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MODERATOR NOTE: The first ten or so messages in this thread were moved from the King City, CA Supercharger thread. Highway 198 is not the most expedient way across the Coastal Range from Interstate 5 unless one's final destination is San Lucas or San Ardo, and they are coming from Coalinga. It...

Okay, I am a tech idiot. I just do not understand how things work, why they work, and how to avoid failures. So, please be kind. We have a 2014 Model S. We use the key fob that comes with the car to lock and unlock the car. I have connected my cell phone (Apple) to the car through the...

(No, this is not a variation on The Gifts of the Magi by O. Henry.) is the fee that Tesla assesses now to push a software update to our car. Really. We purchased our S in 2014, and we followed up with our 3 in 2018. Our wi-fi signal is not strong in our garage, and the antenna on the 3 is...

I have no idea what this means. I cannot connect with my phone to our Model S. I cannot connect with my wife's phone to our Model S. Yet, we can connect each phone to our Model 3. When I try to connect to the Model S, I receive the dread circle of doom following by, "server error." I...

According to the Central Valley FB page, the Service Center indicated that our second planned Supercharger in Fresno will be going in at the River Park Shopping Center. This is on the east side of Blackstone Avenue between Alluvial and Nees. The access from the SR41 freeway is the Nees...

We have a January 2018 Model 3 long range. According to the phone app, the code is 2019.20.4.2. The car has a little over 5,000 miles on the odometer. My wife drives it on errands around town. From my best recollection and scribbled notes, here are the Supercharger speeds that we have...

This will be long, so apologies. Lots of you prepare your own returns. I think that is great--seriously. I pored through the Section 199A regs last night to get a good handle on how this deduction is calculated. It is not easy. It is incredibly complex. So without further adieu, here is as...

According to the Central Valley EV group on FB, a Toyota RAV was spotted plugged into a Supercharger at the Roseville Galleria site. This is new to me. According to the post, the owner gets free Supercharging, and she had an adapter to go from the SC plug to the RAV intake. I wonder how this...

For those of you who are chomping at the bit to see how the TCJA has affected the forms for the 2018 filing season, do I have some good news! I attached a PDF to this note to show the draft versions of the forms that will be completed to file your federal returns next year. Below is a summary...

Thanks in advance to all who respond! :) We currently have two PV systems on our roof. The original installation was in 2011. It consists of 14x185 watt Suntech panels with a Sunny Boy 3000 string inverter in our garage. After we purchased our Model S in 2014, we added 7x270 watt (unsure...

Elon Musk's Tesla says new state rule punishes it for doing business in California Yet another example of the difficulties in doing business in California. The legislature ignores all that Tesla has done for the state. Jobs created at Tesla (despite the 9% layoffs mentioned in another...

A brief chronology: On Christmas morning, my wife and I configured our Model 3. Gave Tesla the $2,500. On Tuesday, I promptly submitted all the on-line paperwork (driver licenses, proof of insurance, pictures of the trade in, etc.) On Friday, December 29, the Las Vegas center contacted me...

I scanned the new tax legislation that is currently awaiting signature from the President. I thought that I would share some of items that did not get a lot of publicity yet could affect some of you or your families. The usual caveats apply: --Don't believe everything you read on the...

I recently downloaded my 2017 tax program. Yay. During the installation process, I received notification that my software provider was adding/installing/whatever the following: Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable (x86) 12.0.40649 What is this? Why am I receiving this? Does this make...

According to this abstract Alternative strategy for a safe rechargeable battery - Energy & Environmental Science (RSC Publishing) researchers at UT (including a 94-year old, John Goodenough!) think that this type of battery is denser than today's Li-ion types. Here is the story: Lithium-Ion...

Looks like our legislature is dead serious about increasing the affordability of electric vehicles! California's $3 Billion Electric Car Subsidy Bill Could Bring Tesla Model 3 Down to Honda Civic Prices They want the incentive to be credited to the purchase price at the point of sale rather...

For those of you who are considering a summer road trip to California, I thought that I would share some of the current conditions on some of the highways here. Y'all are no doubt aware that we had a v-e-r-y wet rainy season this year, with numerous locations recording in excess of 100 inches...

(If the moderators wish to move this, I understand.) The list of proximate Superchargers that appears on the touchscreen needs a lot of work. It is essentially worthless for me right now. Below I list the eleven Superchargers that appear on my screen when I press the thunderbolt. I show the...

I yearn for the days when the real estate proximate to what we now know as SR85 and I280 was covered with beautiful apricot, nectarine, pear and cherry orchards. The old Del Monte cannery on Auzerais in San Jose used to fill the air with the gentle aromas of peaches or pickles during the summer.

Remember, I am an accountant. Perhaps my brain is wired differently from most normal folks. :eek: Right now, I think there are a number of you who own two Teslas. My wife and I have a deposit down on the Model III. I know a lot more of you have reservations on the III as well. A year or so...

On another forum, one of the more eloquent and vocal members said that our beloved car is based upon the 1996 EV-1. Nothing new under the sun save a larger battery. And it was not that green at all! Them's fighting words! Anyway, this individual is a well-respected trial lawyer, so I want to...

