Recent content by GregRF

I'm happy to report that it hasn't burned down. I also did the above after a year or two by replacing the mobile charger with a wall charger. It was a tight fit but was able to get it to fit inside the box. After a year the wall charger had a temperature sensor malfunction so I got to do the...

Please update if you do. I'll likely be driving through Susanville on the 11th, would be great to have a functioning Supercharger! I checked the car's map this morning and nothing showing up as of today.

I’ve only been doing short drives lately so it is hard to tease out any efficiency loss. With the increased grip, cool looking tread and no real noticeable noise increase I’m very happy with the CC2s. Will be a couple weeks until I take a much longer trip to hopefully see any range drops now...

Last week I had to change tires during a road trip. For the second time I felt an unbalanced tire and knew the foam was coming loose on the MXM4s. So I had a set of the CrossClimate2 installed (I’m done with foam inserts). On the 570 mile trip out On the MXM4s I averaged 81% efficiency. On the...

Yes, it was described somewhere that the two halves can be switched from parallel to series to charge as an 800V pack.

Nothing changes at the cell level. Just the charging infrastructure operates at 800V. Since the infrastructure is amp limited, higher voltage allows more power through it. So charging time can be reduced if you are infrastructure limited with higher voltage, but only up to the point where you...

*one foot roll-out

Tesla is using a die cast for these aluminum sub-frames. Molten aluminum injected into a steel die much like the injection molding used for plastics. SS has too high of a melting temp to use a metallic mold and would need a more conventional sand mold. Even though the Cybertruck body/frame is...

Warning: Speculative rumor I've heard that the governor of California may close all the public schools state wide. Might affect production and market sentiment. Our county (Santa Cruz) already announced closure for next week.

A couple weeks ago I took a small position in Zillow (ZG, Z). They are currently moving from a real estate advertisement business model into trying to own the entire real estate transaction. Buy/Sell/Rent/Closing/Mortgage. If you have dealt with a Realtor and see the 5-6% fees they make on...

Today marks the 5 year anniversary of my first stock purchase ever. 5 shares of TSLA at $194.12 That purchase was largely influenced by the investor threads here on TMC so I just wanted to mark this date by sending out a big THANK YOU to all the posters that contribute meaningful information to...

570K Current Fremont Quarterly Production 105k x 4 quarters = 420k GF3 output per quarter: 10k,20k,30k,30k = 90k MY production start 2nd quarter 10k,20k,30k = 60k

Well...they resolved the paint issues.

Yes I believe the Chinese characters are some regulation or other. A local told me that was how you could tell if a vehicle was made in China

I'm guessing that it would physically fit and connect. There is a whole long thread about what rear motors have been put in the cars so I'm not sure if it would get a performance boost. I think I saw an insurance estimate in a thread or video claiming the battery at a $15,000 replacement cost...