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The Tesla app has a Charge Stats section that include a "gas savings" number, which, as far as I can tell is utterly bogus. Are there settings somewhere to make it more realistic? Nothing about this is going to change how happy I am with the car! (I've suspected all along that there was...

Went to the Lee's Mill steamboat gathering yesterday and was amused to see a steam launch being towed by a Model Y!

A year into ownership, about 12,000 miles, multiple long trips done before. Drove about 1500 miles round trip last week. In prior trips the charging recommendations were always sensible and remarkably accurate, at least in terms of the projected SOC at arrival various places. This time it was...

I'm sure I'm overthinking this. What is the correct way to measure tread depth on a tire? I have a nice digital machinist's depth gauge so actually taking a measurement at any given point is not what I'm asking about. Where on the tire should you measure, and in how many positions? Center...

So in a new to me variant on the phantom braking theme I've started getting this warning, complete with dire alarm bells while driving down a stretch of road I've driven many dozens of times before. Fortunately the car doesn't actually do anything other than scare the bejesus out of me...

Long, long ago, in a galaxy far away where windshield wipers were either on or off (well high, low and off in this case) I bought a little box (probably from JC Whitney) that I wired into the wiper motor on my 1968 Dodge Dart to provide a delay in the wiper circuit to give me intermittent...

Yesterday I got stuck in a trivially avoidable hour and a half accident-related traffic jam on the Mass Pike. The car knew about the delay (as soon as I saw brake lights ahead I also saw that it was showing 2-1/2 hours fo do the remaining 40 miles of my trip), but it hadn't suggested I get off...

My windshield washers don't work very well. It seems as if fluid is only dispensed on the top half of the window, and not very vigorously at that. I need to run them for what seems like a long time to get fluid to dribble down to the part of the window I actually look through. Is this expected...

Long drive (450 miles) today. Things I would really have appreciated: 1) a "resume" function to go back to the speed set prior to braking 2) a way to tweak the set speed up and down by a couple miles an hour without having to hit it exactly with the accelerator and then hit the lever at the...

So, adult rear seat passengers for the first time since cold weather arrived. How do they adjust their seat heaters? (Please don’t tell me they have to ask the driver to mess with the screen every time they want to bump it up or down— that would be just too awkward.

So I was excited at the prospect of Apple Music as an app in the car allowing me to play my large collection of tunes with a decent and consistent interface that I was used to using. I'm afraid I'm in for another disappointment, but perhaps you can point me in the right direction. I'm only...

With the most recent update I find that my feet are now illuminated while driving at night. Not bright, just a soft glow. It's pretty weird and distracting. What are those lights called, and is there a way to turn them off? (and for curiosity sake, who thought that being able to see your feet...

None of the USB ports in our new car will charge DW's iPad. They work for phones. I've resorted to plugging a separate charger into the 12V outlet. Is this normal?

Just completed my first major trip in my new Y. 2148 miles, ranging from Boston to Indy, with stops each way. What was remarkable was how unremarkable it all was. The car performed well, was comfortable, easy (very stable) to drive, and the whole charging thing was a complete non-issue. The car...

Still in my first week of ownership. It rained today, both light and heavy. The wipers on auto setting ran like crazy for a few drops of rain, behaved somewhat better in heavy rain. Two questions: 1) where/how do I adjust the sensitivity of the auto wipers to get them to calm down and wipe at a...

Two days into ownership and I'm pulling my hair out because I can't get the car to do the simplest possible voice command, eg play my local radio station. I've tried every possible permutation from the simplest that works almost everywhere "play WBUR" to ever more complex "play FM radio station...

My Facebook feed has become overwhelmed with anti-electric car "news" articles. Most of them are too stupid to even believe, the "better"ones take a germ of truth and spin it way out into never-never land. Someone someplace is being paid to write these articles, and someone is paying to place...

I'm somewhat desperately hoping/fearing that leaving for three weeks in Europe will induce my car to delivered right after I leave in mid-June Can my wife (with a power of attorney, if needed) pay for and pick up the car? Somewhere in the instructions it says something about all registrants...

I’m designing a project (a portable organ) that I will want to transport in my Y when it arrives. Can anyone tell me how tall a 20 x 30 inch box I can fit through the hatch door? I’ve found the maximum height, but can’t tell how quickly it curves down, or if there are lips or other overhead...

Final fit adjustment

The ideal place to put a charger in my garage is on the pillar between the garage doors so that it can easily reach both parked vehicles. The wall space between the door opener tracks is 17". Is that wide enough to accommodate the coiled up charging cord when it's not in use? I don't want the...

Just ordered a MY LR with the 19" wheels. Was shocked to get an estimated delivery date a year out (October 2022)-- a couple weeks ago (pre-Hertz) it was April. . Our sales guy says that if I order 20" wheels instead they are "promising" June. Can I recover any significant fraction of the 20"...

Haven't yet ordered (waiting for the rebate fog to clear) but thinking about a 3 or Y a lot. There's effectively no cell service where we live and we frequently travel to places that have neither cell nor WiFi. (We have excellent internet speed and WiFi at home.) I'm wondering what doesn't...