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Very frustrating to be stuck at 2020.48.37.8 because I have MCU1. Was really looking forward to using FSD beta! :mad:

I'm moving onto a sailboat. This could make a huge difference for me.

I watched a very long painful video by the professor that helped Tesla design their batteries. One of his primary assertions was that the enemy of battery life is heat. So, in the winter charging to 95% is probably less of an issue than charging to 90% in the summer. I have also noticed a big...

Texas property taxes are low compared to California. For two reasons. First, property values are much lower. Second is what most folks miss. Texas has a LOT of new construction. Much of your property tax bill is for paying for the infrastructure. Once that is paid off, the taxes go way down...

Any updates on the iPhone solution?

When you charge a Li-ION battery it's only about 85% efficient. So, if you're doing it twice, now you're at 72% efficiency. That alone would make me shy away from using my powerwall to charge my car unless it was an emergency, my power rate was really high and/or I had a lot of surplus energy...

tune to channel 0. Then the radio ID is right there.

At the Sears Point dragstrip, Wednesday nights two M3s show up on a regular basis. They always do 11.6-11.7 on the 1/4 mile on a prepped strip. Easily a second slower than a S P100D.

Easy to understand. It's all about how many amps your battery can deliver right now. So if your SOC is low or your battery is cold and his SOC is high and battery is warm, you can easily lose. One thing I do is set it to have my battery charge complete right when I'm planning on driving. That...

It's a Lithium ION battery. The properties are well known and can be easily found on the internet. Forget what Tesla says, chemistry is chemistry. We don't know the exact chemistry of a Tesla battery and we don't know where the limits are really set but 50% is probably really close to the real...

My system went online in 2012 and I just checked. Still on EV-A. I won't be saying anything to PG&E about it!

I just checked and am still on EV-A. Am I grandfathered in? Did anyone get moved?

The biggest issue I have with my model S is the haphazard way it alerts you to potential collisions. It would sure be nice if it would warn you of cross traffic either in front or behind the car when pulling out. And, it really doesn't seem to recognize stationary objects in your path and...

It's supposed to have a 6.5' bed. And, it's a long truck so I expect that you won't have to fold down your seats to haul plywood. I like the tent option since I sleep in the bed of my dodge in the winter when hunting all the time.

Can't you use your cell phone to provide WiFi to your Tesla when in Mexico? My AT&T iPhone works well there and AT&T doesn't charge me a surcharge for Mexico. Only 3G is SLOW!

On twitter Elon posted: 146k Cybertruck orders so far, with 42% choosing dual, 41% tri & 17% single motor If it does as well off road as it looks to and has a 400 mile+ range in the mountains with off road sprinkled in, I will retire my Dodge 2500 diesel and get one.

If it does really well off road, gets 400+ mile range in the mountains with off road sprinkled in and I can get a winch on it, it'll be time to retire my Dodge 2500.

Very strange. I got a letter from PG&E saying that I was going to be switched to EV-2A But when I looked a few minutes ago I'm still EV-A. Looks like I'm grandfathered in. Anyone know what triggers the switch? I currently have NEM.

I like it. Finally something really far out of the box! Between the quiet and tough body, it should make a great hunting truck. If it proves to have good off road capabilities and the range is at least 400 miles in the real world, I'm going to start lusting after it. Maybe it'll be time to trade...

At Sears Point Wednesday night there were two Model 3's doing 1/4 mile times consistently at 11.6 and 11.8 seconds.

Your experience is why I typically rent a car when I go on a long road trip. That way, if anything at all goes wrong with it, including a flat tire, it's not my problem, I call Hertz, or Enterprise, or etc. and the come bring me a new car. Worst case, I lose a day. Sucks not being able to drive...

And you'd need a stupid amount of solar to actually get paid for excess production. Besides, if you do, the panels degrade quickly enough that you won't be selling them back power at true-up for very long!

My service experience has been interesting as well. It really seems to be about who you're dealing with. Calling my SC is hopeless. YOu can't even leave a message. But they will call you. When I had 6k miles on mine, I was told by the rep that it needed an alignment and I needed to pay for it...

The tuning is definitely over aggressive. It accelerates too abruptly and really doesn't appropriately anticipate traffic. Instead of using the sensors to determine what is going on ahead (I typically mentally drive a few hundred yards out) it only looks at the vehicle directly in front of you...

Anyone have an update on when the new hardware is going to be available and what the plans are?

I got the receipt.

Yeah, about that, when I try to look at the pdf on my config, it shows up blank. The iPhone T4U app seems to match my config though. Don't know where it gets its info.

