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The car is in excellent physical and mechanical condition. It comes with Unlimited Free Supercharging, AP1 (no phantom braking, auto wipers works!), power trunk, heated seats and wheel, opening sunroof, light solar film on the side widows, and Michelin Pilot Sport All Season tires with lots of...
I wrote a post in the New England section about getting my Model S battery repaired at a local shop which I think is of some interest to those of us with older cars.
https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/posts/8186771/
The post seems to be in some kind of limbo, still there if you have the link, but...
This would be for the Boring Company tunnels where they only stop at controlled stations and only Tesla vehicles are in the tunnels. I strongly suspect they've been working on some kind of automated people movers for some time. These would be more like driverless airport sky trams than cars...
Too bad they didn't mention it to owners or put out a TSB. I guess for some people $10k is really pocket change, kind of like replacing wiper blades.
Of course, by leaving owners in the dark that increases sales for them. Planned obsolescence.
If it's on acceleration, it may be the half shafts which is a lot cheaper.
Any older S should also be checked for HV battery fuse box cover corrosion to avoid water damage IMHO. This is a stainless replacement cover from Elictrified Garage but the battery needs to be dropped to check.
Same thing for our car. Apparently that plate corrodes over time, clearly a design flaw. You have to drop the battery to check it, something Tesla doesn't mention nor do in normal checkups. Electrified Garage makes a stainless replacement part. I wish I'd known about it before, although dropping...
My understanding is resistance to grid expansion is a significant factor. Massachusetts has had a lot of problems getting hydropower from Quebec because of environmentalist resistance to power lines.
The driver's display seems mostly eye candy.
Own car size too small, overtaking cars are shown behind when actually beside except when stopped.
Forward view is fisheyed with cars in front too small.
Red/green light display too small, close to useless
Stop sign display too small
Almost no...
Our 2015 85D is completely dead after driving through a moderately deep puddle. It looks like the HV battery.
Perhaps these older cars are just losing some of their water protection.
Are we the only ones this is true for?
Could someone else with 2024.2.2.1 just take a look at the Service Menu HV Battery screen and see if they have the battery condition/health test button please?
Doesn't it seem a bit too much of a coincidence though that 2 weeks ago it worked perfectly with our 2015 and now with no intervening uses it fails on our 2021?
We just bought a used 2021 Model S and it already has 2 disablement strikes recorded against so presumably we get 3 more. None of these are ours, we've only had the car 2 days with none. They're from the previous owner!
It does seem ridiculous that the strikes go with the car not the owner...
We're in a very similar situation to the OP. Our 2015 S was totaled and we bought a 2021 pre-refresh S. The Gen 2 mobile connector button will open the charge port door, however our old Gen 1 mobile connector is at best very flaky about opening the port. The Gen 1 will charge the car just fine...
I'm in the process of buying a used Model S from a non-Tesla dealer that I will be picking up in another state and then driving back home the same day.
It's very likely I'll need to charge on the way back and would like to use a Supercharger rather than a slow public charger.
I already have a...
I wish there were a mechanism to only charge on actual sale. Getting charged for a Wanted To Buy ad that likely will never be filled is a bit off-putting.
This discussion seems to be based on some kind of notion that SLS and Artemis are designed to accomplish some goal beyond pork barrel spending.
Where did that idea come from?
I've been looking for a 2020 or pre-refresh 2021 S and it's interesting that so far, the price of used Teslas hasn't really reflected the drop in new prices. There are still a lot of 2022 cars asking more than the current new price. I guess the sellers are hoping no one has noticed.
IMHO a major issue with Tesla FSD is the Tesla software team. They've not shown the level of capability needed for something as complex as FSD. For example, they were never able to make sensor fusion work so they just gave up.
Other companies such as Waymo are actually demonstrating true FSD...
The ongoing discussions of phantom braking makes me really disappointed in Tesla and reluctant to buy a new one.
Our 2015 Tesla S with the original, non-Telsa, AP practically never experiences phantom braking, less than once per year, and we use AP all the time. Perhaps we're just lucky, but I...
AFAIK there's been zero research into things like the ability of animals, never mind humans, to conceive, bear and raise young (children) at anything other than 1.0 G. All the research into micro gravity has shown serious short term (<2 year) consequences. Not only has there been no research...
Actually, it's often worse than that. You have to do what your supervisor says, which is sometimes just their notion of the month and actually will cost the company money. At least the bean counters are counting beans, not off on personal vendettas about various things.
IMHO, if TBC can actually get the price of their tunneling down to what they're saying, it may well be a bigger thing than Tesla or SpaceX. If they can provide relatively high speed urban transport out to say 30 miles (15 minutes at 120 mph) that would totally reconfigure urban areas.
We used...
Some cameras do something very similar for focus in darkness before firing the flash. Maybe what's needed is just some IR lights with a structured pattern the cameras could use. A lot easier than trying to figure out how big the bricks are on a wall. Should be both cheap and longish range.
Raw images are not photon counts. It's just the data directly from the sensor cells which are proportional to the amount of light hitting them, but that's certainly not photon counts. Why they ever used processed images escapes me. Most experienced people don't even use them when editing photos.
I call BS on that. Let's see the links to these amazing broadcasts.
The way cameras work is by exposing the individual cells in the sensor to light which changes the charge in the cells. At regular intervals (60, 120, etc. per second) the cells are read to get the total amount of light energy...
I voted for Tesla to put the effort elsewhere. Based on reports of phantom braking alone I'm investigating upgrading the battery on our 2015 with the original AP when it comes off warrantee next year. FSD would be a serious downgrade.
We'll see.
As long as Tesla can sell every car they can make it would be very poor management practice to spend money on something to improve customer satisfaction.