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I had the CCS-compatible ECU upgrade installed today. A painless install by a mobile tech at my home. Haven't tested the CCS compatibility yet, but have verified that it shows as enabled in the Additional vehicle information display in the menu/setting.

Thanks for the links. My search-fu skills must be degrading with age... :)

Tesla's CCS Combo 1 Adapter page now shows availability of the retrofit for Model 3 and Model Y for $350. https://shop.tesla.com/product/ccs-combo-1-adapter I haven't found any discussion of this and am not sure when the it became available. I'm considering this for my late-2021 MYLR - one of...

Quite common. The reported charge % is effectively a "good guess" and will vary with temperature.

No. If there was an issue with this then the option to do so would be unavailable. But do avoid charging to 100% at all times, where the car might end up sitting at a 100% charge level for much of its life.

I've noticed the same. The auto wipers were disappointing before - but tolerable. Now they're bad. Laughably bad. Or would be laughably bad if they weren't so annoying. For the first time ever I've turned auto wipers off - and left them off. I'm not certain when they degraded to this...

I have v4.31 of the app on both a Samsung S24 and an iPhone 14. Both still show the car's location under Location on the "front" page.

Or a lot more than $50K. The kids are just repeating what they're hearing from their parents - which is probably more about anti-EV sentiment than about cost.

I can believe that. And there's probably old vacuum tube equipment still serving important roles (not counting my stereo!) as long as it can be fixed. And 50-year old PDP-11 minicomputers in use at power plants and elsewhere. Some of these can be kept working for additional decades - or longer.

There does appear to be 110v at llamas's house :). But shouldn't be. The USA switched to 120v almost 60 years ago iirc. And to 117v before that.

You should not need to log out of the Tesla app when not driving. But if you're using other 3rd-party apps that access your car - those might keep the car awake. If that's happening then you'd probably see a range less than 260 miles.

Tesla's advertised range numbers are fairly "optimistic." They usually won't be met in the real world. You're about 13% below the advertised range - which is about right during good weather periods. Cold weather will drop the range further, as will high-speed driving. (I'm assuming that...

And it will be interesting to monitor how quickly the NACS > J1772 adapters "disappear."

The electrician is mistaken. He was probably comparing an MYLR to an MYP, rather than comparing a '22-'23 MYP to an earlier MYP.

My October 2021 build MYLR gets the trim discolorations shown here. But it's easily removed, and I typically wash my vehicle only when it needs it - and even during Winter months I try to not be too picky. So it hasn't been a big problem - but I'd prefer that it not happen. I don't know if I...