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I hope you’re joking. Driving with both feet is a terrible idea. Activating the wrong side of your body is generally more likely than a positional error in placement of your extremity. Consider wrong-letter typos. How often do you see, say, l/s errors vs. say, h/j errors? Unless you’re a...

kW, not kWh!

Fair enough. I was thinking in terms of formatting and organization, and how often the unchangeable default is something I can’t imagine anyone would want. But yeah the math’s gotta be right! Maybe I should have used PowerPoint as my example. My estimate of MTBC* for some products: Excel: 10...

Car is in my sig. Cameras were fine. 2000 miles of driving is plenty of time for them to calibrate. What kind of problem could there be that would affect EAP but not normal AP? And the merge lane thing was not phantom braking; it never happened when there was a merge lane with no cars entering...

Convinced that it was insane to send it out to everyone in its current state that is. I got my trial just in time for my 2000 mile round-trip to see the eclipse (MD to MO, mostly I-81 and I-40). 1. It’s 99.9% there. And while I would be ecstatic if, say Excel were 99.9% correct, for something...

Nice! I’ve been using a $15 (non-waterproof) duffel in the frunk, but I like the idea of a slightly larger one in the subtrunk. Haven’t needed it to be waterproof yet, but I’m bookmarking yours in case that changes.

Because you lose regen braking (not such a big deal now that you can turn on automatic blended braking, but still), and unless your trip is all on that first charge, or there are only V2 chargers along the route*, it makes almost no difference in the total trip time. On a V3 charger, the time...

Yeah, I stopped reading CleanTechnica a couple years ago when I couldn’t take the sloppiness. It’s bad enough when my local paper doesn’t understand the difference between power and energy, but when a site dedicated to renewables and EVs keeps making that mistake it’s a bad sign for the quality...

If your first charge is only 64 miles from the start, you are correct in supposing that there's no reason to start at more than your usual 80%. I really don't understand why ABRP is routing you to Flagstaff, unless it knows what I know: Flagstaff has so much stuff you want to see that you...

For safety reasons (and probably regulatory too), the HV battery has to be isolated when the car is "off". Which means you need a power source to run whatever mechanism connects it to the rest of the system (a high-current switch of one type or another). OTOH, it's not like there's no...

If he'd just take off his darn hat maybe we'd start getting somewhere!

The problem is when GPS fails it can fail pretty badly. Like in much of lower Manhattan (and other skyscrapery cities), there's so much multipath from all the buildings that GPS will regularly put you 100 feet from your actual position. Also, inside parking garages is not good for GPS...

This! It's important to understand that "Bluetooth range" is not a thing. (To be pedantic, I'm fairly sure Tesla doesn't even use "Bluetooth", it uses "Bluetooth Low Energy", which is different, although it uses the same frequency range.) Bluetooth and BLE operate at ~2.4 GHz, which has a...

It almost certainly depends on outdoor temperature and humidity, cabin temperature setting, and probably some other factors. Also, I would be very surprised if you can make any significant difference in efficiency by changing the fan speed. Like, with very careful measurements over the course of...

Am I missing something on the plans or are there really zero trailer-friendly stalls?

Sorry, I meant a link to a study, not a link to a law firm's "Hire us; we got a jury to award millions to our clients!" page. "We recreated the issue on a dynamometer" is not convincing to me. Which is why I'm quite certain I would not have survived voir dire if I'd been in the pool. There must...

You're gonna need to back that up with a citation. The NHTSA/NASA report about Toyota's unintended acceleration rather cleverly proved that the problem could not have been in the engine controller. Meanwhile pedal entrapment by floor mats was a known issue. Which only further amplifies the...

Not quite sure what you're asking, but there are two differences here, which are important to keep separate: The difference between power measured at the pedestal and power into the car (which is what I calculated above to be a fraction of a percent) The difference between power into the car...

Given that the cables are a known length and diameter, and (for v3) temperature, it's trivial to calculate the losses in the cable. But more to the point, even at 250 kW, assuming 380 V you need 650 A, which in 10 feet of 0AWG cable (I'm guessing, but that's probably about right) is a round trip...

I'm seeing an awful lot of "seems fine" in this thread, with no references to the installation manual. If it relies on natural convection for cooling, it may need to be installed vertically or risk overheating and shortening its life. If that's true I'm sure the manual will specify.

Or a grocery store? Thank you for pointing out the absurdity of typical American city design, where most of us can't get to any of those things without driving.

For the record, "fob" is a word, not an acronym. Well, it's an acronym too, but you can't unlock your car with a Free On Board delivery contract.

If you read the thread, you'll see that the answer is "it doesn't". There were significant numbers of problems in the past, but recently it seems much more rare. You're comparing your experience (a single data point) with everyone who has posted about having a problem with their Tesla. There...

I do check the charger pack. I don't bother with the A23; it's alkaline so I expect it to last 10 years. The pack also claims 98% SoC after sitting for a year, although I have my doubts about the accuracy with essentially no drain, so I charge it once a year.

I believe the wires in that panel are diode-connected to just the frunk. Apply power, frunk opens. In any case, I've tucked a small A23 12V alkaline in a holder in there and I keep a lithium jump-start pack in the frunk. Never had to use it, and I don't even know if the A23 battery has enough...

