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Battery warranty on both is 120k miles, but the 2018 will also expire in 2026 assuming you stay under that mileage. I love my 2019. I have heard of some recent problems with and getting parts to repair PTC heaters if they fail. If this remains true, it would be a vote in favor of the 2022...

Any update? I was in the area earlier this week but didn't think to drive by.

Just wanted to post a long term update on the General Altimax RT43 tires on 18" Aero wheels. Tires have a UTQG of 700 and a mileage warranty of 70,000. These are long lasting tires on a car famous for going through tires quickly. It's not difficult for me to believe these tires when...

For me it would really depend whether you have working heat or not and forecast temperatures when you're driving. Windshields tend to fog terribly under 40°F with no heat and you'll end up driving with a window open. You're a danger to yourself and others if the windshield fogs inside, IMO.

Your EVSE is failed. Part of the purpose for the "release" button on an EVSE is to open the contact to the high voltage to your EVSE's plug. The whole purpose for it is to monitor a resistance across two signal pins and then (and only then) enable a relay that energizes the 120/240V pins in...

Unfortunately this is by design and isn't exclusive to Tesla. Had same experience with GM, which updates a warmer exterior temperature immediately, but doesn't update a colder exterior temperature for 15 minutes. At least in the Tesla case, the temperature does slowly and gradually trend...

Was looking for details on this beyond the news story. Sounds like telematics failed and stations showed empty when there were lines at a couple. I guess Oak Brook was the one in the video.

Scale of Net Premiums vs the last few days is crazy. Instant 50 vs single digits.

The puck centering knobs that I 3D printed for my Model 3 years ago were 25.7mm and fit snugly enough to hold the puck in easily. So snugly in fact that I've driven away with one still attached and had opportunity to grab it 10+ miles later when I remembered that I didn't put it away. I...

Will be great to see this one get built. I was very near the location today but didn't know where to look. I had to divert 15 miles west of here to Worthington Campus View through a traffic laden beltway today to get enough charge to go back east.

Just providing some late follow-up for anyone interested in RT43 or now RT45 General Altimax tires. My tires have made it to 60k miles and could have probably done a little better with more attention to rotation. I went a little long this last time between rotations and am nearly at the wear...

Looking forward to this one and Ripley WV. Just wish there was something coming around Buckeye Lake as well.

Sorry to bring back a zombie thread, but I'm experiencing the same behavior. No more green light chimes and very intermittent Home Link since software 2023.32.7. I'm installing 32.9 now with the hopes this is resolved.

Checked in Friday and things are in the same state - power at meter but cabinets down with covers on.

This spot is great placement on the interstate, although the Sheetz has a bit of an odd traffic pattern to get to, and from memory the lot is pretty crowded already. I pass through and would probably take advantage monthly.

This is awesome and we definitely needed something on I77 towards Canton. Now we just need one somewhere on the East side of Columbus around Pataskala or thereabouts.

LOL - I'm way behind on my reading. How about 19 days as of this morning :) Somehow we lost another week of 5% days somewhere down the line.

I'm not sure you have the right idea about what problem V2G is trying to solve. V2G will need to work hand-in-hand with utility programs to help peak-shave load to be useful. Deployed and used in a fleet, it could substantially help the grid if there are incentives built-in for consumers to...

Charging income stream focus. If they didn't lose the Street already, this might bring things back into focus.

They can do this because they're not counting on (as many) third party suppliers for integrated components. 48v will virtually guarantee that they won't be able to get a component off the shelf today.

Only 14 more 5% days needed for the ATH now. Getting closer LOL

As of this morning we needed just under 17 - 5% days to get back to ATH. Hopefully we can continue to mark that as 16 or less today.

That was a neat math experiment. A busy supercharger isn't a reasonable expectation to go off-grid. The quantities are just too big. Lets say the average high load is 1MW for a set of 4-8 stalls, you'd want a 4MWh battery bank and probably 1MW of solar to be off grid. That's 2000 - 500w...

Going the other direction and saying it wasn't EA's fault. Why would Tesla take the liability to allow Rivians (this example) to charge on their network if it was a vehicle failure causing the charger to let its smoke out?

I think its naive to believe that the EV mandates will impact anyone beyond consumers. Legacy auto manufacturers will be propped up to support the Defense industry if nothing else. I don't see an all-electric warfare in our future, and we can't lose our ability to easily create chassis for...

The real point being that just like mainstream auto is trying to milk the last little bit of profit from the ICE, Toyota also benefits from milking the hybrid drivetrain for all its worth as quickly as they can. Understandably until recently they had the technological advantage over everyone...

