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Our 2021 Model S doesn't show the battery condition or health test in service mode. Software is v11.1(2024.2.2.1). Any thoughts?

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 need to replace the 3G system with 4G on my car but the only appointments available are at a single service center quite far from me. Are other people seeing this kind of scarcity?

On my Samsung S9+, the Messaging part of the Service app shows the reply box at the bottom and when the keyboard comes up it covers the reply box. This only happens in the Tesla app. My messaging and other apps work without problems. Also the black theme with grey text is very difficult to read...

We were driving in an old city (Gloucester) with lots of twisty little passages all the same so I was using Navigate to get to a restaurant. In the past, the dashboard map would show a detailed overhead view with street names which was great for navigating complex intersections. Now, it started...

One of the recent updates changed the maps behavior such that when it's doing navigation, that is, there is a route set up, you can't zoom in on a section and have it stick. What I want to do is look at the traffic along the route near the end to see if I agree with the routing, so (duh) I zoom...

We just got our Tesla S back after having the half shafts and jack staff replaced because of a rattling noise during hard acceleration, and while there, I asked them to check the rear camera because it seemed out of focus. They replaced that too. The results of both were amazing. The car is now...

Our S recently developed the rattling on acceleration problem which seems to be a damaged half shaft so I made an appointment to get it fixed and found out some stuff on service appointments. Using the online scheduler, Watertown only had open slots the week of Christmas when we are away and...

I've never gotten an idle fee, but I did today. Dedham Tesla Service Center plugged my car in, without asking or telling me, and left it plugged in too long. Since it was my first idle fee, Tesla waived the payment, but are threatening to stop my ability to Supercharge if I don't give them a...

We're on 2018.42.2 and this has been happening since the previous update. The car is on our own WiFi in the garage and when we take it out, it never switches to 3G until I reboot the console. I've tried opening the WiFi settings and turning it off with no change. The WiFi icon shows a slash...

Recently both my wife and I have heard a very pronounced thump from the right rear, but it's not at all repeatable. A couple of times on slow turns, a couple of times driving straight ahead. It sounds exactly as if something heavy has rolled to the side of the trunk, but there's nothing heavy...

Since the last update to 2018.21.9 the car has been forgetting my podcast favorites. They used to appear with the list of radio station favorites, but now are completely gone. I've restored them twice from the Recents list, remarking them as favorites only to have them lost again. Is this a new...

The new map app on the console, the one that comes up when you're on a navigation trip that shows a miniature map of the route and turns, has a UI problem, IMHO. When you're getting close to a turn, or in the middle of it, e.g. a complex highway exit, the app zooms in too far. As you approach...

We recently went from Boston to Quebec via 91 from VT and stopped at the Magog Supercharger. The Tesla navigation routing to the Magog supercharger from 91 is nuts! It goes right through the city streets of Magog which is long, very slow and congested. A much better way is to continue up to 10W...

Reversing out of a parking space we heard a very loud sound followed by a grinding/scraping noise from the front right. At first we thought we'd run over something, but there was nothing under or anywhere near the car. Moving the car forwards, the car felt like it first jacked up a bit on the...

Does anyone know what kind of orbit Elon's talking about? Is it some kind of Earth/Mars orbit?

This thread is intended as a place to focus on the system teased in the video using tunnels and electric skids for medium speed, medium distance mass transport. I don't know of any proposed name for the system, so I'll refer to it as the Atmospheric Pressure Tunnel System (APTS) until a name...

There are a lot of things that are common between Model S and Model X, and I suspect Model 3 as well. Currently the forums are organized by model so common items either aren't available in all threads or are duplicated threads which is never a good idea.

After well over a year of the Homelink system in our Tesla working perfectly, it's been very flaky for the last few months. I only have a single entry and it's set for auto close and open. The problem is that it occasionally doesn't do the auto part, usually close, but occasionally open. When I...

Didn't there used to be an option on the menu when creating a new trip that displayed all the superchargers as candidate destinations? From what I can see, hitting the lightening bolt on the map overlay at the bottom right will bring up a list of a few Superchargers the car somehow determines...

I find the front seat back to be a bit uncomfortable even after messing around with the settings a lot. The problem is that there's a harder section across the seat just above the lumbar support and below the recessed area in the top half or so of the seat. For me, that hits my back too high...

When backing up in my garage, I use the rear camera to judge when to stop, which is fine. However, I've noticed that the distance warning color arcs are a substantial fraction of a second delayed. They update the distance with a delay that is too long to be of much practical use. After stopping...

The other evening we were driving on a clearly lane striped highway, the display was showing the lanes with no problem, light traffic, good lighting. I changed lanes to the right with the signal stalk, which the car started to execute, and after it got about half way done, I let go of the stalk...

Several months ago when I had the tires rotated, I had them look at the pano roof because it was juddering when opening. They lubed the cables and said it was important to catch it early so the cables didn't stretch. Now it's started squeaking when opening. The car is already scheduled to be...

Yesterday morning, our car was it's normal quiet self, however, that night when we went out there was a very audible squeaking coming from the front of the car whenever it rocked on the suspension.Over the course of the evening it got noticeably worst, although it seems to have stabilized now...

I started a new thread specifically about the AP's sensing of hands on the wheel since there's starting to be some FUD thrown. Before this devolves into a total flame war, I decided to do some actual testing and now I think I know what's happening. My experiment was to drive on a 3 lane...

