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6 chargers. Two at the entrance, 4 other side. These will be iced, especially the ones right at the entrance. View from store entrance. Liquor Store Staff said one more month to turn on. View from the other side. The Rivian hides one of the chargers, the other is just barely visible behind...

Nice. Pull through! How wide can you pull through? Is there one on the side that allows extra wide loads / semi?

This (UK, or rather GB) page claims WC can be added to the app. So it is a thing https://www.tesla.com/en_gb/support/setting-your-gen-3-wall-connector

And if not, you must then decide whether it's worth the effort/cost of taking the other driver or their insurance, or your insurance, to court for the difference or just letting it go. If it's their fault, and it can be proven, then they have to cover all the damage to you, including a rental...

Sleeper will not really impact range. Same cross section, same profile/drag coefficient. It will negatively impact payload. If the sleeper ads 1000lbs to the cab, that's 1000lbs less on the trailer. If I were Tesla, I would sell cabs with larger, but minimal cabin, and let aftermarket deal with...

Probably about 0% (rounded). But there are a few, and I expect more and more pull-through, including wider one anywhere a Semi would want to charge. Not needed in down-town Santa Monica, of course, but at existing truck stops that are getting superchargers. The key insight is that Tesla can...

Agree. I would use 100kW * 2h for 200km and 200kWh (and am very confused about not using freedom units :-) I need the google calculator to handle these. - I grew up and did all my education in metric) Total cost is (1 hour + 1 hour) * 100kW If the battery starts at 1MWh, it will be at 800kWh...

This is a great video! Just spent over an hour watching and re-watching it. Thanks for sharing. Notes below. Overall, this factory is significantly different from anything Tesla would build. It's "Custom mass production operation" and I doubt Tesla will ever start doing that. It's also only...

I got it. It's 10% of the consumption... <going over my notes> It's 10% of the 40% used from 44% to 4%, which is 4%. That would put round trip efficiency at 88%, and one way at 94%. At that level of details, it's not flat from Kettleman onwards. Accounting for that would make the green line...

Thanks for the detailed feedback. Took me a while to double check things. This is exactly what I am looking for. Thanks for the help :) The green line slope is based on the faster speed after Kettleman on (kind of) flat. The truck rarely went over 60, it seems, mostly around 55mph, even on the...

Yes, staffing will be difficult. Especially as they are ramping up the Cybertruck at the same time. Semi AND Cybertruck ramp up at the same time may be the big challenges for Giga Austin in 2023. Maybe that's why they are bringing people with expertise from Shanghai over. Tesla is building...

Yeah, it may be a stretch. Tesla needs pull throughs for towing anyway. It's a major pain to unhook a trailer to back into a Tesla stall. If you look at e.g. InyoKern, CA, there is a pull through big enough for a Semi with Trailer. It will block the Rivian pull through. The cost of building a...

True. "it" could refer to the cable only. But is it really worth building a 500+kW pillar for most of the fleet and a 1.5MW pillar for the rest of the fleet? Maybe. What would you put in Inyokern, CA, or at the truck stop in Minot, ND? 12 V3@350kW, 2 V4@500kW, and 6 [email protected] with V4...

Curious what creates your certainty here? Your numbers of 100k in 5 years indicates they only do about half of that. What do you think will be the main bottlenecks?

They said to charge a truck this quickly, they developed a MW class charger, It's labelled V4 on the slide. It can have a small cable. It's going to be used for Cybertruck, too. This is coming to superchargers next year. Interpreting this as they won't use V4 for Cybertruck and Semi Truck is a...

Which part do you think will not happen?

V4 Supercharger will have 1MW+ and be used by the Semi and Cybertruck. Do you think they lied? We did see some early version of MCS. Maybe that's even deployed at PepsiCo.

NACS is not bleated. It comes out 2 years before they will finalize MCS. This is more about the reality of mega charging. Cybertruck has a 1000V architecture, it needs a lot more than V3 (~300kW) and CCS (!350kW) can provide (by standard and by deployment). Other new Teslas will have 1000V...

We need millions of Semis. It's good everyone is helping. Most Semis don't need sleepers + team driving + 1500 miles a day with two 30 minute stops. Let's replace the easy ones first. The Tesla Semi already can do 1500 miles a day with two drivers and three 30 minute stops - if it has a V4...

I think NACS is less an issue of "a few years late" for current charging needs than it is of "just in time" for future charging needs (megawatt, Cybertruck, other vehicles with large batteries, like ambulances etc. and up to class 8 semis) The synergies of using NACS for megawatt charging are...

Minor correction. The 500 mile run didn't go from Sparks, NV, but from Fremont, CA. So not over Donner Pass, but still over Tejon Pass (Grapevine). A Semi pulled the barriers over Donner Pass for that video. The 500 mile run had a box car trailer, and we are less sure about the actual weight...