I highly recommend the Emporia Vue to monitor your energy use on multiple circuits in the house. I used a cheap clamp-on ammeter to determine which circuits would be best to monitor, and the Vue gives you 8 to 16 possible inputs to look at. For a 2 EV household, we find that charging...

Good thing is Natural Gas prices cratered in the last month from roughly $10/therm to about $3/therm. Depending on how long term your utility’s natural gas contracts are for, they might see some benefit and be able to pass it along. 46 cents is unreal.

I keep listening and not hearing anything about a plan for V2G/V2L complimenting Stationary Storage and what Tesla's plans are around that. I really believe the country will need to figure that out in in 2025 and shortly thereafter to support retiring utility generation.

Nah, we'll be there a month quicker at only 1076 days :)

Looking forward to this also. Its placement is better than the Grove City one for our Columbus trips. If only we could get one on the east side around Buckeye Lake.

This Z folding shelf was in the 2023 model I demo drove a few weeks ago. I was impressed with how thick and well built it seemed, and I imagine it creates a good bit of sound deadening from the hatch area. I've heard this was an issue with older Model Y's.

You're better off than you think. Make it a habit to take the adapter with the car. That way if you're out and about and find public charging you can take advantage when needed. I keep mine in the side door pocket although there are many options. When you do that you can hang the J1772 as...

Only 22 more consecutive 5% days needed now!

The old 240v, 30A Leaf EVSE will be perfect. Use it for a while and I doubt you'll spend any time thinking about getting anything faster/more powerful.

You may want to verify that it’s a 30-32A charger. While usable, a 16A charger from an older Leaf would be significantly slower.

Many thanks for this post and your story. I’ve done the back calculations to see how poor of a decision it was to buy the car instead of the stock in May 2019! It’s great to see results from someone who did the opposite. Hopefully I’ve learned my lesson and get firmly onboard for the next...

If you haven't had the unfortunate pleasure of pumping gas lately, they intentionally slow the pumps down so that you have to hear at least a 3 minute series of ads every 10 gallons. Last time I was pressing keypad buttons for over a minute just to get the pump enabled! Any F350 worth its...

Failing module in your onboard charger potentially Charging limited to 24 amps

I can recommend the Emporia Vue as a really good energy monitoring system that isn’t all that expensive relative to what it can do. Would be nice to know where your energy is going and that will help. I can give relative numbers to my house in Ohio after a year’s use of energy monitoring. My...

At 62k I’ve put one set of tires on and replaced wiper blades for maintenance activites. I had the UCA ball joint seize under warranty at around 30k miles and was replaced in a day, during which they gave me a loaner Signature Model S to use. I think I’ve spent a little more in modificaions...

The 279 mile "Standard Range" AWD Y that has popped up in inventory for a couple of thousand less would still be "in the money" for the credit. Perhaps that's the longer term plan, making that $13k cut more of a $10k or less cut longer term when you can get some traction with lawmakers on...

Is there an over/under on how long the drastic price cuts last to levelize the supply/demand curves? These numbers a little made up for illustration, but if there were just under 4,500 purchases/deliveries per day last quarter levelized and you're getting 10k orders per day with the price cut...

This - exactly this has been my point. Legacy auto dealerships have had similar percentage differences charged to different customers on the same business day. I don't recall timing, but prices dropped 10% or more after I bought my 3 in 2019, but I'll still be going back to the well - maybe...

We seem to have made it through the holidays in the US without huge queues becoming a problem this year. With the production ramp and price cuts on all Tesla models, what are the chances that once lonely superchargers become quickly overcrowded? Before the end of the year push we already had...

More like socialism where everyone gets the same price on a given day. Ford or Toyota are more capitalist. The second customer for a Camry might pay $5,000 more than the fourth customer, but neither knows for sure what the other one paid. Both customers are pleased with their purchase and...

Ball joint seizes and it’s thought to be due to moisture intrusion into the boot. Can be alleviated by adding grease, there are YouTube videos about it. Tesla did some pre-emotive sealing of the control arm later to address as well. There is no mistaking the sound when it seizes - car...

Bigger picture, Tesla just torpedoed the whole new car industry that hasn’t yet fully acknowledged that we’re no longer in an economy for big market adjustments. Tesla the company will continue to be supply limited this quarter now, mainly because they’re nimble enough to respond to external...

You're fortunate, this is hardly ever an issue for Tesla Superchargers. If you had a DCFC EV, you would be intimately familiar with and frustrated by the lack of reliability of the chargers. Things are better now, but not very long ago you wouldn't have even had bail-out options for a...

One of the things recommended to me early was "Gummi Pflege Stift". It seems to really work.