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Just took delivery of our second Model S (well, technically our third, but the first was traded in for the second... so the second became the first and third now is our second... makes sense?). One year and one day after our last Model S delivery. What changed? The delivery process was much...

Interestingly our firmware threads have always been in Model S -> User Interface... maybe we need to find a better place for them? But for now, let's just open a parallel thread over here... did anyone with a Model X receive 7.1 yet? Which build #? Also, would you please enter your firmware...

The question is phrased to make sure we are not just talking about "Uh, they have ONE in San Jose or Palo Alto". I'm thinking when will they have one in the big EV markets - so I looked at Best Electric Car Cities In US which quotes San Francisco Seattle San Diego Austin Honolulu Los Angeles...

Moderator Note: Moving some posts from another thread here to continue the discussion. Frankly, just shocked we don't have someone sharing a video to settle this easily resolved question already. That's an interesting comment. I have stared at the videos and find this physically impossible. The...

I was just at the Portland show room. Two pieces of information. One unsurprising (they have not the slightest idea when they will get a Model X for test drives). But the other was quite unexpected. According to the store manager, the first Model X Signature delivery in Portland happened this...

What a sad joke to end that sad joke of Model X reservation. So if you want a Model X 70D and got your reservation 3 years ago, you still have another 13 months to wait (because we know what "beginning in the second half of 2016" means, right? - the first one will be delivered the week of...

For about a day now the forum is at times getting extremely slow to respond. Dozens of seconds to open a topic. Sometimes even timing out (or I get the html but not the css and get the nice 1992 style internet look). I am reasonably positive that the problem isn't on my end - 100Mb/s internet...

In several threads the question about rear doors has come up (and I certainly have been vocal on this one). There are certain consequences that come with the falcon wing design. No roof rack. No option to have a solid roof / panorama roof. Possible hight issues. When I called the falcon wing...

So wk057 brought this up in the Firmware 6.2 thread, but I think it deserves its own topic. Tesla by and large has an enthusiastic and loyal customer base. So how much going wrong are people willing to accept and continue to love their car and be walking / driving advertizers and sales people...

Yeah, I'm trying to have fun here... so sue me. A very good friend of mine posted a (not very serious) poll on Google Plus whether he should do a kitchen remodel or whether he should buy a Model S. Apparently too many of his friends are rational people and the poll is not going well so far. But...

Hey, this is fun, the Pre-Owned ModelS | Tesla Motors site shows the VIN of the cars... so anyone who has recently traded in their Model S can see how much Tesla is adding in markup... I'll admit that I was FLOORED that they added only 6% to my car (and they drove it 43 miles :-D)

I find it curious that we have not a single entry from a 40 in our tracker tool. So trying to see if maybe someone got it but just didn't add it to the tracker?

I know this is an odd request - maybe it should go to off topic, but it's unlikely anyone would see it there. For a practical joke I need a picture of a really dirty Model S. Muddy, off-road, really dirty. Preferably a white car, but I'll take any color :-) Pro tip: do NOT search the internet...

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102562126?__source=yahoo%7cfinance%7cheadline%7cheadline%7cstory&par=yahoo&doc=102562126 Yeah right. Because Elon believes in chart analysis and makes business decisions based on chart formations. Cramer is completely losing it. What else is new.

The search and advanced search feature have one major shortcoming. You cannot search for version numbers (or maybe I just haven't figured out how). Let's say you are looking for posts about a specific firmware build... has anyone posted about 2.4.136 ? Whatever I try to enter this, TMC searches...

So I've observed this a few nights now - at first I thought I just misremembered. On my 60 (with earlier versions of 6.1 and all versions of 6.0) I tended to have maybe 2 miles of loss over night. With the P85D I see 6 miles lost over night, quite consistently. Same settings (allow to sleep only...

So I'm not sure if this is just my car or if this is the normal behavior. I'm on 6.1 / 2.2.179. I have my mirrors set to auto-fold and the car locks to walk-away lock. If I lock the car with the fob the mirrors fold. But if I just walk away the car locks, but the mirrors don't fold...

I know Elon said about a year ago that they will stop with this nonsense. But reading through the forums once again the European deliveries promised for the first month of the next quarter (April this time) seem to have all been pushed out to "late second month of the quarter" (May) and quite a...

When trying to figure out the whole A battery pack vs. later batteries issue, we created a battery table. I was wondering if people would be willing to add another useful dimension to this... tracking the 90% (actually, better 100% equivalent) range of the cars over time? We could add more...

I notice that my Montoney sticker mentions "smart air suspension" as standard equipment, yet my car has standard suspension. I guess I should start a "get out the pitchforks" effort and threaten lawsuits or something? Or more realistically I could add this to the long list of minor complaints I...

I know this is a silly request, but hey, asking is free, right? Is there a way to see more than just the last 5 new threads? When I click on "Forums" (under the TMC logo) I get shown among a million other things the latest 5 new threads. Or I can click at "New Posts" (just below "Forum") and can...