I only put two waypoints, and then the routing did something reasonable. If I click on your link above I get a few extra back and forth, including one at the grapevine and a detour in Los Banos. Maybe a weird Google mapping thing.

The below is even crazier. Engineers, what am I missing? Based on the 500 mile energy graph, the Semi regen efficiency is insane. Roundtrip is ~95%, and one way is ~97%. The cost of climbing/descending 1000ft elevation is 1.5kWh, less than the cost of driving one mile. Driving over passes and...

This is consistent with earlier posts, but here is my napkin math. The Semi can keep steady speed down any interstate at any legal speed. It can also slow down the truck on that hill. The brakes will be cool at the bottom. https://kilowatt.page/tesla-semi-vs-eisenhower-pass/

The Tesla Semi can keep 82,000 at the speed limit on any US Interstate. Likely it can do so on any road that it can safely drive on at a safe speed limit. https://kilowatt.page/tesla-semi-vs-eisenhower-pass/ Eisenhower pass is 6%, and it can do it at 65mph (car speed limit) at 45mph (truck...

I am now claiming 95% roundtrip. https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/tesla-semi-round-trip-efficiency-is-95-on-mountain-passes-napkin-physics.287848/ I really hope that my posts age well, but I am skeptical myself :)

Here is more, and this is so insane that I am still looking for the flaw :-) https://kilowatt.page/tesla-semi-regen-roundtrip-efficiency-is-95-percent/ Based on the 500 mile energy graph, the Semi regen efficiency is insane. Roundtrip efficiency is ~95%, and one way is ~97%. Battery size is...

I am working on another writeup. But there TL;DR is that on the 500 mile graph there was pretty much no impact from the Grapevine and the other elevation. That route had ~16,000 ft total elevation.

Cybertrucks will have the same architecture, and Cybertrucks are not a product if they cannot charge on V3. Drive-through spots are essential for Cybertruck and othert, but they already exist, and Tesla needs a lot more for Cybertrucks. https://kilowatt.page/the-case-for-nacs-over-mcs/...

With two kids successfully launched to STEM college, I am running out of high school physics problem. So I did this https://kilowatt.page/tesla-semi-vs-eisenhower-pass/ TL;DR: The Semi can keep steady speed down any interstate at any legal speed. It can also slow down the truck on that hill...

There are 29 free 48 amp destination chargers and there are 20 V3 superchargers. There is also infrastructure in the ground already to add 47 (48?) more chargers. There is already one pull through, and they will have two legal and a third outside lines. (Those 2 pull through can serve as 4...

https://photos.app.goo.gl/w9PgkouSAG3afrnT7 Like a ratchet operating. It started with a single, or double click, click-click Happens not just from stop, but also when driving slowly and accelerating/decelerating. (Matters not if car is in hold or roll)

I tried to find a matching thread to add on, but wasn't successful. I found a 10mm ball bearing on floor in the second row. Other people mention rattles and possibly ball bearings, too. This could drop into the air vent and disappear and still rattle. As of where it came from, it could be from...

Friday noon, both Tejon locations were full for a short time. Minutes later, they started opening up. Maybe a Tesla club pulled in....

Moderator note: Moved from another thread. I couldn't find another thread, everything with Coalinga points to the Harris Ranch projects. Tesla Find us has a "Coalinga Supercharger" one exit north of Harris Ranch, at Fresno College Road. Next to nothing but Solar Panels, it seems. Anyone knows...

Don't care so much about the look, but wonder if it's safe.

What size did you put on. The 255/45 slope inwards. Is that how yours look, too? Michelin Pilot Sport All Season 4 255 /45 R19 on Gemini 19" wheels

Installed Michelin Pilot Sport All Season 4 255 /45 R19 104Y XL BSW on Model Y LR AWR 19" wheels. They fit according to the manual and the same size as Continental stock, but they look like they are too small. The tire slopes inward from the rim. The rims, and the plastic cover sticks out even...

Today it tried to attack an island, for no good reason :-( I took over, but too late to avoid the curb completely.

Apologies if there is a nice write up somewhere for the people who get it? When to take over? When it just drives badly? Should we do what needs to be done whenever it's not perfect? Or let it bumble until it gets a bit more risky (e.g. when there is a car behind). E.g. Driving in the middle...

Wow I reply to myself now...

My quote is $2500+ for the same. As a breaker, 30ft of surface conduit...

Planning to use it in December... Noob question: are these V3? How can you tell if they don't have a 250kw sign on top?

My quote is 3000$. Add one breaker to a panel and about 30ft of surface conduit run. Doesn't include the wall connector, but does include the city permit....

Got a text this am, and an e-mail 4 minutes later. I checked yesterday, and fond no VIN in the page (source) The SMS says they drop it off in 1-3 days (e-mail says pickup is 2am on 5/29, but i confirmed over text they will deliver it) AWD, White/Black, 19' Gemini, FSD, 1/29/20