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Still available? Would pick up today if it still is. PS: how does PMing work here?

As a potential grandfather (current Model S owner, Model 3 ordered), I'm not sure I would agree. Lets put this in perspective: power: at 333 Wh/mi => it costs ~3-4 cents per mile in juice tires: ~20KMi / $1200 => it costs ~6 cents per mile in tires insurance: ~12KMi / $400 => it costs ~3...

The problem with wireless charging is not so much in efficiency, but in how much energy leaks out. Even if we're charging at 10kW with ~90% efficiency rate, this means we're leaking ~1kW into the environment around the car. For comparison: a typical microwave oven uses 1-1.5kW of power...

Just got this reminder in the e-mail from PSE. The program is still running and according to the program rules and based on experience of forum members, any Tesla charger qualifies for $500 rebate (including the mobile charger that is the standard equipment with every Model S).

I think this is exactly the reason for the switch to Bluetooth LE. MX needs to know where the key is and how it is moving in order to open the door. If it has two or more receivers on each side, it can measure the difference in signal arrival time and approximate the angle of where it's...

Is it the original press release? "concern hall like sound".

It's not a BT limitation. Even if it was (which it isn't), the car could've had 2 (or more) BT chips/antennas/stacks and could've assigned different phones to different BT stacks. There's also NO problem to connect two different phones as phones (as opposed to connecting one as a phone and...

Just like marcad80 said: Music/turn-by-turn left, energy right; map top, music bottom. This is probably the most common config, I've seen it on my colleagues' cars too. Better question is: what will be there when 3rd party apps are enabled? My vote for music/turn-by-turn left, full status app...

That's also a feature of P85+. Or just a feature of my car. Or my wife. Can't tell for sure, but surely one of them. In all seriousness, I'm pretty sure most of our cars came with this package included (can't say no extra cost, but included).

2000 BMW ///M Roadster with 75K miles on. Sold it for $13K a week before getting my MS (didn't want to sell, but literally needed space in the garage) 2014 Model S 85 P+ (details below) $120.5K delta: $106.5K Would've never paid nearly that much, if not for what it represents and how it drives.

Don't know about CA, but here in WA, the EV's are levied $100 (soon to be $150) per year road use tax: New Washington State Budget raising EV tab fee from $100/yr to $150/yr to replace the lost gas tax revenue. While we can debate the fairness of the amount of tax, the fact that we're charged...

Would we get tax incentive for BEVs costing 35K or less only OR would we get tax incentive for the first 35K cost of any BEV? If it's former, then Tesla will need to get creative. If it's later, then there's nothing to worry about. Also, how "cost" or "price" is defined: is it the transaction...

Welcome, Cab! I'm also coming from BMW M's (but smaller ones than yours: E46 M Coupe and E37 Roadster), and we still own E70 diesel with custom sport suspension (but not the full M). We test-drove P85 and P85+ and settled on the "+", since the difference was substantial. The Plus has...

Stephen, what time do you leave on Monday? I have Monday 10:30AM slot, but at that time I will be half-way home in Washington State (have events planned for the evening on Monday). I would love to trade our slot (2 people) with you.

We (Mrs. romp and I) are leaving on Thursday late PM. Will spend the night in central or south Oregon (yet to book the place), expecting to be at TMC on Friday early PM, hoping for the factory tour time slot to be available on Friday PM. We would also love to meet up with other TMC goers. In...

In case you or anyone else is considering purchasing this car, here are couple problems with the listing that I noticed: ULTRA HIGH FIDELITY SOUND HD Radio -- this car doesn't have the Ultra High Fidelity Sound option. The cars with this option have the right-hand-side niche in the trunk...

Watched your video from the thread. Beautifully done, Curt, BRAVO! I lost it at "Don't worry Gerda. Elon won't go without you". You, sir, owe me a new keyboard, since the old one is soaked in coffee now. Don't see it linked anywhere in the thread, so for the benefit of others, here's what...

The parts you're holding in your hand are called "Grill, air intake, open", both left and right. The lack of chrome on the top and the specific kind of mid-line chrome part kink indicates that it came off of NON-"Luxury Line" (sometimes called "Convenience Line") BMW 5-series model years...

For the mobile 14-50 connector to be oriented like that: the receptacle needs to be installed ground up, like that: Regarding the location of the outlet: the mobile connector cord is long enough to reach from one end of the car to the other, which means you can install the outlet by the panel...

Couple more details: it could be either 528i, 528xi, 535i, 535xi, 535d, 535xd, 550i, 550xi or even ActiveHybrid 5. All of them have 3 "lines", essentially option packages. They are: default, "Luxury" line and "M Sport" line. This is definitely NOT a "M Sport" line. Take a look at the front...

We're planning to drive. Trying to decide if taking our 9 y.o. (who is just the right amount of geeky) would be a wise idea, since it looks like she won't be able to attend most of the events, but she wants to see the factory and take the road trip. Anybody have any experience with it? Thanks!

Unfortunately it's not always the case when I buy gas at two different gas stations within one day: first is OKed, second is usually blocked. Especially if those stations are in different states/countries. Doesn't matter if the second gas station is within a mile from the airport I fly back...

Well, technically there is another non-Sun's-fusion source of energy: tides. Tidal power plants extract energy from the kinetic interaction of Earth-Moon system (also a bit from Sun-Earth, but it's easy to ignore it). This means that tidal power plants are slowing down the rotation of Earth and...

Just as any particle flying through an accelerator (e.g. Large Hadron Collider) becomes heavier when the Accelerator pumps more energy into it (by making it fly faster), same happens with our cars. When you charge it, the energy from the grid becomes stored in the car, and this energy has mass...