I have a question about my brakes sticking from time-to-time. Here in California, we have been fortunate enough to have received a lot of wet stuff falling from the sky over the past several months. After driving in these conditions many times I do not drive my S again for 3-5 days, as I work...

This just into the news room.... The Journal of Accountancy says that the President has two budget proposals (among a host of others) concerning the oil, gas and fossil fuel industries. The first proposal is to eliminate $4,000,000,000 annually in subsidies to producers of oil and gas and...

The technical areas that many of you are quite proficient in are beyond things that I grasp, so I am posting this entreaty to you: Earlier today an AT&T scheduler for their products rang my doorbell. He said that they had finished up reworking all their connections from copper cable to fiber...

Well, I got the dread "12V error warning" earlier today as I got back into my car to return home from the grocery store. It cautioned me that my car may not restart. It took a few moments, but I was able to put the shift lever in drive, and I made it home. I telephoned roadside assistance...

I stumbled upon the following FAQ from the federal Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices' website: Q: What are the approved uses of green-colored pavement? A: Green-colored pavement is only approved for use in bicycle lanes in accordance with Interim Approval 14...

(Mods, if this is the wrong subject area, feel free to move it to a better one!) We have solar on our primary residence and on a rental home where our son lives. PG&E is the electricity provider for both. On July 18 there was a fierce storm that knocked the power out not only to both homes...

I have read where some of y'all are amateur apiarists. I admire and envy your hobby! So, I thought that I would share with everyone my much more pedestrian pursuit of gardening. I let my wife handle the aesthetic part of our yard with shrubs and flowers. I like to tinker with growing food...

Just asking everyone about Supercharging rates and whether Tesla should be contacted. But first a little background: In May, I was returning home and stopped to Supercharge at Silverthorne. I ambled over to the cabinet that houses all the chargers and whatnot, and I noticed that the latch was...

I wanted to share with you folks that my wife and I just returned from a fabulous couple of days on the north side of the arm of Kootenay Lake that flows down towards Nelson at Balfour. Richard and Pat Rowland recently opened a bed and breakfast about 5 km west of the Balfour Ferry Terminal on...

I don't know exactly the proper location for this announcement, so feel free to move it to a more apt location: Because of the torrential downpour received the past couple of days in the desert east of Indio, a bridge has collapsed near the junction with SR177, about 35 miles west of Blythe...

Saw this site when I was cruising around the 'net: Chava Energy LLC Co-Founder Mark Goldes And His Fraudulent | Fraudcraft Of Chava Energy Swindler Hagen Ruff Amazing how this mountebank has continued to fleece the public for all these years.

A good friend of mine just finished his 8.8 kW solar array construction project, and will be going live late today or sometime tomorrow. He lives in rural Stanislaus County, so his electric utility is Turlock Irrigation District. He shared with me the contract between him and his wife and TID...

I recently returned from a 13-day round trip from California to Milwaukee, Minneapolis and back. I thought this would be the perfect trial for the trip planning feature and the estimated battery reserve feature. I understand the trip planner is "beta," so I set the bar low for results. Here...

Until we receive a Supercharger in Fresno (only a rumor, but sensible) there are a few more places to charge for those heading here or through here: The DMV at Olive and Golden State has a free L2 charger. ChargePoint membership is required. Olive is an exit off SR99. Not much to do around...

I was exiting Interstate 80 westbound on Tuesday morning around 10:45 to charge at Lovelock. One other Tesla was already plugged in. As I pulled up to the stop sign to turn right, a second Tesla crossed in front of me and drove to the SC. I then drive up and plug in. How crazy is it that...

Hello to all in the northern Plains: After Bonnie was able to get a HPWC installed in her hometown south of Minneapolis, she suggested that I contact hotels in the Fargo area about one or more seizing the opportunity to contact Tesla to get some HPWC at their sites for us to use while staying...

Bear with me here, trying to post a photograph, and it is a struggle: Thought I would use this ad hoc method until Tesla develops a solution for clogged Superchargers. I would not use this at sketchy isolated locations like Kingman or Quartzsite, but popular ones like Rancho Cucamonga...

Currently two stalls share the same master arrangement so that the second to plug in receives a lower charging rate unless or until the first to charge begins to taper. Sometimes the arrangement is 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B and sometimes the arrangement is 1A, 2A, 1B, 2B. A driver won't know until he...

I'm just throwing out here where I think Superchargers should eventually be placed once Tesla decides to back-fill California. We know that locations will be completed shortly in Oxnard, Indio and Truckee with permits issued to El Centro and Manteca. That still leaves a lot of rural but...

I decided to take a few days and drive across and through the Sierra off the Supercharger Highway. I drove Interstate 5 and utilized the SCs up to Mt. Shasta City. I then took SR89 east from Interstate 5. Max charged at Mt. Shasta City to 267 and arrived in Quincy at Pioneer RV Park with 102...

It seems that there are periodic threads about Supercharger stations being ICEd or long waits for access and use. This is frustrating and inconvenient to say the least. Frequently these threads devolve into tangential matters, arguments and outrageous solutions. I have yet to see any sort of...