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It's typically about four increases per year, for the past 10-15 years, last time I checked....

AB1999 is dead for this legislative session, so it's not going to come up for a vote in the near future. At least for PG&E territory, the new fixed charge won't come into effect a year later in 2026 for some reason, so we can only hope on AB1999 to come up before then....

I was wondering why AB1999 was not a slam dunk, to cap or repeal the fixed monthly charge proposal. Apparently it was "tabled" by the CA House Speaker in a procedural maneuver, so never had a chance to come up for a vote. So basically crony politics between the House Speaker and Newsom....

I just did some CPUC math in the other thread, which suggests for PG&E about a 4.5 cent reduction on baseline usage, and 3.5-4.5 cents on higher usage - based solely on the limited data CPUC provided: CA electricity bills will have new fixed fees based on income However, the same CPUC math...

Let's look at their math another way, let's look just at the above $62K buckets (thus higher-income includes most of the working poor and middle-class as well) The low usage bucket averages $10 more using 313kwh monthly average. Since the fixed monthly fee is $24, then the rate on the first...

Not only is it regressive (lower incomes pay more), but this data painted by CPUC does not even make sense, as it somehow suggests that the vast majority of groups will benefit, i.e. pay less than they do now. But this is supposed to be revenue-neutral zero-sum game, the $24 fixed fee will be...

Model S 60 to 75 unlock eventually dropped to $2K IIRC, I think most took it at that price. I think 70 to 75 unlock also was $500 in that same timeframe. So there have been unlocks cheaper than $3K before. But as before, the value is subjective and dependent on personal situation....

500k miles is for no Tesla new or old. The post Musk made in 2019 was really referencing 1500 charge cycles per Model 3 battery module before it degrades, unfortunately entire packs (comprised of more than a dozen modules) fail for any number of reasons, including cell failure within a module...

Aren't cool spring days the time when spot energy prices tend to go negative in California, i.e. abundance of solar and lack of energy need for heating/cooling? Makes total sense to store the excess in batteries rather than "selling" at a negative price - well, that's true in general, but...

How does one tell if it's a original Gen 1 vs the later Gen 1? I bought a secondhand Gen 1 back in 2019, and I did download a couple of different manuals I found online - I notice now that one manual doesn't show a 90A dipswitch setting, the other does. But since I've only used mine at 24A...

Congrats! I'm curious if you observed the installation, and whether they indeed just kept in place your existing controller/gateway, and whether any other components/boxes were either added or removed (aside from the 5 batteries of course)... If mainly just adding the 5P's, hope you got a...

I'd also guess it's a dying 12V battery. My elderly parents don't drive much, 11K miles on 2018 M3 LR, and often car sits for 7-10 days at a time. Like you, typically very low vampire drain while it's sitting in their garage, but a few years ago they suddenly saw huge vampire drain - only...

I have to honestly admit that though I've frequented the Chipotle, Panera and other food on the other end of this shopping complex, I've never visited this bagel shop nor the CVS, and have entirely never realized there was a parking area over here! My guess is that all 12 will be in one row...

I hadn't yet seen this thread, so imagine my shock when I was waiting on the road here to turn right into the parking lot, glance to my right and see three white Supercharger cabinets staring right back at me! This will be the closest Supercharger to home by travel distance (not that I...

Surprised by the amount of snow in the photos, aren't the cherry blossoms supposed to start blooming there next week? Last year we visited Tokyo in early April and was already well past the peak bloom...

About par for this stretch of El Camino, the one slightly north at San Antonio Rd has been sitting a few months longer, as well as maybe the one a bit south in Sunnyvale...

Maybe the used Bolt's are not worth much for resale, but my friend who has one of the early vintage models like yours was ecstatic to get a brand-new battery last year due to the recall - so more than satisfied to keep using it for years to come on his commute (which is what he's always done...