Well, I paid the money. I got an email saying that it would start to download soon. Of course I have 2.0 hardware and so far nothing's happened. What's the next step?

I'm with you. I'll wait until next week though.

It really is an awesome deal. I see it as an especially awesome deal for older drivers who can suddenly get their freedom back. Even those that are beginning to have issues driving at night. Wow, to think of how this will improve their lives!

So, with 2.5, are your results better than mine?

Do you have 3.0 hardware? It would be really interesting to see what the difference is. Because, with 2.0, it makes frequent mistakes. either miss-identifying objects or missing them entirely. It rarely identifies people or motorcycles and doesn't see cross traffic or stationary objects at all...

Agreed. But Autopilot at this point is not using any NN as far as this highly experienced automation engineer can tell. And if there is any NN, it's far down in the decision tree.

And that is one of my concerns. Without a written spec all we can do is "hope" that they will do something cool. But still the computer is overloaded and needs to be upgraded, this is probably the best deal we'll see and Elon has a great track record for making things happen.

Yes I watched it. All of it. It was way cool! Elon looked really pastly and nervous but his engineers were quite enthusiastic and convincing. But, those specs are still not in black and white and associated by Tesla with the FSD upgrade. All that is associated with the upgrade by Tesla are...

Yeah, it sure is cool how we all get frequent improvements without paying extra for them. Another thing to love about Tesla. But as far as details of exactly what we're going to get, I'm accustomed to a LOT more than a few little ambiguous marketing lines such as: Coming later this year -...

Yeah. "Free FSD computer". And "ALL future FSD features". After the previous promises made with "Enhanced Autopilot" and the complete lack of details in the letter or on the website, I don't quite buy into it. Without telling us what exactly we are going to get, they can change their mind at...

Fair? Well that depends on how you feel about what you were "promised" when you purchased your vehicle. Somehow, I assumed that Enhanced Autopilot was the same as Full Self Driving so no, not entirely "fair". But, on the other hand, we all upgrade our computers occasionally. And the one in my...

Mostly close range vision for manufacturing inspection systems. Very limited scope with no AI or NN. But other than the learning, automation is automation. It's really easy to see what the car is doing and that the current autopilot is barely more than automatic cruise control and looking at...

So what exactly is HW3? Just a computer upgrade or additional sensors as well? I've been using Autopilot quite a bit and have noticed three big issues - for me at least: 1) it doesn't seem to "see" stationery objects. - i.e. cross traffic or road barriers that are not where they're easily...

So, I just got this letter: As an owner who has purchased Enhanced Autopilot – you can now upgrade to Full Self-Driving Capability at a reduced price of $3,000. Get access to current convenience features and future Full Self-Driving features to continually increase the capability of your Tesla...

Is this only for the Model 3 or for the S as well?

You're very brave! It would be wiser to limit your exposure to one company to about 5% of your investable capital. But there's a lot of room for Tesla to succeed so you may get lucky. Last week I drove in Holland, Belgium, Germany and France. There are a ton of Tesla's all over Holland. As many...

So yesterday I did a long drive in pretty heavy traffic with my suspension set to lower at 50 MPH. Much of it was spent in the 50-65 mph range. And I really behaved myself. The results were pretty hard to believe so I will have to experiment more but before I was squarely in the middle of to 300...

BTW, mine's fixed. They had to calibrate the radar. It was aimed 4 degrees low. It seems that if all the signals from the cameras and radar don't agree, then we get that message.

1) The ability to enter a Charge % number instead of the scroll bar. 2) The ability to completely schedule your charge times. In my case start at 11PM Monday -Friday. Stop at 7 AM Monday-Friday. Stop at 3PM Saturday and Sunday and Start at 7PM Saturday and Sunday. (BTW- you can do this in a...

I'm sure that this has been covered before but wasn't able to find the conversation with the search engine. Will tire wear increase significantly if I go to a lower ride height at highway speeds? I have 21" wheels and have been using the standard ride height. I wanted to try a lower ride height...

Mine has been disconnected from Wifi until recently so I got the last two updates two weeks apart. Didn't notice any performance changes. But, a few days ago I got in mine right after an hour of charging at 40 amps. The acceleration from a stop was radically faster than normal.

Sounds like Tesla is getting serious about cutting costs. This apparently is one of the expensive items they decided to cut. I was fortunate to get under the wire. In my case it wasn't bad enough to actually bother me but anytime I get an option to replace old electronics with new, I jump on it...

At the service center in Berkeley.