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The case I got is called "Pitaka" and I got it on Amazon. It;s not cheap but it still looks great 8 month later, it's not going to offer the ultimate drop protection (won't save your phone when falling from the Eiffel Tower) but I've dropped it once or twice from waist level and it has been...

Wow first I’ve seen of those. I hope we get some in the Boston area some day.

I ultimately found an iPhone case I really like on my iPhone 15 Pro Max which actually works well with the inductive charger in my Model Y. Better than any other case and better than without a case. With this case I actually find that it can charge slowly when upright, faster when upside down...

I tired to argue to the board that for individual parking spaces we'd be ok with 1kW for charging for overnight (and multi day for people who work from home). We already have the infrastructure (120V AC outlets) and only need to run some conduits to some of the parking spaces and install a...

I see, so there are a few but not many by the sounds of it. So dual 40A systems both charging different cells simultaneously? Is that how it works?

For those of us who live in places without our won dedicated chargers, getting a large charge while on the go can be more common than you might think. The fact that there are cars hogging all the L2 chargers in town for 10 hours at a time is evidence that people need a lot of time to get the...

Why are there even 19.2 kW chargers on the market. I did a bit of googling but couldn’t find any cars that have 19.2 kW onboard chargers including the Cybertuck which has a huge battery.

Usually $0.30 per kWh around here. Occasionally free but extremely rare.

I’ve been working with my HOA to upgrade the 6 kW L2 chargers in the shared charging area of our garage with something faster. As with the shopping center example, its a not good that the average EV driver in my garage takes 10 hours to charge form 20 to 80 because it means people leave there...

I guess it depends on cost, right? If a split DC station costs $75k for 2 cables and requires a new transformer, and a 19 kW AC stations costs $20k for 2 cables, the AC station might be the one that gets built You’d also think the station operators would want stations faster than 6 kW because...

Sorry, I meant available. I thought it made sense in context…

In the city of Boston there are hundreds of public L2 chargers, however there are probably 5 in the entire city which are greater than 6 kW. I see the same trend for pretty much all of New England and New York and Ontario. There are Superchargers and other L3 chargers like Electrify America and...

Pretty sure that some updates push to your phone while others require you to check manually. It may be related to the priority of the update. Some updates Tesla wants everyone to have (recall for example which was a push), and others are less critical and Tesla might choose to save bandwidth and...

It’s interesting to know that the issue that I had could be resolvable by AC charging for a while then going back to a supercharger. That is exactly what I tried when I had my issue actually, not having known it was a fix but instead trying to prove it was not the supercharger causing the issue...

Another day another update! Today was a bit unusual, I got no push notification, my app showed no update and I checked 2 or 3 times throughout the day. Then at 2 pm I went out to do an errand and happened to remember that my "once per day" check via the car was available so I did it and sure...

I look at my service record and since its under warranty there’s no $ about but the service they did for me was “Correction: Contactor - Fast Charge - HV Battery (Remove & Replace) - Remove and Replace”. When I talked to the tech they said that this did not mean they removed and replaced the HV...

For me, at least in my model Y they did not remove the HV battery. They did remove the rear seats to access the “penthouse” section of the battery to work on it but did not remove the battery itself. Luckily mine was under warranty, and luckily I was able to L2 charge and bring it in so I did...

Here was my experience with the latest update. My car was in my garage on wifi, not charging, fully in deep sleep state with 45% battery. A wave of 2024.3.6 had gone out earlier in the day but I hadn't woken my car up via the app all day. No push notifications. In the late afternoon I went into...

My contractor gave out after about 6 months, 15k miles, and roughly 35% of my energy has come from superchargers. So nothing about my usage stats suggestions there was a significant amount of wear and tear on my car.

Interesting. I hadn't noticed that myself but good to know. I will keep an eye on it when I get my next update.

I hope this is rare and we're the outliers because yeah I'd think twice about going on a road trip if this was likely to happen. I wish there was more insight into whether its the type of part that wears out every 20k miles or whether there was some manufacturing defect that the fix will...

So the update signal triggers the car to wake if sleeping? Can anybody confirm this? I haven't seen a case of my car waking aside from me waking it via the app or opening the door. I had assumed that the message that your car is ready to be updated is sent to a server and then when the car...

I agree with you, but I was thinking that a car which is awake may see the update and push the notification faster than a car which is asleep (even if the mothership already assigned the update to your car). Thoughts?

Yeah makes sense. I've not yet arrived anywhere but a supercharger with 8% luckily! I have gotten home with 10% though and let it sit overnight, then moved it 0.01 miles to the nearest L2 charger. I actually have a 120V outlet next to my parking space I could use in a pinch though technically my...

So it seems like I was correct that basically going below 20% isn't going to cause degradation but can increase the probability of others issues like complete discharge (it gets you closer to true 0% SOC which is truly bad), 12V battery issues (maybe), etc. So makes sense Tesla would steer...

