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There's construction in the parking lot behind the F45 gym at 1350 Grant Rd, Mountain View so I wandered by and saw a box from Tesla. Then I found what appears to be the permit for 32 chargers: COMM T.I. INSTALL (32) NEW EV CHARGERS IN PARKING LOT, ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT AND STRIPING, SIGNAGE AND...

On Feb 22, 2023 very high winds hit the San Francisco Bay Area and many lost power. This was a pretty extreme event for us, for example winds gusted to 70mph in sheltered San Jose bringing down many trees etc. The high winds had been forecast for a couple days but Storm Watch was never enabled...

Over the holidays someone slid into our parked Model Y at slow speed but it still marked the bumper and pushed in the fog light. Sentry mode recorded everything, the driver admitted liability and his insurance promptly started a claim. I used the Tesla mobile app to request a collision service...

4 new Continental ProContact RX Tires $900 Size: 255/45R19 We just got a new Tesla Model Y and it’s going to spend the winter in Tahoe so we just put snow tires on it and are selling the OEM all season tires it came with. These tires have 450 miles on them and cost $1177 delivered from...

TL;DR If your Power is stuck in standby, reboot the gateway as below and contact Tesla and your installer. After a wait of almost 3 years (a whole long other story) we had two Powerwalls installed last September. In December I noticed that they were stuck on standby and not powering the house...

The only real purpose of the AutoPilot portion of the display is to reassure the driver that the cars sees what you do. The driver should have their eyes on the road anyway and you don’t need to control that area via touch so before the holiday update I was thinking the AP portion of the display...

This pisses me off. I wonder if this is Bezos poking back at Elon? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/28/tesla-battery-fire/ I wonder where they found these experts: “Experts say electric cars catch fire at a similar rate to gas cars, if not less often” Then they go on to paint...

The other day my wife and I are chatting while pushing our grocery cart toward our Model 3, it wakes so I open the trunk then wonder who put that stuff in there? Then the driver gets out to ask me what I’m doing in his trunk when I realize my identical looking car is parked a couple more spots...

Almost 3 years after ordering them, we had two Powerwalls installed in August (long story for a other day). They worked great for a few months then a couple weeks ago seemed to get stuck at 65% no matter what setting I tried on the app. They would only briefly leave standby for a minute or two...

There’s been a lot of complaining on the forums about changes to Tesla service. I admit it’s disconcerting to make a service request through the app, you don’t get to discuss what the problem might be or receive any other feedback. I recently went through the process twice and was happy both...

Americans love their big, tough trucks and I was concerned that if Tesla made it much smaller then it might miss its market. Apparently Elon and Franz agreed. From Electrek Tesla Cybertruck: Elon Musk scraps plan to make electric pickup smaller - Electrek

For some reason I’ve found myself with a little more spare time lately for lower priority things like watching Munro’s Model Y tear down videos. Munro highlighted a few Tesla workarounds to use a 3 part in the Y such as the 3 rear seat mounts still being on top of the battery even though the Y...

Hello All. While bored at home I’ve been watching too much stuff like Munro’s Model Y tear down videos. They got me wondering if the Made In China Model 3 benefitted from any of the changes that make the Y easier to manufacture. It would be easy to check if: - there are only spot welds, no...

We have had our Model 3 for 14 months now and are still loving it. Already have 22k miles on it (with zero issues), even though I work from home most days, since it has become our preferred vehicle by far. The latest Autopilot just did a great job driving me to Tahoe and back on the AP 2.5...

So a buddy of mine is a mid level Tesla guy and to my surprise showed up at my place to pick something up in a Model Y today. Clearly Tesla is getting many prototypes out in the real world now. Other than some handcrafted interior trim (I’m guessing it was an earlier prototype) it looked good...

We have had the ‘1 pedal driving’ update on our Model 3 (strong deceleration to a complete stop on accelerator lift off) for a couple weeks now. As I get used to it, I'm finding that I don’t drive either our S or 3 as smoothly, especially at low speeds, since their control behaviors have become...

