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You don’t know how to use google? OK… https://www.motor1.com/news/727166/tesla-losing-ground-in-us-europe/ “This means Tesla's market share in the European BEV market fell from 19.8 percent to 17.2 percent this year” “The situation in the United States is similar… Tesla's share dropped from...

It’s a shocker. My worst top 3 (ones I have used, obvs) Wangaratta Tuggerah Knockrow

I’m heading off on a 2-week road trip to western NSW tomorrow. Unfortunately not enough time to try to be the first BEV to go to Camerons Corner, but we’re still going to some pretty remote spots. Is visiting the Mad Max Museum at Silverton in a Tesla advisable? 😄 I’m planning to post a...

Imagine if Tesla released a completely new form factor, like a low-cost compact hatch. That would be novel. This 2-trick pony caper is getting a bit boring and not helping Tesla’s sliding market share.

Or an IPv6 issue? That seems to cause issues with some modems depending on settings…

Not only that, you can drive without the screen on, or while the MCU is rebooting. It happened to me once just after leaving my house at night… the screen went black, all by itself. The car still worked completely normally except of course you had no speedo, no radio, and while the blinkers...

Well, yes, but box trailers have zero aerodynamics, and will really mess up the trailing flows around a Model 3 or Y. The penalty would be less towing something larger, but more aerodynamic.

Elon’s track record over the past decade of estimating when things will be delivered is absolutely rock-solid. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Perhaps you are too impatient when you hear there is a new version? iOS App updates are rolled out among the device fleet in a staged fashion to manage server load. So when a new Tesla App is released, for example, it won’t go out to everyone who has it all at the same time. Some will get it...

You prefer “froot”? 😄

My Gen 1 LEAF has Type 1 for AC and CHAdeMO for DC. Best of both worlds 🤣 It would be a massive loss of face for Japan to abandon CHAdeMO.

Yes.

What I do know is that 3 years ago, Ausgrid spent a day in our street rebalancing the phases and giving everyone brand new service lines. How they detected that this was needed, and how they decided which house goes on which phase, no idea. Power was out the whole day (but not for me with my...

Not that I’m aware of. Nothing else in my house has exhibited any symptoms of interrupted or degraded supply.

No idea. It is a v2 HPWC which does not have network connectivity. Firmware is updated only as required via the charge cable when plugged into the car, and I don’t think there is any menu in the car’s console which tells you what firmware version it is on.

And this is the sanitised Tesla map, because the USA and Canada actually have 3 standards - CCS1, CHAdeMo and now NACS. What a mess.

There didn’t seem to be an existing thread suited to posting this small tidbit. My Tesla failed to charge last night and the night before from the HPWC. After the first night I thought “that’s odd… did I forget to schedule charging… 🤔” but then promptly forgot about it. After it didn’t charge...

Odd that the wrong APN was in there. Usually when setting up a service for the first time the network will send the phone a carrier settings SMS (which is invisible to the user) containing the required settings which the phone then implements, APN being one of them. If a carrier setting ever...

Hopefully not bought out by someone who is anti-EV…

Well something has definitely changed. For 5 years Storm Watch didn’t active once, and now all of a sudden it has activated twice in five days 🤷‍♂️

Yes the phases are supposed to be reasonably balanced but I don’t know if there are any hard rules in AS3000 as to how “balanced” they must be. It’s pretty random as to how someone might use a particular power point. And the 3-phase loads tend to dominate consumption anyway, so the rest...

Great stuff! “Westerners” are often dismissive of other countries that aren’t English speaking or “developed”, but a lot of very good things happen in these countries to get off fossil fuels precisely because they aren’t rich, and oil products are extremely expensive when they have to be...

Nice. 133 Wh/km is very impressive. My lifetime efficiency (noting my car is dual motor) is 152 Wh/km. Are those stats from TeslaFi? I really don’t like how it uses the term “efficiency” to describe the ratio between actual km driven and rated battery range used. That is not “efficiency” -...

Very interesting, but for me not backing up all 3 phases in an outage is not a big issue. First, the only 3-phase loads in my house are ducted air conditioning and Tesla HPWC. Those are the 2 loads that I absolutely do not want to operate in a grid outage. In an outage, most folk would want...

I assume this is on a motorway. It has always been this way, ever since I got my car, and it hasn’t gotten any less skittish. The trigger is a car crossing the road in front of you. It’s that simple and that infuriating. Counterintuitively, the way to pre-empt it is to either turn TACC off...

Any particular reason BYO cable would be an issue for BYD drivers moreso than others? I bought my cable 2 years ago for my first remote area road trip and never needed it. Somewhat ironically, I have used it about 10 times so far at AC chargers located within a few km of my house 😄 mostly EVX...

