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TLC is releasing new plates only for EVs or handicapped-accessible. So it's not a question of gas vs electric pricing. If you want a released-once-in-a-while TLC plate, you need to put it on an EV or handicapped-accessible vehicle.

Seriously? Hertz sold 10,000 Teslas in one weekend? Where'd you hear this?

Rodents can climb. Ever seen a squirrel? Assume a rat can do all the same things. A cleaned out shed is actually a space you could seal off, but no, you can't leave any openings at all. Everything has to be hard sealed. They can still easily break through weakly sealed areas but then at least...

I always thought resistance generates heat. So is that internal resistance from low temperatures heating the battery as a byproduct?

This is probably related to it being early days with EVs. While adding the condo to the insurance seems reasonable on its face, it may be impractical if insurance companies have not responded by adding this as an option. Does the law explain what to do if no insurer offers this option...

Yes, I was pointing to 5-9pm when solar drops to zero, batteries step in and then decline, and NG rises to compensate for some of that decline. Then it's interesting that from 9pm-12am, imports rise but not NG generation. One could infer that there is some reason PG&E prefers to keep at a stable...

Looks like the battery power supplanted electricity imports rather than natural gas generation. Maybe the price of imports is higher.

This seems like a higher all electric range than current PHEV configurations, no? I thought current PHEVs have smaller all electric range than that. Not sure how they picked 43 miles. Fyi, I saw a 2022 CARB press release that said 50 miles would be the requirement for PHEVs but maybe that was an...

I had a similar experience with more typical home discounts. They give discounts for security systems and for automatic water shutoff systems. However, there were no "official" specifications. The only way I was able to determine what the insurance companies considered adequate was that my agent...

I've had a house in a rural area before and was never asked terrain and home hardening questions. Is this common already, or are insurance companies just now starting to do these systems to differentiate houses in rural/forested areas? On a related note, when I signed up for new HO insurance...

From what I've read, regulators in California had a tendency to stop insurance companies from raising premiums too much unless they could justify it with their models. Eventually some insurers decided they had had enough and weren't making enough profits and left. All insurers in California are...

PG&E recently applied to raise rates to cover an aggressive campaign to bury cables and thereby reduce fire risk. The request was denied, and PG&E was forced to dial back its plans to bury cable. That's actually a case where PG&E wanted to be conservative on safety, and regulators said it'd be...

NYC is the densest city in the US. When something goes bad, it could affect all the buildings on a block. Many buildings are attached to each other. So a certain amount of enhanced caution is warranted here.

Have to be licensed (after training, exam, and years of experience) and insured here to pull an electrical permit, so maybe our market is different than other markets. I get the impression in other parts of the country, even a homeowner can do electrical work and get it approved. In an area that...

A condo building shouldn't be asking Uncle Jimmy to see what he can do to wire things up after he goes to Home Depot to buy an outlet. The condo, if they have a reasonably professional property manager, should hire a licensed company. In my limited experience as a homeowner, a licensed...

People notice when things seem unfairly against them but also conveniently don't notice when things are stacked in their favor (also unfairly). Humans are funny that way.

Bottom line, PHEVs will be lowered from something like up to 27% of new ZEV sales now to only 20% of new ZEV sales in 2026, and by 2035, PHEVs could be up to 20% of all new vehicle sales (which will all be ZEVs at that point). Is there a good explainer somewhere for the new PHEV definition, or...

Can anyone give a quick explanation of the relative value of PHEVs under previous and current rules?

https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2024/02/02/floating-sauna-tesla-rescue-norway-contd-orig-zt-hz.cnn

Loud American tourists in Hawaiian t-shirts and shorts showing up to someone's dinner party and can't read the room.

Someone just pointed out in another thread that we're not looking at 10,000 full equivalent cycles for a Tesla. A LFP M3 has nominal starting range of 272 miles. So 100,000 miles, 300,000 miles, and 500,000 miles are represented by 368 FEC, 1103 FEC, and 1838 FEC. So I think the reasoning of my...

Maybe I missed it, or maybe the writing is a bit unclear, but I am assuming the capacity retention charts in Figure 2 are without any attempt at capacity recovery. It seems like the procedure to recuperate usable capacity involved taking certain cells and then performing recuperation experiments...

My 2023 M3 does the same when I am watching in TeslaFi. It reaches 100% but continues to be doing something for maybe 30 extra minutes before the Tesla app notifies me that the charge is completed.

Maybe you could propose having the valets move cars that are still charging at 6 am to their assigned parking spots. The board likely does not realize the real world implications of their rush hour prohibition. This solution would require no new installations!

People want to know how the car works and how to optimize their experience based on what's important to them. I say go for it. People like to tinker, and that includes energy tinkering.

