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Not got any optimisers. Only Tigo's which don't work like those - don't seem to help my shading issue! You can have panels just facing straight up and you'll get 50-60% of the ideal orientation. Yesterday with white clouds and no sun beaming through I was still doing 3kW off my 7.7kW - and bare...

The larger ones can fit nearly 6000 cars on 19 decks. Maybe it's cheaper to send it back as they probably go back nearly empty! Probably a few hundred tons of fuel is a good million quid? You're paying for the fuel both ways as the ship goes back nearly empty. Doubt anyone's got 6000 cars to...

They wouldn't turn off for me. I push the lever to off, they change back to speed "I" and wipe a dry screen every 5 seconds. This is cruise control going down a motorway at 70mph. They wipe because you're in cruise control and the car wants to be clearing the screen - morning sun is confusing...

I've got 7.8kW of panels. One of the best things I ever bought! I got 4kw of LG 14x285's originally on the FIT - which is now in year 7 and giving me about £1k a year now. I then got another inverter and 11x 325's 2 years ago. + a home battery I've since upgraded to 12.7kWh usable. My...

I feel a bit happier about the price I paid. Got a M3 SR+ as it was known then. One of the last USA builds from Dec2020 before they went to China. It was refreshed - had the black trim and heatpump which I wanted. Was 2nd hand at £39,100 (vs £43,990 after became ineligible for £3k discount)...

I've got gripes with SO much of the software too. Auto-wipers = joke! Put the car in cruise-control I am NOT allowed to turn off the wipers! WTF? There's no rain or dirt! Auto-highbeam = joke! Emergency braking / warning system. I've had the car beep at me for pedestrians on a narrow pavement...

Good point. Maybe they don't have so much "current-design" RHD stock to shift? I saw on the French Tesla website the model 3 RWD is now E41,990 while in the UK it's £42,990. Given the Euro was about 1.13 to the £ it means the French version is a lot cheaper. Wonder if the UK one will come down...

I did say "% range expected" - key word expected. When on a route, eg. "home" Tesla tells you what % battery it expects you to get home with. I didn't say I was 5% battery and 100 miles from home! But due to adverse weather it dropped from 7% to 3, to 0% in a matter of 10 miles and started...

I was driving down the motorway (freeway to americans) in a 50mph section because there was roadworks in the central reservation where they had their own lane. The roadworks had their OWN speed limit sign that said 10. Guess what the ****** car saw and thought the speed limit was - you guessed...

It's the fact it's "auto-wipers" for basic cruise-control and the car ignores you when you turn them-off, and turns them back on!! So, even when I'm not in "auto-pilot" and I'm in the UK and have not bought "self-driving". And Elon says if somebody crashed - but you're supposed to be able to...

Glad someone understands! Yeah driving in the dark, rain at 1am, it wasn't safe to be playing with a satnav to work out where it was trying to send me - how far off the motorway (which charger destination), if it was 1 mile or 10 miles off the route. Also illegal to be programming any satnav...

You didn't read the original post. The bit where I was 100 miles from home, relying on the navigation to get home because I didn't know the route! It was dark, 1am. It was raining. I'm on a motorway - where it's illegal in the UK to stop unless broken-down, and you're not supposed to operate a...

Give the user the option is all I'm saying. A navigation popup to confirm re-routing. Don't tell them you're being redirected somewhere by some HAL like computer making a decision you don't want. As I said, dark, in the car on my own, unable to stop on a motorway, can't be messing with the map...

In the UK it's illegal to stop on the motorway. So this wasn't an option. The phone I use I don't use for navigation - so turning on "location", and going into maps and entering a destination is not something that can be done. Besides - I want the big Tesla screen to be giving me directions...

The car also used to tell you "round trip % expected" but they removed that. The list of directions was quite long - I didn't try and scroll to the end to see it - but it wasn't obvious if it was there.

