any range drops now...

Last week I had to change tires during a road trip. For the second time I felt an unbalanced tire and knew the foam was coming loose on the MXM4s. So I had a set of the CrossClimate2 installed (I’m done with foam inserts). On the 570 mile trip out On the MXM4s I averaged 81% efficiency. On the...

Yes, it was described somewhere that the two halves can be switched from parallel to series to charge as an 800V pack.

Nothing changes at the cell level. Just the charging infrastructure operates at 800V. Since the infrastructure is amp limited, higher voltage allows more power through it. So charging time can be reduced if you are infrastructure limited with higher voltage, but only up to the point where you...

*one foot roll-out

Tesla is using a die cast for these aluminum sub-frames. Molten aluminum injected into a steel die much like the injection molding used for plastics. SS has too high of a melting temp to use a metallic mold and would need a more conventional sand mold. Even though the Cybertruck body/frame is...

Warning: Speculative rumor I've heard that the governor of California may close all the public schools state wide. Might affect production and market sentiment. Our county (Santa Cruz) already announced closure for next week.

A couple weeks ago I took a small position in Zillow (ZG, Z). They are currently moving from a real estate advertisement business model into trying to own the entire real estate transaction. Buy/Sell/Rent/Closing/Mortgage. If you have dealt with a Realtor and see the 5-6% fees they make on...

Today marks the 5 year anniversary of my first stock purchase ever. 5 shares of TSLA at $194.12 That purchase was largely influenced by the investor threads here on TMC so I just wanted to mark this date by sending out a big THANK YOU to all the posters that contribute meaningful information to...

570K Current Fremont Quarterly Production 105k x 4 quarters = 420k GF3 output per quarter: 10k,20k,30k,30k = 90k MY production start 2nd quarter 10k,20k,30k = 60k

Well...they resolved the paint issues.

Yes I believe the Chinese characters are some regulation or other. A local told me that was how you could tell if a vehicle was made in China

I'm guessing that it would physically fit and connect. There is a whole long thread about what rear motors have been put in the cars so I'm not sure if it would get a performance boost. I think I saw an insurance estimate in a thread or video claiming the battery at a $15,000 replacement cost...

Tesla Model S Plaid Laps Ring In 7:13: Beats Taycan By 29 Seconds Tesla Model S Plaid Laps Ring In 7:13: Beats Taycan By 29 Seconds

Not 100 square miles, a square that is 100x100 miles, so 10,000 miles^2

Limited Regen. Happens when the battery is cold or at a high State of Charge (>93% maybe?). Sometimes you can get a dashed line on the right side for limited power.

You could always RTFM

I added some strong velcro to UMC and have it attached to a bracket so the receptacle dongle isn't holding the weight.

I don't want to be "that guy" , but seeing as this is a bit of a green forum, when you type BMW I think of Biodegradable Municipal Waste. We simply can't refer to the Bayerische Motoren Werke AG as BMW. To this day every time someone refers to their BMW I think why are they talking about their...

My ABRP settings are set to allow up to 100% charge, with a minimum arrival charge of 10%. But my reference speed is set at 113%.

Sure is, changing to SR changed the route from 2 stops and 9:25 to 6 stops and 10:47! Tried a few options on this route (all aero wheels): SR 6 stops, 10:47 SR+ 5 stops, 10:29 MR 5 stops, 9:56 LR AWD 4 stops, 9:36 LR RWD 2 stops, 9:25

Which Model 3 do you have? Using abetterrouteplanner.com I get 9 hours 25 minutes from Raleigh, NC to Orlando, FL with a LR RWD model 3.

Quality hasn't improved, but found one in red! Was very excited to also find a blue Tesla but it was Model S.

Mine has had its ups and downs:

Happens all the time. Battery is constantly trying to calibrate and balance. I'll see large jumps in range after long periods of short commutes (~10% battery) and then a long drive where I drive to below 50% of the battery range. Suddenly the battery reports an extra 10 miles of range.

The real irony is that after this segment the news went to commercial break and came back with an entire segment on the health benefits of napping!

I like the pedals:

Thanks for the update. The old rates were from the last time I updated my spreadsheet, some time in 2018.

For vehicle charging here is our Off-Peak rate changes: Summer: Old 0.12753, New 0.15633 22.6% increase Winter: Old 0.13046, New 0.15633 19.8% increase

Not comfortably.

Even with that you are still taking the manufacturer's word that the 2.8 is true. So my original point that I don't trust these manufacturers claims with out an independent test stands. Here are some of the shenanigans they get up to: "Improving the aerodynamics: Another practice that is...

Yes. As I wrote "US spec". And I highly doubt the shutter version actually improves drag 36%. (and that's when the shutters are closed) Didn't stop them from advertising the .23 number while never delivering it to the US.

Meh. These are the same manufacturers that would tape seems for their consumption tests. The 2013 CLA was supposed to be .23 cd, but when independently tested at U.S spec it actually tested at .30 cd. I take most of these numbers with a huge grain of salt until we see independent testing. At...

New Data Show Electric Vehicles Continue to Get Cleaner

So it turned out OK? Did you get any info on where the car had been?

Do you actually think that Tesla is going to publish negative information about their batteries? They may have some of the best batteries in the business, but they are still subject to the same problems as other lithium ion batteries. Sitting at a high SOC for long periods of time (and worse...

Updated Quote for me at 1305/year. Still more expensive but less than half of the first quote!

It seems like a decent enough method. I only having it polling roughly once per minute. On the charge session today it took 5-7 minutes of charging to add 1% to the battery. It completed the charge on its 5th minute at 80%. So I think the car is charging up to right under the switch to 81% Not...

No secret sauce I'm aware of, but it only adds to this battery report the extrapolated range from the mileage and battery percentage at the end of a charging session.

That is kind of awesome.

Sadly no, been a bit all over the place. Probably has to do with normally only charging to 80% and my commute only uses about 11% of the battery. Different firmware and the occassional long trip make up most of the bumps. My old college town of San Luis Obispo

TeslaFi shows that on that date (over a year ago) 80% charge was 250.63, projected 100% at 313.29. From the start of my drive this morning: Hit a perfect net 0. the kWh meter never moved from 0.

Sorry, should say 1% not .1%

As I posted in the Investor thread: 2.75x what I pay now 2642/year Tesla 962/year State Farm Differences include SF having slightly higher Bodily Injury limits(250k/500k vs 100k/300k), but I also have my deductibles set at double the cost of the Tesla plan (500/1000 vs 250/500) Also have...

2.75x what I pay now 2642/year Tesla 962/year State Farm Differences include SF having slightly higher Bodily Injury limits(250k/500k vs 100k/300k), but I also have my deductibles set at double the cost of the Tesla plan (500/1000 vs 250/500) Also have multi-car and home with SF.

LR RWD. Perhaps its 780 Wh, .1% of a 78 kWh pack (75 useable) giving 230 Wh/mi and 325 mile range at 75 kWh. (Though I never got the bump from 310 to 325. See attached for the table.

I believe it does. I live up a small mountain road. Every morning when I leave and if I use very little of the HVAC system I can get to the bottom of my road 3.1 miles later with 0 kWh/mile used. But my battery-guess-O-mileage will have lost a mile, sometimes two.

Here is a drive with a nice downhill drive from TeslaFi: In the file it shows a jump in range from 221.94 miles to 225.32 miles. It than stays at 225.32 for a long time even while the battery level percentage varies from 72% to 73% and back to 72%. So this file added a 3.38 mile increment, so...