I'm sure there are a few owners who also have an iPhone 6plus. Any recommendations for a really sturdy mount that survives the G-forces of a launch yet makes the screen easily accessible (and visible) for using waze while driving?

So since the bee keepers have their own thread and since I know there are a lot of scuba divers here, I figured we should have our own thread, too. I have two large cement mixing tubs that fit perfectly in the trunk of my Model S. With that I can take a HP119 tank, dry suit, BC and all the...

With VINs about to reach 80000 I wonder where Tesla will go from here... P99999 -> P00000 (since a digit 10 in the VIN defines the year of production there is no conflict) P99999 -> Q00000 (or some other letter) ???

May I politely voice a request? Humbly speaking and of course not, in any way, criticizing the obvious superiority of the inherently logical reasons that got us to where we are today? Yes? Good. The automatic combination of responses to various posts in a thread into a single response sometimes...

I know everyone hates the guy who points out the obvious... But I figure if I post about it it's more likely Doug or someone will remember :-) (and yes, I realize you guys are all at the racetrack today, trying your best to damage your $100k cars... have fun)

I think this is the larger issue. Right now there isn't enough demand for charging infrastructure and there isn't a viable business model for charging infrastructure. A CHAdeMO charger costs >$10k -- yet people gripe about paying $35 for a charge. How is this supposed to work? Let's say on...

Admittedly somewhat off topic, but then again, just perfect...

I really like Jeff Matthews - he often takes on "Wall Street's Finest" (as he calls the so called analysts) and corporate misdeeds. Here he wrote a nice response to last week's WSJ anti-Tesla editorial...

Oregon usually has rather moderate climate. But last week I was on a road trip and stayed over night at a hotel in the mountains that had no charging opportunity at all. No covered parking. Nothing. So the car sat for about 30h in 28-38F weather. Stupidly I forgot to pre-heat the car before...

It turns out, once you go past '0 miles range' you don't get negative miles of range (which would be cute). You just get a somewhat impractical "Charge Now"... (oh, and the telemetry data shows 5% SOC at that point)

I did a little 300+ miles road trip today with two quick visits to my favorite Supercharger in Centralia, WA. This is with an S60 (values would be different with an 85kWh battery as that allows higher currents). Anyway, I logged the telemetry data for today's trip and I think this results in a...

Quite interesting. The different visualization is intriguing. In a way, I think the Europe version is so much more honest as to where you really can drive with only Superchargers. The red circles do not at all reflect where you can go (especially when they are completely off scale - like in the...

Here is what I would like my signature to look like: Text Text Text Text Text Text Text . ONE PICTURE ++Text Text Text Text Text Text Text . THAT SPANS ++Text Text Text Text Text Text Text . THREE LINES This would be easy to do if I could get the 'table' to support 'rowspan'. But I can't...

Just having some fun. The weather was beautiful, I had just washed my car...

Playing with the data I am storing from the Tesla servers and figuring out interesting things to visualize I stumbled across something interesting. I think I saw a post about this topic either here or on the Telsamotors forums somewhere, but couldn't find it searching... When displaying the...

So with Woodburn up and running and the Tesla folks declaring that a) they are actively working on permitting for the three remaining Oregon Superchargers for this year, and Troy even pointing out that we'll be able to drive to San Francisco by Thanksgiving... let's find the other sites. I did...

This seems so silly, but it was actually quite annoying on my last trip. I had the trip planned out on evtripper and loaded the page on the web browser in order to check my power consumption against the plan (a 59.1kWh trip in an S60). Moving the browser from the bottom half to the top caused a...

Moderators: can we turn this post into a wiki so members can edit? The goal of this post is to collect the bugs in firmware version 5.0 (we should add a build number here in case there are multiple versions as with 4.5). For each bug we should also note whether it has been reported and whether...

Here are a couple of examples of the latest you can do with visualize.js application that's part of the teslams project (it's in the examples folder of the teslams project on github). Not quite as fancy (needs some love from someone better with UIs than I am), but fairly functional and easy to...

This is from the Oregonian newspaper (local paper in Portland, OR). The editor of the car section and a colleague did a roadtrip from Portland to Seattle in a Tesla P85 and posted a ton of video and an impressively positive (or as we Tesla fans would say "about accurate") review of the Model S...

I'm curious - anyone get his brand new Model S in the US in the last few days? A 16xxx VIN number? What Firmware release did you get? They clearly are shipping the European Models with 5.5 - and those are being made RIGHT NOW. So are they still installing the older firmware on the US models?

When connecting via Bluetooth to my Android phone, all I can do is play the "current song" (without getting a song title, album name, etc), or skip to "previous" and "next". No way to browse, see what's there... Is this normal? Is there a way to change that?

I searched the forums but couldn't find anything. I may be running into a bit of early buyers remorse. I bought my S60 without supercharging and am wondering now if that wasn't penny smart and pound foolish. So did anyone do the "after delivery" upgrade for $2500? What do they do for that? My...