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I just found out today that my Model X is scheduled to be delivered tomorrow. This was pretty sudden for me, and I'm not super-prepared. One question I have: Is there any hardware that is coming soon? like will cars produced next month have different autopilot cameras/sensors than this one...

I dropped off my 2012 Model S for service early Thursday morning with my car reporting a TPMS sensor issue. They guessed they'd be done same day. I've messaged them every day asking if I can pick up my car today. They reply things like "they are diagnosing it deeper" and they'll message back...

The computer in my 2012 Model S has been struggling more and more. Voice control frequently doesn't work. The central screen is rebooting several times a week, sometimes several times in a row. Web browser pretty much never works. The struggles have been slowly increasing over the last...

I guess this has happened to others before, but somehow it just changed for my a week ago. I used to get the song I requested about 75% of the time (assuming I hadn't listened to it for a couple days). Now it's 0% of the time. Is this expected? Was I simply lucky that this didn't happen to...

My 2012 Model S is becoming increasingly annoying to use. The web browser generally will no longer load anything at all. About half the time the voice command functionality fails to hear anything I say. Songs on USB sticks (!) or Slacker often get "loading error"s. Sometimes rebooting the...

Not really sure where to post this… I’m wondering if I should get a new car, and if so, which one. Here’s what I don’t like about my 2012 P85: 1) The CPU is painfully slow. Voice recognition often fails to bother to record what I’m saying. Web browser is essentially worthless. Even...

Within the last few days, lots of things that used to work on Slacker now return a "No Results Found". Slacker will play some things for me, but the list of songs it knows seems like it's under 5% of what it was last week. Any ideas what happened, and how to get it back to where it was...

Before V2.52.22, I could choose to play an "Album", and it would play the songs in order. Now, when I browse by Album, albums have become multiple albums because there's a different composer or singer or something. Basically every song from the "Moana" album is now its own album. If I play by...

For a while, I had been thinking that it would be nice to get a Model X to replace my Model S. Then I could move guests around when they came to visit. It's more fun to keep my family in the same vehicle as the guest family on a trip to San Francisco, or Monterey, or wherever. and as my kids...

When I plug my car in overnight in California, what is the carbon emissions of the energy that comes on line to provide energy to my batteries? One can look up what the carbon emissions per MWh are for California where I live. but using that to talk about my car's emissions are a little goofy...

It hasn't rained much in the last couple weeks and it's getting warmer, so I just turned on my lawn sprinkers. Three days a week. which is what I'd be doing if the reservoirs were full. My 2yr old daughter takes a bath 3 days a week now. just like she always has. In fact, the only change to...

Even though I live within 20 miles of a service center, I bought the ranger service plan. Whenever I call a service center, they always ask when I'll drop off the car. I always ask, can I do it without driving myself to the SC? So far, they've always said, sure, they'll pick up my car. One...

My 2 yr old was playing in the car [we were parked] and wound up hitting the "do not play" button on a song in the Toddlers channel that she liked. I imagine there's no way to get this song back? Inadvertently favorited songs can be un-favorited later, but do-not-play songs are pretty much...

Does the E-brake require a constant voltage to keep it disengaged, so that a power failure would engage it? or does a power failure leave it in the same state it was before the failure? or is voltage required to keep it closed? On steep hills, I always used to put the car in gear (manual)...

I just heard that my company is going to install some outlets for EVs. They decided to use plain old 120 V. I think that's silly. Assuming that my company doesn't want to spend too much money building something fancy (e.g., CHAdeMO), and that Volts and Leafs are the main market, what should...

I'm using over 2000 kWh per month and I'm curious where all that power is being consumed. Car: 600 kWh per month. Pool filter: ~300 kWh per month Pool cleaner/other pumps: ~200 kWh per month That leaves me drawing 900 kWh on other stuff, and that seems rather high. SolarCity and PG&E...

The service center just replaced my rear tires (21" Continental Extreme Contact DWs) My car now feels unsettled, like it wants to go in any direction other than straight. It's not the shaking of a badly balanced tire: there's no discernible periodicity to the wandering. Higher speeds feel...

After 11k miles, my tires are running low. I've had PS2s in the past and loved them, but they're nearly twice as expensive as the Contis. I would like to be able to floor it in my P85 without the traction control kicking in. I can't do that with my current OEM Contis. Could I do that...

I'll be traveling to Santa Rosa next week. It looks like 241 miles round trip. If I were to drive 65 mph, I might be able make it, but I don't drive 65, and my usage averages around 395 Wh/mile. That means my car (with 10k miles) is really only good for about 195 miles. A Best...

Tonight I got home late and plugged my car in about 10 minutes after it's scheduled to charge. I figured I had missed the start, so I'd need to manually ask it to start the charge. Instead, as soon as I plugged it in, it said "Charging will start momentarily". This is exactly what I...

I'm trying to figure out which car I should take to El Dorado Hills from San Jose tomorrow. 308 miles round trip. multiplied by 1.3 means I need about 400 rated miles. I'll start tomorrow with 260, so that means I need to get about 140 from the charger. How long will I likely have to spend in...

