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Just because it is cheaper to make, does not mean Tesla is required to lower the price... That said, the cheaper it is for Tesla to make a vehicle, the easier it is to adjust the price to keep demand high while fending off competitors and keeping market share.

People have been commenting 3 minutes (when you factor in a 8x speedup on the video speed as noted in the video)

Btw. The latest drone video of the giga-press area in Freemont shows stacks of two different large castings. I would hazard a guess that we are now looking at both front and rear single piece Model Y castings. Visible around 4:30

95% hmmmm.... wonder if the OP's car decided the batteries needed balancing. 95% is the battery balancing magic number.

I would have skipped Del Taco. I've found during cold weather, when you get that low if you stop, shutdown, upon return your remaining range drops further.

If it was me, I would tweet the photo at Elon. Might be the fasted way to get it fixed.

What I really wish these apps had was a list of all SC's along the route and distances to each. That way you could just glance at a table and adjust on the fly. That's what I do on long trips (more than one or two SC's). Tabulate the SC's on a notepad and adjust on fly.

73z, Your food options drop off exponentially the further outside of the 495 loop you live. Sterling has a Dunking Donuts, a Mexican place, Sandwich shop, and three marginal Pizza places with even worse wings. Now rumor has it that the local petting zoo just opened a BBQ place. Guess times are...

Coolmanfever, I just buy packets of those really cheap knit gloves for kids. They stretch to fit most adults. No worries if one goes missing. Thin enough not to interfere with driving. Mostly wear them on cold days walking the dog, only wear bulky winter gloves when actually seriously cold out.

So I started the day with at 70% SOC and a cold soaked battery. After two trips to UMass in Worcester, two additional trips to Walmart up in Leominster, and a final trip to Domino's it still has 42 miles of range.The only thing that needed filling was the wiper fluid. Was mostly in the car...

Keep mine in the center console. Toss it on the dash when it is needed.

Am I the only one that tosses my jacket in the backseat before getting in the car to drive? No, I don't preheat. Before leaving I might bump up the charge level on really cold mornings. Otherwise, why waste the electrons.

Once had a pan handler hit me up for cash. Another time watched a lunar eclipse while supercharging. The roof tinting was a bit too much and froze in the parking lot instead.

I waited in line March 31st, 2016 and had to resort to ebay for my diecast.

Last time I was in a service center, they stuck the car on a super charger. Imagine my surprise when I get a notice about idle fees while waiting for them to finish with the car.... Waived, only because it was my first offence.

Yes, the net magnetic field from the two wires inside the cord running current in equal and oposite directions cancel each other out. That said, since opposites attract. The two wires in the cord pull towards each other. Melt the insulator and the wires are free to pull together and short.

Not a great picture, but this is coiled extension cord the kido melted plugging in a space heater. If look on the edges you can see how melted the inner part of the coil is. What was a working cord is fused to the spool and melted enough to be a dead short. Thank goodness the breaker tripped...

Man, After waiting line March 31st 2016, I had to get mine off of ebay... Enjoy!

Looks like this won't be a problem for you, but when you run the cord, make sure you don't coil any excess, like on a spool. I had a kiddo do that with a space heater and melted the cord onto the spool. The more airflow around the cord, the better, the cord will be slightly warm.

Since it's red, they will charge double ;-) (Had a contractor out the other day, as soon as he spotted a red model 3 in the driveway the quote magically doubled. It has to be the red paint)

StephenSergari, you should really read the images he posted of that panel. breakers 23 and 24 are on the same phase. For this to work he would have to put the double pole breaker on 22 and 23. So the opener would need to move to position 24, not 22. Also, the labeling says that panel with 500a...

Don't think that is quite accurate. In Europe I believe only SR+'s with LFP batteries are coming from China. The LR AWD's are still coming from the US. Didn't we just see an article that China is only now starting to plan to make dual motor Model 3's. Imagine my surprise the time I unwittingly...

You could tap into the cars CANBUS to track the power usage down and get really nerdy. They sell kits, not sure if they include the glasses.

Rereading the OP's pictures, they doubled up the breakers by design. So weird, but the rest still applies. Also, the panel says max 125a in a single phase configuration. I assume when wired as the 2 phase panel that this is, the max is also 125a. That thing has the potential for a scary amount...

