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Thanks for your notes. I have swapped these out and they are no longer available. All the best in finding a set of wheels for your Model Ys.

Toronto, ON, Canada - Upgrade your new Model Y to 21 inch Uberturbine Performance wheels and Pirelli P Zero tires. My wife is looking for a less "sporty" ride and wants to put the 19 inch summer wheels on our Performance Y. As may be seen in the pictures, the wheels are immaculate (no damage or...

Paul, you may want to review the posts on the previous pages, which provide further background and details. The source of the problem is the fact that the Model S illuminates the tail light as a turn signal, as well as the brighter brake / turn signal light, which means that the tail lights on...

Toronto, ON, Canada - Upgrade your new Model Y to 21 inch Uberturbine Performance wheels and Pirelli P Zero tires. My wife is looking for a less "sporty" ride and wants to put the 19 inch summer wheels on our Performance Y. As may be seen in the pictures, the wheels are immaculate (no damage or...

Toronto, ON, Canada - Upgrade your new Model Y to 21 inch Uberturbine Performance wheels and Pirelli P Zero tires. My wife is looking for a less "sporty" ride and wants to put the 19 inch summer wheels on our Performance Y. As may be seen in the pictures, the wheels are immaculate (no damage or...

Thanks Raffy, it's great that you are still contributing and fighting the good fight! Well done. 👍 I have a couple of suggestions for books for those looking for current and future solutions: The Ministry for the Future A novel by: Kim Stanley Robinson...

Agreed a combination of renewable energy and in-ground long term thermal energy storage would seem to have great potential once the developed at scale.

Evoforce, You are correct that turning on the lights all the time would prevent the problem from being visible, but was masking the symptoms, rather than fixing the problem did not strike me as a valid solution (especially because the Model S likes to manage your headlights lights for you).

Frank, Yes, that will prove that the tail light connection is the source of the problem with the turn signals (and that the above circuit will fix the problem).

Hi Frank, I don't have a schematic but have quickly prepared a rough sketch as follows:

Frank, you may want to review the posts on the previous page, which provide further background and details. The source of the problem is the fact that the Model S illuminates the tail light as a turn signal, as well as the brighter brake / turn signal light, which means that the tail lights on...

Utter nonsense, there are at least 14 public level 2 chargers off Yonge Street between Eglinton Avenues and Steele Avenue (on the way from Christie and Dupont to Richmond Hill)! This a complete non-story.

No power last night when I dropped in to check.

MODEL S TRAILER WIRING PROBLEM SOLVED After further consideration I surmised that the trailer tail light circuit needed to combine the signals from both the left and the right tail light signals (see chart in my previous post) in a logical "AND" circuit (where the left and the right tail light...

Thanks Mike, I had seen the same report and had addressed the issue by isolating the steel from aluminum components with rubber spacers, use of stainless hardware, wherever possible and liberal use of Krown rustproofing. (I had my Model S treated with Krown when I purchased it.) I recently...

The Torklift EcoHitch has two steel loops for the safety chains (part of hitch assembly which is attached to the car, and not part of the removable receiver parts).

There are a number of web sites which list the Tekonsha trailer wiring kits as being appropriate for the Model S. For some examples see the following: Reese-Hitches.com | Trailer Hitches & Towing Accessories | 877-507-0711...

Update: Ottawa now appears in the car as a 73 kW (max) 8 charger Supercharger

Lots of news It looks as though Ottawa is up and running (which makes sense, as I was there last week and could have used the charge). See: Supercharger - Ottawa ON Barrie Supercharger #2 looks very close. See: Supercharger - Barrie, ON (2nd site on Bayfield St) The Supercharger in...

Any news on go-live for this location?

If Tony Seba is correct (which seems likely to be the case) then the current low prices are a precursor of the lower prices which are yet to come. See: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/585c3439be65942f022bbf9b/t/5912307e725e25a34efe5497/1494364316456/RethinkX+Report_050917+%281%29.pdf

We have a 12K array on the roof which has produced around 100,000 kWh since it was installed (about four times the amount of power used to drive our Model Ss 130,000 km).

In Ontario (Canada) we have a number of renewable energy cooperatives, which provide the public with opportunities to invest in renewable energy. See: The Power of Community | TREC | Renewable Energy & Social Finance OREC Renewable Energy Co-operatives Flourish in Ontario « Solar Canada 2016...

Absolutely. It is difficult to spend a lot of money in our economy without creating a correspondingly large carbon footprint. All of the accoutrements of wealth, i.e., air travel, multiple houses, limousines, yachts, private aircraft, etc., come with an expanded carbon footprint, and there are...

I understand that you are frustrated and I am sorry that you had a rough time on your trip, but find travelling to Ottawa from Toronto is now comparatively stress free (relative to four years ago, when there were no Superchargers or L3 chargers, and very few L2 chargers). Downtown Ottawa now...

