Recent content by jyc

Thanks to everyone for the replies; I'll be sending the information to the Tesla engineers to see if they can do anything. I don't have any non-GFI circuits closer that work. Secondly, anyone also have SolarEdge equipment? One of our other solar PV systems with a SolarEdge inverter used to...

So we just did a Powerwall 2 installation with three separate pre-existing solar PV systems, one of which is Enphase micro-inverter. Since the install, the Envoy is reporting only 2 bars of signal from the microinverters and only intermittently gets data from them for the monitoring portal...

Regarding whether to wrap immediately or later, that recommendation has changed over time. At this point, for maximum protection, immediate wrap. For the older cars, waiting for the paint to harden further made sense. When we first got our March 2013 Model S, the paint process was different...

In early production all Model S had the dual rear boron-reinforced bumper with mount points for the rear facing seats. Sometime in 2013, only those models configured with the rear-facing seats had the dual reinforced bumpers and mount points. So Tesla was actually only able to install the rear...

Personal opinion is that we need to educate non-EV drivers long-term. While I know some anti-EV people and debate them from time to time, I feel that most are more ignorant than overtly malicious. I actually carry these windshield signs that are on the Blink network site as a PDF. You get...

Yes!! Been waiting for this since the wife's iPhone version got this about a full year ago!

It's funny; I agree with the auto dealers in that everyone should follow the same rules! The only thing is that THEY would have to follow the rules of every other retail industry! Since there are no universal bans, as FluxCap notes, of direct sales of goods by other manufacturers, such as...

I think battery swapping still has an important use case, especially when a supercharger is overly busy and there is a queue to charge. I was at the San Juan Capistrano supercharger and down to 24 miles range with only 90 minutes left to pick up the kids at day care in San Diego just over 60...

We've generally been charging on the low side for our vehicle, which now has 27,500 miles on a B pack. Was down to 218 rated miles for a 90% charge, and then decided for the last 4 weeks, to charging up to 90% overnight. Slightly less charging during the day at work, and ran the pack down to...

If you do it yourself, that's great, but if you have a shop do it, make sure you ask them about how they control overspray. Our detailer noticed that our shop had little control of overspray and lots of it ended up on our XPel wrap. It was hard to see on our brown car, but made the wrap feel...

Thought long about the dual chargers when we initially ordered the car, but realized that we'd almost never use them and didn't bother getting them. Since fast DC charging bypasses the onboard chargers anyway, it didn't seem necessary. With the push both by Tesla and other manufacturers for...

I really wish the contract and the speed limiter were actually for 87 mph. Can't hit 88 mph, cuz we all know what Doc Brown would say would happen!

Yes, definitely agree with you that the lowest "1" sound setting is still WAY TOO loud, especially with a sleeping child in the back of the car. It's a great system, which we installed before the automatic cruise control cut-off box thing came out for it too. It's been great, though even with...

The more reliable log-in on the android side sure is welcome, though I think it's strange that it's still missing the version of the charge slider that's been on the iOS side since last November (i.e. it still has only two choices, "Standard" and "Max Range"). It's not critical, since I can...

Evan, owner of Auto Armour in the San Diego area did a great job. We've used him for 2 cars and he's done quite a few Teslas as well. His work was way better than the Tesla-supplied film. No orange-peel appearance or wrinkles.