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Munro's tear downs of the Model 3 & Y were fascinating glimpses into how cars are manufacturers, despite the occasional flubs about technical stuff. He's started talking about doing a tear down of the CyberTruck, as well, and I'll watch all of that content when and if it occurs.

Brook's Law: "Adding programmers to a late project makes it later."

Definitely prefer the yoke - yeah, I still occasionally tag the wrong turn signal button, but it's rarer and rarer for that to happen. Biggest transition was hand-over-hand turns but that problem went away once I started using the undersides of the yoke crossbars more effectively. And lightly...

What does that "unlockable" but otherwise unused 20 (or 40) kWh capacity weigh, and why am I dragging it around unnecessarily?

I'm in the part of the country where we need snow tires, so I bought a full set (wheels & tires) from Tirerack. When I had to repair a tire recently (screw), I just put on one of the snows while I worked. If you don't have a set, I'd suggest buying a suitable used wheel & tire somewhere...

There's an engineering principle called "Eating your own dog food" (aka "dogfooding") wherein a company uses its own products in daily operations. It shows confidence in and commitment to the product as well as gaining real-world operational experience that can feed into customer support and...

I've used EVTO-Tesla on my iPhone for several years to plan long distance (transcontinental) trips. It excels at creating multi-day segmented trips by letting you set your "nominal" leg length (i.e., 9 hours) and displaying where that puts you in the route. I've also tried using ABRP for this...

She posted her question on Twitter - and it it was such a damp squib that I'm glad that she was spared the embarrassment. Paraphrasing - Did Birdco have a written contract to poach Tesla's software engineers, and was that ethical? Likely answer: (trimmed, as it was both wrong and covered in an...

Google coughed up a Cooper 5754N 14-50R which lists aluminum compatibility - looks like an Eaton product. No idea of quality, but pricing is higher than the big box store Leviton stuff, FWIW... Link to what I found...

You're using the wrong model. Cop: "We're in hot pursuit & need some help!" Dispatch: "Roger - we're dispatching a 10 RoboSquad swarm to intercept!" Cop: "The target car is a top Dodge hemi!!!!" Dispatch: "Roger that - we'll dispatch 15!"

Had this happen randomly a couple of times in our 2022 Model S - we'd plug into a Supercharger, go into the store, and then receive a "window is open" notification in the app. Different windows, partially or completely open, no obvious pattern - it was very puzzling. We raised a Service issue...

Sorry, I left off the /sarcasm from my post. I would have hip-checked the truck until its alarm went off... Being from northern Michigan, I throw a fold-up camp shovel and a bag of kitty litter into the frunk at the first sign of snow...

We went through here a couple of times in November, and the hotel folks seemed nice enough - let us have some coffee (after we asked nicely, of course). Surprised there wasn't anyone at the desk - and that they've done such a piss-poor job of clearing the snow around the stalls. I'd be inclined...

It looks like the breaker melted at the bus bar connection, so I'm wondering whether the exposed bus bar there had become weathered/corroded/dirty over the years. I'm surprised that the 60-amp breaker didn't trip thermally if it was radiating enough heat to trip the GFCI breaker next to it...

Tesla broke down (to an extent) a similar tightening of restrictions in Michigan by filing a lawsuit and demanding *all* communications between the dealers, lobbyists, and state representatives in their discovery motions. After those fine people failed in their appeals attempts (which took a...

That was the original plan, but then one of my speculative stocks went spectacular... :eek: 🤷‍♂️

Just add additional issues to the initial post as a comment using that icon on bottom right. Just did that - primary issue was about a "Power Limited" alert, then added a comment asking them to look into a separate issue regarding windows.

"1-3 years of free autopilot" costs Tesla $2400-$7200 of lost subscription revenue...

3Q 2022 Investor Deck (pg 10, "Outlook"): "Over a multi-year horizon, we expect to achieve 50% average annual growth in vehicle deliveries." I've added bold to some important words. The responses to questions about production in the Q&A portion were also consistent about the 50% being an...

May the gods bless the person who provided this in our hour of need...

It's the sixth option in the current iPhone app's list for the car, between "Security & Drivers" and "Upgrades". Yes, I'm using the word "tab" rather loosely...

You can scroll across the bar chart in the app's "Charge Stats" tab to get daily kWh charging info, if that works in your scenario.

Here's an oddball question - can the Tesla CCS adapter be used at a J1772 charger in place of the "pure" J1772 adapter we've all been carrying around for years? I'd have thought it could be (CCS being a superset of the J1772), but the manual doesn't mention anything about it.

Yeah - I used Z-chains on my 2014 Model S for a few years, and *always* had to carefully check the far side of the tire after they were installed to make sure the inside cable was against the tire and not hung up on that control arm. Remembering to perform that step while in a night-time...

