Recent content by IanFromHKG

I am looking forward immensely to my upcoming retirement, not least because I intend to spend large chunks of the year exploring Europe on a boat - exactly which boat is yet to be determined, but it is going to be a flybridge cruiser in the 50-foot range. We will spend a few weeks on it at a...

Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, they don't do services at home only at service centres, and have abandoned the pick-up and drop-off service they used to run (ie they no longer pick it up and drop it off, you have to drive to the service centre - and they are all in out-of-the-way locations with minimal...

This is technically true, although the reality is that as motor speed increases, the ability of an EV to accelerate diminishes. This explains why a Tesla can pulverise most ICE supercars from a standing start, but at motorway speeds an ICE car can pulverise a Tesla in acceleration (and...

How have you addressed the potential issue of overheating batteries? You did know that the cooling fans for the batteries vent through the front wheels, right? That is why the all-over covers the Tesla makes have mesh over the front wheels, so you can charge the car with the cover on without...

Here's the view from Hong Kong. It used to be the case that calls to the Tesla line were answered very promptly. Now, they inevitably go through to voicemail (unless you want to get to the spare part line - their voicemail is permanently full and not accepting messages). They do seem to call...

Isn't Google still blocked in China? It was when I was last there (end of last year)

I got one of the first of the new look Model S, and one of the last 70Ds (I ordered before the refresh was announced, and before they decided to switch to 60/75/90). No umbrella for me. I got a blue Mennekes cable, the cupholder inserts for the centre console, and a docking station for a phone...

I know it's off topic, but would one of the wrapping places be able to wrap a boat?? Mine is looking a bit old and tired and I would love to give a refresh... Any details of wrapping places would be very welcome so I can try to contact them myself. Thanks in advance.

Just thought I would let you all know that I took delivery of a BS1363-to-Tesla cable yesterday, and tested it out at The Galleria on The Peak - worked perfectly, with a steady 10A current. Bought it from the UK for GBP279 including courier charges. I tried to attach a couple of photos but the...

Aaarrgghh!! I wish I could edit posts. Not capped at 60A, capped at 16A

Incidentally, I might add, despite being capped out at 60A I was registering 50+km/h charging at home last night (admittedly from nearly empty) so it seems, from what I read on here, that I was getting 16Ax3 - which means I can easily charge from empty to full overnight. Last night, with les...

I have read the whole of this thread (which took a while!). New Tesla owner, and fortunate enough to have been able to instal my ow tesla wall charger at home. When the installation was finished (I had it done by my handyman, and it is connected directly to my main junction box with...