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Ugh...what a goatrope. :-[ Thanks for the update.

Headed to Bavaria this summer for a family trip and thinking it would be fantastic to rent a Tesla since they're pretty easy to find and there are nearly 20 Superchargers along our planned driving route. While I've taken lots of road trips in our EVs over the years, I've never attempted it in...

I wonder if Tesla would consider retrofitting these with the new magic docks since they're not yet operational.

We're taking a family trip to Bavaria this summer and I'm considering renting a Tesla at MUC and driving it along our planned route (about 900km). First, has anyone done this and would you recommend it? Second, if we do rent a Tesla, what should I know and/or do before we arrive (apart from...

Now over 4 months since ground-breaking and still not operational. Wow. :-\

Excellent. We charge there several times a year and, while we've never had to wait, a few times recently we've taken the last spot. I hope they up the power as well...150 kW is kinda meh these days.

So happy this SC is live and wow, so fast! We usually hit the South Indy one near the LaQuinta driving back from Chicago and this is such a better experience. The LaQuinta does have nice public bathrooms, though.

I noticed a months or so ago that I could no longer access the Sketchpad through either the triple-tap method or via the easter egg window. Today's OS update promised improvements to Sketchpad, but it's not appearing in my Toybox. Is my car too old now for the Sketchpad (it's a mid-2013 MS...

I suspect the service center would like to reserve its SCs for its own use. They're delivering >100 new Teslas a week there, or at least were a couple months ago, so I assume they are in constant need of some fast-charging capability for pre-delivery prep, after-service recharging, and general...

Just drove past this today and nearly wrecked as I hadn't seen it being constructed. Definitely powered up, all 10 glorious stalls. :-D

Looks like there are 11 or 12 parking spaces there. Is this going to be a typical 8-stall SC or bigger than that? Any sense as to actual number of hook-ups? And thanks for the update and photos!

Any updates on progress or an ETA on opening? Anybody snap a photo recently? TIA.

Exit from I-65 northbound to be closed on or after Aug10th. Uh, is there a timeline for how long it'll be closed? That's a major bummer if you're hoping to coast into that SC on your last bit of charge already.

Has anyone used this SC in a while? It no longer appears on Tesla's official maps or in-car nav for charging options.

Stopped by the service center and peeked into the showroom. WOW! It's gorgeous...and so spacious compared to the cramped little showroom that have/had in the Kenwood Towne Center mall. That's one section of the showroom. The other, bigger, prettier part (on the other side of the red wall) had...

Yep...they removed the Louisville "coming soon" icon from the map recently. Disappointing since I have a trip from Cincy to Nashville in July that looks increasingly like I'll have to take the wife's gas-burner. And this is why few families can get by having only EVs right now. A few more years...

Sweet! This is the old Jaguar/Land Rover dealership, which is a really nice building. Should make the service experience better for those who need to physically go there (the current service center is functional, but small and fairly industrial-feeling). The only downside is that there's nothing...

This makes driving from Cincinnati to Savannah/Hilton Head feasible in 1 day instead of 2. Any construction updates? Physical progress?

Dave, I'm not sure where in Cincy you are, but this past July, we were able to make it from Hyde Park up to Columbus to a Tesla event at COSI, and then on to visit friends in Bexley, and then back home again, all without charging. We had about 25 miles of rated range left when we got back, so...

I just got an email from Tesla saying this SC is officially open. Anyone try it yet?

So with this approved, what do we expect the timeline to be for it coming online? Three months? By spring?

Any new news on this SC location? It's key to opening up trips to DC from Cincinnati.

I wanted to confirm that the Lafayette, IN SC was, indeed, officially open, so I wrote to Tesla and asked. Here's what their email said: ========================= Hello, Thank you for the email. Yes, Lafayette, IN is now open. Check out our Find Us page to see which stations are currently...

YUSS!! Thanks to all those keeping an eye on this SC...it will most likely be my first ever supercharging experience (a bit sad that it took 15 months of MS ownership to happen).

Thanks to you both...keep up the updates. :-)

Oh, man, this is awesome. I've been waiting over a year for this sucker to go online so our semi-regular trips between Cincinnati and Chicago become feasible in the MS. No more $75 fill-ups in the wife's SUV! Woot! Edit: Just realized how many restaurants are within easy walking distance of...

Just curious why Tesla isn't sending out emails to area owners notifying them of these events. I would've come to the January one, but I just found out about it today.

So Tesla's first ground-up design is just about as good as the best sedan a company with ~80 years of car-building experience can produce. Let that sink in for a moment. Then, imagine what the next iteration of the Model S might be like. :biggrin:

Those of you who feel compelled to NOT post your full, 5-digit VIN publicly, would you please email me your VIN and the date you were notified about it? Those two pieces of information are very useful for overall sales forecasting. And I promise not to divulge your information to anyone, Scout's...

