Recent content by pipp

My impression reading this site is that batteries don’t need to be replaced very often. So Tesla could, on the surface, easily afford to use new batteries to replace the bad ones, without taking a huge financial hit. But I wonder if Tesla worries about how many jokers are out there who would...

Do you have any kind of ”feel” for how much of the degradation your original battery underwent was due to the battery simply being a lemon, and how much might have been from keeping it charged too high, running it down too low, etc.? Was it clear from the start that it was going downhill faster...

It’s just one data point but I have been going months at a time with lfp’s charging to just 55%. Then I spent some time running the lfp’s down to 0 and charging them to 100% to let the BMS re-calibrate. Same difference. The BMS never really got very far off track from the 55% charging…I...

Actually, it’s not logical to me. I’m the kind of guy who, when somebody does something incredibly moronic on the road, I make a point of giving the person a good long hard look. Not (usually) because I want to invite a conflict, but because I am engaged in a constant process of building a...

Yes you are right, the state certainly did not need to be specified…

One other aspect of this issue that you probably well know (but over time perhaps your appreciation of what you are missing slips), is that even if you aren’t having to engage with some trog who has been trained since infancy to fight to the death to get more than his share of free stuff, you...

I’ve noticed some latency when trying to drain the battery down to zero miles: I’ll drive the car to the top of the hill I live on and turn back down the hill when it reaches 0 miles. Pulling into my driveway after going down the hill, at first I was fooled by the display still showing 0 miles...

The car is now 2 years old and has 13,700 miles on it. For the past couple months I have been running through full cycles, charging to 100% and then running the car down to a couple miles, then blasting the air conditioner to get it down to 0 miles. Doing this didn’t move the needle on the...

I would probably be the only other Tesla customer not tinting their windows, putting you in an awkward position, because I am totally uncool, and you are way best off not having people see any kind of connection between the two of us. I have spent many years watching people design and...

Ii have to appreciate the final asterisk point! I floored it yesterday for approximately 1.5 seconds, and occasional outbursts like like that can only be smoothed out over the course of longer time periods and distances, from my point of view. How much flak do you absorb because of being a...

Yes 42-45 would be the pressure cold. I totally agree with your test but am too lazy to go the trouble. But I will keep it mind and when real life at some point is already compelling me to drive something similar to what you are saying, I will post again!

Just some more data on the 45 psi experiment. The trip meter I reset after increasing tire psi from 42 to 45 has now registered around 2500 miles, and for those miles indicates a usage of 220 wh per mile. (It was at 221 wh per mile covering a 14-month period immediately previous to this latest...

Nice theory! I’m curious because I thought catalytic converter theft was basically an L.A. thing — is it actually endemic around the U.S.A. or did you just happen to read about how bad it is out here in Los Angeles?

Go into the shop section of the app and do a search for “touch up paint” … I was unable to find it by simply browsing their menu selections

Yes, I love my M3 but wouldn’t have bought it if the package had to include FSD. My experience with every piece of Tesla software I have ever encountered is that their guiding philosophy is to get a piece of software working in the most basic sense and then they move on and get some other piece...