It's good it does it for a person that's jumped in and not planned their route, the percentage they need to charge to etc. For me it's annoying it's navigating me off my route home to a supercharger. Like I say some are a good 10+ mile detour. In this case the more sensible option if a few % in...

The point is the "route" was the route to the supercharger. It said re-routing to supercharger. As I was not familiar with the route + dark, raining, and the only one in the car I didn't have a way to know if I was following "the route home with a detour in 50 miles to a supercharger" or "the...

and I had to quickly cancel as I was not sure "after" the "rerouting" message if the route it was now sending me on was the way home, or the way to the supercharger. And there was 1 supercharger I did know about around mile 100 of 125 that was 2 miles off my route - but I did not know the...

I also found it very annoying. If the car is in cruise control OR auto-pilot and it senses any moisture then the wipers wipe every 5 seconds (mode II). When you try and press the wiper button to OFF it lets you for a fraction of a second before jumping back to speed II. I had to turn off...

I was on a long drive, at home, in the dark, in the rain - heading home at midnight. I could see the % range expected dropping from 10%. When it hit 5% the car said "rerouting to supercharge", "pre-conditioning battery for supercharging". I did NOT want the car to do this!! I am intelligent...

And Elon doesn't borrow Tesla engineers from Tesla to work at the Boring company, and it doesn't take time from Tesla and Elon? And is the Boring company it's own separate entity?

Crazy for a 2nd hand price to exceed the new price of a superior model.

From Tesla I paid £39k for a "used" (only done 200 miles) Model 3 SR+ (refreshed Nov 2000 USA build). Saw the 2nd hand price rise to as high as £48k. Now I guess it's probably well under £40k given the new price has fallen so far! Mine only has 8000 miles on it. Maybe I should have sold 9...

What I find silly about the Boring company that nobody seems to say (like an emperor with no clothes) is when people going, "what a fantastic way to get from A->B!" when you see a car driving down a tunnel and emerging at a different point in LA in 3 minutes when over-ground it might take 5 is...

Pre-market we saw it rise 4% then fall back down. Maybe shorts are exiting short positions, that there's a lot of people eager to dip in and buy hoping it's been over-sold. Down 50% in a month, you'd hope so!

Bought 23 shares today. My first dip! Looks like the shares have stopped falling!

GM GM went bankrupt, Ford just escaped. But yeah, would have been a great steal, $3 -> 30 share price. But the 2008 crash was far deeper than this. It involved the collapse of finance and a massive confidence collapse. The banks were failing. The housing market had crashed. Houses were being...

Tesla hadn't discounted cars for 6+ years. They discounted some about 2016 when the dealers were making clever discount Model S though supposedly Elon didn't want them to - but was giving them ways to discount them! The last tranch of share sales happened in early December. When your CEO is...

I still drive a Model 3 though. Because it looks cool and is efficient and the supercharger network. Doesn't mean I like the CEO! I'm looking at others now, the MG 4 looks awesome, is a hatchback, and £26k and has a similar 53kWh LFP pack, and an almost identical range! So I think the...

Discounted cars (but not explained that it was for 2023 new tax reasons). Elon selling billions of $ of shares. That the CEO lied about being the last to sell shares. Selling more after saying that's the last sale several times. That doesn't look good! China covid issues. Elon making Twitter...

Is the tide turning? Was as low as $105 or $106 pre-market, now $113.

Opinion amongst my friends in the UK is that Elon has gone off the deep end / is f*ing stupid! Many like me weren't impressed that he went after that British caver in Thailand 3 years ago! That was one of the first signs for me he was a bit unhinged. Paying a private dick $30k to shadow the guy...

I think Tesla has good long term value for anyone picking it up below $100 now it's in the 20ish PE level. I'm surprised to see it come down in a ski-slope rather than bump up and down. The $400 (1 trillion price) was ludicrous, 120x PE at the time was nuts! Maybe it'll bounce off $99.99...

