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I would agree, up until they promise that the feature would be available specifically for my config through the release notes that appeared in my car. Once they promise it, I say they owe it and should either admit it was a mistake or fulfill the promise. I love my car and fully support Tesla's...

But... that costs money and adds to my clutter of things. If Tesla does what they promised, it doesn't cost anything or take up any additional space. Especially given that promise which I expect would eventually be fulfilled, I'd rather not buy a physical object that I would only use in an...

In the v10 release notes on my 2014 S60 without AP, it said HomeLink could be used from v3.10.0 of the app. I have that version and like many others here, the option doesn't appear in the app. I had been thinking about that feature months before I found out about it in the release notes. I...

Sales tax is the same as most everything else at 6%. So, that's $3,570 sales tax for a total of $63,070, provided the price you gave includes reservation/order fee (which goes towards the cost of the car). If Tesla somehow gets away with calling $35,000 the base price even though it's not...

I was coal rolled the same day. I doubt the truck knew he was doing it to an EV or he probably would have done it more than once while I was behind him. Here's the video: There's the south, and then there's Michigan trying to join the south. I regularly see trucks undoubtedly capable of...

Section 257.801(1)(p) of the vehicle code specifies the base registration fees and (7)-(8) specifies the EV fee. From that, here's what I calculated vs. what I actually paid: Formula for 2017+ base registration: =ROUND(ROUND(ROUND((40+6*(69-6))*0.9)*0.9)*0.9)+2.25+5.75 That's 90% the previous...

It's been a while. Here are some more videos since my last post here. This is actually a 3 year old video, but I haven't posted it here yet and only made it public last year. This was pretty much the final straw and convinced me to get winter tires. This happened on the first day of my...

Another shot of the fire behind the supercharger. [source] My brother (Model 3 reservation holder) lives about 4 miles from there and this kept him from going to sleep because of the noise and lit up sky. We weren't sure how close the fire was to the supercharger until we saw it in the live...

I was taking advantage of the Overwatch free weekend when my brother barged into Mumble (voice chat), after he said he was going to bed, to tell me it sounded like a jet outside and the sky was lit up. We got into Hangouts so he could show me and a friend what the sky looked like, and we could...

This is about as bad as it gets for a passenger vehicle. The entire car was torn to shreds and instantly engulfed in flames. They say the driver died instantly. Not easy to see the driver in the video, but you've been warned. [Russia] Old LADA explodes into a fireball after being rear-ended by a...

I noticed the permit on supercharge.info yesterday. That's the one supercharger I'm most excited about. Not that I have any intention to use it, but it would be the closest to home and in the same city as my brother. My brother has a Model 3 reservation and lives in an apartment complex near OU...

A local Chevy dealer (right next door to where my dad takes his Ford C-Max Energi for service, which I've driven him to/from) had a huge fire in its service center on Wednesday, caused by spilled gasoline and a spark from a floor scrubber. It appears the entire service section of the building...

Yeah, that is a shame. Hopefully you made it clear to them that the reason there aren't service centers here is because of a corrupt law banning direct service. Should also point out that Tesla still provides convenient and timely service in Michigan even with that limitation, thanks to their...

Any chance that's Auto Owners? Someone on reddit ran into the same issue. I have Amica and have been happy with them, though haven't had to file a claim yet, knock on wood. I have renewal coming up this month on the 18th and have bumped liability coverage from low/mid-range to the max for just...

USA - 2017 August 21 Total Solar Eclipse - Interactive Google Map - Xavier Jubier I've been using that and it's great. You can click anywhere on the map and get all the data as well as a diagram of what the eclipse would look like for that location.

Ah, looks like a great choice. That's directly south of Knoxville (why I was confused) and the center of totality passes right over that road.

I hope you're aware totality won't reach east of Knoxville, unless you mean more south-east, like somewhere around Clingmans Dome. The supercharger is near the edge and will get about a minute of totality. This interactive eclipse map is very helpful: USA - 2017 August 21 Total Solar Eclipse -...

I am planning a trip with most of my family and possibly some friends to see the total solar eclipse in August. The plan is currently set for Kuttawa, KY, where we would spend two nights at the hotel hosting the supercharger and very likely observe it there as well. The drive should be about 14...

My trip to Yellowstone last June was similar on the way there, when I saw roughly 5 Teslas across 17 superchargers. The return trip was completely different, saw maybe 20-30, including my first decent production Model X sighting (new owner with temp tags who I briefly talked with, whose wife had...

Probably obvious, but have you checked that the Software Update option is enabled in the notification settings for the app? That's the only thing that came to mind.

Well, let's look at a bunch of other reports that I found: In January 2014, Edmonds said 100-400 by November 2013. In October 2014, Detroit News and Forbes said 50, while Detroit Free Press, USA Today, and InsideEVs said 100. In August 2015, Detroit News and Detroit Free Press said more than...

Wow, really? That would mean either the articles I've read were using outdated information or there has been a massive boom in sales over the past few months. Source? The most recent Electrek article to mention registration numbers was on December 20 where they said "The automaker claimed that...

Last I heard reported a few months ago was about 400. I would guess it's closer to 500 now. I've been trying to get a reliable/accurate source of that information, but the organizations that have it will only sell the data to businesses. The only random X I've seen in Michigan not near a...

Maybe he ordered two because he was going to buy one anyway and felt bad for wrecking the inventory vehicle. My first thought before I looked at brucet999's location was "Only in California can three Tesla sales be the direct result of two random people in an accident." I wish it was that easy...

Rub it in, why don't you? I went for a second job interview a few hours ago and, long story short, they had a scheduling error that I wasn't notified about and it didn't happen. On a positive note, I did see a gray S85D parked out front of the building, which most likely belongs to iOS lead...