Speaking as someone who built their own house (by which I mean I hired a builder to build a single house just for me and my wife, so I was aware of all the permitting and scheduling issues), I'm inclined to cut Tesla a huge amount of slack regarding their ever-changing schedule of Supercharger...

A "12V" car electrical system can be nearly 15 V while charging, so anything that plugs into "12V" has to be able to handle a range of voltages to start with. The peak voltage on the 16 V system is probably something like 19 V. Power stations regulate the voltage to their batteries and their own...

It's got Stonehenge in there!

It's noise. Switching to renewables and EVs will drastically reduce the amount of mining. By orders of magnitude. https://www.distilled.earth/p/a-fossil-fuel-economy-requires-535x

Not even to mention, 3 hours? Unless you live in Montana or somewhere like that with high speed limits and no traffic, a MYLR can do a three hour drive without recharging easy, even starting at 90%. But yeah, this type of response is so obviously an excuse for being terrified of anything new...

Exactly! I feel like if I can afford to, I should be helping lead the transition to a fossil fuel-less future*. That's why I bought my Bolt EV as soon as they came out. Then I learned how much better EVs are than ICE, and would never go back. So I got the Model Y for long distance trips. About...

Another possibility is lots of shading is cutting back their production. For reference, I have essentially no shading (designed the house that way!) and get about 17 MWh per year.

Wowsers. We (Maryland) have 12 kW (10 aimed South and 2 aimed East), and we come out just about even over the year, covering heating, cooling, cooking, domestic hot water, two EVs (Model Y and Bolt), hot tub, and a water feature in the front yard. (Everything is electric, including yard tools.)...

You do still need to replace the brake fluid on the Tesla every few years. They say every 3 years but I bought a brake fluid conductivity tester and am hoping it will tell me when it really needs replacing. Anyway that should be the same for EVs and ICEs. But you're correct about the coolant; EV...

The watts/mile is not closely related to tire consumption, I think. W/mi is mainly how fast you drive; tread wear is how fast you accelerate and stop, and how fast you go around corners. You can wear out tires fast just by driving around town without raising your average energy use very much...

I would recommend only charging to 95% or even 90% for your long trips. That extra Supercharging is what, an extra dollar and a half? And the extra time is negligible because the charging happens at a low state of charge where it charges really fast. You can use A Better Route Planner to check...

Frankly I'm disappointed; it's kind of dusty and there's some kind of growth that looks just like a bird poop! I wiped the dust off the aft section so you can see what it looks like when clean too. As far as I can tell they all look just like they did when I put them on.

♬🎶 So, charge me mama down in wagon mound Charge me rapid cos my SoC is down Hey... mama charge me Charge me mama in the wind and the rain Charge me mama 'tween the highway and train Hey... mama charge me 🎶♬

I had a very weird dream last night where someone stole the battery and motors out of my Tesla and replaced them with a barely-running 4-cylinder gas engine! It was horrible!

Only if you don't care about your time! If you do, it pays off way faster. It's a real problem if you live in an apartment or condo without individual garages. Or a house with on-street parking. Not many of the latter around Bowie, but plenty of the former. Eventually landlords and condo...

I can't actually tell what you're trying to say here, since I'm not evaluating any experts; I'm evaluating safety regs. Truck tires work the same way as car tires, only with higher pressure and more miles per year. And the safety regulations are tighter. So yes, if a car tire is damaged in a way...

You do realize that the same roads you drive on also contain Peterbilt trucks, right? If they're regularly driving around on dangerous tires you're in every bit as much danger as if you are.

That's only necessary if you need to arrive home below 10% charge and leave again in less than 9 hours. If not, then the 32 A mobile charger is all you need. (Well, and a place to plug it in, which only needs to be a 40 A circuit, although generally people install a 14-50 outlet on a 50 A circuit.)

I think your estimates of how much you'll need to charge are right on. And I suspect you'll enjoy shorter legs with short stops. I find I'm substantially less beat at the end of a long drive than I was in any of my ICE cars. Don't know how much is stopping more often, how much is the...

The original poster didn't say explicitly, but based on their responses, it's safe to say they can charge at home. Given that, most of their charging will take 3 seconds. That's way faster than filling with gas.

Well that's disappointing about Hawai`i. 😁 Okay, now Imma go read all your blog entries, in prep for retirement (still about 3 years away, unless TSLA really takes off!) Thanks for the info. And thanks to the coders who caused this to pop up under "similar threads" for me.

I don't drive anywhere near that much, but this is almost certainly fine. For a 300 mile trip, if you charge to 90% before you start (with an L2 charger like in your garage), you can get most of the way to where you're going, and charge at the last Supercharger along your route for just long...

Dang, I would have thought it was kind of inconvenient for I-95, but I guess all the I-95 SCs along quite a stretch there are less than ideal. Plus if you're heading out US 50 to the Eastern shore it's good for that too.

I don't think that's what that chart shows. It's all the ones currently in a given state, not how long each one was in that state, right? The database may have the necessary info to find how long a given station was in construction status, but it doesn't appear in the "data" tab, and that's as...

I would not be surprised if the soft costs of a typical installation (location acquisition, permits, utility connections, etc.) are large enough that an 8-stall station is less than 50% more than a 4-stall in total cost. So why take the chance you'll have to go through it all again to expand to...