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  1. rexki

    Illinois Green Energy Bill - $4,000 Rebate - Good/Bad News

    That is 100 cars per business day (in Illinois) or 12% of all US Tesla production over 3 weeks ?? Not buying that rate.
  2. rexki

    Illinois Green Energy Bill - $4,000 Rebate - Good/Bad News

    (415 ILCS 120/40) - Sec. 40. Appropriations from the Electric Vehicle Rebate Alternate Fuels Fund. (415 ILCS 120/45) - Sec. 45. Electric Vehicle Rebate Alternate Fuels Fund; creation; deposit of user fees I cannot locater any sources for the $6M or the higher $7.3M If $6M - At ~15 cars per...
  3. rexki

    Supercharger - Lindale, Texas

    Charged Lindale last on 3/12/22 7:14 am on trip from Texas to back to Chicago - 20% SOC upon arrival with preconditioning - max was 141 kw ChargePoint last checkins: KW Date 114 4/30 3A not working 150 4/27 - Bluemax36 - always reports 150 ? 114 4/10 107 4/7 144 4/2
  4. rexki

    Pearl white (PPSW) Touch up paint

    Touch Up paint not available on my mobile app ? Yes for shop.Tesla.com - Online - It is available in a single color bottle and blending bottle applied with brush and mini squeegee pulled trigger $63.75 drive out.
  5. rexki

    Lug Nut Torque

    Just checked mine factory was above 85 and less than 125 - guessing in the lower 1/2 in the range of 40 lbs delta.
  6. rexki

    Illinois Green Energy Bill - $4,000 Rebate - Good/Bad News

    New Updates in my email came today from Chicago Area Clean Cities Coalition 3/17/22 from IL Registry Update dated 2/25/22 - Source (its a mess!) Basically: 1. $4,000 rebate - must apply 2. July 1, 2022 delivery date or after (POS legislative delay from law passed 9/15/21) 3. Covered Area...
  7. rexki

    Coronavirus

    1/3/2022 we blew through 1M new daily cases for the first time. Source Granted the subtle "7da" will not be caught by most - just picked it up on read #3 - aka "7-day Average" - you are correct on that point.
  8. rexki

    Naming the updates 2022 versus 2021 ??

    Naming the updates 2022 versus 2021 ?? The year is now 2022 - why not put the accurate date into the Update version number instead of 2021? Tesla is not Microsoft.
  9. rexki

    Two updates in one day!

    As a cold weather Chicago driver - the heat pump has worked great since I got it in early Dec 2021. third and now 4th update the heat pump preforms fantastically. Its the "Phantom Breaking" that needs a serious overhaul !!!!!!!! meant Lightly - Just fix it guys its not SpaceX programming...
  10. rexki

    Extreme Cold Weather Range Question

    ~261 wH/mile @ 65 mph peak - 40F ~360 wH/mile @ 65 mph peak - 10-15F Delta of 99wH/mile or 38% loss in range. Making this likely a bit of an over estimate due to cold travel dangers. 20+ mph Head wind take another 11% off snow and ice take another 21% off
  11. rexki

    Illinois Green Energy Bill - $4,000 Rebate - Good/Bad News

    Its in CEJA - Energy Transition Act – Public Act 102-0662 – SB2408 - Effective Date: 9/15/2021 page 192 of 956 - Sec. 45. Beneficial electrification. State of IL link here
  12. rexki

    Software Upgrade 2021.44.30.6 must have had issues - only lasted for less than 48 hrs

    Software Upgrade 2021.44.30.6 must have had issues - only lasted for less than 48 hrs ?? 2021.44.3.7 downloading and installing now - bets on its life?
  13. rexki

    12V Electric Water Kettle

    Model 3 is 12 amp continuous and 16 amp peak - would not put more than 144 watts on the port page 23 of 251 in the manual Spardar model Amazon Choice appears compliant. $56.99 - says it takes 16 min to heat water for coffee - less than the average super wait charger time of 30 min...
  14. rexki

    The ludicrous claims of the uninformed.

    Yes - Texas - Home of Willie Nelson and King Abbott - lets hope the Kings reign is done and let someone like Beto take the helm. The king has appointed many of those at Ercot and the Lower Colorado River Authority (via Bluebonnet electric Coop) that will provide power to the Austin Tesla...
  15. rexki

    The ludicrous claims of the uninformed.

    This riles the QOP base up - including ex military and police officers who are its largest base.
  16. rexki

    The ludicrous claims of the uninformed.

