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    CT Owners - This is about as easy as it gets to contact your state senator ...

    There is not much the white house can do really. It falls outside their power, in best case scenario into a grey area that they would be hesitant to enforce. The only one who can do anything at federal level is either US congress or the supreme court. I also understand that contacting locally...
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    CT Owners - This is about as easy as it gets to contact your state senator ...

    Guys/Gals, for those of you who are wondering what can be done other than contacting the local senators. It is also important to pitch the story to the national media. Historically speaking, national pressure has had a huge impact at getting compromises going even when odds were against Tesla...
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    Connecticut OK's Tesla Sales

    The bill is back from committee, show your senators and representatives support for the bill so the same does not happen, and keep an eye out for hearings: Tesla Bill Passes Transportation Committee I think the bill is SB-3 (not sure if this is the final name) Connecticut General Assembly
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    New Forum Design

    My complaints are as follows so far: 1) The top is taking up too much space. It shrinks after scrolling, but is there a reason we need the larger view on top? Effectively before I could read the top post without any scrolling, now I have to scroll to even read the first post. The top also has...
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    Guy Imports Model S into Singapore, Takes 1 Year for Licensing, +$15K

    There seems to be an update to all this which makes less sense by the minute. The weirdest part in bold and underline. UN body on Tesla: Singapore likely to be only nation factoring carbon emission from grid for EVs - Channel NewsAsia
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    Signature #1 delivered today

    They are not infringing on your copyright, they are using it under fair use. Section 107 of the Copyright Act states:the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism...
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    Denmark: P90D sticker price to increase 180% on Jan 1 2016

    I wonder if Tesla could still do something about that, for example. Let people buy the P90D but software limit the ludicrous mode. You would then pay 10k afterwards to get it unlocked. (Though Tesla might need to make it 12k or something like that to hedge against people deciding against it...
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    Dissing Tesla Reliability

    Consumer reports actually did put out a number, at least they did in 2013. So it might be larger now. That number is over 600 owners. Tesla Model S Recommended | Car Reliability - Consumer Reports News
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    Elon Musk says some unwise things about Apple and their hires from Tesla !

    This kind of response is not strange for Musk, he made a similar responses in the past. That is Musk being fed up with the media response. He gave a similar response about Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic despite both of them being friends. The reason was because the clueless media keeps trying...
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    My biggest surprise? They didn't show the seats folded for max cargo

    From Jalopnik: Tesla Model X: This Is It As for the wire stuff, any pictures? That said wires can probably be hidden easily enough, I have seen small wires fitted into things that are almost invisible. But not sure of the cost or the reliability. (Automotive needs higher reliability than...
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    The new nose

    I think that one is Tesla to blame, they have been hiding the front so much that when I saw it my first reaction was. They are still hiding the front? When the 2nd darker car drove in I thought that Musk was going to play a joke and say, joking here is the real front! It wasn't about it being...
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    Volkswagen Is Ordered to Recall Nearly 500,000 Vehicles Over Emissions Software

    But as your article states, pretty much everyone was doing it. So not sure how it is pulling a Samsung. Realistically speaking, benchmark cheating in the GPU world has been going on for ages, Nvidia, AMD/ATI, Apple, Microsoft and etc were all at one point caught cheating on benchmarks. So again...
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    Volkswagen Is Ordered to Recall Nearly 500,000 Vehicles Over Emissions Software

    I can't wait to see how Lauren Fix is going to "fix" this, I remember her bashing Tesla clamoring for "Clean Diesel". Pulling a Samsung? What does that even mean?
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    Shareholder message: Raise $500M?

    This announcement makes no sense to me really, why now and why so little? If they really wanted to do a stock raise they could have delayed lowering of forecasts to Q3 and did a stock raise for much more at a higher price. Since they had a credit line, one would have figured they would have used...
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    Tesla tackling city charging(manhattan)

    Assuming they are not rounding, Tesla plans to install level 2 chargers at 24 garages in Manhattan Log In - The New York Times I wonder if they plan to do the same in other major cities.
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    Battery advice apples to other devices?