I actually stumbled across the MCE app when exploring alternatives to Charge on Solar (since I don't have a Powerwall), even though I'm in SVCE land. Again the SVCE Gridshift is so poorly reviewed, I dare not even try it. So even though the MCE one says you have to be a MCE customer, I wonder...

One small caveat with the single-purpose apps like the MCE one that need access to your Tesla account - in this case to not just control your car's charging but presumably also to monitor the car's battery level: Often the programmers are just programming to many API's, in this case to the...

I'm not a super expert on insurance, but it seems to me as long as he paid for minimal insurance, you're fully covered, because YOUR own insurance will pay you everything but your collision deductible, and then when your insurance goes after his insurance, they'll recover at least enough for...

There was a Sunset magazine design house smack-dab in SF's MIssion District about 15 years ago, that had a working wind turbine on the roof, partially visible here: Not a huge one, but working nonetheless - not sure how much energy it could produce though. A beautiful modern home, but...

Thanks for finding those - the first one is probably what I've been looking around for, I think, with the suggestion of adding a pre-charge circuit. I would get me to 960W, there's no 20A input limit, just output limit, is that correct? The second one again is too small for my use case, 15A...

Thanks, appreciate the explanation and when the pre-charge circuit is useful! Yes, in various solar/battery forums, there's definitely some experimental hit-and-miss across different DC power sources and across different power station brands. Some cases the MPPT controller hunts endlessly...

Up until our two Tesla's, we'd rarely bought brand-new in our household, so I don't have that much experience with gap coverage - we didn't get it with our Model S, but we did for the first time with our Model 3. I was just curious, when you shop and switch insurers on a car you already own...

I think again the issue, at least for my use case, is the limited input or output current, the largest in that listing only does 6A out at 48V, or 288W. It's interesting that there are multiple solutions previously discussed in the thread to do > 1200W using a DC-AC 12V inverter to output AC...

Thanks to all the folks for the multiple comments and replies. Yes, I think I was also fooled by the wattage rating, I was looking at something like this 1500W one: Amazon . Well, I didn't completely ignore the current limits, this one had a 30A rating, but I was only thinking of the output...

So the last deep discussions of using the DC-DC converter under the Model 3 seats to recharge a battery power station was about 18 months ago. Has anyone done this more recently? Fast-forward to the present, power stations are basically available in "whole-home" form factors. My power station...

I remember putting down a $100 non-refundable deposit on the Nissan Leaf back around 2009-2010 to hold a place in line, a year or two before it was released, after going to a big local Leaf event. After the initial version was revealed to only have like a 73-mile EPA range, I opted not to order...

Since the OP hasn't even acknowledged this suggestion, I'm going to take a wild speculative guess - based on the pic showing none of his co-workers doing it either. The partially-coiled portion looks like they give the workers a relatively small round-flat storage bag to store it in your car...

Certainly makes sense. I would observe they frequently tend to "overproduce" at the end of each quarter, in the sense that the factories keep churning out cars to the end of the quarter (short shutdowns are usually at the start of the next quarter) - and those made in the last few weeks can't...

Based on research into qualified heat pumps, I think you're good (*I'm a layman, not tax adviser). But if you want to be thorough in your due diligence, a few things I saw on Windows, that are analogous to mine on Heat Pumps: -it can be hard to find what is the most current Energy Star...

Yes, I've looked up that piece for my previous 2016.5 Model S, if we're looking at the piece below the doors, that runs from wheel to wheel. Is that the right side, front wheel we're looking at? I only looked it up because I thought I'd cracked/split mine near the rear wheel swiping a curb -...

In addition to the games they play showing or hiding the inventory page on the website, people have also observed over several years now, that Tesla tends to slowly drop the inventory price on the listings over a span of several days, to see who bites, and then for the ones unsold, will bring...

I was not able to attend the webinar live, but I did register and they did helpfully offer download links for the slides. Most of Part 1, 2, 3 more relevant to builders of affordable and multi-family housing, but a small slice of Part 3 was about HEEHRA that was fairly agnostic to single-family...