No, there's no risk from providing the last 5 numbers. I wish people wouldn't X digits out because then the info isn't as useful as it could be.

My best Q3 delivery guestimate is 5600 to 6400 cars. Yes, that's a pretty wide range, but even the low end is more than Tesla needs to keep above the pace of its initial guidance.

A P85+...definitely the right choice. :-) Assuming Tesla doesn't take a week off for Thanksgiving, it's probably possible. I'd definitely let your delivery specialist know that you're going on vacation.

I'm not an audiophile. My headphones at home at $70 Grados and I think they sound great. So I've been happy with the base sound system, especially since HD Radio is included. FLAC off a thumb drive sounds really good to my ear, but as I said, I am not terribly discriminating. Get the gray...

Bill: Do you have any photos of what it took to adjust your rear subframe? I can't visualize how that would be done on the Model S.

Yep, I do a visual inspection every few hundred miles...takes 20 seconds...just to make sure they're all still seated properly. It's easy to tell if they're not since the lip that hangs over the wheel should be touching (or within a mm or so) of the wheel. If you can see or feel a significant...

All due respect, the Nissan Skyline (the GT-R's lineage) has long been among the world's great sports cars. Sniggering at a Nissan badge only shows one's ignorance. That said, if a dual-motor, AWD Model S with appropriate thermal management tweaks in place were available, the GT-R might be in...

My P85+ is gray/gray with black performance seats and carbon fiber interior (to match the rear spoiler), tech, and pano. When I ordered, parking sensors weren't available and most options were bundled with either the tech package (e.g., lighting) or the Performance package (e.g., air...

We can't consider doing without an ICE car until Tesla builds out the Supercharger network for us here in the midwest. We regularly drive the family to Chicago from Cincinnati, and that can't currently happen in any EV unless we're willing to make what is normally a 5.5-hour trip an overnight...

I did a gap analysis on the VIN data I've been collecting and see no reason to believe that Tesla has methodically skipped a large number of VINs recently, and certainly not regularly. The gaps (spaces between reported VINs) are distributed approximately geometrically, which is what you'd expect...

Um, no...not exactly. The number 35,958 is what the number of VIN assignments would be if Tesla went a full year issuing 98.8 VINs each and every day. Clearly, Tesla won't produce and deliver anywhere close to that number in 2013. VIN assignments =/= demand VIN assignments =/= production VIN...

If anyone would like their VIN reflected in my VIN database and assignment rate chart, please post your VIN and the date it was assigned over at http://www.teslamotors.com/forum/forums/new-vin-thread-please-post-your-newly-assigned-vins-here Here's an example of the chart that I update every...

I'm looking to replace my 21" wheels with 19" wheels, but I'd like to retain my P+'s staggered setup. The problem is determining in advance whether a 19" x 9" wide wheel will clear the suspension. Does anyone have a 19x9 setup on the rear that you KNOW works OK? If so, which wheels and what...

Some of us didn't get that option. :-( I'm in the process of buying a winter wheel+tire setup (mostly for cold temps...we don't get much snow here any more) and I'm definitely not going with 21" wheels. And I may just replace my stock 21" wheels next year for something smaller for summer...

Here's a link to my write-up on the cable setup I rigged in our garage: https://plus.google.com/u/0/103183570053193175186/posts/6rbgJpGupam It's not pretty, but it's really convenient and easy-going on the cable itself (I think).

That rectangular hole in the back of the frunk is called the "microwave" and, IIRC, its original purpose was to hold a removable small battery pack for additional range (but that was scrapped due to cost, weight, and complexity).

So I've been extremely jealous of all these sub-300 Wh/mi averages I've been seeing when mine has stubbornly hovered around 350 since I got the car a little over a month ago. In fact, I've been wondering if there's something wrong with my car to inflate the energy usage so. So I decided to go...

I do. Given all the talk about China and Europe, plus all the ridiculously awesome press the Model S is getting in North America, the only thing that will dampen demand is running out of rich folks. ;)

Man, I am SO jealous of you guys getting <320 Wh/mi. Even when I try to drive gently, I end up with 340+. But that's in a hilly city with a P+, so maybe I should recalibrate my expectations.

@2Pearls: Well, my regression model puts them currently at about 630 VIN assignments per week over the past 2 months. But, if I look at data from just the past two weeks, we're at around 715 VIN assignments per week, so your source sounds like he is relating a factual estimate. I do not know the...

To my eye, VINs aren't assigned, built, or delivered in strict sequence. However, they are approximately sequential in that VIN 20,000 is very likely going to be assigned before VIN 21,000. That's why I use a regression-line approach to find the approximate VIN assignment rate, realizing that a...