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I have Tesla solar and two PWs. My PG&E service is notoriously "glitchy". PGE does some sort of switching which will cause a momentary drop or spike in my service. Over a period of five years this caused a series of failures in audio equipment power supplies. Finally I installed line...

PG&E's net metering is awful so I'd like to keep my power to myself. I have a small solar array and two PWs. This raises two questions: 1) I've set my controller to "self-powered", but it keeps feeding power back to the grid when the PWs are not full. This morning the PWs are at 79% and...

I've set my system to have the small solar array keep the two PWs at 93% and use the remainder to buffer solar. I originally set it at 90%. The solar all went to the battery until it reached 90%, then started going to the house (too small a system to feed back to the grid in winter). The...

I guess I missed the memo. Last year I turned in my 2016 S90D and leased an S100D. Now I get a notice that I will no longer have traffic displayed on my navigation unless I want to pay $10/month? How many times do we have to buy cellular access? We can link the car to our phones and get all...

My experience with Tesla through two Model S's has been dodgy at best. They're not a reliable company (unlike the car itself) and the last transaction was an administrative nightmare that took four months to straighten out. But the PW looks like the best storage product out there. Has anyone...

Even when PG&E has the grid on, the quality of the power to my home has always been very dodgy with lots of spikes and dips. The problem is chronic enough to have destroyed the power supplies in a variety of AV units and appliances over the last four years. Tesla tells me that the system is...

I've been considering the the Tesla PVs and PW, but my experience with Tesla cars has made me very cautious. Tesla as a company over promises and under delivers. Tesla service frequently blames any problem on "software" as though Tesla had no control over the software. In typical Tesla...

For almost three years I drove an S90D. It had the original AP with the MobilEye hardware and software. We did a number of long trips in the car (> 1,000 miles) and the AP was very good. Not perfect, but very good and very smooth on the freeway. A year later in the spring of 2017 Elon touted...

I recently traded my S90D for a 2018 S100D. Whether it's the new car, or recent s/w, it now goes into deep sleep at random times. Deep sleep being where you get into the car and you get a warning on the dash that the systems are starting up and wait until the message disappears. Range Mode if...

I just got a new S100D and discovered the adapters for my 90D's UMC Gen 1 will not work with the UMC Gen 2. And I also have an extra J1772 adapter. $75 for everything and I'll pay shipping; send me a PM. 14-30, 6-15 and J1772. Happy Holidays!

I'm looking at replacing my 2016 S90D. What's the current autopilot hardware generation? 2.0? 3.0? Thanks, Russ

I'm looking at swapping my 2016 S90D for an S100D and I notice that they now talk about providing "premium connectivity" for 1yr, but no mention of what happens next. My S90D has ATT LTE which is pretty lousy service most of the time in Northern California. Is the "premium connectivity"...

Has anyone been able to pair an Apple Watch Series 3/GPS-cellular with a Tesla? Apple doesn't seem too optimistic and I can't find a thread here that talks about it so I'm guessing it's not possible. I've also been unable to pair with my BMW i3. Kind of maddening to have to a device that will...

I took delivery of an S90D in April 2016 so I'm almost half way through my 3yr lease and have driven it 17K miles, including two road trips of about 2,500mi each. That prompted me to take a peek at what I would get if I was to lease a new Tesla today. I configured a new Model S as close to...

Looking for a roof rack for MS with pano roof. Whispbar is what Tesla sells, but apparently they were acquired in 2010 by Yakima and Yakima has or is killing the brand. Yakima doesn't list the product that Tesla is selling and offers their own "Skyline" mount for the Tesla. Does anyone have...

Some observations from a 2,500 mile trip from San Francisco to Vancouver, BC and back. Supercharging triggered a rescan of my USB music SSD almost every time. I'd get back in the car and no music for roughly an hour. The v8.0 UI changes that require a double touch on the screen were really...

Is anyone else having trouble accessing EVTripplanner?

I've labored over this since buying my car, but recently noticed two things on which I'd like to hear from others. I think with the 8.0 update, the "Rated" bar on the Energy display in my S90D moved up from 290Wh/mi to 300Wh/mi, in any case it has moved since I bought the car, though both are...

Tesla labels the Supercharger stalls with the charger number/letter so we can avoid sharing whenever possible. This is great, except they put the number/letter on the bottom where it can't be read when there is a care in the stall. Is there anyone else who thinks the stall number/letter should...

I'm taking a trip where the MS will be parked in the cold for a couple of days with no charging available. Basically I'll do a roundtrip of about 170mi from an SC (EVTP says 183RM), during which the car will be parked in about 35F for a couple of days. I'll set Energy Saving ON and Always...

If this Electrek article is correct, TACC is now limited to the speed limit on undivided roads. This limitation was implemented for auto-steer quite recently, but TACC is a different matter. Stop and Go traffic on undivided roads is exactly where TACC is very useful. My BMW just got a...

For those of you considering ordering an MX or MS, read carefully the threads in the User Interface forum. Not to dissuade you from making a purchase, we know you'll love driving your MS/MX, but so that you completely understand what you are buying. The Tesla is a very advanced vehicle in many...

I know there are a lot of owners who live in Canada, Scandinavia, northern parts of the U.S. and other cold weather climates where driving on snow and ice covered roads is a regular experience. How about your driving tips? Do you always have full regen? Do you modulate the go pedal when...

I'm planning a road trip this winter where I'll be visiting friends in some areas with fewer chargers and would like to reduce my vampire loss. But I want to be sure that I can still access my MS from my iPhone (assuming there is AT&T service) if needed for some reason. I've checked the...

