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FWIW, on the last drive from Boston to NJ, the M3 LR was getting 220 W-hr/mile or so, better than the rated 260. Warm temperatures: check Max speed below 70: check Three or four traffic jams/slowdowns with speeds less than 50: check No surprise, but nice nonetheless.

All right. I understand ROI from this perspective, I think. For one thing, take businesses: They buy capital equipment and then, on a schedule, reduce the value of said equipment on a fixed basis; I believe there's tax implications that make it advantageous to do so. Say that this reduction in...

Um. Your situation is your situation, of course, but let me point out a couple-three things. Back in the day when the house was being built, the SO and I, both engineers, sat down with a few web-based tools (njcleanenergy.com, at the time), figured out how big a set of panels and inverters we'd...

Nope. In the post I read about the fix, the guy used something like denatured alcohol or some other solvent. I don’t remember what, but using anything stronger than the usual ammonia-based cleaners has to be approached with caution.

Um. Recently had a 2021 MY develop a case of water droplets in the left fender camera. Replaced by a mobile tech under warranty. Second: with exactly the correct angle to the left or right by the sun, one can get a message like that. Not recently, but it’s happened. On a straight east-west...

Um. Please take that back? The SO and I had 9 kW of amorphous silicon cells installed on the roof in mid 2008. Total max output power (not normally hit, the sun has to be at just the right angle on a clear day) is 7.8 kW using two inverters. There was some fump-de-dump with the bureaucracy, so...

Hokay! Looked at the Fancy-Dancy release notes and decided to take it for a short drive. Yeah, it's FSDS 12.3.6 so, in theory, no change. And, while the car got caught downloading a separate Games Update (there's... games updates...), no new map yet. Turned on the Improved Visualization. Hmm...

All right. Welcome to "phantom braking". For those of us who've been funning around with various beta versions of FSD and/or highway autopilot, There Was A Time when this would happen, I dunno, every 10 to 50 miles or so. The car would see some shadow or bridge abutment, think that there was...

Interesting. Burned my check around 1 p.m. today; nothing, so I was sad. When the SO came by with her MY later, checked it around 3 p.m., and there it was. While it was downloading, checked mine again (yes, I'm an idiot) and, nope. And while listening to videos around 8:30 p.m., this...

Funny you should mention that. Was on my way from the Cape back to NJ when got notification that there was an update available; sometime early last year. Next SC the SO and I stopped at had wi-fi. Might have been in South Carolina somewhere. Was pleasantly surprised and did the update then and...

Yep.One can always do that. But, with rare exceptions, one has to be connected to wi-fi in order to download the package.

Funny. A large number of recent Supercharger sites now provide freebie wi-fi, with a Tesla SSID that the car will automagically connect to. Given, it's probably for punters who want to stream movies or some such. But I've actually done a Tesla software update on such a thing. Anything like...

All right. So, I take it back about the fear and loathing. But.. something doesn't seem quite right in your description. The SO and I drive all over the place with FSD and its monitoring. This year, it's been three or four trips back and forth between NJ and Boston as well as a fun trip from NJ...

Already answered above. Basic Cruise Control (TACC and Lanekeep) is always there, but you have to make sure that the correct buttons are hit in the correct sequence.

Being over here on the Mid-Atlantic coast, the SO and I occasionally drive into NYC for this and that. Have had no qualms over the years about handing the key card off to a parking lot attendant. Or doing so even when we drove ICEs around. First year we had a Tesla we confirmed that the...

So, let me get this straight. You don't have FSD, "J" or not. You show up here to tell us all just how dangerous it is. You seem to claim that There Will Never Be Any Change In the Software, So If It Wasn't Good For Me Back Then, It Will Never Be Good, Ever. Then, on the other hand, there...

Um. Got three or so friends with relatively new MYs. One of them has bought FSD, another is thinking about it for long drives. Of course, as a Founding Member of the Junk Brigade, I imagine that any conversations with your friends about FSD are going to end with, "Don't Get It, Don't Get It...