    If you have a laptop with a removable battery, and using the laptop while plugged in. You should remove the battery until you need it. Heat is the #1 enemy of lithium ion. It is better to charge to 80%, but as long as you charge to 100% and then take it off the charger so it begins discharging...
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    Anyone else surprised that new battery pack is only 90kwh?

    The Panasonic 4.0ah silicon annode cells are 13.6wh Green Car Congress: Panasonic Develops New Higher-Capacity 18650 Li-Ion Cells; Application of Silicon-based Alloy in Anode
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    Tesla continues to list price with gas savings/incentives and offer odd bundles

    As long as the final price is visible on the order page, which it is now. Tesla should continue doing what they are doing. The importance of getting people to think about fuel costs is more important than a few blind people who can't read getting upset. I will also disagree that this tactic is...
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    What to call old fashioned cars?

    Often times, EV haters call EVs golf carts. So it has to be something similar in sense. Effectively something people are familiar with of a similar type. The best way to describe gasoline cars is lawn mowers. Lawn mowers make a lot of noise, making fun of the stigma that noise equals power...
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    Anyone else surprised that new battery pack is only 90kwh?

    Tesla can easily make a more energy dense pack, but you have to look at the big picture. If Tesla put out a pack that was 100kwh or more it would have hurt their resale values. This goes double for their CPOs and buybacks. This small increase works in 2 ways, it helps Tesla get larger profit...
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    Got an interesting call from Tesla regarding 85D to 90D upgrade

    Get the 90kwh now, no questions asked. For reference let us use previous example when someone upgraded 60kwh to 85kwh: Life With Tesla Model S: Battery Upgrade From 60 kWh To 85 kWh (Page 3) Since you would be trading in an old battery, you would be hit by a restocking fee of the difference...
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    Security from the frontlines... (OR How to Hack A Model S talk at DEFCON)

    The question comes down to the seriousness of these hacks, like say breaking into the mobile app isn't really that serious per say.
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    GM taking pot shots at aluminum vehicles.

    It is a play on stereotyping rather than anything else. In the old days it was as simple as material strength depending on what you use, but in modern days materials have become so advanced that stereotyping materials is a joke. For example, if I had you pick between something made of steel or...
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    Picketing outside Tesla HQ

    I had a feeling I was fudging something up. I multiplied by 7, instead of 5. (I work 7 days a week personally, but most people work 5 right lol)
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    Picketing outside Tesla HQ

    Does it have anything to do with the new carpenter wage rates starting 7/1/2015? http://www.carpenterfunds.com/PDF/Employers/Wage/Carpenters_Current_Rates.pdf Which seems to be about $42 an hour salary + $27 an hour in benefits. That is like being paid over 100k salaries + benefits for a...
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    Picketing outside Tesla HQ

    After seeing that sign, I take back my previous statement, these guys might be union or dealership or anything, to me it actually looks more like "picketers for hire" City Beat: Union points a ‘Grim’ finger at Sacramento’s Co-op | The Sacramento Bee Carpenter Spartan Daily Spartan Daily...
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    Picketing outside Tesla HQ

    Hard to guess what they were picketing about as it is too generic, but the best I can come up with is Dealerships. You know the claim they are family owned and make jobs nonsense.
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    1:18 Scale Diecast P85 Model S now in Tesla Store

    I want to know when they will offer a battery swap so you can put in a battery and drive it with your phone via bluetooth.
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    Car And Driver got themselves a P85D for long term testing (plans 40k miles)

    It seems no one can resist a P85D these days. They already put 5k miles on it in 2 months. 2015 Tesla Model S P85D Long-Term Intro Car and Driver
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    Article in the Wash Examiner Electric cars may be worse for the environment than gas"

    Here is a link to the study: https://www.aeaweb.org/aea/2015conference/program/retrieve.php?pdfid=394
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    Tesla crash over cliff...