Under slushy conditions and, to a lesser extent, wet roads, the rear camera almost instantly gets obscured by water droplets, making it pretty useless. I've often noticed, and exploited, the fact that turning on the rear window heater in a car without rear window wipers will greatly reduce the...

For medium distance transportation, it seems to me that buses have a lot of advantages, the biggest that there already exists a huge network of roads, in stark contrast to rail. They also carry a lot of passengers for the energy they use. However, having commuted for years by bus, the...

I was on a local road slowing for a stop sign, brakes and regen, when the collision warning suddenly came on. The road was going down into a small dip with the stop sign at the opposite top with a car stopped at it. There was plenty of space and I was slowing down easily quickly enough to stop...

In todays NYT Arron Kessler has a generally very positive piece on Autopilot that states that the update costs $2500. I have no idea where this came from and there's no way I found to let him know it's wrong...

There are quite a few DC charging stations appearing that have CCS plugs so it would be nice if Tesla would provide an adapter. In the past the argument was that there weren't any charging stations, but that is rapidly changing. Assuming that it only supported the most common DC mode through...

My wife was out and did a search for "Target" on the main map. It only showed ones several towns away, but there is one just a few miles from where she was that's been there for years. It was necessary to enter the name of the town she was in to get the Target in the same town even though it is...

I've created a USB stick with about 38GB of music mostly by ripping CD's using MediaMonkey, then synching the library to the USB. At lot of it works fine, and all the music I've tried plays without any problems. The problem is that single albums wind up showing as more than one album with a few...

I've noticed several times when I've driven out of my garage which has WiFi that the car doesn't seem to switch over to 3G to update the maps. Once I'm off the cached tiles, I don't see any map tiles and the WiFi symbol is still on, but there's no 3G symbol.

A lot of parking lots have curbs/barriers at the front of the spots that are about 6" high. The parking sensors don't report these, presumably because the beam is going over it. I'm not sure how that could be fixed, but it's a problem. I wish there were a front camera that could see the ground...

I wonder if Tesla could, with driver permission, gather anonymous data about the power needed for specific sections of roads with data about the car, speed and temperature? The idea would be to build up a database of actual driving experiences that could be used to build much more accurate range...

In the past the argument against SAE Combo adapters was that there were almost no installations of SAE chargers, but that is changing, especially now that BMW seems to have committed to the SAE standard and is starting to install their own chargers, so perhaps the time has come to replace the...

I'm thinking about bagging my model X reservation and getting an 85D so am considering options. From what I can see looking at PlugShare and Chargepoint, the number of HPWC or 70A J1772's in New England and Eastern Canada that aren't also near (or at) Superchargers, CHAdeMo and/or SAE Combo...

I'm looking for references to studies of the actual backup requirements for widespread wind power systems where their contributions are greater than 30 - 50%. Specifically I'd like to know more about how much non-wind backup is required to maintain 100% capacity at all times and how widespread...

Massachusetts recently started an EV rebate program funded with $1.86M to grant rebates up to $2500 for purchasers of EV's. I'm doubtful that this is the best use of the money. It seems to me that the main barrier to EV adoption is range and/or the lack of charging infrastructure, not a...

We like Pepperidge Farm Bordeaux cookies, so I've been trying to reverse engineer them. This is my current best effort: Makes 36 cookies 2 sticks unsalted butter (@room temperature) 3/8 tsp salt 1 1/8 cups white sugar 1 Tbs molasses 1 1/2 cup white flour 1 1/2 tsp baking powder Cream the...

I've got a pretty early Model X reservation (1417) but, while not having cold feet, am feeling a few tootsie chills about getting such an early production instance. Currently there are somewhere around 7000 reservations which I'd take a SWAG at being about 5 - 6 month's production, so around...

We're in a rental house we go to every year that has an electric dryer on a circuit with a 240 30A breaker. The plug is a 3 bladed one, all straight, but I don't know if it's a 10-50 (scary) or a 10-20 (weird). It's there a simple way to tell them apart?

We were recently in Provincetown, and as always I was asking about future prospects for EV charging, this time at the Duarte Motors lot where we normally park. The guy who seemed to be in charge explained to me with some delight exactly why they would never install EV charging at the lot. Here's...

It looks like they're building one at 95 and 195 near Providence by the fall. An another somewhere on the Mass Pike by end 2013, possibly in Auburn. IMHO, there still is a hole in Eastern MA for people going to the Cape from the north, or people going up to Maine from the south. One at the...

I just stopped to check out the Barnstable, MA charger location. It's at the Barnstable County Complex just off 6A on the Cape. Unfortunately, although there's a sigh saying non-EV's will be towed, there were other free spots, and it's right beside the Police Station, both bays were ICEd...

Some trucks, boats and airplanes use a separate gasoline or diesel heater such as the Espar for preheating the engine and for cabin heat. My guess is that about 8kw (~25k BTU) would be needed for the battery and cabin heat at 15F and 60 mph, that's roughly 135 w/mi extra which would burn...

I've never noticed any 110V outlets available at the Logan parking areas, but reading the other threads, this seems like a very low cost / high reward option. I've written to Massport suggesting it, but if anyone has an in there it might be something to mention. As others have pointed out...

From today's Globe: The city recently installed eight electric vehicle charging stations in its Museum Place and South Harbor garages. The stations can charge an electric vehicle in four to six hours. The city will provide the power free for the first two years.. City officials said placing...

A set of modest proposals: Highways - Electrify one or more lanes with overhead electrified wires (catenaries) that would be exclusively used by qualified vehicles that had electric motors that would draw power from the catenary. All vehicles using this lane would be required to have...