My most recently experience was with the FSD beta 12.3 update, I had my car at a ChargePoint when one of the waves of updates went out and I was notified almost instantaneously via the Tesla app. I wonder if the fact that the car was actively charging and therefore not sleeping made the...

I have heard that leaving a Tesla battery at low state of charge for long periods of time will permanently damage the battery (similar to high state of charge), but I have also heard the opposite, that there's no harm to the battery itself at low state of charge, just a convenience issue due to...

I assume that means it’s still not open for charging, is that correct?

I wish there was more transparency about rates, or a site that tracked rates to help consumers find the best deal. I suggested this as an idea to PlugShare (filter by rate) but not sure if they will ever implement it. Despite that fact, in my experience, Superchargers tend to have the best...

I've charged to 100% 11 times in my first year of ownership. The trick is I never let it sit too long at 100%. Usually I'll either top it off before a big trip or else if I'm doing something while its on the charger (eating while supercharging on a roadtrip for example) I might let it get to...

I have that problem too. If the charge is free I’m more likely to go past my typical charge limits and if I’m paying for the energy I keep it more or less around 50% for most of my weekday idles.

Any updates?

Wow good price. My old mechanic from back when I drove an ICE quoted me $400 per tire for ProContact which is a lesser tire, Tesla quoted me $425 per tire (obviously Tesla's price is terrible), and Sullivan tire (local place here in Boston) quoted me $317 per tire. Sullivan says $317 for...

Interesting, I wonder how that compares. You lost 5% range on a volt compared to Bridgestones, I wonder how similar those Bridgestones are to my Contis. Anyway, 5% isn’t a deal breaker, I’d prefer 0% but 5% is not as bad as 10 or 20% which I’ve read from some other all seasons (although I’m...

I, like you, work from home (although that could change with my next job) and typically can just stay home on snow days. I do go skiing a lot but it’s not like it snows every day so even with ski trips to VT/NH i rarely drive in deep snow. When I do end up driving in snow, I also have to be...

This was an example form last weekend. No issue with getting back to the supercharger cold soaked, but there would have been had I lost 10% range. I usually do day trips skiing rather than overnights. Yeah, one solution would be to always charge twice, once in the morning and again in the...

That is one strategy I did not try yet… I wonder if now that the font size recall is going out with FSD12 I can get them both! The way things went down with the holiday update, when like the 1st big batch of updates went out, I saw the new update notification in my car while charging and got...

I get what you're saying but here is how I think about range/efficiency : Consider arriving at a ski resort with 30% battery remaining and the supercharger on the way home requires 25% charge to get to. That's not perfect but it is doable. But arriving with 20% remaining might I need to make...

DWS looks pretty much identical on the Sullivan Tire comparison to the CrossClimate except that CrossClimate has better snow rating (but who knows if that's really true). I have read good things about snow performance of the DWS so I am not worried, but how about efficiency? Any thoughts on...

I know, I know, not another tire thread. But I've been searching for a while and I can't seem to answer all of my questions.... A little background: I drive a Model Y LR, 19" wheels in Boston. Yeah it snows here but not as much as most people think it does. each year I might end up driving in...

Right now the cheapest I see is Framingham at $.22 after midnight. Most of the chargers in Boston anrea are in the $.30-$.40 range. Any idea when and why they changed? Our prices seasonal i.e. are they more expensive in winter than fall and summer? Or are these changes most likely permanent?

Aren’t there a few other differences like optimized preconditioning for supercharging? Or is that only in the 2024 builds?

Yes FSD and stuck on 2023.44.30.8.

I tested the theory that visiting a service center and being on their wifi trigger an update (or puts you in the queue to be next up for an update, I've heard both). I parked at the service center and used their wifi for 30 minutes and nothing. Still on 2023.44.30.8.

The video was mainly enlightening about the mechanisms of degradation but it seems to support your conclusions generally (he says to store below 30, and you say to store below 55 which are both technically correct I think). I find it interesting that your figure show that very low state of...

I was told that all builds now have FSD but interesting that TeslaFi and “Not a Tesla App” both show FSD only being included in some builds. TeslaFi specifically shows 2023.44.30.14 as having no FSD so it likely does seem to be bad data if you have that build and you have FSD…

The Apple silicon case only charged reliably in my 2023 Y when upside down and I didn’t like that so I returned it.

I know this is a bit late but I tried a bunch of cases and wasn't happy with charging performance in my model Y. They either didn't charge at all (or only charged upside down) or the phone got way too hot. The case I finally settled on is this Pitaxa Case. The price was a bit high but it is...

Thanks that was enlightening, and I love that it's Canadian 🇨🇦!

Nice so no more paying for 2 months and getting nothing because your version is too high like what happened to me when I first subscribed.