Recent content by lyrebird

When I design my route/stops for long trip, I feel it is very inconvenient. Sure the website can tell you where I should charge. But for some reasons I don't want to blindly follow the simple instruction. 1. first, i don't want to drain my battery down to single digit. I can rest a bit more in...

starting from now I will put a blanket in it in case if we get stuck on the road.

One thing I want to bring up is that, while your car has been driven for 5k miles (just saying), the battery may have been used much more than that due to AC/Heat usage, perhaps 7k or more. In EV, everything runs on battery. I assume Tesla's downgrade experiment must have kept everything else...

Received the alert in my car yesterday and then in my phone. Scheduled a service in 3 mins on today's morning. It took them 3-4 hours before I was called to pickup. It is for a PT sensor. The existing one will fail if the car stays at low temp for extended time and you will end up no heat. The...

Another benefit of keep it plugged in is, all activities, such as update, playing music on external speak, pre-heating, even open/shut the trunk doors, etc, will use the external power rather than using your battery.

I don't get TESLA's logic on not to read the advisory speed signs. Ramp speed limit could be much lower than highway speed. Cruising on a 30 MPH ramp with a double speed may cost driver's life!

On my weekend trip, there is one ramp with significant lower speed (30 MPH) than the section that connects it (55 MPH) . I noticed that my MY still uses 60 MPH I set for 55 MPH high way speed when it is on the ramp. A little scary! I have to manually apply brake to get me out of FSD so I can...

Any review on this? Easy on and off?

Where arw you?

Strongly agree. Remember all these automation are done by AI which needs to learn from a LOT of the actual scenes. And each emergency scene could be very different, far more complex than the normal driving situation.

Just FYI, I got close to 10 quotes for a 60-70 feet installation, all licensed. I went to the lowest bid, which is 1100 in cash, and I did the docs by myself. I strongly suggest to get multiple quotes since the quotes range wildly, and I received 2-3 quotes with price close to 3K!

2005 Toyota 4runner. Great SUV. Especially love its drop down back window. With that, it transform to a "convertible" in summer! The only issue is that, the maintaining cost is getting higher and higher. This eventually turned me down.

Thank you guys! I guess I will charge at Merriville. 20 mins is not a big deal as we are not in any hurry.

Going to drive my son for his hockey tournament this weekend from Chicago suburb to Indianapolis. Little worried. Couple factors, this is my first state-crossing trip using my Y, it is the coldest time in a year, and there are not many SC in the route, especially in 65. The last SC before...

mine stuck at my drive way today. my other car, 2016 mdx just went over 2 mins before it. I have to use snow mode to get out.