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I'm about to take my first Tesla road trip with a hitch-mounted bike rack & 4 bikes. I assume there will be a range hit on account of it. Will the in-car nav plot supercharger stops well enough with the bike rack? I mean, I'm guessing starting out it will plan for the first stop to be...

So I had an FWD latch actuator go bad on the new X (very obnoxious as it thought the door was open and beeped all the way to the service center). But the good news is, the service center took it immediately and gave me a loaner X Long Range Plus and had it fixed the next day. (Philly tip: the...

Is beta 10.5 meant to see and respect no turn on red signs at stop lights? Over the weekend I stopped it when it appeared to be making a right on red at a no turn on red light (sign mounted above on the horizontal bar holding the lights). Thinking back, I can’t be sure it wasn’t just going to...

2 in good shape with < 5000 miles. 2 with small dents in the rims and bubbles in the sidewalls, but I expect the rims are fixable and at least the TPMS sensors could be salvaged from the tires. Anyone who can pick them up is welcome to them; I just want the garage space back. We're in the...

Let's say I wanted to sell some puts periodically, hoping to make some cash without selling shares. Right now I have next to no spare cash in my brokerage account. Because, you know, I used it buying TSLA! :) I think I have heard people recommend selling out of the money puts on margin, when...

Everyone keeps talking about how Tesla is light-years ahead of other automakers in battery technology. The problem with this line of thinking is that the OEMs are not the ones making the batteries. In terms of battery tech, as far as I can tell Tesla is really competing with LG Chem & CATL...

What do you all think of this? A trailer that is not actually attached to your vehicle, but is self-powered and just autonomously follows the main vehicle around. Doesn't even HAVE to stay immediately behind, presuming both vehicles have a cell connection and the trailer can track the position...

We haven't been on the turnpike so much lately, but my wife just stopped at a Supercharger at the Molly Pitcher Service Plaza (near exit 8 I think). She said there are only 4 stalls and they were all busy and there was a line. So she went on to the Robbinsville Supercharger just off exit 7 at...

A lot of news sites seem to have reported that Tesla got a manufacturing license and now they're at the "if you build it they will come" stage. But I saw one article somewhere (sorry, lost track) that claimed they also need a SALES license, and possibly separate ones in each part of China...

I hear people recommending not charging a car from a PowerWall. If you have solar and a PowerWall, how do you manage the car charging? Is there a way to charge from solar directly if it’s being generated at the time but use power from the utility for the car when charging at night (even if the...

I've read a lots of posts recently talking about Tesla’s unassailable advantage in battery technology just as soon as they incorporate Maxwell’s technology. (In terms of energy density, manufacturing space, etc.) But is Maxwell really the only company/only researchers to have gone in this...

I wasn’t there myself but I’m told that with the position of the tire stops, you can’t actually get close enough to the Superchargers in the Model 3 for the plug to reach the port. (For the majority of the spots, anyway.) Anybody know what’s up with that?

So, 5-week checkpoint on my P3D. I love it. The end. Ok, wait, just a bit more. My wife hated it on the test drive. Didn’t like the minimalism, the regenerative braking, or, I suppose, the way I drove during my half. (But hey, if you test drive a Performance, you have to TRY the...

Looking at upgrading a rental house with an EV charger. As nice as the HPWC is, I assume it would increase the value of the rental more if it wasn’t Tesla-only. Can other EVs charge from a NEMA 14-50 outlet? That would be cheap and plenty fast enough for my Model 3, I just don’t know whether...

We did our first bath today, after an astounding 1000+ miles in just over 2 weeks. (This is replacing a car that got 5000-6000 miles a year.) I guess it shows that 1. she's really fun to drive, and 2. she has completely replaced the minivan as the vehicle of choice for my wife and kids, unless...

So it's like this. We got a Model 3 to replace my old sedan. The "family car" is an Odyssey minivan. It's taken less than a week for my wife and I to repeatedly say to each other, "if only the Tesla could fit six..." Our main concern is that we take 1-2 road trips a year to spend 1-2 weeks...

I just got the opportunity to buy a used motorcycle for well below blue book value. I have a model 3 delivery on Tuesday, and no trade-in. Anyone know whether they’d take a motorcycle trade-in and credit me the blue book value for it?

So I'm driving a rented Rogue until my delivery on 5/7. On the way home today, the central touch screen went black. No radio, camera, anything. If I changed the volume or station using the steering wheel buttons, the normal overlays appeared at the top of a black screen. But the volume and...

Elon said they've been building Model 3 with the new computer "for about 10 days" in the Autonomy talk today

When I look at the PA EV rebate program, it says it applies to cars with a purchase price (including options but not taxes or trade-ins) of $60,000 or less. However the Telsa build-a-model-3 page shows a PA rebate if you configure a Performance with paint or any other upgrades that push it over...