Here are the facts: Starting range: 236 miles Ending range: 161 miles Distance: 47.9 miles Total Energy: 19.1 kWh Avg Energy: 399 Wh/mi As normal, my consumption is 4/3rds the rated 300 Wh/mi. However, if I take 47.9 * 4 / 3, I get 64 miles, but I lost 75 miles of range. Where...

In the thread Let's say you drive it like you stole it. bellwilliam suggests that the 21" wheels have inferior performance to 19" wheels: Let's say you drive it like you stole it. - Page 3 Is this true? thanks, Derek

Opinion: A reality check on Tesla - CNN.com "it is time for a reality check — the Model S is hardly one point away from flawless." "Giving a vehicle a near-perfect score is acceptable — and there will undoubtedly be others just as impressive — but assuming that one vehicle trumps others and...

I just heard on the radio that Toyota is still moving forward on a fuel cell car for 2015. Toyota cuts cost of hydrogen-fuel cell cars I thought that after years of research, we haven't been able to efficiently produce Hydrogen, and that therefore Hydrogen cars cause about as much CO2...

This post details my Tesla service experiences in the last 4 months. The executive summary: Tesla has some nice, hard-working people in service, but they need a whole lot more service advisors in Fremont and Menlo Park. Specific complaints: There should be a higher chance of speaking to...

My mother-in-law just told me that they were laying people off in Fremont. best I could find from google was this: TESLA Lays off 100 Workers Due to NYT Article Cancellations? - Bright Side Of News* I'm surprised there's not more chatter about it on this forum or on the web in general?

Can someone explain to me in English what this credit (Form 8911) does? TurboTax makes it pretty clear that my credit will be zero, but I'm curious about why. Is it because I'm not using it for a business vehicle? Or is it because the installation cost is low ($650)? Or is it because I pay...

How often is the Santana Row space available for a Model S owner? Does one generally stop by the showroom to give them a phone number in case your car needs to get moved, or does one just park there and walk away?

The wipers park nicely underneath the frunk lid, presumably for aerodynamics. This prevents you from lifting them up to wash underneath. I tried getting the wipers to stop mid swipe so I could lift them, but that's not easy in a car with no real "off" setting. So, how do you wash underneath...

To get from home to work, I spend about 10 miles on a freeway with a gradual 200 foot elevation gain. Gaining 20 feet per mile seems somewhat inconsequential, and yet I draw about 400 Wh/mile on the freeway on my way to work, and about 300 Wh/mile on the freeway on my way home. It got me to...

I floored it out of a red light last night going up a hill. Traction control had to engage a bit. All of a sudden, around 40 mph, the car says that I need to pull over because it needs service. Instead of pulling 320 kW, I was suddenly pulling more like 30 kW, (not enough to get me up the...

Is there a list somewhere of voice command tips? My phone (with music) is connected. I say "Play Shadow Gallery". The voice recognition recognizes what I said, and then offers to play "Shadow Gallery Radio" from Slacker. I think that's really cool, but what I really wanted was to hear some...

My other cars haven't needed a handheld remote, and I didn't get one when I got the house. I tried using another car near the Tesla, but the Tesla keeps saying "Searching" Do I need to buy a handheld one just so I can program the Tesla?

just got my car today. Brought it home, plugged it in to the 14-50 outlet that SolarCity installed a couple weeks ago, but the car doesn't like it. It says that there's a problem and that I should power cycle the source. I do that, but with the same results. I pushed the "reset" button...

I got the email yesterday that my car was ready! :biggrin: I didn't get the email until 9:00 at night because I was on an airplane.:frown: Working with two different Tesla employees on their cell phones, they scheduled me for an 11am pickup. :biggrin: Now I'm trying to figure out the...

I'm interested in the steps necessary to getting from making a deposit to driving off in a new Model S, with a focus on California. I have some idea of the steps, but I was hoping others could fill in more details: Step 1: Make deposit This happens whenever the customer wants Step 2...

I'm wondering how likely it is that Tesla goes bankrupt and leaves me with a $100k museum piece. I know it's been discussed before, but most of the conversations center around "Elon is a genius" or "The cars are great" rather than on numbers. I'd like to get my head around the numbers...

I got the finalize email a month ago, but haven't pulled the trigger. I was just out looking at the BMW M5 and Audi S6 today (well, and a Hyundai Genesis, but that was a waste of time). Those ICE cars are really impressive. 0-60 in 3.7s? and they've got all kinds of features like...

I'm P6852 and just got the Time to build email this morning. How long do I have to decide to buy or to defer? If I buy now, in what month would my car likely be delivered? If I defer, does anyone know when the car might be delivered? Do we know how many cars have been delivered? I...

A. Center Console (3 out of 10) 1. The console has been mentioned a number of times before, but I hadn’t yet realized how silly the current situation is. There’s a big box between the front seats. This box contains some vents for the back seats and a couple of cup holders for the front seat...