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I have posted about battery life and charging before - but now I have real information. At 182,738 miles, I finally killed my battery. I expected this was coming sometime, but did not know when. Tesla did a nice job of arranging a tow, and getting me a loaner vehicle - but it was fairly...

Odd Twist of battery fate - I'm fitting some lawn & Garden U1-7 batteries to another vehicle, and I thought - hmmmm this looks like the same size battery the Tesla has for it's 12V battery. Since I replaced the 12V battery myself last time I got a battery error warning, I have a spare floating...

I ultamitely had to take my car into Tesla for the charging issue. They found that it started charging after being stored indoors for several hours. They then found that the water pump on the cooling system was electrically disconnected. They put on a new connector, and the car charges again...

BTW gnuarm - Look into an "airpark community." The neighborhood will have a runway diagonally through the middle of it. Most of the houses will have airplane hangars. This makes it so one can house many cars indoors if you don't own a plane. Further, you can heat (or air condition in Puerto...

After being on this list, I more regularly put a charging station as a destination. It seems to warm the battery appropriately if it can, and gets me a faster charge. I've found that charge rates pretty much have nothing to do with number of cars at the charge location, and I've tracked this...

Yesterday I drove 160 miles to a supercharger. That was the destination. Charge rate was one of the best rates I've had in a long time, and it was cold out. My guess is that GtiMart is correct about the reason I've been charging very slowly. Unfortunately for me, I usually drive 20 minutes to...

BTW - someone said I clearly have no choice but to supercharge the car and someone else said I am ruining the battery. Not exactly true - I could drive my 1958 MGA. Weather protection is not so good in that though. I used to drive my V8 Audi S4 from time to time, but it had a timing chain...

It is winter, and charging certainly isn't better with the cold weather. I believe it's the ability of the car to do the pre-heating that is an issue. When it's 10 - 20 degrees F out, and it is 170 miles between charges, it just takes a lot of time, and there is it is slow starting to charge...

I have been logging my charging sessions. I used to charge mostly at home, but lately I've been doing a lot of driving for work. I have found that charging at Tesla charge stations is very slow for me. The car is a Model S P85D with about 140,000 miles on it (just under as of today). I have...