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Nah - we are in complete agreement. It's not the valves that impress me. I'm impressed by the implementation. ;)

It's not hype - that phrase was simply my description of it, and I stand by it. As far as I am aware, Tesla is the first car to extract heat from over a dozen heat sources and distribute that heat to places that need heat (or dissipate if necessary). That makes the car very energy efficient (I...

I'm pretty sure that in the US, those without SFSD are in the same boat as us. Park assist only with EAP. Those without SFSD are up to version 2024.8.x - same as us. Those with SFSD are on a separate branch 2024.3.x.

The UMC and TWC are high quality and inexpensive. The UMC lacks a 32A pigtail but you can buy a good one in Aus if you want one. On that basis, I would not be purchasing an AliExpress charging device. These devices carry a lot of power and it's just not worth messing around with no-brand crap...

Indeed, and I believe the liquid heat transfer in the vehicle is very sophisticated and extremely well designed. I'm guessing that the primary driver for this is energy efficiency. It feels like somebody important stood up at a meeting of engineers one day and said "Look. There are a lot of...

It works if you just select "climate on" from the app, if the battery needs to be warmed it will warm it. The app tells you if it's doing this (which is how I know). It also works the same if you use a phone automation to turn climate on, which is what I do quite often rather than using...

I can only speak for Australia, but our supply is similar to Europe. I don't think 48A/230V single phase is "a thing" here. You are generally limited to a 32A connection single phase. If you want an appliance to use 48A the authority will tell you to wire it up 3-phase at 16/16/16, and if you...

It'll be fine. It doesn't just use UWB, it uses the camera as well - they'll just reuse the auto-wiper code.

I like this logarithmic graphic on Wikipedia, which helps visualise scale if you can cope with log scales: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliosphere#/media/File:Interstellar_medium_annotated.jpg

Yeah, that was my first thought - but no, my normal profile. This one seems to be the nugget I was looking for. Even going through my "Recents" in the Nav system - not only did my place of work no longer exist, it never has existed, and I have never been there. Ever. Fortunately, my employer...

Strange Nav thing happened recently - my work car park, which was saved to my "WORK" favourite in the Nav system as a POI (Tesla maps knew where "Spaghetti Industries Staff Car Park" was located) - suddenly ceased to exist! I only realised when the car started taking a different route to "WORK"...

They seem to have dropped the price since I last looked. The RWD is now $58900 (was $61900 - $3000 drop). The LR is now $67900, not sure what it was previously.

One metric we haven't been able to measure yet is the "rate of improvement" of V12 in successive updates. Until then, I doubt a timeframe can be estimated.

This discussion prompted me to look up where we are at with remaining Plutonium 238, because I was aware that NASA was running out after the US ceased Pu-238 production back in the 80's. They did buy some from Russia in the 90's, but then the Russians ceased production also. The Dragonfly...

Q1-Q4 2023: BEV 7.51% Q1 2024: BEV 8.70% https://data.aaa.asn.au/ev-index/

Each to their own. I stop every 150km as it is. I can't sit in a driver seat any longer than that. I haven't tested the range of my Model 3 towing a trailer because I don't even have a tow bar fitted. I'm not sure it would have the towing capacity for a caravan or a race car. But there is no...

You are absolutely correct that the US version of FSD won't work in Australia due to traffic light complexities, amongst other many other things. US traffic lights tend not to use turn arrows like we do (although I have seen arrows occasionally over there). They put the lights over the lanes...

Oh, I went one step further than that, and just fixed the two bad bricks with a S3XY knob. Haven't had an "auto-wiper" problem since, because my wipers haven't been in "auto" since. :cool: (Plus it has an ambient LED ring around it, so I can dream I'm in a Highland...)

I think I read somewhere a while ago that only 1 camera is currently used for rain detection, and that "actually auto-wipers (AAW?)" will be coming that will use more than 1 camera. I have seen no evidence that that has happened yet, so any observations of improvement are, as you say, likely...

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You'd be surprised. Whilst not road legal and not a lot of comfort, these are quite amazing vehicles in the environment they are designed for. Farmer Joe could choose between taking one of these or taking the Hilux/LC-79 ute down the paddock. These are cheaper, more rugged, and less likely to...

Yeah, I don't need to watch it to remember it... I was intrigued last summer to see a few EV's turn up out our annual family campground where we invariably bring a trailer with all the gear. I brought my ICE with trailer and left the Tesla at home. I don't have a tow bar on my Model 3 yet, but...

Same price as their similar 110HP XD1500 ICE model: https://www.polarisaustralia.com/ranger/ranger-xd-1500/

Why? People tow. People have EV's.