It looks like 2.40.21 got very wide distribution, but not to me. What was in there?

I did a couple hundred mile trip the last two days and spent some time with the 8.0 Nav. I don't see any improvements (like multiple waypoints), and the UI is marginally worse. What really struck me, and this isn't entirely new, is how the UI is NOT designed to be used by someone driving a...

What does this mean (from the release notes)? "Passenger control of the touchscreen now lasts 30 minutes after the driver has left the car"

Maybe we can collect together all the feedback and comments, good and bad regarding the new nav system. As far as I can tell, 8.0 did not add support for multiple waypoints. So a trip is still just A to B. Did anyone find a way to do multiple waypoints?

The Firmware 8.0 thread is all over the block and not very useful. There is an excellent thread on the Media Player's handling of USB in another thread. Perhaps we can use this thread to discuss all other aspects of the "new" Media Play as clearly it has issues which need to be addressed. My...

There has been some discussion in the 90% charge thread about EPA versus real world miles. EPA is what Tesla advertises and is what is used to calculate rated miles. Based on my own measurements over 5,000 miles, the EPA number for the S90D is 273 W/mi. My own consumption is higher so my...

The manual suggests rotating the tires every 5,000 miles. Two questions: 1) Are most of you rotating at the 5,000 intervals? 2) SvC center or general purpose tire shop?

Tesla currently uses a round battery which is apparently some quasi-standard, but has now redesigned that battery from the ground up for the new Gigafactory resulting in slightly different dimensions, but still round. Obviously in terms of battery density per volume, a flat battery is more...

Maybe I've missed them, but I'd like to see forums for touring in various regions. An area where owners could share information about routes, good destination chargers, tips, recent experiences, etc. Maybe slice the US into half a dozen regions and maybe four for Europe.

I'm away from home this week (with my MS) and wanted to check on the charging status of my car while doing some other work on my computer. But of course, that's not possible. It strikes me as very odd that "My Tesla" on the Tesla website, does not allow me to monitor or control my car. In...

I'm curious if others experience this issue, and remotely hope that perhaps Tesla will fix it. My garage has very little natural light. So when I get into the car, the display has automatically adjusted to 0% in daytime mode. When I back out of the garage, backing to the NW, into full...

The MS excels in so many ways, but infotainment is not one of them as many threads in this forum explore. Today Ford confirmed Airplay in all 2017 models while Tesla stands still and we all hope for a miracle in v8.0. Come on Tesla, how about an infotainment system update?

I have some random saved locations that cause the air suspension to raise. I don't recall saving them, but they are there. To remove them, the manual says: "If you do not want the suspension to auto- raise at a saved location, touch the X in the auto-raising location status message that...

I was driving home today in local traffic on a local four lane (two each direction) with the TACC set at 40mph. The TACC indicator was blue and the AS indicator was gray. In front of me a motorcycle changed lanes and took a position behind a car. Beyond the car I could see the next stop light...

This is another esoteric problem, but quite simple for Tesla to address. Ever since my first hybrid, and now a couple of years of EVs, I find myself behind some pedestrians with no way to alert them to my presence. This happened again this week with someone standing in a parking place, looking...

OK, this is an esoteric UI issue. But having worked at a company where UI awareness is practically in the water (or coffee), it's caught my attention. I have the pano roof control assigned to the right roller on the steering wheel. Pushing the roller cracks it open to the vent position or...

Branching off the Favorite and Least Favorite thread, let's take the first derivative and see what makes a great Supercharger location. If Tesla is going to double the number of SCs in the next 2-3 years, maybe the next 275 can all be great! I'll start off with the obvious. A clean, well lit...

One of the critical assumptions in EV TripPlanner is the Wh/RM of each vehicle; it is the foundation upon which all the other adjustments are made to determine power consumption for a trip. After running some scenarios, most of the models use 300 Wh/RM, which is also what Tesla tech support...

From my brief experiences with my new MS it's clear that not all Superchargers are created equal. Some put out 70kW, others maybe 120kW. EVTripplaner assumes they are all 120kW which is just not true. Is there any resource that identifies the actual power available from each Supercharger...

We can choose to display the remaining battery as either a percentage, or Rated miles. Tesla should add Projected miles to the options. It's available on the Consumption display in the CID, let us see it in the Instrument Panel. It's a more accurate calculation than rated miles and takes...

I'm a new owner and thinking about some road trips. I'm more than a little disappointed with the lack of flexibility in the Tesla navigation system, but maybe that's just me, or maybe I haven't learned what everyone else is doing. So here is a little poll. Thanks for your help!

This seems very basic, but I cannot figure out how to adjust the brightness of the instrument panel. I've found the Display Brightness setting, both on the touchscreen settings, and via the right thumbwheel. Using either only seems to affect the brightness of the touchscreen, they don't affect...

I've been driving a BMW i3 for about 18 months and the regen is very nice allowing me to pretty much drive with one pedal. Now in an S90D it seems the regen fades away as the car slows down so that around 2-3mph the car is just rolling. It seems almost impossible to actually stop the car at a...

I'm in Northern California and the power company has dramatically different rates based on time of use. I've found the "start" time in the charger settings, but there is no ability to set a window, or a different start/window time for weekends. My JuiceBox charger that I use for my i3 allows...

We picked up our Pearl White 90D this morning at the factory. After driving home (wow!) via a friend's house to drop off the car it replaced, we got home and sorted through a few things. The good news was that we got the nice center console which used to be an option. The bad news was that...

Standard 90D, no "P", no ludicrous. Just crazy fast! What is your Watts/Mile and 90% Rated Range?