Recent content by Richster64

This is an issue I find too - can you imagine how this might work in Germany on the Autobahn where sitting in the lane might get you some supercar hammering up behind you at 155mph? It's bad enough in Canada where most people seem to drive at 20kph faster than the posted limit - there is...

Maybe paint the sidewalk the same colour as the roadway (probably illegal, but you could use temporary paint as a test). Then with your white tape only on your property, the car should think the sidewalk is just part of the road - it's the same color now, and park accordingly. I am sure one of...

You can also go to www.tesla.com/trips Select your car and set your start and end and the red dots that appear on your route are superchargers. Seems to Be one at Homestead (before the keys) and then at 'Marathon' and Big Pine Key. Plenty!

Did you see a pattern? Like travelling towards the sun, or with temperature inversions (mirages) going on? My one Phantom braking was in a mirage situation so I guess the car felt I was going to drive off a cliff [ forwards ;-) ]

Yay! A Fellow eclipse-chaser. I did 1200 miles in 2 days to find clear skies - it was amazing!!! We kept seeing the same people at each successive supercharger, so a funny little 'convoy'. In my case it was West of Toronto to East of Quebec City As you said, AP was great at making these long...

I am sure someone with a 3D printer can print you some up and make a ton of money selling them to others. I would do it, but I havn't got any Nylon or ABS filament to print them in, and I suspect that my PETG will melt in the sun. Willing to try though....

It's either normal, or else you and I have the same problem! It does it from time to time ever since Dec 2021 when I got mine.

With various countries / states / provinces mandating EV only sales after <Insert year here>, you won't have a choice. Things will improve, charging will be everywhere - it has to be otherwise the whole transportation world will fall apart. Oh, wait....

No, as @Y_tho said - it's just disabled from the menus to start with. It was like that on the MY I rented from Avis and more recently on a M3 I rented from Hertz in the UK. It's just annoying because you drive out of the airport and the first time you notice is on the highway where you can't...

This isn't good. What Avis level are you at? Pref, Pref Plus, President? They definately need to know this is happening. I can only guess that the people on the counter were trying to get through the line quickest and giving people anything that was washed and ready. :-(

How are these high mileage rentals holding up? I rented a M3 in the UK last month, it had ~30k on the clock and I noticed that both scrolly-wheels in the steering wheel felt like they had been pressed in too hard - made it difficult to use them and adjust things as they were falsely triggering...

I guess that unless tesla have something special setup for rental companies to track this, I expect there is some Avis employee tasked with sitting there and looking through the charge history on a phone or tablet in the Tesla App and finding who had the vehicle at the time and then recharging...

No - I was never charged, it's two months now, so I think it was included at the time. Now that it's re-charged ;) to the customer, I wonder if Avis will lower the rental price to take that into account? Hahahahaha as if!

No, they didn't... So this is quite handy for longer rentals or road trips :) I hate to think what the constant supercharging is going to do to the rental batteries... but I guess that in itself will be a useful data point for Tesla too.

@Brian-MS90D - glad to be of service! I also didn't know Avis did them until I was doing the booking process. Mine was also fairly cheap, considering! So far, 3 days on, no Energy costs from Supercharging, but maybe Avis's systems are a little behind on this stuff. $380 for the week is an...