Yes indeed. The stainless steel in the black gemini covers has a direct and influential effect on the HW4 flux dispersal.

How does it go following other cars? I find that the current auto-high-beam switching is good for on-coming cars, but not so good when following a car at a moderate distance (i.e. it doesn't dip for tail lights when I definitely would).

I purchased a S3XY knob. The app provides all kinds of CAN-BUS data on your phone.

Correct. I use a combination of Tesla scheduled start time (midnight) and also phone automations to achieve what I want. I try to keep my third-party app usage to a minimum, but others here might be able to suggest apps (like Tessie or ChargeHQ). For your stated goal (charge 1100-1400 highest...

Isn't Albanese handing out money to support Australian manufacturing in the renewable energy industry? Oh hang on, he said Australian manufacturing. Oops. Missed by that much.

I think there is a difference between plugging in at a lower %, and noting the charge rate as it reaches 80%, compared to plugging in at 80%. I've seen the higher charge rates when first plugging in at 80%. When I road trip I start at 100% and just charge every time I feel like stopping at a...

Is that all? I've had a RWD at 80% charge faster than that (>100kW I think), but tail off after that.

Could be. All I know is Tesla blamed Telstra when I logged a service request one time it happened last year. There were some on the interwebs blaming Telstra screwing up their LTE IOT WUS messages. You could be right. I should change my wording from "the car was charging" to "the car was...

I wonder if something like this would be effective: https://www.telstra.com.au/internet/mobile-broadband/prepaid/telstra-pre-paid-4gx-wifi-plus It says 8 hours battery life, so would keep running for a while when the USB power goes off. I'm not sure how often the USB ports in the vehicle are...

My dog exhibits similar behaviour.

Guessing here: probably tells the BMS to recalibrate based on the measured voltage of the battery pack. Depending on battery chemistry, this may only be accurate at either high or low SOC (hence the <15% or >90% notation). I believe the BMS does this automatically from time to time, but they...

But they left us hanging for a sequel... I mean, does anyone really know what actually happened to that Starship that serenely disappeared out-of-frame with Raptors humming after such a delightful hot staging demonstration? I'm tipping that the intense focus on the Booster RUD is nothing more...

I suspect so. There are some bits of road where it just doesn't want to change lanes. 100-200m later, no problem. It doesn't particularly concern me because I know that at some stage that code will be upgraded, and it's not a problem that causes alarm or discomfort.

Telstra are doing 5G SA. In fact, they will be repurposing the 850 MHz 3G band to form part of their 5G SA network from mid 2024. I won't be holding my breath for the 700 MHz 4G LTE network to be around as long as my Tesla. Reality check: I didn't expect this to become a long and ongoing...

One is a marketing term and the other is an undefined phrase. Hence some people prefer to talk SAE Levels so that the terms are at least defined somewhere by a standards organisation and not left up to creative and varied interpretations and mis-interpretations.

5G operates in 3 bands, low/mid (same as existing cellular) and high (mm-wave, not used previously). They needed to get rid of the 2G/3G low/mid band towers to allow 5G to re-use the same frequencies. You shouldn't end up with less rural coverage with 3G retirement, it will just be replaced...

I'm thinking that ideally (particularly for NMC chemistry), you probably only want to plan to use half your PW capacity for daily cycling - for longevity of the battery. Some days you might use more or less depending on insolation. However, that further muddies your spreadsheet: Paying for...

Nah, it just destroys the Mercedes. It gets sucked into a wormhole created by it's own TV screen, leaving nothing but a trail of small turquoise sparks on the road. Happens quite a bit - every time this Ad comes on, actually. They've actually sold quite a lot of these EQS's, only a few remain...

Everyone in Texas, presumably. It only needs to be big enough for a 357 Magnum.

Highly recommended watch! Amazing video.

Found it: Tesla releases more details on Powerwall 3, confirms cheaper stack coming

However, I think I read somewhere, that they will only be US$1000 cheaper. That seems a bit mean if they are excluding a very potent inverter (11.5kW) and 6x MPPT solar controllers. Other manufacturers have been doing modular battery pack expansion units for quite some time and might look...

I actually really appreciate the auto-lane-change, but I think mainly because I am lucky to spend most of my life on particular freeways that happen to be very EAP-friendly. Most of the time I have auto-lane-change in "everything turned on, mad max" mode, which means it decides when to change...

In my foreseeable future I see 6G being rolled out by the end of this decade and a 4G shutdown mid next decade. There is only so much spectrum available, so the older technologies get retired to free up spectrum for the newer technologies - this is why 2G was and now 3G is being retired. So far...