Do you know why it's totally bonkers stupid?! 1. The wiper wipes an arc and is therefore too short to wipe past where the cameras are - so wiping serves NO purpose to clean the cameras. The cameras THINK there's rain on the windscreen - but for the bit I'm looking out it's 100% fine! So again...

The £ is collapsing (cough Brexit cough) - down to 1.135 today. This will make the cars more expensive. Imagine there'll be more price rises. How long until the model 3 starts at £50k? This plus inflation will make the cost of living worse. Push up petrol prices which are bought and sold in $...

FFW and RWD audio in USB playback via voice commands eg "back xx seconds" "forward xx minutes". When listening to an audio book / recorded podcast this would be so useful!!! USB audio resume function. For some reason saying "USB" only half the time makes the music player go to the USB. Doesn't...

Doing a 226 mile (round-trip) drive in a SR+ (refreshed) and hoping to get there and back, but the car predicts just one way is going to use 59% of the battery. So expecting to need a bit of supercharge on the way. But UK prices are £0.48/kWh now so minimising this by doing a 100% charge for the...

This is all things the Tesla app could do. Not check for the weather. But I can't think of a single reason why the windows should be open after sundown. In fact just closing them an hour before sundown would be fine - the sun has very little power at that time. It seems the screen in the car...

Actually it's now more! It's "now" 35p/kWh and rising 40% in October, only some companies if you enter a 1 year fix are putting up their prices to cover the one year fix. My friend got a 41p/kWh offer. Prices went up about 100% a few months ago. My 1yr fix with Octopus went from 13p to 32p/kWh...

That's what I read, but it seems to hit the UK a day late. So if you're umming and r'ring about buying - and hear a story about a US price hike - get in quick in the UK to lock in the price before it changes the day after! I've seen it hit the UK a day late each time. Almost like the UK team...

Read about more price rises yesterday on Electrek - but logging into the UK site I saw the old prices yesterday. Today though: £48,490, £57,490, £61,490 Am pretty sure it was £45,990 £55k and £60k before. Model Y prices I think are up £2000. Are now. £57,990 and £67,990. It's really sad...

The wider market is crashing so I'm trying to sit calm and wait. I watched .com's crash through 2000-2002 (was down £20,000+ at one point as a 25 year old with most of my money in shares) and saw a lot of the same crazy hype about tech over the last few years. Companies going to crazy prices...

How's this for insane. I'm in the UK. I bought a 2nd hand, white, SR+ model 3 with 200 miles on it from Tesla for £38700 in March of 2021. It was one of the last (to ship to the UK) Freemont Nov 2020 "refresh" build with the heatpump. Has the £1000 optional tow-hook too. I've now driven it 6500...

Electricity in the UK is the equivalent of 50c/kWh. To use it for cooling when it can be equally solved by opening windows is like taking a sledgehamme to crack a walnut. I would prefer the car to cool itself naturally with it's windows than use electricity wastefully and needlessly. If a...

Ok, you got me, sometimes I use vent, sometimes I just leave the window open a bit when leaving the car in the sun on the driveway. I'm not even sure which I did last night! The point of the post is the app shows "more than one window is left open" or "drivers side window is open" so can we...

I was actually surprised Tesla was down today given the Indonesia factory news? Shouldn't there be some positive news based on that?

People get scared. I got scared after 2000. That's the money that stops being invested - people's life-savings. There's always going to be pensions and stuff going into the stock market.

A market bottom (remembering what happened after 2000 and 2007) is when: 1. the media that don't cover stocks is talking about the stock market "crash" (just the same as the upside "it's a bubble when the trashy news is talking about the stock market") 2. when stocks that are safe as f******...

The stock market bubble - if we can call the last 2 years that. Is still driven by everyone and their neighbour getting in and buying shares. The dumb money flooding the market. Was it JP Morgan who said I knew the market had hit it's peak when I started getting tips from my shoe-shine boy...

Isn't Apple also sitting on $200bn cash? Tesla is sitting on about $20bn. Apple's cashpile pushes their share price up about $0.2 trillion :)