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I bought an Insta360 X3 camera for this purpose. It can do a lot of neat tricks, so I'll be keeping it around. When viewing the video, you should be able to pan around and look in any direction. The location is on top of the Hoover Knobs near Pottsville Texas. It's the highest point in...

Finally got the FSD demo on my Model S "Raven" Long Range Plus this morning, then took a trip to Brownwood for lunch at Underwood's and wander around downtown a bit. Nice trip, but I wasn't able to turn up anything new about the Supercharger station. It was my first experience with FSD, and it...

That's the opposite of what I wanted. I'd prefer something cheaper, lighter, simpler, more in the spirit of the old Roadster. TechoKing wants to awe his subjects with amazing TechnoToys, with bragging rights and world records set. Meanwhile, I long for a well-balanced, good performing sports...

The mysterious visitor dropped by again this morning. Not sure if anyone told him about that last pedestal being de-rated and slow. . .

It's certainly a beauty. I think the new Roadster is one of the best-styled sports cars since the classics of the 1960s. Franz knocked this one out of the park. Having said that, the real questions are all about handling dynamics. If they still aim for 620 miles range and 200 kWh battery...

In today's Hamilton Herald-News:

Tesla has been doing so many things right, it pains me to zero in on something pretty basic that I think they've been doing badly, or maybe I should say erratically. I'm referring to vehicle design. I don't mean styling. All credit to Franz. He's done fantastic work with the basic vehicle...

Looks like the broken plug has been fixed, and all eight stalls should be in service now. Also, I haven't seen any more trucks park in the Supercharger area since those NO PARKING paint markers were put down. Hey, turns out the truckers are not bad guys. All it took was for someone to ask nicely.

Four modules = 16 stalls. Which makes sense, as it has to serve traffic on both US-281 and I-20. Work progressing on the transformer pad. . . I went inside the Circle-H store and asked the lady at the counter. She told me—several times, emphatically—that she is "not a fan". She's heard...

I was very happy when the Supercharger station was put in at Llano. See here → Supercharger - Llano, TX It's a nice location, and it makes trips to Fredericksburg and Enchanted Rock easy as pie. So, here's my guide to comestibles. . . CEFCO: The obvious quick pit stop, especially when...

This morning I noticed that somebody has stenciled with white paint NO PARKING in several places along the edge of the pavement. Let's hope that's all the clue the truckers needed to see.

Tonight I checked the list of nearby Superchargers in my car, and it didn't show up yet. I guess that takes time to propagate through the database of millions of cars. I drove over and looked, and the lights are on, and I grabbed a brief charge, and all was working as it should. It's...

Well, it made for a neat photo op. The construction manager, John, was unaware that Roadsters can't DC fast-charge, but then he was like, "Oh, that explains why I've never seen one turn up at a station before!" And then he allowed my Model S to be the first customer car to charge at the site...

Hamiton, Texas. A crew from Tesla came out to commission the new Supercharger station here, and I brought out my Roadster to show off a little. This was a hit, as they'd never seen one in the wild before!

Somebody should visit the area and check on this. While the Hamilton site was being commissioned today, and I was chatting it up with the crew, it was mentioned that Santo has just begun construction.