Mostly because I want it comfortably warm in the few minutes it would take me to get to the car. I tend to not turn it on until I'm starting on my way to the car. Plus, I've had at least one time recently where even HI (82F) wasn't enough to get me feeling warm enough in a 20 minute drive. On...

I can't say I've noticed the recirculation issue, but I have noticed that the max temp was recently dropped from 90F to 82F. I was turning it on through the app, bumped it up to 90F to get it warmed up faster, and it snapped down to 82F. Confirmed that the car now designates 82F as HI. It's...

Saw another on SB M-53 just over a week ago. Kind of strange how they're already starting to compete with how often I see Teslas.

I had that problem from January 2015 until August this year. After several attempts by service and owner support to resolve it, owner support finally found that my car was somehow marked as not delivered. Once that was fixed, I started receiving automatic OTA updates again.

Today was the first big snow of the season, so went out around 2PM to shovel the driveway. When I was near the street, I glanced up and saw a car coming. At first I thought it was a police car and I was thinking of waving to show support, but when I glanced up again (a bit late), I noticed it...

Yeah, it'll take some time for them to get up to speed with the loads of information us hardcore fans have become familiar with. The "coming soon" marker has been smack dab where Google Maps puts the Detroit label since early 2013 and I am convinced it is a way to designate an area where free...

My car has been swapped with a Model S loaner at my home or work to be taken to Cleveland five times, and once repaired in my work parking lot by a ranger (two visits as timf pointed out, a week apart). Scheduling was very easy and generally carried out within a week or two, yet also one of the...

I haven't visited the showroom yet, but want to do so soon, ideally with some friends and/or family. If there's an event, you can expect me there. I don't work in Troy any more, so it's not quite as convenient as it would have been, but 30 minutes from home isn't bad at all. Far better than the...

I was browsing through some old dashcam snapshots and found this from September 2015: I had no idea it was a Bolt at the time and remember comparing it with the Spark EV. Now that I know what the production Bolt looks like, it's obvious. So, apparently the one today was my second Bolt sighting.

It has a good side? Where? :P I don't think it looks good, but it's still pretty exciting to see BEVs in a world full of ICE cars and hybrids (mostly Volts).

Given that I'm in SE Michigan where the Chevrolet Bolt is made, I have a unique opportunity to see it in the wild before it even reaches customers. Well, today was my lucky day. As I drove past the 22 Mile & Romeo Plank intersection, I caught a glance of what at first I thought was a 2016 Volt...

Had my first truly random Model X sighting this morning that wasn't at a supercharger or on the highway between Superchargers. Went to a bike ride event in Rochester, parked across from the X without realizing it, saw it as soon as I got out, took my bike out and met with my group, then backed...

Wow. I've seen two within a few minutes on a few occasions during my commute, but those were the only ones I saw all day if not week. I had to go on a 4000 mile Supercharger trip to see four Teslas within an hour just once, of course all at a Supercharger. It was at St. Joseph on the way back on...

I have the other 2.34.100 update. I reread it in VT repeatedly before reporting it as a new version on the tracker because it does look like a typo. In my case, I contacted HQ for the third time to push an update and fix an issue where my car hadn't been receiving automatic OTA updates since...

Interesting incident, though it doesn't really fit the topic. No explosions, fire, or fuel spillage. That exact same thing could happen if it were an electric truck. Though, I suppose the minor cuts and scrapes could have been caused by parts unique to ICE vehicles, or he was careless because it...

The best workaround I know of is to use VisibleTesla and set it to not allow the car to sleep. As long as VT remains running and doesn't lose connection with the car, it should prevent the car from sleeping, thus preventing the pause state from being lost. It has worked almost flawlessly, but on...

Yesterday, while I was charging at Rockford on my way back from Yellowstone, I noticed my car showed a Supercharger in Peru along my avoid-tolls route (I-39 and I-80), which wasn't there when I took that route on the way out. I checked supercharge.info to find it opened just four days earlier...

I'm at the tail end of the trip, on the way back home, currently at the hotel next to the Worthington, MN Supercharger. This was the only place where I experienced ICEing, on my way to Yellowstone. I was done charging, parked in the hotel lot, and had dinner at the Ground Round restaurant...

Sorry, I used the G+ images directly and I guess that doesn't work on certain networks. Here they are... Update: It looks like they finally got a full Model S test vehicle. As I was walking out of work on Monday last week, I saw the car carrier just outside the door and immediately...

Outside of playing with the remote honk, I've only honked once in the entire life of my car. It was at someone who was distracted at a green light for about 5 seconds. The honk didn't sound friendly and I felt kind of bad. I don't honk because I don't get angry when driving and in the majority...

Similar to Todd's video, on the way home this evening, I had someone suddenly pull into my turn lane without signaling or looking. I'm glad there was a break in oncoming traffic. On another note, the weather was amazing. Upper 60F's and not a cloud in sight, so I had my sunroof and windows wide...

Here's a sighting a bit out of the usual. Before lunch today, I went for a walk around the building complex with my team. One of the neighboring buildings which we share the parking lot with is an auto supplier, which I knew supplied parts for Model X, but didn't know if this location had much...

Had one of my best sightings on NB Rochester in Troy this evening. A gray (or midnight silver) 85. Got a thumbs up out the window (pictured), though I didn't return one because I was sort of caught off guard by how quickly he passed and he didn't seem interested in sticking around since he...

That wasn't always an issue? I've noticed it every time my car went to service, starting with the first annual in July last year. I understand how it could be useful to see both where it was last parked and where it actually is, but the current behavior is not really acceptable.

There's already a thread called that.