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They really should open the RAN sites up to non-Rivians that have plug & charge capabilities. Though it might not matter much to Tesla owners, as the sites I've seen seem to be nearly or co-located with Supercharger sites.

Rather than yank the wheel, just move the volume thumbwheel up/down a notch. Moving the cruise speed thumbwheel also works.

The newer cars warm up the battery pack using heat harvested from the stator windings in the motors. That is potentially 7 kW (2 x 3.5 kW) in a dual motor car. Heat from other sources (e.g., PTC heater in a non-heat pump car) for the cabin could get the total up to 10 kW.

Idaho grows potatos too.

And Mazda.

Seligman is a great Historic Route 66 stop as well. (Road Kill Cafe, some fun little tourist shops, etc.) It is interesting that four of the top six are now on I-40.

2x200 kW! CCS only - no CHAdeMO. Also a couple of 11 kW L2 stations.

Musing over plugshare today, shows a couple of new DCFCs of interest that are under construction in BC. On the Cassiar, Meziadin Junction: Meziadin Junction (Coming Soon) | Stewart, BC | EV Station. There are ~587 km (~365 miles) between it and Watson Lake. So some low speed charging is still...

After watching Lex Fridman interview Jared Kushner on youtube, it struck me how desperately the Saudis are trying to invest in a life after oil. Bankrolling Lucid seems to be one of their pet projects. I can't see Toyota acquiring Lucid. Corporate cultures are far too different.

The first widely available flat screen TVs (e.g., Philips plasma) in the mid-'90s were like $16k. As prices dropped, CRTs quickly went out of favor. By the early 2000s it was over. The switch to digital TV came about then as well. So a lot of folks were upgrading anyway. We just sent off...

Above photo was taken at 7:25 PM. By the time I got around to taking the picture, it had already been there for maybe 10 minutes.

Sorry about the glare...

Good call. Maybe around 7:30 PM. So could be one of the ones you saw? I didn't see which direction the Cybertruck came from. He just drove by me as I was charging and eating some dinner. (Harris Express BBQ ran out of brisket two people ahead of me in line. And were out of burnt ends too...

Under its own power. Slow rolled by all of us that were charging, backed into one of the stalls and hooked up. Three occupants. Had the big "RC" decals on it.

I mentioned this in another thread, but will repeat here. Last night I was Supercharging at Harris Ranch, when a "Release Candidate" Cybertruck rolled in. It was incredible watching dozens of folks jump out of their cars, especially the kids, run over and check it out. Lots of photos and...

Last night I was Supercharging at Harris Ranch, when a "Release Candidate" Cybertruck rolled in. It was incredible watching dozens of folks jump out of their cars, especially the kids, run over and check it out. Lots of photos and selfies were taken! Whether you like the post apocalypse styling...

Enjoy. I'm actually going to do a bit of Route 66 today. (Barstow to Pasadena.)

The major remaining ones I can think of are: VW/Audi/Porsche BMW Toyota/Lexus and Subaru Stellantis Lucid Mazda Jeep and Chrysler have plug in hybrids, but nothing with DC fast charging.

EVs somewhat predated gas cars. They were used as taxi cabs in NYC in the 1890s. The motors and controllers were very similar to, and basically miniaturized versions of, those used in electric trolley cars.

Do you have the "one lightning bolt" selection enabled? It shows Destination charging. ("Two lightning bolts" enables showing Tesla Urban and also some EVgo w/Tesla connectors. "Three lightning bolts" enables showing V2 and V3 Superchargers.)

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I did it in 2019. Wendover to Ely to Fallon. Then on to Carson City, South Shore of Tahoe, and to Sacramento. There are RV parks with 14-50s, and now real EV charging sites with CCS, CHAdeMO, and J1772 along the way. Let PlugShare be your guide. I intend to do it again when the Ely SC...

He is a doddering old man, who has spent his entire life in government (e.g., never actually producing wealth), and is totally beholden to the unions.

For the price of a Rivian, a better comparison would be against a Model X.

Can't you simply buy one from Tesla? Alternatively you could also just buy one ready made from evseadapters. They sell various European adapters that work just like the Tesla ones.

