Recent content by BillB

Roadster #244, 5 years old now, 18K miles. Very minor issues: 1. Cracked sill cover (replaced under warranty) 2. Passenger headrest pad fell off (glued it back on) 3. Console knobs cracked (replaced under warranty) 4. Trim ring around front speaker cracked (replaced under warranty) 5...

General Electric has introduced their version of a Level 2 charging station - Electric Vehicle Equipment from GE. I attended the rollout at their factory in Mebane, NC last month, and plugged my Roadster ('08, VIN 244) with the 1772 adapter cable into the station they had installed in front...

And the phone number for San Diego is the LA store number.

Plane crash in Palo Alto This can't be good news... "Daniel Morales, who told KTVU he had previously flown with the pilot, identiifed him as a high-ranking official at Tesla Motors. Authorities, however, have not released the names of the victims." Three Die; Plane Crashes In East Palo...

It seems curious that, though there is a GPS built-in, the car's clock doesn't automatically set from that source.

FWIW, I took a long weekend trip in Range mode (both ways, with an overnight boost in the middle), and I arrived home with 19 miles left in the "tank." When I switched to Standard mode in my garage before recharging, it told me that I had already run out of juice and stopped some time back.

Tesla tool Kit The Roadster comes with a (small) tool kit, with an appropriate driver for the lug bolts and a "key" for the locking one. No actual wrench handle, though, and no jack, since you have no spare to put on. I can see an awkwardness if you want to pull a wheel with a flat tire and...

A coulomb of Teslas? A coulomb is the charge on a very large number of electrons (6.241506×10E18): the charge transferred by a current of one Amp for one second. (Lots of Teslas.)

Before the Roadster? Wealthy? Not so much. We just rarely buy cars, buy reasonably nice ones new, and drive them a long time (together we've bought 4 new cars in 35 years). I've always been interested in cars slightly off the mainstream. I've had 2 Mazda Rx7s, an '83 (wrecked, not by...