Recent content by Tomasz

The way I do it is I start 5-10 under speed limit and keep watching the navigation, if it raises the estimate (10->11%) I bump the cruise control 1mph higher. Rinse and repeat every 5 min. Gets you there without the nerves in the shortest amount of time, and no need to slow down at the end.

It looks to be completed (meter is there) but it’s off

I just got 17.11.10 on my classic over wifi. I'll report on changes, if any found, tomorrow.

cycle life can be easily extended by building buffer on top and bottom (see the Volt example - they have so huge buffers that they see 'zero' range degradation even after well over 100k miles on battery) - this is well known property of Li-Ion batteries - the closer you stay to the middle of the...

Home chargers will always bring in privacy and safety concerns. IMHO we should lobby to transition the whole infrastructure out of public L2 charging and into three layered model: 1. Home charging as the base of it all. I believe car manufacturers are neglecting that part but not stressing...

How about instead of overcoming all those issues we would concentrate on convincing big gas station chains to replace one gas pump with combo DC charging station that would be charging similarly to Tesla's model (fair pricing, not oriented on making money on electricity but on the coffee and...

Since it doesn't happen with any other car I've tried it with (and I tried a lot of rentals recently, including various BMWs, Nissans, Toytas, Buicks, Mazdas and Chevys), even if this is caused by iPhone it's still Tesla's problem (since all other manufacturers seem to be able to work around...

Only if we're talking upgrades. If I simply want to replace my 250k miles 85 pack with 30k miles 85 pack there will be no difference from the ECU point of view.

With the number of the battery being replaced. That way the pair VIN - battery S/N will match.

I would be surprised if the battery's firmware didn't have serial number coded and available. Having said that - if somebody was savvy enough to be able to pull it off, they would probably find a way to override that number. Also that doesn't take care of the energy storage market.

Isn't that called serial number?

Isn't that an ultimate example of sustainable transportation? We don't wan't people to upgrade their EVs, we want ICE drivers to get into EVs. Or so I thought.

Same thing happened to me - the TPMS warning went off on our way home! I called it in and they looked through the logs and said that all four sensors are reporting very weak signals. I was told that in case all sensors are reporting weak they will most likely replace both sensors and the...

Yes there is. CPO/Inventory/preowned cars will retain free supercharging for life.

Last time I've checked both rear window and front mirrors are used to look _BACK_. Mating them together makes perfect sense. You also need to defrost rear window to use center mirror so you could argue that with one click you defrost all three mirrors.