Recent content by RTPEV

You will need to adjust the settings on the wall connector. It will not be able to detect that it is connected to a 50A breaker (and thus limited to 40A for safe operation).

I don't recall the add-on ever being that expensive, even at it's recent high point. When I bought my car in 2018, EAP cost $5K and I think the FSD add-on was $4K. It did then go up and down a few times. I think until just recently it was $6K and $6K, right? Edit: I think I misread your...

I too am a little confused about what you are saying. But if I take your statement at face value and you paid full price for FSD on the purchase price of a new Model S in 2016. I do feel sorry for you and anyone else who was duped into paying so much money for a "promise" of something to exist...

Well, that was my thought process back in 2019 or so when Tesla offered a $2K fire sale upgrade to FSD from EAP. My current thought is that it's still basically a gimmick. Above and beyond what EAP gives you, it doesn't really serve any useful purpose (i.e. around town). You pretty much have...

I just don't see that there's huge money in charging, so I'm not sure what "locking out the competition" will achieve. Sure, they will break even and maybe earn 10% profit margin. Plus, EA already DOES have a 4 stall site in Quartzite! You would know the area better than I, but it looks like...

It's probably hit and miss. One of my own personal complaints is that Tesla thinks that we want to communicate only with our phones and not deal with people at all. You schedule your service appointment using the app and all communication is done via messaging in the app. Even when you drop...

I'm not quite where you are in regards to my opinion of Tesla (although I'm not too far off), but I can't disagree with anything you've said. I think where my head is at is that they they really believe that FSD is the bees knees and that it's truly going to be autonomous "by the end of the...

We drove from NC to my in-laws in northern NY to watch the eclipse. I remember the hoopla in 2017 about long waits at Superchargers in the vicinity of the path of totality, so my strategy was to mitigate that risk. First of all, we drove halfway on Thursday and the rest on Friday, giving me...

It will generally go as straight as possible. If you come to a T, it will usually take a right.

I think your expectations (or understanding of what FSD is) are incorrect. Despite the acronym, FSD is not Full Self Driving. It is a driver assistance aid (the level of assistance it provides is debatable). It's behavior is not limited to driving from point A to point B, even...

It does not have a specific destination in mind. You have always been able to use FSD without a destination entered, in which case it will basically just try to go as straight as possible, and if it comes to a T, it will (usually) take a right (I suppose at a slant T it might go in the...

The 11.1 is the base software version, not the FSD version. Think of them as two different things.

I had a chance to get some good practice with FSD 12.3.3 (or whatever it is) on some rural roads during a trip last week. These were a good test bed because there was little traffic, and there were some good straight sections in addition to curvy sections so I could observe its behavior. Also...

If you are mostly surviving on a domestic 15A circuit, a 240V 30A circuit will definitely meet your needs, even if you have to charge to 100%. A 24A EVSE will replenish approximately 25 miles of range per hour, so well within the ability to receive a full charge in an overnight 10 hour charging...

Not entirely (in my opinion). Sure, if you are confident that in a year (or maybe two) you are going to do that service upgrade, then you should probably just do it all at once. But I suspect the more likely scenario is that you will find that you can get by with 30A (we have two EVs and have...