Maybe ask for an update every month. If you don't follow up, they will just forget you are waiting. If I were you, I would ask to speak to them. They likely have no idea what they are doing, and they are listening to proposals from vendors but they have no idea what the end user experience is...

Although might be hard to get any of us to do it the simplest way. Most of us are in this thread because we are very much interested in overthinking it ;) I'm not drawing the entirely same conclusion from this study that you are. Here it says charging to 100% allows recovery of most of the...

I wonder why that is. You would think lower income buyers targeted by the Used Clean Vehicle Credit ($4000) would be even more in need of POS than more affluent buyers of new EVs.

Going back to LFP for a second, if charging to 100% allows for cell balancing and other calibration, my question would be, is there any theoretical or empirical NEED to charge to 100%? Does it in any way HELP the LFP battery? Or should I just wait for my summer road trip to charge to 100% and...

I did, but I didn't like the fact that its constant "calls" to the car kept my car awake all of the time. Apparently you're supposed to let the car sleep regularly in order to calibrate the battery. I already share my car info with TeslaFi so sharing it with SmartCharge didn't bother me. I just...

If only this had been there 6 months ago, I could have avoided the trek to Smithtown to pick up my M3.

The PHEVs on that list are all Ford and Stellantis. It could be related more to OEM manufacturing choices made before the IRA was passed. I don't think anything baked into the IRA prevents more PHEVs from qualifying. Hopefully the OEMs have the good sense to use the IRA mostly on BEVs or on...

One of the problems with hybrids and PHEVs as they are currently made is that they don't help drive demand for EV infrastructure and prepare us for an EV future. The proportions on PHEVs are all wrong. A tiny HV battery and a huge gas tank makes it too easy to not charge. Instead, the PHEV...

In terms of aligning costs with user fees, their goal isn't necessarily to have perfect accuracy. They just need to recover their road maintenance costs in some way that reasonably accurately tracks usage. There is a high privacy cost to getting that last digit of accuracy, so I guess the idea...

Have you shared these formulas here? My M3 is only a year old but I'd be curious to see what the formulas predict and to see if I can input data from TeslaFi to match real world data against the predictions.

Here's a photo of then California Governor Ronald Reagan signing into law the California Air Resources Board in the same year that the Federal Air Quality Act of 1967 was enacted.

What we consider civilized changes over time. Stoning a woman for adultery was once considered acceptable. Now it's not. Having children work in industrial factories and get their hands chopped off sometimes used to be acceptable. Now it's not. Having a child outside of marriage used to be...

The biggest issue would be insurance coverage. Commercial auto insurance might be more expensive, and insurance companies can be ruthless about denials of coverage due to the owner violating the terms of coverage. Not driving in the state where you registered the vehicle and originated your auto...

There should be an incentive for plugging in. Like the onboard software could track how much total charging has been done and dispense incentives for reaching a certain amount of charging. Since the state incentives tend to be smaller ($500 to a few thousand), maybe states could dedicate $500...

Markets without government involve lots of private machine guns and lots of gunfights at the local saloon. There are anarchic parts of Africa where the only government is men in pickup trucks with AK-47s. So yes, you can have markets without government. Every person needs to own a few machine...

Market don't even exist without a government. This rhetoric is highly simplistic.

China is trying to demonstrate the benefits of a technocratic central government that is non-democratic and keeps the population in line using oppressive means. While all Americans would reject the non-democratic part, I have had immigrants from China who are now American citizens comment to me...

Some of the reporting on Tesla as a stock investment have been saying that Tesla won't be able to lower prices this year like they did in the past. Plus Elon has warned investors not to expect a high growth rate this year. A lot of new EVs getting rolled out. Good time to be shopping for EVs...

The M3 Buyer's Guide shows that the M3 RWD Highland in Europe and Asia uses LFP. It doesn't mention US, maybe because no one has had one delivered yet.

The language is poorly written. Agreements should communicate expectations clearly to the parties. This does not do that. Tesla should provide customers with a warning that they have 24 hours to respond or Tesla will remove this VIN and sell to another customer.

CNN just did a video profile of the Pepsi fleet https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2024/01/25/tesla-semi-truck-pepsi-contd-gr-orig.cnn

My switchover in the US went smoothly. Did not notice any difference once it went through.

I assume the site (HOA, etc) pays for all electrical installation fees? It doesn't seem like the OP is aware that California has standards to phase out sale of new ICE vehicles by 2035. Many states are following the CA standards. It seems very likely that the HOA residents will start to be EV...

It's human nature. People become fanbois. It's especially true with EVs because most people have never driven any other brand. In ten years, people will be less fanboi-ish.

In some areas, Tesla has to build supercharging with a "if you build it they will come" kind of speculative investment mentality. In this case, NYC has intentionally driven demand for electric rideshare vehicles. So Tesla will have to play catch up and build superchargers more quickly. Some of...