Well what a turnaround we’ve had… a 990 basis-point increase from the shocker in June, and up 500 points from July! With a peak renewable generation of over 70% on 27 August - the first time this has happened since November 2023. TAS suffering from ongoing low levels of hydro generation...

I used this SC for the first time today… very nice. Impressive seeing the 12 stalls lined up and lit up. 2 other cars there when I charged. I note a BYD Atto driver whining in Plugshare that the station wouldn’t activate… when there is a known issue that Atto’s can’t use V3 and V4...

What I like about km is that I can relate it to distance… 🤷‍♂️ In my experience the range estimations in my car are very good. Certainly puts the LEAF “guess-o-meter” to shame… which wouldn’t be hard 😄

I’ve heard that reasoning before, but it’s a bad analogy. First, your phone uses power even if you aren’t using it (running background tasks etc which uses WiFi or the cellular network) while your Tesla (mostly) doesn’t use power when it is parked unless you deliberately activate various...

I don’t understand why some people prefer % and I never will understand it, despite their detailed explanations as to why they prefer it… 🤷‍♂️ I have always had mine set to km.

Semantics. A “distributor haircut” looks a lot like a negative FIT, feels like a negative FIT, and acts like a negative FIT… so yeah, it’s a negative FIT that is likely to be passed on by retailers. Maybe not in year 1 when the negative FIT is small and relatively constrained, but as it gets...

Well that is interesting given the Ausgrid tariff plan for 2024-25 says EA010 Residential Single Rate Tariff is closed. Can’t get much clearer than that. It doesn’t, however, stop retailers offering a single rate plan on a ToU tariff. A retailer is free to charge the same price per kWh at...

This seemed to be the best thread to post this in. For the first time in 5 years, my PW2 entered “storm watch” mode at about 10:30am yesterday due to the high winds in the Sydney area. The banner on the App indicated that the PW2 would charge to 100% as insurance (although it was already at...

The issue is not the retailer but the DNSP - they set the rules. Are you in the Ausgrid DNSP?

House battery ROIs are not great, but they eventually pay for themselves, it’s just a question of how long it takes. Even a 10 year payback time on a battery represents a tax-free investment returning 7.2% p.a. which is not that easy to beat. And of course, any battery failures within that...

When did you get solar? In 2019, when I got solar, it triggered smart meter installation, but back then moving to ToU tariff was still opt-in (but once opted-in, you could never go back to single rate). My understanding is the Ausgrid rules have changed since then, and smart meter install for...

This bloke’s incredible. A few years ago, I watched his video where he upgraded the battery in his LEAF to a higher capacity one, totally by himself. He had all the equipment to jack his car up and safely remove the old battery (don’t forget the HV gloves!) and which weighs nearly 300kg. And...

Other situations where vision-based speed limit detection messes up: M1 northbound after Hawkesbury River where the speed limit is 100 if it is not raining, and 90 if it is. Work that one out, Tesla. Exit ramps from freeways… but you’re not taking the exit. In the past, it seemed to mostly...

Well it’s easy to construct a negative or conspiratorial narrative if that’s how you choose to interpret something. I think what happens in Europe is very relevant to what happens here - European policies influence us a lot. Not in everything of course, but a lot. I think the headline is...

As evidenced by this disgraceful hit-piece on Tesla Model Y in the same Drive lift out 🙄 If you want proof of an agenda look no further than that article… oh, wait…

In what way are “the mainstream Automotive media” “really freaking out” about the Cybertruck? In what way does this article provoke “strong feelings”? Everything in this article is completely true, as far as I know, communicated in a disinterested way (using the correct, original meaning of...

I still wish the Tesla - and every EV for that matter - had a pedestrian horn. One that allows you to upload the sound of your choice. My choice would be cowbell.

Article in today’s Drive section in the SMH:

This is an excellent article, and I thoroughly recommend everyone interested in this topic read it.

That’s typical of most solar installations - panel nameplate can be up to 20% larger than the inverter capacity simply because orientation, azimuth, pitch and overshadowing all conspire to make peak solar production less than nameplate. My installation is unusual in that my 5.8 kW setup...

Yeah, didn’t think they’d be driving it very far anywhere…

Level 1, 2, 3 terminology is not used in 3-phase countries (well some use it, incorrectly, because they read North American articles). We just have AC and DC charging here, with an associated power level in kW. Telsla is not the largest DCFC operator in Australia - by sites at least. Evie...

The point is a well-designed UI with meaningful labels shouldn’t need it. Notice the 3 items above don’t have it? Nor do most others in the Tesla UI. The fact the little ⓘ is required is an admission of failure and it should have been called something else. Give the above discussion of...

You don’t have to wait. If you tap on the headlight icon on the console the headlight controls appear and you can turn them off. As far as I know, they stay off, either until you put the car back into Drive (and it’s dark), or manually turn them back on. As long as you are sitting in the...