Recent content by pfmahoney

For the long-range version of the Model 3, the maximum non-supercharger charging rate for the Model 3 is actually 48 amps, not 32A. 32A is the limit of the Tesla Mobile charger that comes with the car and 32A is the limit of the short-range version. Home Charging Installation

My delivery in Littleton, CO, back in February was about as perfect as it could be. The car looked perfect inside and out, and everything went flawlessly smooth. I still haven't had any issues with the car beyond a firmware update that caused the battery louver doors to move constantly. I...

You can turn off the proximity feature. I forget what the exact setting is but I have it set so that if the phone is close and anyone tries to open any of the doors or the trunk, everything unlocks, the car wakes up and the mirrors unfold. But as long as no one touches anything it just sits there.

The only thing that I really dislike about it is that if it's snowing you need to remember to clear the snow off the trunk before you open it or else you dump a big pile of snow in the trunk. That happened twice to me a few months ago and it was like "stupid Californian car designers! Gah!!"

And I thought I was ambitious when I installed my NEMA 14-50 in December 2016... That looks gorgeous. Fantastic work. I'd be embarrassed to show the tiny little half-finished garage that I use that barely has room to open the door enough to squeeze out. Congratulations on your patience -...

I'm seeing about 223Wh/mile for the last ~1100 miles - but a lot of those miles were in Colorado winter. 223Wh/mile is roughly 349 mile range.

My mother ordered hers on 3/22 and she's supposed to take delivery this coming weekend in Bozeman, Montana. Red, aero wheels.

I posted this on the reddit thread - I don't have 24 hour numbers - just my overnight numbers. When I first got the car on the original firmware 2017.50.2 I was seeing 1-2 miles lost per 12 hours overnight. Then on 2018.10.1 it went up to 8-9 miles lost per 12 hours overnight. Now I'm on...

I'm using the factory low-rolling resistance all season Michelin Primacy MXM4 tires. I drove home last night through ~4" of fresh show and then I drove to work this morning in about 5-6". So to be blunt, it's not great in the snow, but I can live this with this Some of it is just that I...

After I ordered (1/17) I got a VIN 4 days later (1/21) and got a call 9 days after that (1/30) and got the car 4 days after they called (3/3), although I could have gotten it a few days earlier but deferred so that I didn't need to take a day off work.

My entry is in the spreadsheet cited above - I ordered blue. I saw all of the cars in person at the Fremont Delivery center and I had to say that I liked them all in person. My least favorite was the light silver, but all of the rest of them looked great. My favorites were midnight silver and...

> Tesla owner invites will be in chronological order. Then non-owners, beginning with first day in store orders. Well that's hard to imagine that's correct because I'm a Tesla owner, and was early in the door in Denver (got in line around 6am, ordered 40 minutes after the doors opened) and I...

I remember when I bought into solar about 4 years ago, the one thing that everyone told me was "the one thing you will want to change is to make it bigger" and now that I'm edging on 5 years in, the one thing that I wish is that the array was slightly larger, or maybe even much larger. People...

Right. I get that - although it would be nice if they'd mentioned it previously. But I'm ok with the one car, one priority thing. I'm grateful, in fact, that existing Tesla owners get any priority at all. But here's the thing, if I didn't own a Tesla Model S already and I made two...

I'm a Tesla owner with one Model S who waited in line on day #1 and was in the store less than 45 minutes after they opened the doors and made two reservations. The first reservation is correct but they messed up my second order and have it as "late 2018". I called and talked to one...