    These are all Fox "News", Heritage Society, CNP - talking points - have heard them for 16 years since I bought my Honda Civic CNG 2006 and more intense once the Leaf came in 2015. Most likely drafted by Heritage and the Koch brothers The last 2 months its been old battery warehouses leaking...
  17. rexki

    New model y range issues

    Chicago Metro - the house rides highest temp at 68F or 20C and at night goes down to 60F or 15.5C Central runtimes get 20% higher for every 2 degrees F. At 70K BTU that is 2 extra hours every 24 hour cycle. Tesla I believe runs at level one at 2,000 watts - guessing a 2 hour trip would cost...
  18. rexki

    Extreme Cold Weather Range Question

    That is a really good number 264 - at 21F two adult passengers and a dog loaded at 70 mpg we got 268-272 wH/miles average over 2,400 mile round trip.
  19. rexki

    Thoughts on phantom breaking after a 5800 mile roadtrip

    CaseyL you nailed it: Lot of Texas Driving XMas 2021 - 2022 M3LR Mfg 11/21 - No FSD - just TACC/AP (Adaptive Cruise and lane keep assist) 1. Day is better than night 2. Highways with large median separation is better than 2 lane high speed roads with no separation 3. Height of the oncoming...
  20. rexki

    Model Y Roadtrip Experience pt. 3 - Winter Drive to Aspen, CO.

    Agreed on Write up - will add my anecdotal since you have the only "Snow Ice Range" article posted in last year" winter ice yesterday 1/2/2022 - Model 3 - 2022 mfg 11/21: Memphis TN Supercharger (Terrible location!!) to Sikeston/Minor MO TSC - leg distance 159 miles Started with a OS...
  21. rexki

    NH resident with required to pay $2500. transportation and $1200. federally mandated fee.

    The "time out" period for even Auto Pilot is not called for either - safety sometimes requires heavy acceleration for proper placement on rural interstate driving - with dominant alpha cars doing 85 miles an hour in caravan style staying illegally left lane their entire trip.
  22. rexki

    Linux Tesla OS Stability Has Issues

    Took a 3,000 mile round trip at Xmas and had to reboot the Car (M3LR - 2022 Manufactured 11/21) on each leg - 2 reboots ?? 2021.44.25.2 on the way back - 1 reboot
  23. rexki

    Supercharger - Giddings, TX

    Wish granted mid November announced 11/21 - as far as a Buc-ee nugget in a bag versus your mouth.
  24. rexki

    Supercharger - Lindale, Texas

    Alternate if a gun is not your cup of tea - get a superduper USB re-chargeable flashlight that is about 100% as powerful as a spotlight/QBeam on a cop car - they are not cheap but way cheaper than a gun and blinds the subject at 100 feet at the speed of light (267,840 times faster than the...
  25. rexki

    Torrential rain + 45-degree temps + 30 mph headwinds + 75 mph = OMG!!!

    Less than 1 weeks out since ownership - took a trip from Chicago to Normal Il - ISU: Left at 95% - Temp was 40F and winds out of 180 at 12-15mph - turned on Supercharger Destination in Normal IL in driveway before backing out. IH55 - Des Plaines River bridge about 290 wH/mile at 65-67 - speed...
  26. rexki

    Supercharger - Normal, IL - East College Avenue

    The Rt 66 drive is well worth it - no body on your *sugar" tail and can drive 50 - 55 and get that sweat range and ice cream in Wilmington and the Rocket Man!
  27. rexki

    Charging Costs

    Special tariff rates like TOU - Peak off peak are subsidized methods to get people to move their consumption from one period of the day (likely peak) to another off peak period of the day. You are being subsidized in the TOU rates with respect to charges like Transmission and distribution. The...
  28. rexki

    Supercharger - Normal, IL - East College Avenue

    Charged here today 12/9/21 - $0.34/kWh including 8.75% sales tax - about 75KW with 6 other users at the same time. Loaded the site fresh to PlugShare as well.
  29. rexki

    Did you name your Model S, and if so, what?

    TRex Short for Tesla-Rex (Rex in Latin is King)
  30. rexki

    Supercharger locations & Solar canopies

    As a Solar Developer - this topic should be razed from the dead. OP had the perfect title and it withered because 5.75 years ago the solar world was a 1 week old infant. Now its a toddler and it just started walking. Demand Charges at 9-15KW are a "killer" (bad) for all superchargers...
  31. rexki

    Battery pre-conditioning?

    I will take my charge limit up (Home L2) from standard 80% to 95% and that should leave capacity to run pre-conditioning on my trip tomorrow on the highway south of Chicago - temp expected to be 39F with a 12-18 mph headwind and 120 miles each way - highway speed limit 70. Planning on 264-270...
  32. rexki

    Battery pre-conditioning?

    Can you pre-condition the batteries before departure while plugged to L2 charger at home? That way you would use the energy from the house/grid instead of pulling it out of your battery capacity and thus reduce range. Maybe just cabin temp warming gets good percentage of the battery heating?
  33. rexki

    New owner road trip thoughts

    Yes on the L2 charger - free EVSE that came with the Leaf 7.5 years ago - recycled to solar power in its golden years. 4.5 north of Lexington and 4.5 miles south of the US largest bat *sugar* crazy bitcoin farm - nasdaq:RIOT - (gotta love the scatt correction algorithm) BTW - I am a solar...
  34. rexki

    Model 3 Charging Efficiency

    72 amps !! - where does this person live?
  35. rexki

    New owner road trip thoughts

    Awesome Adventure - We are taking the 2 week old M3LR for Xmas from Chicago to Central Texas - Lexington (rural) Level 2 charger on the solar array on my avatar. 1,113 miles- 18.3 hours pure travel time - 2.4 hours at Supercharger - 54 mph trip average - $99.72 @ 0.37 ?? - .09/mile Merry...
  36. rexki