OOoKaaay. FSD in heavy rain/fog/mist, in my experience, first puts up a "FSD may be degraded" message, usually when the first rain drops fall; then drops the speed set point (at least, on limited access highways) to first, 5 mph above the posted limit; then the limit; then 5 mph below the limit...

Well, I am a hardware design engineer and had a career doing this and that with temperature sensors, fans, thermocouples, and all that. So, not that I've ever tried to disassemble a Tesla, I kinda know how these things go. I believe you about the RTD. I dunno about that handle, though. It has...

A determined enough thief can snag a Tesla. This usually involves putting it into a shipping container ASAP. The shipping container, being steel, is a decent Faraday Cage. The occasional victim sometimes discovers their stolen car being driven around in Africa or something. The other thing...

Uh. Sure. But the 2018 M3 I had until November of last year was a Long Range rear wheel drive. OK, so Tesla doesn't ship many variants of rear wheel drive cars these days, but?

FWIW, a friend of the SO's and mine bought a MY earlier this year on a referral, meaning that we got referral points. In the U.S., anyway, this lets one convert the points into various kinds of swag, be it those little trays in the arm rests, enhanced connectivity, various articles of clothing...

Cool. Looks like you had a no-kidding bad NACS handle. Whether it was a badly connected wire->connector joint, something wrong with the connector, or just an old-timey bad temperature sensor, looks like the problem's solved now. Interesting about the 111F being read off the handle. I'm always...

Model 3 Standard Range is limited to 32A. The Model 3 Long Range and Performance cars can do 48A.

Hokay. There's a few interesting tidbits here. Yep, you're right: At Max Power, a Supercharger blows all those Mobile Connector & Internal Rectifier stuff out of the water in terms of speed. But, as usual, it's not so simple. The main point here: At any given battery State of Charge (SOC)...

Yeah.. I happen to have a Generation 2 Tesla Wall Connector in the garage. The cable on it is Big and Thick, likely because of that 80A it can do. The newer Gen 3 TWC's only do 48A max - and the cable is a lot thinner 😁. So, if Tesla went for 80A and still wanted the energy star certification...

Hokay. Let's get this clear: A Tesla has two ways of getting energy into the battery: Using the Mobile Connector, connect some species of AC power (in the North American market, this is single phase 120 VAC or 240 VAC). This gets rectified by (up to) three 16A capability rectifiers to a DC...

Um. Minor question: You did know you were buying a Standard Range Tesla, right? On the positive side, I guess: At this time, No new Tesla, including Cybertrucks and Model S's, accept more than 48A charging current. (There's exceptions for Really Old Model S's, which could charge at 80A, and...

Actually.. I find it a bit slow when parking in a lot. But where I really see the benefit is parallel parking on the street. It does a decent job and doesn't (a) bang the cars front and rear and (b) doesn't scrape the rims on the curb. And when it does find a parallel parking solution, it tends...

Hokay, people have been stating, "Rear Wheel Drive! Rear Wheel Drive!". And somehow conflating that with 32A on a Tesla Wall Connector. I'm here to be one of those picky people who Put Things Straight. It's not whether it's Rear Wheel Drive or not; it's whether it's a Long Range Tesla or not...

More like 5 mph or so.

Actually.. On the last few days took a trip to Boston and back, about 500 miles. Had three (3) phantom braking events. Always when approaching some deeply shaded section of the road on a bright, sunny day. Not a hard brake, but noticeable. First two times I gassed it through; third time I...

Just got back from one of my periodic 500-mile round trips from NJ to Boston and back; FSD(S) all the way! As it happened, the SO's daily driver had a left fender camera defect: Water got into the assembly and killed the camera. So, dinged the app, mobile tech came down in a few days, and...

Yep. People don't get that the woods up and down the East Coast are truly, duly, filled with deer. And if one gets up to Boston, it's not that unusual to have moose wandering down the roads, in Boston, even. There's no serious predators these days hunting them (other than the random bear)...