Spent last 4 days in Hong Kong with friends, saw two Model S'es: one white with gray 21"s and a brown one, both in downtown.

As much as I like the show and each presenter (I think TG is one of very few reasons remaining to own a TV), I think there's future for the show ONLY if the new presenter will try to find his/her own voice. I think that failures of all TG spin-offs can be directly attributed to hosts trying to...

Doubt it's for the live view of landing part of the flight. Probably for the ascending part. The landing happens beyond horizon from the Cape, and transmitting video beyond horizon is not practical. So, unless they are going to fly re-transmitters (drone-based or otherwise) to beam the live...

Interesting to see this old thread resurrected. I personally like the renders, but I don't think this will ever happen. Two reasons come to mind: * Tesla is trying to simplify the pipeline, but doing this will double the number of configurations and require lots of work on designing/certifying...

I think we do realize that. The message that [headcase] was referring to (mine, Not paying extra $20.000 for decent seats in a $100k car. - Page 6) says that the seats are too high for me, even in their lowest position of adjustment. It is very individual and looks like my body dimensions are...

Where can I get more info on replacing the seats with non-Tesla ones? I'm one of the people who doesn't like both the old and the new seats. I find even the lowest position to be too high and the headrest bulge to be too low. In short, I'd like to sit 2-3" lower. Specifically, is it possible...

Another vote for the matte. Somebody else was presented with your dilemma few months ago and I took pictures of our matte to help make the decision: Picture of Obeche matte with black interior. Hope you like it as much as we do.

Just to comment on one part of the previous post. I think @bxr140 implied this, but for benefit of others I'm going to spell it out the latency to geostationary satellites is indeed about 1/4 second at best. This is because the geostationary satellites are on ~35700 km (about 22K miles)...

The Tegra 3 that is used in the headunit is pretty powerful chip. It's got 4 cores and can run at 1.4GHz. That's pretty fast. Although I don't know what actual speed it's running at in the car, but even at 700MHz (that'd be ~1/4 power consumption of the full speed) it still would be a pretty...

While I don't know exactly how Shuttle did it, there are essentially 2 ways to do it: * use membranes (not so easy with cryogenic fuels, but used for Kerosine/peroxide, etc.) with pressurized volume on the other side. Notice that the membrane doesn't have to be elastic, just flexible. * use the...

Thank you for sharing the video! To me it looks like a great buying opportunity. The stock is lowest it's been since May on just one quote taken out of context + low oil prices which are bound to not stay low in the long term (limited and disappearing resource can't stay cheap forever)...

Are any public events scheduled for this visit? I can't find any info anywhere, but would like to attend. Also, the list of current open positions consists entirely of Antenna/RF engineers. Would be interesting to see what direction this satellite office will develop to.

I think the following scenario fits the "invisible love" description. This is my speculation only!!! Please do not read too much into it!!! The following has to be consented by the owner, of course: when serve is required, the "appointment" time is set at the specified time a ranger comes...

While I don't think there's strong correlation between the number of parts and reliability (we should also consider maturity of the technology, tolerances, working conditions, interoperability requirements, etc.), but still. Lets compare one moving shaft in AC induction motor with this (BMW...

Just for the record, below are all the options that were available in the summer of 2014. Full price difference between P85 and P85+ was $17K. However, it included 21" wheels ($4500), tech package ($3750) and air suspension ($2250). All in all, mandatory options on P85+ were $10500. This...

To be completely precise, it's Sierra Wireless AR8550 chip: http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=45312&d=1395148747 It's capable of all HSPA bands and can get 14.4Mb/5.76Mb up/down speeds...

Yeah, fixed the typo in my previous post. Here are some pics I took today, hope it gives a fuller perspective:

We really love ours. It's quite understated and very homey. Please let us know what light do you want to see it in -- I'll try to get tomorrow

I have the same problem: backing into the garage while suspension is on Very High and doing sharp right-hand turn (steep part of the driveway). Have not noticed it in any other place. I'm not too concerned and have not raised it with the SC yet. Is there any danger in neglecting it?

Can't imagine that to be one of the test criteria. Even crash dummies would get annoyed by the chime and quickly evolve dexterity just to buckle themselves up and shut down the chime. However, softer interior DOES make a difference in a severe crash scenario, even with belts properly buckled...

I'm gonna guess: colder weather, new shoes with wider soles... Accidentally pressing both the brake and the accelerator pedals?

I think Tesla needs to either opensource (if the artists would allow) and/or sell copies of the glass walls in form of posters or actual glass walls. I have a wall in my garage that terribly needs some cool art and a nice poster would fit perfectly there.

Inductive charging has two major drawbacks: efficiency and RF noise. If the loop is as big as the space below the car allows and the positioning is very precise and the distance between the loop and the car's receiver is very-very small, we're still looking at 5-7% energy loss. There's...

It would be very interesting to see how automatic plugging in is solved. Positioning of the wand requires both the location, angle and correct plugging force. Robots with such dexterity exist, but they're pretty pricey, for a reason. Can't wait to see how Tesla does it. If I were to bet on...

One data point: I ordered mine without the red calipers and debadged it the first day (heatgun and floss, took ~3 mins). For anybody who asks what model it is, it's just "the big battery one, starts at $81K minus 7.5K from uncle Sam". Real enthusiasts can tell by the rear tires, but others...

Agree with taurusking: lets be respectful. This applies to the both sides of the debate. The words screwed, embarrassment, financial hit, etc. have negative connotations in relation to the company and to the owners supporting the announcement. Lets not use these either. Also, I don't quite...