    New owner road trip thoughts

    Aptera Timeline ?? do you think they are on this track? Taken from SEC.gov - edgar - here Our 12-month plan is to complete our design and validation for a production intent vehicle that we can scale production on in 2022. Our key planned activities and milestones to achieve our 12-month plan...
  37. rexki

    Charging Costs

    I m in the Solar Business and develop across the country - the cheapest electricity in Texas is 11.2 cents drive out on a Residential basis with the largest Bitcoiners arriving daily because its the political cheapest. All Electricity regardless if it shows on your bill or not has 3 components...
  38. rexki

    Supercharger - San Diego, CA - Del Mar Heights Road (CLOSED 16 Sep 2021, 18 urban stalls)

    Anybody here have any clues at to the average utilization of a Tesla Supercharger station: Is it 12 cycles / per 24 hours per stall ? Higher or lower - very curios for business purpose economic modeling? For ease of discussion and a baseline for 100% - lets say 20 min avg charge intervals -...
  39. rexki

    Supercharger - San Diego, CA - Del Mar Heights Road (CLOSED 16 Sep 2021, 18 urban stalls)

    If all Superchargers across the U.S. jurisdictions take 1 year from permit application to beginning or end of construction - Houston we have a problem! This is Chicago permit time -.75 - 1 year to get approvals for something pretty simple as EVSE. Bitcoin Mining should take for sure that long...
  40. rexki

    Demand Charges — The Hidden Cost (and dirty secret) of EV Charging for Businesses

    That is the reason you do not get 250 kw when 2-3 others are on the same interconnection/transformer/EVSE Tesla station/Stalls. Demand capacity will never exceed 250KW times the utilities Demand charge$/KW.
  41. rexki

    Demand Charges — The Hidden Cost (and dirty secret) of EV Charging for Businesses

    Love your detail - one key input that I would adjust is the 30 kWh/charge: (take it to at least 39.86 or 40 as a min per the following) 1. 90 miles could be OK for City profile - lets bump that to 120 for highway profile as well and mix them. 2. 90 / 3.65 kWh/ mile (Winter say 2.8 worst to...
  42. rexki

    Supercharger - San Diego, CA - Del Mar Heights Road (CLOSED 16 Sep 2021, 18 urban stalls)

    3810 Valley Centre Dr, San Diego, CA 92130 ?? Does not show up as a valid charging site on PLugShare.com Google Maps does not have it either? Status?
  43. rexki

    Charging Costs

    $250 estimate is likely way off: 1. Nobody in the U.S get 4.5 electricty - Energy Supply charge - Yes 2. Add Transmission and Distribution - .06 at least 3. Taxex and other another 1 cent 4. Total electricty cost /kWh = 5.5 +6 +1 = 12.5/kWh 5. 18,000 miles divided by 4.1 miles/kWh = 4,390...
  44. rexki

    Model 3 Heater Watts

    Model 3 Heater Watts: (Apparently a Heat pump like the Nissan Leaf) Car plugged to a Level 2 charger that I can see the active watts - Juicenet 40 shows the brand new 2022 Model 3 LR burns at 2.0 kw then steps up rapidly to 4.6 kw and then lands static at 6.4kw with the battery fully charged...
  45. rexki

    Model 3 - LR AWD Waiting Room

    Just finished Day one - WOW! Delivery 10:45 - 11:00 - this guy was sharp - retired and super smart - Again WOW. The car has been checking out flawless so far. Attempted the Main screen protector (thin glass) - SUMK via Amazon - Almost impossible to keep stuff off the back after peeling the...
  46. rexki

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Two econ classes at University of Texas Austin - The point that you missed is that with out growing corn subsidies there would be 50-70% less corn even planted This would impact mainly the corn used to feed animals. Not sure what "ethanol forcing" is. 2015 - "Most of the corn was used for...
  47. rexki

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    U.S. with no corn growing subsidies - Read Meat (corn fed) would be a boom to Texas Grass fed beef - box of Corn Chex would double - 15% ethanol gasoline would jump an immediate 15% No oil and gas production and extraction credits - Gas jumps 50 cents a gallon. No TSA and FAA airport and air...
  48. rexki

    Measuring the panel gaps upon delivery

    Having a gap of 5-7 mm and 2 mm on a door will cause it to not open properly - If you have low vision and don not care that is all fine by me. Me personally knowing that fit and finish is an issue I will take a more measured approach.
  49. rexki

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Pretty sure extra cost are cash basis paid in the quarter cost with some accrual cost that are not paid at cutoff. Not sure when they book the revenue of the sale but guessing its a function of cash basis paid in full cars (taken delivery by cutoff) and financing contracts that accrue once...
  50. rexki

    Model 3 - LR AWD Waiting Room

    Appears standard practice - got the same reach out on text only from SA/TA regional - that means your VIN is coming soon - maybe 5-7 business day past that tradein request text.