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This is part 1 of a drive around the hilly roads of northern Sonoma and Mendocino County. Much of this video was taken from the cam recordings of our Model S.

No delay that I notice, the turn signals come on immediately.

I've installed two s3xy buttons on the side of my steering column to act as turn signals. They work great -- I use them when wanting to engage the signals when I'm turning the wheel. Otherwise using the buttons on the wheel is fine. I also have a button behind the center display to open the...

Thanks for the votes! We’re over 500 now, but I’m seeing the top seven sites for North America are all in Canada all with more than 1400 votes. C’mon USA, get going with some votes. Yes, back in 2015 when I got my prior Model S I discovered that The Lodge had two 80-amp destination chargers...

If you’ve seen my other Supercharger reviews, you may appreciate this tongue-in-cheek review of the Gualala Supercharger. Add your vote!

It’s that time of the year — for you to vote for a Supercharger at Gualala, California. It would fill a pretty large gap along the Northern California coast. With your vote we have a chance to plug it.

I just took delivery of a new Model S Long Range, and saw on the Monroney Sticker that the car does not have a Frontal or Side Crash rating. It has a five-star Rollover rating though. Why doesn't this model have crash ratings?

I stayed at The Sea Ranch for a month from late April to late May. Spring is a great time to visit the Mendonoma coast. Check out my Twitter for some pics and such. While I was there I distributed the “Vote Gualala” snippet that I posted above by posting it on various community boards, some EV...

Visited Ukiah North State Street last week — here is my overview and review.

I wanted to send to note to a newspaper in Gualala to inform their readers about the Supercharger voting. There was my original effort: That seemed kind of bland, so I put it into ChatGPT and asked it to create a headline and punch up my text. Here's what it provided:

The pin at Gualala is now over 500 votes -- this would be a great addition for trips up the coast between Petaluma or Santa Rosa to Fort Bragg. Also I'm see a lot of Teslas in the Sea Ranch and Gualala area these days, so many people are either visiting or staying there. Give it one of your...

I had the chance to visit the Windsor, California, Supercharger last week. Here's my review:

I visited the Cupertino Supercharger last month, and you get a review! Aren't you lucky? Tesla Cupertino Supercharger review

Perhaps you have been waiting for it -- my overview and review of the Van Ness Supercharger at Opera Plaza.

I visited the San Bruno (Avenue) Supercharger last Friday to check it out and record a review.

I stopped by the Novato Supercharger earlier this month and record a review: I noticed the signs say "general parking for all vehicle, vehicle charging preferred." I assume that's because the shopping center could get pretty busy during peak shopping seasons/times. The location, though, is...

Hold on to your hats, here's my overview and review of the City Center Supercharger.

I'm visiting the "Mendonoma Coast" and took a trip to Fort Bragg to record a review.

The Now You Know team included my review in last week’s show: Zac and Jesse do a pretty good job covering Tesla news. Each week they have a segment on Supercharger reviews, for which I usually post my reviews. If you want to get in the game, record a review and post it at: Supercharger...

It is great to see my interest in a Supercharger at City Center come to fruition. I stopped by there today a wow, was it windy. Hold on to your hat when you get out of your car to plug in. This tweet has a couple shots I took while there.

My overview/review of the Santa Cruz Supercharger:

Thanks — I live in SF, so can only review sites in Marin when I make my way up there. I enjoy seeing how the Supercharger sites are set up and what options we have for food, etc, when waiting.

Here is my video review of the Marin City Urban Supercharger.

I haven't notice any change in sound quality yet. However my backup camera is extremely dark at night now. Prior comments on this thread mentioned this and that they were told by support that Tesla is working on a software fix. I just filed a service request on this issue because I consider it...

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I’m not sure what happened, but a couple of days ago I was able to log into my YouTube account. Perhaps google fixed something, or maybe some cache data that was causing an issue was flushed. ‍ Now I just have to get over the annoyance of paying $1k more for the MCU upgrade after their price...

