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We picked up our first Tesla a few weeks ago. We were told we couldn't even open the door to the car until we purchased the car, sending the money over, accepting the car. We were told that we had the first 100 miles and some number of days to report any issues we found and they would be...

Can phone charger be replaced with Apple Magsafe in 2023 Model 3 or Y? How hard is it to disassemble the center console and replace the phone charger?

I have an order out for a Model 3 and Model Y (I can't decide which). Both are now giving a date range from today to 10 days from now. But the range doesn't make sense. For the 3, it had said March 1-8. Now, two days later it says Match 3-10. Clearly march 9, 10 are not in the original range...

I rented a Model 3 from Hertz. I had been using it for a week. Hundreds of miles on it. I was the first renter of that car. Had 4 miles on the odometer when I picked it up. A week later, I need to take my family to the airport 50 miles away, go to put the car in drive and a bunch of error codes...

https://driveteslacanada.ca/model-3/tesla-confirms-removal-of-radar-from-recent-model-3-y-builds-in-switch-to-tesla-vision/ There's also a reference stating that a tweet was the announcement. Looks like the article has a typo and meant 5/12/2021. Tesla is ditching radar, will rely on cameras...

How has Tesla historically handled model changes. Do they: - Announce first then introduce or remove from the car sometime later - Or make the change to production cars first and announce it after its already in production and being distributed? In particular, it now looks like Tesla will...

I've reserved then cancelled, then ordered then had it canceled starting 10 years ago. I've pulled the trigger again. We were on the fence vs. an ID4. But the price drop is too good to pass up even with Elon's twitter fiasco. Ordered it a couple of hours after it went live, car is already made...

Income limit still applies. Prior to February 24,2022 $150,000 for single filers $204,000 for head-of-household $300,000 for joint filers On/after February 24, 2022 $135,000 for single filers $175,000 for head-of-household $200,000 for joint filers

Wow BTW, I was able to get my Tesla roof installed. I’m Bay Area, not NC. But they did manage to cancel my model y order.

Likely energy is going to heat the cabin. gas vehicles heat the cabin with waste heat from the engine. No such thing in an EV. 22F is very cold. Consumes huge amounts of energy to heat the cabin. You need to preheat before you unplug so you start with a warm car. Heat pump won’t work at that...

Yes they did. I was clear I wanted delivery in January. They threatened to cancel but someone implied they’d try to extend day by day. Looks like someone finally looked at it, decided it taking too long and pulled the plug. They actually didn’t warn in the days before the cancellation. It was...

Demand is drying up. Production cars with no buyer go to inventory. Presumably everyone is waiting for January expecting to get $7500 tax credit. But recession fears and rising interest rates may have curbed demand at the same time production is ramping up. Canada and China are also...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said during the company's third-quarter earnings call on Wednesday evening that the company expects to fully meet the Inflation Reduction Act requirements that would allow consumers to receive tax credits on new EV purchases...

Elon had posted staring tesla would qualify for the full rebate.

I don’t get the impression they care about happy customers. Q4 numbers are more important.