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Hey all Just converted Home Assistant to be using the new Fleet API since my vehicle finally got kicked off of Owner API this week. Used Teslemetry for the http proxy, so far so good on that. Next bit of functionality that I am trying to restore is sending a destination to the car. The Tesla...

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Yes, and I maintain that such a lack of planning and action on integrating the car into the rest of a home ESS strategy, let alone a VPP, has been a _GIANT_ strategic blunder on the part of Tesla. Elon was quite simply dead wrong when he claimed V2H and V2G weren't worth it (hoping to sell more...

$17 / kW (-not- kWh) + $0.065/kWh all day every day is the standard pricing for 40kW+ demand users from our local electric co-op. Not going to be that rate everywhere, but it's spot on for here and my example...

Nor TACC. Tesla will absolutely do phantom braking without auto steer being on......

At the time we bought the Y, Tesla was the only OEM making vehicles with access to both Superchargers and CCS. That was _the_ winning factor in our decision then, and is still significant in our decision about what to get next due to being in a rural area with few and far between charging...

Your math is missing demand charges by utilities. It's not a universal, but here's an example with better than SWAG level numbers from my local co-op for my closest Supercharger: Let's say my relatively sleepy local site gets 3 cars that all pull up in a group and start charging at the same...

I have set up Home Assistant to act as my maintenance tracker. It will add to do list items for me automatically when they are due by time or by mileage. This a game changer on keeping up with mx on the 3 vehicles in the family.

Is it truly V4 or yet another V3.4 (V3 cabinets powering V4 dispensers)?

I need two reaction emojis for this... One that's "thanks for sharing", and two "puke all over the floor". That level of obvious and outright corruption I would expect from Nigeria, not the USA. I'm not so naive to think it hasn't happened constantly in the past, but the brazenness of admitting...

Thanks for sharing your observations. Calendar aging affects all lithium based battery chemistries, not just LFP. The amount varies mostly by chemistry type, some by secret sauce additives, storage SOC, and temperature.

The frunk well gets hottest during supercharging in high ambient temps, in my experience. I haven't put a thermometer in there but it gets pretty warm. Fine for clothes or general luggage probably, but not a good place to put perishable food or anything. Most of our road trip emergency supplies...

Same reason the chicken crossed the road, to get to the other side! /s Seriously though, from Gunnison to Crested Butte, you are probably going to/from Crested Butte, as that's kind of a "dead end". However, from the Western Slope to the Front Range, there's 3 main routes: I-70, US-50, US-160...

The three nearest to me are up ~10% since the last time I looked. Still cheaper than gas in this area at least.........

I sincerely hope any employee that was mass laid off from Tesla, then subsequently recruited back sets their minimum compensation at $55B in stock options.

If the Supercharger network is allowed to degrade over time, or even stagnate at it's current level of expansion, that's a huge negative hit to the resale value of every existing Tesla, and the sale price of future vehicles. Ockham's razor is telling me this is just a poorly thought out...

I heard about it here. Not that Elecktrek has a perfect journalistic record, but they're better than Jalopnik at least...... https://electrek.co/2024/04/29/tesla-conducting-more-layoffs-including-entire-supercharger-team/ If it's true, it's proof positive that Musk needs to be replaced as CEO...

After the MT1 truck is released, Telo is talking about making a van variant as their "second" model.

I _might_ rent FSD for the month that I would actually use it for a long road trip. Key word is might. At this point, too many broken hype statements to invest anything in what Full Self Deception might be in the future.

ERCOT had a fun day, according to this: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/electric_overview/balancing_authority/ERCO Looks like a ~9GW solar dip out of ~53GW system load, picked up mostly by methane burning generation, with a hint of coal and battery to boot. Glad it...

Haven't seen that before, 2023 MYLR. I do remember a video with Jeff Dahn talking about high nickel chemistries having a voltage plateau and oxygen dissolution stage when charging through ~70% SOC. If legit and but just a random coding bug, maybe it has something to do with that.

Definitely. The uphill section hurts your efficiency more than the same downhill will help you. You won't be able to regen or coast enough to make up for the extra I²R losses on the uphill unless you slow way way way down. Going up and over terrain is going to be less efficient than covering the...

I predict dancers in costumes designed to look like robot taxis, doing performance art on stage.

Oh these are additional stations to those previously published on the NEVI list? That's much better.

Yay for Dolores, we need way more DCFCs between the 550 and 491 "parallels". Boo for no Cortez, Dove Creek, or Nucla/Naturita.

At least get an adapter with appropriate locking mechanisms, plus temperature monitoring and cutout.

And you connect them both simultaneously through a USB hub, correct?

Is there anything they could do with the old ISS structure(s) to up cycle it? Boost it into a much higher orbit, connect the solar panels to some electronics and make it a massive unmanned communication / sensing platform?