I decided to spring for those König chains from Tesla for my 2022 S (after having used Z-chains on my 2014 S). Unfortunately, I had to send them back after I learned that when Tesla says "The fitting system has been pre-configured for Model S 19" Wheels", means that it will *only* fit on...

If I recall correctly, last time it was because they were bat guano* crazy... *Polite euphemism

An alternative strategy, based on my "nerfed" early 2014 P85 (103,000 mi) with 248 mile max range (265 miles, at birth): Daily use: charge to 90%, then let day-to-day use "walk it down" to roughly 20%. Rinse; Repeat. Trips: Set limit to 100% and "Time of departure" to around the planned...

If that's the total, sounds like a good deal. What brought the idea to mind is having my local tire shop accidentally punch through the sidewall on my Pirelli Sottozero 3 snow tires - on two separate occasions. Leaves a nice, clean rectangular cut...

(Just so it's clear, I meant to cut circumferentially around the tire in the sidewall area, not inward radially toward the wheel rim - which would be dumb). Just in case that was the reason for the downvote... 🤷‍♂️

Since the tires are trash, cutting through the sidewalls (where there's no wire reinforcement) with a reciprocating saw is an easy way to separate the wheels without damaging them.

Popping the drivers side door open extends the handles on my 2022 S...

Note to all electricians reading this: Yes, this is totally and absolutely approximate and SWAG-ish. :) I see what looks like a "THHN" in the first picture and found charts that show the *total* diameter (including insulation) for THHN #4 & #6 wires. Although there are some minor (0.00x")...

Hence the "wire nut" part of the suggestion, but I'd still disconnect & wire nut the neutral wire in the panel so there's no question of a panel issue resulting in a hot wire at the other end. There's not a lot of extra space inside the wall connector for an unused #4 neutral wire and wire...

It looks doable, but I have some "not an electrician but have installed a wall charger" thoughts/observations. Assuming the wire is 4/3 NMI (Romex): Make certain that it isn't aluminum wire - it's cheaper and your current box may allow it, but Tesla's doesn't Splices in 4 gauge wire aren't...

I've kept a set of these in the car for years. I use them when I swap my snow tires using a 3 ton floor jack, but I've never had a tire shop ask for them. Hockey Pucks (set of 4)

He pointed out (@3:12) the crush cans bolted to the front casting that allows less energetic frontal impacts to be repaired. But yeah, any impacts severe enough to damage the castings will total the car.

"How that moose got on the motorcycle, I'll never know..."

Sigh. "... roll back any such subsidies..." is not the same thing as "get rid of electric cars". Now that electric vehicles have finally become qualitatively and quantitatively a better value for most purposes than the equivalent ICE vehicle, I'd prefer eliminating subsidies altogether and...

That article is from 2011 - 11 years ago! Is there anything comparable that is more recent?

The relationship is comparable to that of McDonald's Corp. and its franchisees. A restaurant doesn't *have* to serve the McRib sandwich, but if they do it has to be sourced and prepared as McDonald's demands. What has Tesla (semi-)flummoxed is the offending states' imposition of this franchise...

This doesn't look particularly out of line - the *main* repair is to replace the rear brake rotors, which they're estimating at taking about an hour @ their $185/hr labor rate ($205 labor). They'd need to unbolt the calipers and move them out of the way to remove the rotor, and they're going to...

8. All data (logs, camera video, etc) for any incident shall be automatically provided to all affected parties and <insert appropriate authority> within 24 hours.

It is, and there it is! Thanks for the tip...

Well, I'm confused then... I'm running FSD Beta 10.12.2 (2022.12.3.20)- do I need to completes dungeon or kill a boss to unlock this "Little Camera Icon" level? 🤷🏻‍♂️😀

In many of the FSD videos on YouTube, the driver will touch somewhere on the display after FSD does something wrong to "capture the event". I've never seen any way to do that - is it only available to some testers, been omitted from more recent builds, or is there something that I'm just missing???

This is too cute... Karen quotes the law's provision that "licensed" dealers are approved at the federal level and jumps from there to saying that Tesla qualifies "by all means" - therefore, it's good! Except that her screen grab shows that the law specifically says that the licensing is done...

"The Boring Company has announced that they will be building an underground test track in northern Nevada. Rock waste haulage has been subcontracted to Tesla Motors."

Like this...

Also - if you've got the "standard wall plug" adapter plugged into the 30 amp HF adapter, the car will look at the Tesla adapter and say "ok - 15 amps it is!" -- in which case, 12 amps (80% of 15 amps) is exactly what you'd expect.

The 30-amp socket (TT-30) should be 120 volts, not 240, so it's going to be much slower than if you used the 14-50 adapter with your mobile charger. The 14-50 socket is the one on the left side of the panel - you should be able to plug into it with the adapter you described. The 30 & 50 amp...