Recent content by Treading water

Our local (Santa Barbara County) building department wrote a correction on our plans that appear to require a special ventilation system interlocked with the Tesla unless we can show that the charging system is "listed for indoor use". The code section they cited is in the California...

My theory on this is that Tesla is gunshy about allowing more than very limited 2-way data communication with the phone via the USB connection and are limited in what they can do using Bluetooth. I heard somewhere that other car companies (Ford Sync) have had major embarassing problems caused...

I was really hoping this update would finally include decent music controls for people who play music stored on their phones. This is a very basic feature that you get with any other nice car. I recently bought $120 touch-screen stereo for my truck and it has a far superior phone music...

They set the utility transformer today! I talked to a guy from the construction company and he said it might be two more weeks before they have final clearance and announce the opening. It's getting close.

I can't believe Tesla still has handled this wish list item. Not having a decent media player is really weak for this grade of car. I can by an aftermarket stereo at Best buy for under $100 that can at least browse an iPhone, shuffle songs, fast forward, etc. it can't be that hard to...

Tesla needs to get local consultants. The Oxnard SC is held up because they didn't verify the power source,and Capistrano is held up because they didn't do the SCE coordination in advance. That's the electrical engineering consultants job. This is what happens when the job is designed 1000...

Don't have the VIN handy, but I know I can do 120kW charging. I've done it before at other chargers. Just got the car in September.

im back again today on the return trip. Today they are all empty except me. I'm currently charging at 76kw.

I'm at the Barstow SC now. It is definitely struggling to meet capacity on a holiday weekend. I had to wait 45min to get a charger, sometimes as many as 4 cars were waiting. Some of the delay was due to really slow charging, and chargers that stopped after starting. I've been here 1.5hrs...

Thanks for the idea. I will give that a try and let you know if it works. I contacted Tesla service and they wanted me to give up my car for a week while they test it with the chargers at their service center.

I'm pretty bummed out about this latest firmware release. My HPWC no longer works above 60A, ever. Every time I charge the car it quickly shifts into reduced power charging. Presumably this is because it detected "anomalies", but if that is the case it is either too sensitive or the...

That sucks. If anyone from Tesla is reading this, and you need help with this project, I'm a registered electrical engineering PE and I work with the Ventura office of SCE all the time designing utility services. I would be happy to assist in getting this resolved. - - - Updated - - -...

Every time I use a supercharger it starts out at an awesome 80+kW charge rate! then slowly decreases. I'm now charging in Barstow. It started out at 90kw but it's down to 24kw at 246 miles of range. Can this be avoided if I hop chargers, and if I do that will it damage the battery? Anybody...