I tried all of this on my MS 85D with 2020.48.12.1 and it does not work. :-/

I visited the Letterman supercharger on Sunday. There is a guard stationed on the way in. When I told him I was going to the supercharger, he said that I should be sure to have my card or fob, as there is no cell phone coverage in the garage. He also said that there are no restrooms available...

My review of the Incline Village Supercharger from November:

My review of the Daly City Urban Supercharger from December 2018:

My video review of the Pacerville Supercharger -- can be a little tricky to find, behind the McDonalds.

Here's my video review of the South San Francisco Urban Supercharger: Includes a warning about bird droppings...

I recorded this video review of the Reno Supercharger at the Atlantis casino a year and a half ago:

I've been using my 2015 Model S in Camp Mode as kind of a home office recently. I've been noticing something that may be a bug or maybe I'm doing it wrong. I'm on V10.2 (2002.8.1) BTW. I enter the car on the passenger side, which has more room for my laptop. I put the car into Camp Mode...

Update on my car repair following the "Acceleration Reduced" warning message Following my post on December 21st, the earliest service appointment date at the San Francisco service center I could get was January 2nd. When I arrived that day the service advisor advised me that it may two weeks...

I contacted service and they have asked me to bring in the car. They said it indeed indicates a battery issue. Should be covered by the 8-year battery warranty.

I haven't seen this message before: "Acceleration reduced. Performance may be restored on next drive." I powered down the car and restarted it, but the message is persisting. Any ideas what this is about?

Acceleration reduced

Moderator note: post moved from the SF Van Ness Supercharger thread. This belongs in a different thread, but I’ve always thought the best location for an open Supercharger location in SF is the Target (formerly [VERY formerly] Sears) shopping center at Masonic and Geary. They have several...

Good news — someone who had charged there turned the iPad into the adjacent Madonna Inn, and they are going to mail it back to me. Thought I’d never see it again! Thank you to whomever did that!

I visited this supercharger today, and I believe I left an iPad at the base of the leftmost stall. If anyone is in the area and can swing by and look, I would appreciate it! It’s in a keyboard case. Thanks.

My company displays a "safe harbor" statement at the start of every presentation given by an employee. This is a version of the statement: Salesforce.com Safe Habor Statement - salesforce.com Europe The last sentence is the key one, which any consumer of any product or service needs to keep in...

Actually, the first thing the officer did was ask me, "where are you going?" I told him to Berkeley and then he advised me to take another route. Should autonomous vehicles have a means to communicate with traffic officers regarding destination and intended route?

While I have no doubt that developers of autonomous driving vehicles will be able to implement the "down the middle" driving cases, I wonder how they will handle the many edge cases vehicles encounter. A couple weeks ago I needed to drive from SF to Berkeley during rush hour. I was using Waze...

Model M: Mars Rover. :)

Just had the service visit today, and they told me that the latch mechanism failed and they had to replace the handle assembly. So not a software issue. FYI, the car is 13 months old -- a little early for this sort of failure, I think.

I recently had my car given its annual service, during which they updated the software to 2.28.60. Shortly after the service I started noticing that the left rear door would pop open at different times. Most often it will do it when the car is unlocked and the handles present. However, one time...

Is this a good place to lobby for speakers? After last year's conference I was sent an email asking who I would like to see at a future conference. The three names I gave were: Bjorn Nyland - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG1QcV31eoSaX4rE8avQL4A Nikki Gordon--Bloomfield of Transport Evolved...

The two HPWCs at Sea Ranch Lodge are located near the entrance road and away from the main building. This makes them easy to access and I never saw them ICEd during the two weeks I spent there in August. I had one charger, and charged at 40amps at 208V, so charging was at about 20 miles per...

I see that there is a separate post on the Ukiah gathering on January 30th: NorCal Casual Tesla Ukiah Supercharger meet-up. which includes a signup sheet.