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Someone in the Facebook Roadster group posted a link to a Reddit discussion about a Roadster that's abandoned on the street in San Francisco. Not sure the VIN, but maybe someone here knows what's up with it and could even arrange a rescue.

During the pandemic I haven't had much use for driving the Roadster, so it's mostly been sitting in the garage. Back in August it started having what seemed like periodic data communication problems. The gauges on the instrument panel would sometimes just go to zero and various errors about...

This has been out for two days, I'm surprised it's not here. Only a few seconds, but it looks like a special effect rather than a real car. Tesla on Instagram: “Zero to sixty faster than you can read this caption tesla.com/roadster”

In a little less than 9.5 years, and countless sets of rear tires. Has anyone got more (150K miles is about 250 km)?

I got my 3.0 upgrade in early October, so it's been about 4 months. In that time, I've put roughly 6K miles on the battery. When I first got it, I did a couple of range charges both to see what it was showing and also because I had to do a long drive (and then back). The best that I saw was...

Did anyone else notice that at the end of the self-driving demo video that Tesla put out (around 2:01) that there's an orange Roadster (Elise?) parked a few spaces in front of the Model S? Somehow, I doubt that that happened by accident. I, at least, enjoyed it. Full Self-Driving...

My Roadster's reliability problems are really starting to get to me. I think it's been in the shop at least three months out of the past year, and after having it back for a grand total of 34 hours from the last appointment, it's headed back tomorrow. While Tesla has been wonderful about...

I was wondering how the odometer would fit the extra digit. I found out this morning, a few days short of 6.5 years since I got my Roadster (#670). My battery has lost about 13% of capacity (range mode charge of 212), which is much better than Tesla said to expect when they sold the car...

My Roadster's within a few hundred miles of going out of warranty, so I took it in for its 36K maintainence. Since the warranty was almost done, my local Ranger decided to go above and beyond and look for any possible problems with the car. In addition to more normal things, he found a tiny...

Before there was the ICE, there was the ECE: The world's oldest running car up for sale I think that its CO2/mile is probably somewhat poor, however, even if you don't count the 45 minute warmup time.

The Alternative Energy Fallacy | The Motley Fool You just can't make this stuff up, folks. Well, I guess the guy at the Motley Fool can.

For a while it's been quite difficult to open and close the trunk on my Roadster. I commonly would have to hit the trunk release button multiple times, and it got to the point that the only way I could get it to open sometimes was to sit on the trunk lid over the left hand latch. I had the...

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Back when I was waiting for my Roadster to arrive and I had more time to think (due to spending no time driving it), I worked out a rough cut at the amount of fuel that is used in moving the gliders by plane from London to SJC. This is a very loose estimate, so at best you should trust only the...

I've noticed that the trunk switch nearly always takes three tries to open the trunk. This happens both with the remote and with the button inside the car. It sounds to me like it's trying the left latch, then the right one then both. Does this happen to others, or is it just me? If it is...

I've gotten used to people taking pictures or videos of my car, waving, giving me thumbs up, cupping their ears (as if to say "where's the noise"), and of course asking me about the car. I even had the entire staff of a Jiffy Lube abandon their posts when I stopped at a nearby store...

It's spring here in Seattle, and that means warmer temperatures. With that, I've noticed substantially improved energy efficiency in my Roadster. On my drive in to work this morning (temp about 60F, about a 50/50 mixture of freeway and surface streets), I used just under one ideal mile per...

On the way in to work yesterday, I was listening to the Dave Ross show (a local Seattle radio talk show). Dave was interviewing Repblican state Senator Mike Hewitt. They were discussing Washington State's financial problems, and Dave asked Senator Hewitt if there were any tax increases that...

Tesla's made quite a point of spending no money on advertising, but instead relying on free press coverage and word-of-mouth. Obviously, this couldn't go on forever. Today while looking at the (excellent) fivethirtyeight.com website, I noticed a Tesla ad. I've included a screen shot, the...

I’ve made a rough estimate of the relative carbon footprint of driving a Tesla Roadster and riding a bicycle. You might think that a bike has no carbon footprint, since it doesn’t have an engine. Really, though, it’s powered by a person and the person is in turn powered by burning...

It's been getting colder here in Seattle, and so I've started using the cabin heater more. It's really noticable how much battery it uses. I did a little experiment upon arriving home tonight. After pulling in the garage (no worries about carbon monoxide here!), I put the car in park and...

I've been thinking about richkae's drive from Menlo Park to Seattle, in part because I might want to do the same thing when my car's ready if my work schedule allows. So, I was wondering if you were going to drive a Roadster on a long road trip, how fast should you drive to maximize travel...

All of these claims that the Roadster doesn't use any oil at all are hooey. I looked in the owners' manual, and it clearly says that the Roadster holds 1.6 quarts of brake fluid and 1.4 quarts of transmission fluid. If it "uses" them up in, say, 48,000 miles (there's no service interval for...