Clearly their goal with all the fast food stops is trying to earn the team name "Greased Lightning" the hard way.

I get the sense that this is a one time take it or lose it trial offer. Would be nice if you could save the one month trial until you needed it for a road trip. We didn't drive much, until one of the bursts when we do. Would rather have it for then vs a month of the car mostly sitting in the...

There is a very definite bug in TACC where it maintains a following distance behind a car / truck in a neighboring lane. I've seen it since new delivery a year ago when a car was in my lane and was a valid following distance target and later changes lanes, and the TACC never resumes the "max"...

We didn't hand over the cashiers check until we had done a static inspection of the vehicle (couldn't drive it but could check exterior and interior cosmetics, lights, windows, etc). Apparently the staff's helpfulness with pre purchase inspection varies by store. We picked the service center in...

Last time I used that Chargepoint CPE250 in Bluff, I got high 70's low 80s kW on a 2023 Model Y. Not amazing speeds but just fine for a long picnic lunch stop in the park across the street.

Ahh, I was thrown off by the "EVSE" box in the diagram being specifically labeled "Tesla Wall Connector"... But yes, 100% agreed that DC coupled straight through from solar to the car and back to the inverter is a great idea. Just waiting for standards to fully settle and the prototype products...

Tesla Wall Connector pulling DC bidirectionally from the car is news to me. Didn't see that in the Gen3 manual. Have a reference for that? I know the EVerest project got a Tesla or two to dispense DC out of the charge port for a few kWh, but that's all I had heard for sure thus far. I know some...

Those exist. Here's one example, though apparently on stop sale for some reason: Ecodrain . I feel like I had heard of another brand a long time ago but don't see it now. Slightly bigger version for an entire city district:

100% agree about the Volt. Really sad that in the past decade there has only been 2 other proper EREVs released in the US really. Especially in the truck space, the OEMs really messed up not bringing those to market ten years ago. As to Tesla's restrictions on resale clause, I have the same...

Previously, I had owned 4x ICEV (including one run on 100% Biodiesel), now an EREV (Chevy Volt), and a BEV (Model Y). EREV is definitely good a "training wheels" route to going full EV. Learn how few amps of charging at home you actually need. Learn how temperature, driving style, towing, etc...

I'm still pretty new to geothermal technology, but it sounds like you understand it pretty well. I'm wondering if there's an economic case for over sizing the plant somewhat to sell higher priced MWh for "peaking", then throttling back down a bit when load relaxes mid day or mid night to...

Another vote for try to live with it at 16A (on board charger modules run in 16A chunks), 20A, or 24A depending on your wiring and other loads in the garage. We've done that for a year/ 11k mi and it's been just fine. Very rarely do we even charge over night, it's usually just ~3 hours in the...

GJ is still a 120kW, per Tesla app and my most recent stop there at the end of December.

I think you're both right in different ways. It takes far more specialized expertise and equipment to plug a well properly. Once the pollution is out of the hole it's extremely difficult to remediate. Pad sites are generally less than acre for small wells here, though there are several per...

Local auto shop or technical school program that could use it to train kids on? Otherwise if you're dead set on junking the thing there's got to be people who would love to harvest the battery modules from it first. I know I'd be there in a minute to do so if I was closer.

The Volt doesn't have a charge target that you can set. If it's plugged in, it goes to ~85% SOC on the top end, and will bring the ICE range extender on at around ~25% SOC IIRC. Though I can bring the ICE on earlier in Hold or Mountain mode. Car really won't let you go too deep into the bottom...

Extra data points for the discussion: 2013 Chevy Volt, in service since Sep 2012. ~99k miles on odometer, estimated 60/40 gasoline to electric miles. 16.5kWh gross, ~10.5 kWh usable at new. LiMNO2 chemistry in pouch format, not exactly what I'd call state of the art for longevity. Plugged in...

I found this article about hazards, regulations, and impact on communities of LNG terminals to be pretty well written. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/liquefied-natural-gas/how-safe-are-lng-terminals-nearby-communities-have-no-way-of-knowing

Please find me a grid on this planet that emits ≥ 1230 gCO2e/kWh. That's how a dirty a grid would need to be to be as bad as gasoline when well-to-wheels emissions are considered. I'll wait.

I wonder what the relative cost / benefit of recycling panels is vs donating to under privileged communities, countries, etc. The main enterprise gets to re-panel, re-inverter, and possibly re-battery with the latest and greatest, hopefully improving profitability and extending the life of...

~9000g COe is the direct tailpipe emissions only. IEA numbers have another 3300g in wasted energy and emissions from refining. Adding in extraction energy and pipelining Alberta tar sands to Houston the number could be as high as 15000g per gallon "well to wheels". Bottom line, is a plug in...