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There goes your profit. Taxicabs usually carry only liability insurance because comp/collision is WAY too expensive. Most cabs are ten-year-old plus throwaway cars. Uber/Lyft/etc drivers don't usually carry proper insurance for taxicab duty despite their effective usage being the same...

Downsizing to 19" or 18" wheels will give more sidewall to allow tires to absorb potholes with less chance of damage, but there's no guarantees. Even a 15" tire on a 1976 Monte Carlo could get taken out by a pothole under the wrong circumstances. Check with your state or municipality, they may...

I got pushed 2024.14.6 to my 2022 M3P Tuesday evening and drove it yesterday. I got the FSD trial but turned it off so I could use normal TACC without having to deal with the car trying to kill me. I do a "Power Off" from the safety menu followed by a thumbwheel reset after every software push...

I never subscribed to FSD on my M3P, and it wasn't available on my previous cars (one pre-AP 2014 S and an AP1 2015 S.) I got pushed 2024.14.6 last night, which means no more TACC, which is the only thing I use 99% of the time and I have no intent on purchasing or subscribing, not even at the...

Wait until the second module fails then get all three replaced at once, and only have to pay for labor that one time.

AP1 cars (Models S and X equipped with the MobilEye system) would change lanes when instructed via the turn signal. Loved this feature on my used P85DL, no disengagements to change lanes compared to the standard AP on my M3P.

Even Brembo doesn't know exactly what it does. AI is digital bacon. Add it to anything to instantly make it better! A nothingburger tastes like air. A bacon nothingburger... tastes like bacony air!

A possible alternative explanation is here: http://www.coinopdoc.com/images/games/arcade/spy%20hunter/main.JPG

I look forward to seeing your Dragy results from Rockingham (I assume that's the dragstrip you frequent.)

I think the team behind the S3XY Buttons are working on replacement stalks.

The Model S signals worked flawlessly because they're Mercedes parts. I've personally never had an issue with my Model 3 but I've seen a lot of complaints. Maybe I'm not aggressive enough moving the stalk to get it to fail this way?

Sounds like whatever provider Tesla is using for the traffic data is experiencing an outage?

Battery degradation is a product of three things: State of Charge (SoC), temperature and time. In the graphs from the post below, the LFP degradation worsens at 70% charge or higher, compared to 55% for NCA and 60% for NMC. So leaving an LFP car charged to higher than 70% for a length of time...

Pre-curbed, nice. :)

Holy cr@p, that's less than $1 a month.

It is quite possible that is the case and that 2.9 is rounded down from 2.94 but 3.1 is rounded up from 3.05, making the disparity seem larger. But assuming an exact 2.90000 seconds for 0-60, 2.9 divided by 60 then multiplied by 6.21 gives 3.0015 which I would think would be advertised as 3.0...

0-60 MPH in 2.9s is not the same as 0-100 km/hr (62.1 MPH) in 3.1s. At 2.9s 0-60, you're accelerating by 1 MPH every 0.04833 seconds. At 3.1s 0-62.1, you're accelerating by 1 MPH every 0.04992 seconds, roughly 3.28% slower, which seems to match up with the LG vs Panasonic battery differences...

Tesla proudly trumpets 9.23s @155mph quarter mile times for the Model S Plaid. There's a reason they're being silent about the new M3P's quarter-mile times and it has to be one of two things. Either the M3P is too good for roughly half the price of a Model S Plaid and would cannibalize its...

You're probably better off doing this, I suspect Tesla is going to lowball current M3P owners.

I'll keep my current M3P. Just not "enough" to compel me to upgrade.

FWIW, 2024-04-20 00:00 UTC is 2024-04-19 20:00 EDT and 2024-04-19 17:00 PDT (still Friday), so it could get released on "420" and still not yet be a weekend in the Western Hemisphere.

I thought the original Ludicrous package took the 0-60 from 3.2 down to 2.8. This was a $10K option on the P85D IIRC. I'm thinking it's the slightly sleeker LR model allowing it to start to catch-up at the top end. No drag from a spoiler and lighter, more aerodynamic wheels.

Reminds me of this:

It comes with a plastic sheet that may or may not still be present when you take delivery. I wouldn't classify it as a screen protector, it's mainly to prevent fingerprints.