Can I offer a theory, and its just a theory and I could be completely full of it. [Completely off base, ignore] The breakers in the OP's post look to me like thin 1/2 width breakers. Meaning if it was populated with normal breakers the box would have twelve, not twenty four. Someone used slim...

Been down to around 4% on two different trips. First time was a winter trip to DC, made a bad choice not realizing i would have to pick through Baltimore off the highway and end up at a 72kw urban charger ( can a 72kw urban charger even be considered a super charger? ). The other time was a...

I think you are thinking of this interview from February

I vote for it to also check that the intersection is clear before beeping.

It should really wait until the intersection is clear before dinging... At least in MA, I can't tell you the number of cars that have come barreling through long after the light has changed. The chime means check both ways before gunning it. Need Tesla's with Frick'n LASER'S for the redlight...

I have a 2018 in red, and in two years still haven't been pulled over. Leaving it in Chill might help. Though I may have wound it up to 108 in chill once or twice....

Went with using the center support in out garage... I might be reading this wrong, but sounds like your most convenient solution.

Well, named the nav. in a nod to the B-58. Bich'in Betty ;)

But HoosierDaddy, like toilet paper, what if they are sold out for the quarter?

I thought they raised prices on Black Friday. Based on how well the last batch sold for, I'm waiting for them to introduce founders series Tequila at 10x the price.

...MCU (pretty sure that is still assembled in China).

It really depends what they wired to the box. If they used 10awg wire and a 30amp breaker the OP will be limited to using a NEMA 14-30 outlet (24a vs. 32a max charge rate). That's why posting a picture of what he has will help. Depending on what they wired in it could vary from 15a to 50a...

Why are there dimples on a spinning golf ball? To give it lift. Assuming he had any tread left (a very big assumption) the tire should have generated some additional lift as it sailed into that bathroom wall. Wonder if we should ask Elon for tires that generate lift like a golf ball...

Here is a good video example of an illegally parked car getting picked up in the middle. This spot has a youtube channel for all the cars that get towed from it. Quite a few of the tows fall in the category of that's gonna leave a mark. These trucks are brutal. Fast forward to 4:15 seconds

There is also a very good chance he was still accelerating when he impacted the pole. For some reason I doubt he was like dude, this is the speed to drive at and was traveling at constant speed.

If you actually read it, they are talking about adjusting the lens put in front of the laser to bring the parallel beam from the laser to a sharp focus. Without that lens it will never come to a focus. You always need a lens to focus a laser. Reading between the lines, that diode laser is far...

Here's hoping it forces tesla to release one. Though, they still haven't released a tt30 (120v 30a mainly used by RV's) despite more than one third party having the adapter available.

This "rate of speed" debate reminds me of the equally cringe worthy "focused like a laser". Lasers emit a beam of parallel photons that do not come to a point or focus. If you want something to come to a point (focus), you need a lens. Drives me crazy, like I want to pop the car into plaid and...

I'm just waiting for him to upload the dash cam footage. Assuming he didn't launch that USB stick into the next county.

How nice it would be to get in the car, take a nap, then have the car wake me when I get home.

Sigh, I need a better cellphone camera. It was raining today and the starburst pattern from above was so impressive.

We have a two bay garage and placed the HPWC on the center pillar between the two garage doors. It makes life easy, especially if you park in the right hand bay. Get out of the car, lift plug, insert. Don't even need to coil and uncoil. It's easier than using a pump at a gas station. If I had...

31 states require the front plate. 19 don't. Never having lived in a state that doesn't require a front plate, I have always found the debate a bit odd.

Looks like the ding i got when my air compressor hose went flying across the garage.

If it remember correctly, when Tesla was first ramping the Model 3 line, they had two pain points. Batteries and the paint shop. At the time, there where several articles about red making a complete mess of the paint shop requiring extra cleanup and more labor. Of course this was in 2018, and...

Have a similar problem. When I pull into a pull through parking spot, after doing what ever I'm doing if I put it into drive and pull out, the mirror is pointing down. If I reverse out of the spot I do not have the problem. The work around when this happens, I select my profile and click it. It...