TBH, I'm finding similar confusion wrt the efficiency qualifications for the heat pump. At the end of the day, it does boil down to specific performance metrics, e.g. SEER, SEER2, HSPF, sure everyone acknowledges that. But the IRA 25C section specifies those more categorically as "heat pumps...

Form 5695 on your tax return, as holeydonut helpfully linked in the first post, is where you claim everything when you file your return. For the heat pumps I've been talking about, they're on Section B, Line 29, for example. You claim it, and it offsets the taxes you'd normally pay on your...

Yes, some of the local rebates including the one from my CCA require replacing, or removing, the gas furnace for sure. The federal one does not, but the system components must match an eligible AHRI certificate in the database - it could be missing if it's not efficient enough, or I guess if...

I posted in the other thread that I've just started looking at the same, only mine is a 96% efficient condensing gas furnace, and I have a 60-year old A/C unit that still sitting on it despite not working in 20+ years. But I think I just realized that only Energy Star certified heat pumps will...

I've got two HVAC contractors coming tomorrow to take a look at my setup for some heat pump quotes. This might be a bit of a bummer regarding the both the 30%/$2K tax credit and the coming HEEHRA tax credit programs - I want to keep my existing 96% efficient furnace, but add the heat pump for...

This seems like the popular forum for "is it totaled" type accident threads, but that's not my question. My Model S was indeed totaled about 7 months ago by a drunk driver, and last time I saw it was at the insurance auction yard, to retrieve my personal belongings. I believe the 12V was...

I was just comparing to when I last checked a few days ago, many of the new inventory cars were $4K off with no mileage on them, so only a $1K difference. But just checked inventory again today - many SR RWD cars are $5K off with no mileage, so even nicer deal than you posted. But most of...

That's a great price, but note that's not just an inventory car, but a demo car with 490 miles. In fact the additional $1000 or so vs a no-mileage inventory car is rather modest - back in the day, I had a $3900 showroom discount on my Model S demo with 440 miles (still registered as new car)...

Thanks for that headsup, I registered though I'm not sure I'll be able to join the Zoom at that time - but I will report back anything I find out if I do make it. More I think about it, more I think any HVAC contractor that signs on for the point-of-sale rebates will raise any bids by at least...

What do folks think of the timing of getting a heat pump upgrade? I believe there is currently the 30% federal tax credit available already, but another portion of the IRA is the High-Efficiency Electric Home Rebate Program (HEEHRA), which can provide up to $8000 of the cost of a heat pump...

I somewhat apologize for bringing Prius into the thread, as it's a bit off-topic ecosystems comparison. But from my earlier post before that, degradation is not how most packs are failing, before or after 8-year warranty. They fail in other ways though, it's not necessarily a high %, as yet...

Nice that they're offering that expansion discount now that brings additional Powerwalls down closer to mainly just the additional equipment, and not like a fresh new install. Though that pre-discount installation price of $2300, if that's what they're charging in Houston for a fresh PW install...

I am somewhat surprised as well given my history with Prius 3rd-party repair ecosystem. By 2011 when I had the HV battery pre-emptively replaced outside of warranty in my 2002, there were not only a couple of dedicated Prius/hybrid repair garages nearby, but also starting to be some small...

Then given they already had 7 years of experience with the Model S packs by then, plus had already both designed and started shipping the Model 3 packs understanding what the serviceability of the packs was, he shouldn't have made the outright statement in 2019 about module-level servicing and...

I did my best to measure idle consumption (self-consumption at zero load or close to it, with both AC inverter on and off). But before I elaborate further, here's the rub, we know that self-consumption and DC-AC efficiency (or conversely, DC-AC conversion losses) are inherently related - but...

Yes, my situation is relatively rare, but it's actually in the pictures - you might have to zoom in a bit, but the meter-integrated main panel is in the background, and PG&E BPTM (backup power transfer meter) is a meter socket behind the meter - you can only see the black BPTM cable sticking out...