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I normally charge my early 2015 Model S using the original-version 40A UMC that came with it. But, that one is out of commission for a while ever since the NEMA 14-50 outlet I had it plugged into melted down. At least it didn't catch on fire, quite, though it was only dumb luck that I happened...

I don't use the web browser very often, but when I do it's usually for TeslaWaze, which in turn I am using for obstacle warnings (including speed traps, duh). When I do this I'm also using the builtin nav system, I'm not actually relying on TeslaWaze for nav. Imagine my surprise and non-delight...

When I stepped out the back door this morning I noticed that our M3 was covered with a thin layer of fine snow except for the front camera, which had been defrosted (triangle clear of snow other than defroster lines). I have pix but it's a pain to post them, and they don't really add to the...

Our Model 3’s charge port door is very nearly unresponsive to the button on the UMC. At first I thought it was 100% nonfunctional, but subsequently figured out that it occasionally opens. After a little more experimentation, it appears it opens if I hold the handle quite close (inches) to the...

Since v9, I can't get a darn thing to load in the browser. Just... nothing. No drama, no anything. I also can't bring up the manual -- the pages never load, similarly. I'd suspect data wasn't working at all, but music streaming is fine, and the phone app connects to the car without problems, so...

My wife and I are longtime Model S owners, but we took delivery of our Model 3 today (no more gas cars in this family!). We had it delivered to our home in Ann Arbor — no stores in Michigan of course, and our schedule didn’t allow the road trip to Cleveland. The delivery experience was friendly...

Every now and then I return to my car to find one of the windows down, or partly down. It’s disconcerting. I’ve never noticed this happening while the car is in motion, although it happens seldom enough (maybe 10x in the 3.5 years I’ve had the car) it could just be chance. Is this a thing, and...

I'm pretty good about remembering my car key so I've never had need to use remote unlock in earnest. But today I was shoveling snow, wanted to move the car, didn't feel like going to get my key, did have my phone, so tried it. Didn't work. In fact, this has happened to me before in similar...

Today a Bolt pulled up and parked at the public charger next to me. Two guys got out -- mid fifties to sixty maybe, nicely dressed, might've been twins, but I digress. One of them said hi and asked if he could look at my J1772 adapter. Huh, sure. So I showed it to him, he took a look, I put it...

You know, for all the megabytes (gigabytes? terabytes) of angst that have been spilled over the AP steering wheel "nag", I've never once heard if the car looks for steering wheel input when AP is not engaged. Given the logic exists to look for steering wheel interaction anyway, it seems like a...

Well this is a new one on me. Yesterday I got the notification that I had a new update waiting, so I clicked to install in the wee hours at the suggested default time. This morning, car unresponsive to phone app. Fearing the worst I went out to check it. On screen was this dialog: "Software...

Recently (last few weeks?) I've had the problem that the button on the UMC handle doesn't properly unlock my charge cable. The light cycles a few different colors, briefly (split-second) flashes white for unlocked, but then goes back to the color it started with and re-locks. In this situation...

"Adoption of electric vehicles will not be gradual, because the factors required to unlock demand for them are in place" ... "If Tesla can deliver on its current promises with the Model 3, says Mr. Fox, “gas vehicles are history—it’s horse and buggy days.”" Why Electric Cars Will Be Here Sooner...

These newfangled electric lights will never be more than a niche product. If one of them burns out, you're in the dark until you can get down to the general store and get a new one. And if the power fails? Pffft, there's nothing you can do. There's no way they can overcome the advantages of...

I've gotten quite a few of these by now: The first one I didn't think much about, chalked it up to a bug in the app. After getting a few more I started to wonder if there was a pattern. Today I noticed I got two of them while I was doing dishes in my kitchen. My kitchen is in fob range of...

Yesterday I had automatic emergency braking kick in just as I was about to cross a set of railroad tracks. I was going downhill toward the tracks, and I suspect the radar got a strong return off the steel tracks and misinterpreted it as a car ahead. There were no actual cars as far as the eye...

"The race to bring driverless cars to the masses is only just beginning, but already it is a fight for the ages. The competition is fierce, secretive, and elite. It pits Apple against Google against Tesla against Uber: all titans of Silicon Valley, in many ways as enigmatic as they are revered."...

"Google has hired Robert Rose, the man who led the development of Tesla's "Autopilot" project." Google hires the man in charge of Teslas Autopilot feature | The Verge

Probably almost everyone here has occasionally succumbed to the temptation to peel out when you have pole position at a stoplight. And probably almost everyone has experienced how easy it is to exceed the speed limit when you do that, even when you're trying not to. I'd like some way to tell...

Here's something curious I haven't seen discussed yet. Looking at the 70D and 85D on the EPA fuel economy site, as expected the 85D gets a somewhat lower city MPGe rating then the 70D, 95 vs 101 to be precise. However, for some reason it has a better highway rating – 106 versus 102. The lower...

I've noticed that when I sit in the cabin of my car in a very quiet space, I can hear a very soft "tick, tick" noise. The first tick sounds like it originates on the right-hand side of the cabin, the second on the left. It repeats on an exactly three-second interval and continues indefinitely...

I've hesitated to post this because I feel I must be missing something obvious. But after asking a few friends, and spending some quality time with both my car and the manual, I've come up blank, so here goes. How do I keep the audio system from auto-playing when I return to the car? As far as...

I want to see this in a movie some time: Car chase. Bad guy gaining. Has a faster vehicle. But then! We enter the anoxic environment. (Why is it anoxic? I have no idea. And for that matter maybe it's vacuum or maybe it's just got an anoxic atmosphere. Whatever.) Ha! The bad guy is driving an ICE...

(Aside: I'm surprised there isn't a dedicated subforum for vanity plate choices. It seems like a common topic that would be worth clustering. Oh well.) I've been debating different vanity plates and with my car being delivered (hopefully) soon, need to make a decision. One that I like is...

I've got a 85D on order. Naturally, it hasn't entered production yet. I've been waffling about asking to add the dual charger option. With yesterday's $1000 price hike on the D option, I was wondering: would adding the dual charger option now trigger a complete recomputation of the car's price...

It's a little thing, but I notice that the straight-on dashboard and birds-eye cockpit views have disappeared from the Tesla "design" configurator. My Tesla kremlinology is weak -- anyone want to speculate as to an interesting reason for the deletion? Others may have disappeared too for all I...