It is why the late Rush Limbaugh used to refer to them as "drive by journalists". By the time their stories are proven false, they are nowhere to be found.

My brother is visiting the area on business. He rented a Polestar 2 from Thrifty - same deal, no info. Fortunately his hotel has some complimentary L2 stations: one Tesla, one Clipper Creek, and a dual head Chargepoint. The Chargepoint was showing error messages... So I showed him how to use...

Doesn't surprise me. Tesla doesn't even bother to show up at the San Jose Auto Show.

Very common for tech companies. It is a reason some like to work for startups for relatively little pay. If the company is eventually successful the stock is worth a fortune. "Bill and Dave" (Hewlett and Packard) were early proponents of such compensation. One of the benefits is to spread...

"Treasury stock". Tesla, like most corporations, is authorized by their shareholders to issue some high number of shares, but have only issued some fraction of that. They can then issue more to the market to raise cash. Or use some to compensate their employees.

Was it established that the doctor intentionally poisoned Kadyrov? Or was Kadyrov using his doctor as some sort of scapegoat for an incurable illness?

Yet another "couldn't happen to a nicer guy". What doctor would want to treat him? Didn't he bury his last doctor alive?

Back in about 2009, a friend/neighbor of mine who was an early Tesla employee (now retired) and I were driving to Los Angeles. He'd been telling me how the Roadster owners had set up a bunch of charging stations for long distance driving - including one at Harris Ranch. We stopped there for...

From the classic book on project management - "The Mythical Man Month" by Fred Brooks.

Mine had the 5-cyl gas engine w/auto transmission. My first fuel injected car in an era when almost all cars had smog-choked carb engines. When the 60 Minutes hit piece came out, and Audi sales crashed, I figured I could probably get a deal on a new one. Headed over to my local Porsche+Audi...

Back in the mid-'80s, I owned an '81 Audi 5000S. One of the nuances of that car was the drivers floor mat would gradually slide forward enough that it would start to jam the gas pedal. Solution? Reach down, pull the mat back, and it would be good again for a few more weeks/months. When the...

It is this from Home Depot. It was the least restrictive I could find. They didn't even bother to give it a MERV rating.

The filtering material after 13 months:

California charges $150/year, and many other states are doing similar. Does stink if you have an EV that doesn't get driven much - if at all. (Thinking about the 1916 Detroit Electric that is on display at a nearby museum. It only occasionally gets driven around the museum grounds - so might...

There are major power transmission lines (Path 66 - Wikipedia) running the length of that part I-5. It would be silly for Tesla to run their own Diesel generators for anything but emergency/temporary power.

This. Moving the Volume thumbwheel up/down a notch works well too.

Yes on the phase. Signaling protocol is the same. The T2->T1 adapters seem common in Europe and elsewhere. As usual, evseadapters also offers one.

You'd need a Type 2 -> Type 1 adapter or cable, then stack it with the Type 1 (J1772) adapter that came with your car.

There are a number of roundabouts on the Stanford campus, not far from the Tesla buildings. One would hope they've been used for testing. But yeah - I'd be hesitant to remove the turn signal stalk as well. Perhaps a business opportunity for the S3XY Buttons folks.

I was thinking mostly in terms of Supercharging and DC Fast Charging in general - where one quite often gets out of the car, plugs in the SC cable, and gets back into the car. The same situation happens with ICE cars at gas stations. I own four cars with ICE - two fill on the drivers side rear...

After 130 years, the car manufacturers still haven't standardized on GAS port locations... The Tesla location (drivers side rear) seems best from a human factors point of view. When you open the door and step out, which location is easiest to access? Obviously drivers side. But front or...

Hopefully not as long as it took to get Saratoga Ave up and running...

Maybe Elon should start a "Tesla Transformers" division of Tesla Energy.

It actually takes more than one relay to handle each of the possible fault cases. Even then, I doubt the Quick220 people have a UL (or equivalent) Seal of Approval on their product. I can easily think of issues the Quick220 does not address. (Personal note: my father was a lawyer who handled...