It can take 20-30 seconds of holding the scroll wheels until the screen blanks. I sure wish Tesla would have programmed it to no more than 5-8 seconds, but I suppose they want to be sure you REALLY want to reboot the touchscreen before doing it.

IMO 2.9 isn't sufficient improvement to justify the financial hit I would take replacing my low mileage 2022 M3P with a new car. I'd rather take the much smaller hit of buying a set Atomic Wheels AWzz and 18" tires, and get some of that back by selling the Uberheavy/Pirelli combo, which still...

The replacement powered struts are too short for one thing. IMO it looks like Tesla purchased a poorly-engineered aftermarket kit and is selling them as though it is of their own design.

If you have an LFP battery (newer RWD cars only), charge to 70%. If you have any other type, charge to 55%. Don’t check the car on the app more than once per week (frequently waking up the car will use more energy) and make sure Sentry mode is not in use and you’ll be fine, 5 weeks won’t use...

Not all-time, but you can swipe back and forth in the app to go back to January 2022 when the Tesla app started tracking it.

The Model 3 charge port door is a huge weakness compared to the original Model S charge port door which was a much simpler design IMO. Edit: it looks like the new S has a similarly dumb design as the 3, so the 3 mechanism must be cheaper than the one originally on the S.

Temu is the work of Satan.

It sucks, but I think everyone involved here is fastened via an inclined plane wrapped helically around an axis. From what I understand the plan sold for $2500 max for an out-of-warranty S (but was also discounted to $2000 for a "limited time".) $2000-$2500 isn't an insignificant amount of...

"Track" is too generic a term I suppose. Road Course Mode = extra battery cooling for endurance, more regen to minimize brake fade, stiffer overall suspension (assuming some sort of auto-adjustable suspension like on the S) Oval Mode = even more battery cooling for endurance when drafting, zero...

A lot of them appear to be older ones with chrome trim. I wonder if this is a Tesla used vehicle storage lot?

A few years of training computers to do stuff has nothing on millions of years' worth of evolution of the hairless ape brain.

Yes, it would be nice if the cameras remained in place once they appear until manually dismissed from the screen or a specific forward speed (5 MPH or 8 km/hr maybe) is reached.

AP1 handled much of this better. The MobilEye single-front-camera hardware with radar was better at keeping a consistent gap to the car ahead. (Never available on 3/Y, only earlier S and maybe X.) It was a more limited system than we have currently, but it performed well. Crest a steep hill...

If they make no drivetrain changes and only swap out the rebate-eligible Panasonic pack for a slightly weaker LG non-rebate-eligible pack, they might wind up with those stats.

A two-door hatch or shooting brake body style (and possible rear-seat delete without exposing the electrical innards) would be awesome. Maybe the Model 2 will offer that, but I suppose there won't be a Performance variant.

I suppose the reason they're dropping TACC-only when your car is FSD-enabled is to avoid driver confusion about "which mode" the car is in? While I don't rack up a lot of miles (see signature, I've just hit 5000 miles on a 2022) I use TACC frequently, but Autosteer much less often. (No FSD on...

How old is your 12V?

Google Translate: first peculiarity: during the parking phases, the cameras turn off every time the forward gear is engaged and the direction indicators go off every time you turn: since the Tesla knows exactly that we are entering or exiting a parking lot, it would be nice if in that phase he...

Put it in neutral?

Looks like it will fall on its face after 120 MPH. I need something that pulls all the way to Warp 9.8!

For forum members in Germany, I would guess they'd be the most frequent users of 100+ MPH/160+ km/hr acceleration.

I've owned cars that took more than 15 seconds. The late 1970s and early 1980s were some dark times for ordinary production cars.

This is the way. When was the last time you visited a gas station where the pump was effectively boxed in on three sides? (yes, I know many of you are ICE-free and haven't been to a gas station in 10+ years)

What if this video is just an epic early April Fool troll from Elon and there is no new M3P/L coming - and the car in the video is just an LR with bolt-on upgrade parts that will be available from the Tesla Accessories shop in the future: 20-inch wheels, spoiler, sport seats, diffuser etc. That...

A "foot" isn't really a thing in Europe unless it's attached to your lower leg, and cars don't have legs like horses. :)

Romulan spies have infiltrated Earth, this wreck is proof of the existence of the cloaking device.