    I hope the media does not blow this out of proportions. That said, I wonder if auto-pilot can prevent issues like these in the case something happens to the driver it would gain control, bonus points if it can locate the closest ambulance and notify 911.
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    Game changing idea to greatly reduce the cost of a new Tesla

    Then they can just lease the entire car, no reason to lease just the battery. That will only put a larger financial burden on Tesla with no real benefits. 1) And the cost will be solved with economies of scale and bringing down price of the battery. Leasing it will not decrease overall cost...
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    Game changing idea to greatly reduce the cost of a new Tesla

    Scrith, I think you are missing the infrastructure problem. So let me make it easier to grasp. There are around 121,000 gas stations in the US with multiple terminals. Superchargers can accomplish same coverage as gas stations with about 1,500 stations. This would cover pretty much every 50...
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    Game changing idea to greatly reduce the cost of a new Tesla

    What you are describing is pretty much what Better Place did, and that idea failed. It really doesn't work that well as it sounds.
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    Tesla only 8th greenest automaker, BMW is best, says Newsweek

    The issue here is not about if Tesla is #1 or not, the issue here is with flawed methodology. For example, remember the LEED and Greencars.org incident? People were not upset that Tesla was not #1, what was upsetting was a gas Porsche sports car considered greener than a Tesla due to the flawed...
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    Tesla only 8th greenest automaker, BMW is best, says Newsweek

    Sorry, it was a cached version.(was having dns issues) Here is the direct link to the live: http://www.newsweek.com/2015-newsweek-green-rankings-faq-338193
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    Tesla only 8th greenest automaker, BMW is best, says Newsweek

    It is right there in their FAQ: http://www.newsweek.com.nyud.net:8080//2015-newsweek-green-rankings-faq-338193
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    Tesla only 8th greenest automaker, BMW is best, says Newsweek

    Not only is the methodology flawed. According to them, they give a score of 0 if the company does not respond to their partner's requests. Tesla did not respond: Results - Company Responses So they got a score of 0 in many categories.
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    Model 3 to be sedan AND crossover

    Yes, the cross over is a response to the Chevy Bolt, here is how it went down. When Musk learned of the Bolt, he got into his time machine and went back in time. Gen III Crossover
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    New price rise??

    Yes, jquery does help manage some of those issues, my point was on the rending front. And your experience matches mine that webkit/gecko try to render with compatibility, but for IE unless you develop on IE it often times renders differently. This becomes more of a problem when someone is...
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    New price rise??

    Well different areas have their fanboys so I can't comment for your area in specific. But talking from a general standpoint, enforcing use of IE at work is pretty much the easy way to go even if they at home prefer a different browser. And replacing ActiveX is the smart way to go but...
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    New price rise??

    The problem is many of these old tools have been made for IE6, require ActiveX and stuff like that. Another aspect comes down to the fact that IT is lazy. It is much easier to just take one version of IE and apply security policies to it and keep it up until the end of that Windows extended...
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    Elon " We will be opening up in Mexico later this year."

    Baja California? From my understanding a lot of Americans retire there.
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    New price rise??

    “I will not have you doing any business with Microsoft! They are evil!” - Martin Eberhard Sorry, could not resist. All browsers FireFox, Chrome and Opera show 85k. Even in IE, if you go to show selected options it will say 85k. So most likely a display bug in IE, nothing uncommon.
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    New price rise??

    You mean in the EU? Maybe adjustments for the Euro?
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    Urgent need for comments on HOA EV charging rules

    Have you tried some media outlets(Green Car Reports) or other EV boards? I am sure you can get more comments that way. You might even get more comments in the Tesla areas of these boards which get more traffic.
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    2015 Tesla shareholders meeting -- reporting as the meeting proceeds

    Any pictures of the new supercharger cables? Also size comparison?
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    So my company CEO agreed to add charging stations. I need help!

    I will agree with getting 2 (3 if you can convince your VP to get a Tesla while you are at it) Tesla EV chargers and rest J1772. You want it as convenient as possible for your CEO. Because since he left it in your hands you probably want to make it convenient for him, the 2nd will be the CEO's...
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    Tesla Stationary Storage Investors Thread

    AMS has said they signed a 500mwh order with Tesla: Your Renewable News | Advanced Microgrid Solutions signs 500 MWh energy storage deal with Tesla
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    Your help needed: "FOR" Votes for 2015 TSLA Prop 3 and 4

    I am sure this has already been mentioned (a bit late to read through so many pages). But Tesla's goal is to push for electric cars, remember Musk said it himself that while he plans to make Tesla as big as possible, the primary goal is to motivate the entire industry to go electric. Tesla...