Like many others our 2014 Model S seems to have had its maximum charge rate reduced. It never goes much above 70kw and even then only for a short while. On the upside on road trips we get to finish our meal before we have to move the car - unlike our Model 3 which charges so fast. These reduced...

Beholden to their dino-burner sponsors I guess. The 10 Quickest Cars of the Decade

The only thing that grates on me about the Cybertruck design is the single pointy cab-forward roof peak. At first I wondered if that was just a stylish way to fit cowboy hats but then, more seriously, if it’s a close enough approximation to a teardrop to actually make it much more aerodynamic...

A couple weeks ago while on our way out for dinner a warning message pops up: “Front passenger safety restraint system fault” when my wife clicks her seat belt in. An airbag symbol also appears at the top of the display. A reboot doesn’t clear it nor does the car sleeping over dinner. So I...

Exactly when our 2014 Model S hit the alleged number of the beast, the 12V battery died! Now waiting for one to arrive. Other than having to replace a door handle wire, its been great for a few years (I hope I just didn't jinx it).

In the real world I can only depend on about 2/3 of the EPA rated range since I’m often rolling over hills into a headwind, carrying two bikes on a hitch rack at 78mph, or packing down a bit of snow a few degrees below freezing. So I’ve long hoped for an EPA rated range of 400miles cause then I...

Hi There, We finally picked up a Model 3 D LR today to go with our S 85 (wow that we’ve been driving for 5 years now that I think about it). We drive between Cupertino and Truckee a lot and lately have been frustrated by waiting at the Rocklin and Roseville superchargers. Does anyone have...

A couple years ago we drove our 2014 Model S from San Jose to Yellowstone (1100 miles one way) and were impressed with how it streamed music over 3G almost the entire way. Last weekend I swear we had more total dropouts driving just a couple hundred miles to Tahoe. Has anyone else noticed a...

Our 2 year old HPWC stopped charging our car and we got a replacement but I expect one of you smart TMC members can fix it or otherwise put it to good use. It seemed to boot up normally with the green LEDs on the front and the car would recognize when it was plugged in but charging would not...

As many here know the Model S 'broke' Consumer Reports' rating scale with a score over 100% yet the Model X built on that same chassis and drivetrain only gets a 56. Sure the doors are slow and fiddly but does that make up for the massive rating gap? I'd love to know as we are considering...

For those of us more likely to haul a lot of stuff than people, I'd like to see a variant of the Model X that skips some of the heavy, complex, expensive stuff. No longer needing baby seats, I'd prefer 4 normal doors and a second row with plain old manual fold flat seats. Maybe call it the...

I love the fact that our cars keep getting better with updates and on Thursday night my wife accepted the message to get the latest flavor of 6.0 overnight. On Friday morning the car was dead with the screens only live enough to tell us to contact Tesla service. Basically the update failed...

Hi There, I love EVs and want Tesla to do great but sometimes they really get it wrong. Last summer we couldn't charge at a Supercharger and got towed: Can't Supercharge after 4.5 software update It spent a week in the shop and since 'they couldn't find a fault they didn't change anything'...

Got up at 5.30 this morning to Supercharge at Folsom during breakfast on the way to Tahoe. Unfortunately charging would start, voltage climb up near 300 but when the amps only hit 4 or 5 it would drop back to 0 after only a couple seconds and only say 'charging stopped'. Tesla is flatbedding it...

Hi There, I changed the plug on our UMC to a J1772 so it can charge both our Model S and other EVs (like the Fiat 500e we get next week). So I'm selling the Model S plug - great for someone's OpenEVSE project. I left about a 10" tail to make connection easy (so you don't have to open up the...

Hi There, First post here. My wife and I got a lovely red Model S last weekend. Its been great so far but but since she contributed more of the cash and has the longer commute, she will drive it most days to work. This has left me with EV envy already so I signed up for a Fiat 500e as two Model...