From my perspective, the real tragedy relates to the fact that all of this harm is completely and utterly unnecessary. It is a product of our failed political and policy systems, under which a relatively small number of fossil fuel plutocrats have been able to acquire and are now exercising...

To the extent that it will help you to collect data, we have two Model S and 12 kW of solar on the roof.

I agree. I believe that many decent individuals are interested in governing in the public interest but are corrupted by the system, and in particular the need to raise lots of money (and fundamentally compromise one's principles) in order to stand a chance of electoral success.

I believe that you your observations are more generally applicable. We are on a variable price plan where the cost of power can vary by up to a multiple of fifteen times (from lowest to critical peak pricing). Through use of pricing sensitive load shedding equipment for home heating, hot water...

I agree. We always employ strategy 2 on major trips and it has worked well almost all of the time. The exception occurred while en route from Florida to Canada when the Lima OH Supercharger was down (and required that we get flat-bedded to the next charger). In that regard the new Supercharger...

That works! Based on the traffic today at the Fort Myers Superchargers, I expect that this will quickly become a popular location.

Thanks for the update, I am glad that the smell of gasoline was just a temporary problem (likely a spill while refueling an ICE vehicle or lawnmower).

This is a very sad and short-sighted development. The North American auto industry is giving up any possibility of a having long term future in return for some short term profits, as it drives its fossilized technology platforms into the grave. Margo Oge is completely correct in her statement...

That said, I note that Quebec currently has many more Level 3 DC fast chargers than any other province in Canada. Tesla owners with a CHAdeMO adaptor have access to a wide range of charging locations in the southern part of the province.

We charged there yesterday (only Tesla there) and saw up to 107 kW charging rate. The chargers are no visible from the street, but the valet parking attendant knew where they were. There was a strong smell of gasoline yesterday (which may have been transient) but meant that we couldn't stay in...

More climate change denier disinformation (courtesy of your friends in the industry who have 100 trillion reason$ to lie about climate change). More of the same old nonsense from the same old cast of characters! The following is a good summary of the genre from: David Suzuki: Climate Deniers...

The mechanics can actually be quite simple. British Columbia has had a carbon tax in place for a decade now without any serious problems such as those mentioned above arising. The far greater harm is that which is now resulting from the negative carbon taxes (in the form of industry subsidies)...

Thanks. Quite so! Hard lesson to remember.

Unlike politicians and other paid propagandists of the fossil fuel industry, scientists are acting on the science and the facts when speaking about climate change and have tended to err on the side of caution. You are correct that science, strictly speaking, does not tell us what to do, but it...

How about the Holocaust, and the collectivization of agriculture by Mao, Stalin and Pol Pot. All were policies, and all were profoundly wrong. Closer to the current time, at what point do lies, fraud and bribery vitiate the validity of the "POLICY"? Validity is the very essence of policy, if...

No, I do not agree. In order to be a valid exercise of public policy such a decision would have to be based on facts and truth, not lies and disinformation. At no point have the public been informed that our continuing, largely unnecessary, consumption of fossil fuels is expected to result in...

It is the displacement of populations by famines, and the other unnatural climate change-powered disasters, that the Pentagon views as the threats to international security and stability that are likely to translate into serious global conflicts. For a taste of things to come, look at the...

I disagree. The greatest failure of the scientific community has been (with a few notable exceptions) its failure to accurately, constantly and relentlessly communicate the facts about climate change. Once the science and the facts are understood, the solution is blazingly obvious, transition...

There is an "all Canadian" route that reduces the distance between DC chargers (but may be a longer distance, overall). Rivière-du-Loup Supercharger 308 km to CDSMML Pointe-à-la-Croix Circuit Electrique CHAdeMO DCFC 4 boul. Perron Ouest, Pointe-à-la-Croix, Québec G0C 1L0 473 km to Hampton Inn...

Further on the contrast between China and North America. See: China Solar Capacity Doubled In 2016 − "China may have had one of the world’s dirtiest energy grids, but it has turned that around. In 2016, China installed more solar panels than any nation on earth, more than doubling its solar...

Any developments in Naples?

I have not seen more than 120 kW but understand that the system could theoretically support 135 or 150 (but may need a liquid cooled cable / connector). It has been reported that some Superchargers can output up to 145kW (but the cars are currently capped at 120). See...

The only "motivation" apparent in this question relates to the motivation of the fossil fuel industry to falsely create doubt about manmade climate change through false references to, for example, the "prior conclusion that warming had slowed" where there was in fact no such scientific finding...

This is no Mexican standoff. On one side you have the dying fossil fuel industry taking down the world's largest economy in an effort to squeeze out a few billion dollars in short term profits, at an incredibly high cost to both the local economy and the global environment. On the other side...

To which any climate scientist would reply "The atmosphere has a known and finite ability to absorb CO2, which can be expressed as a carbon budget, per person, if we are to have a reasonable chance of avoiding dangerous climate change. North Americans have already vastly exceeded their carbon...