So, NIMH or LiFePO? If it’s the latter, no cause for concern. If it’s the former, you do have the slider limit set to 90% or less, don’t you?

So, older Model S, maybe? I take a wild swing for the bleachers and suggest that the overheat might be due to: Bad connection/temperature sensor in the car. The car's got one in and around the Big Connector. So, when you get that error, pull out the NACS and feel it up, being careful not burn...

Um. The Model Y whose camera was replaced week before last had been in a shop for some minor repairs associated with the bumper. As such, it had been parked outdoors; usually, it's garaged. When we got it back the camera view on that side was BLACK and no image, there was a message that FSD and...

Well, it was idle chatter with the mobile tech, but he did say that. And Back In The Day when I put in the service request, I made some pithy remarks that the blinking orange glow couldn’t be doing FSD, which at that time in all of its (very limited) capabilities I had paid for, any good. And...

Um. Until late last year, I had a 2018 M3. As software updates cameth down from on high, at one point, they added the feature that, when one hit the left or right turn signal the left or right fender camera view would appear on the screen. Not to mention that if one put the car into reverse, one...

Haven't seen your previous posts, so am now kicking out at random. Just so we're clear: the NEMA14-50 had L1, L2 (both hot), N (neutral), and G (ground). The voltage across L1/L2 is 240 VAC and is what the car works with. L1<->N and L2<->N is 120 VAC and ought to be equal, but might not be...

Sigh. Hit the little car icon, bottom left corner of the screen; you get the usual plethora of control buttons. Select the (vertical) tab button for Service. In there, there's a bit where you can "clear" the camera calibration. You then go and drive the car manually, sans FSD/any kind of...

Summarizing, more or less in order: The main map database gets updated roughly twice a year. Last main update for North America was in December. There's some thinking that stuff gets added to the database from time to time: Whether a turn is right on red or not, for example. Those of us who...

I dunno about that last: speak for yourself, here. I’m in this because, well, it’s shiny, it’s new, and it’s pushing the state of the art past anything that isn’t pure science fiction. This isn’t just a “better mousetrap”. If Tesla pulls off the robotaxi technology the world is going to...

Um. The "free FSDS for a month" is the, no kidding, Real FSDS that all of on this thread have been working/living/whatever with. First off: No offense, but you've got to change your mindset about Who's Driving. Without diving into the terminology weeds, you are. At this place, at this time...

Thing is, @AlanSubie4Life actually does have good comments from time to time. I mean: I'm a believer in Not Being Surprised when driving a two-ton car around the landscape, especially when it's using software "assist" (or whatever-you-want-to-call-it) that, shall we say, isn't guaranteed to Not...

Thing is, with @AlanSubie4Life, is that with one notable exception, he's been banging on the drum of, "It's all BS! It'll never be anything but BS!", for a long, long time now. I kind of vaguely understood his point when we were all meandering around with 10.x; clearly, 10.x was barely...

Confirmed, based upon driving around in Boston, MA. Many a road that is two-way becomes One Car At A Time when cars are parked legally in both sides. 12.x handles this with aplomb.

Not arguing too hard. two possibilities: Honest to golly high temperatures in the handle. This could be caused by: Bad wired connection in the handle, resulting in high temps. Bad connector contact between the connector in the handle and the connector in the car, resulting in high resistance...

Had a minor case of this recently. Water got into the left fender repeater on a 2021 MY. This would result in intermittent loss or degradation of signal. Sometimes it looked black; sometimes it looked like somebody had smeared the view with crummy white paint; and sometimes it looked normal...

I'm thinking along the lines of a stuck-at fault. Say you get 80A to the 2013 code. There's a field, probably check-summed, that has the current carrying capacity of the TWC. Which reports either 80A or 100A, plus or minus the NEC standard. Further, there's some handshaking. So.. Does the car...