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At a meet-up of all the vW Beetles ever made (21,000,000), a strident Tesla owner said "your cars are ugly". Beetle owner 1: " Did you hear something" Beetle owner 2: "Nope" Another meet-up across the road of the 11,000,000 VW branded vehicles delivered in 2019 was gatecrashed by the 100,000...

So a buddy of mine WAS a mid level Tesla guy. <--- just fixing this for you to add Tesla's typical response to leaks.

Gotta respect that position. That's because it wasn't a Tesla wire. Electrons flow better through Tesla (TM) wires. Tesla told you so. I support your view that the 12V battery claims made by Tesla were nonsense. I don't support that you swapped the battery out on a car with a known defect...

Seriously? The first thing you do when you get your car back is put the Li 12V battery back in after all the grief Tesla gave you? You couldn't, like, you know...wait for a day or two? Hope you at least put the Tesla original 12V battery back in before it goes back for more service.

Good to see Tesla making sure even the most visually impaired drivers will be well informed. :p ps In all seriousness though, this idea does seem to have a lot of potential.

Actually, I think that's *exactly* what people think an airplane autopilot does, hence why there are so many mishaps with Tesla autopilot.

This is what I used to think - that this would be the death of Tesla, and Tesla was no longer the company it was. I kept waiting for the next "Tesla killer" to put the final nail in the coffin. Problem is, there is just nothing that beats the absolute pleasure that driving a Tesla brings...

Woohoo! This is a gamechanger for that region. Interesting that they are marked "Tesla Vehicles Only" as ICEing was a significant problem before with the destination chargers at Kennington Village.

Same with AP1. I presume you're describing the end of a passing lane section. Workaround - lane change to the right before the left lane starts to disappear.

Good posts reminding us that *range anxiety* is a real thing and not just something made up by Tesla shorts and trolls. For what it's worth, I get anxious with < 30km range left and very anxious at < 10km.

The emphasis is on "most". Our 16A WallPod died, leaving us with only the supplied powerpoint charger for our i3. Having gotten used to the faster Level 2 charge rate for the i3, it is very painful to now be forced to wait for an overnight charge. My wife prefers the i3 to our Model S since...

I go through Bendigo reasonably frequently (thank you Kennington Village) and decided to check the Tesla Supercharger map.... Lo and behold I see: Bendigo | Tesla Australia "Target Opening in 2019". The pin seems to be generically in the centre of town. Haven't seen this on the map before -...

There exists a fine line between having an opinion opposite to your own and discussing it - where there is give and take on both sides - and trolling where the posts exist solely to get a reaction from as many people as possible. Troll posts are characterized their lack of give and take in a...

Just a little note about the Ignore function built into the forum software. Click on the poster's name and you will be taken to their profile. At the top right of your screen will be the option to Ignore the poster. I succumbed about halfway through the thread and it made it much more readable.

Hong Kong Tesla owners were all force updated a couple of years ago removing AutoPilot.

This was a stock swap, not a cash purchase. A multi-billion dollar company CEO reviewing 10% of ALL expenditures? This is micromanaging, not normal practice.

Well, Teslas DO cause anal leakage at times...

Occam's Razor would suggest that this is NOT the action of an angry profit-seeking company. There is a not-so-subtle hidden agenda here.

After all, it's already a solved problem. I mean, they had no problems meeting their December 2017 deadline for the coast-to-coast autonomous drive, did they? So RoboTaxi 2020 is a shoe-in. Oh, wait... [this post is sarcasm]

List of things to take with a huge grain of salt: - random postings on the Internet - financial advisors opinions List of things where TRUTH is expected: - statements from public company CEOs

It is important to illuminate the actual agreement, which doesn't require ALL tweets to be pre-approved. In fact, the agreement ACTUALLY requires Musk to "comply with all mandatory procedures implemented by Tesla" in regards to his communication. SEC Settlement With Elon Musk The agreement...

They've already taken away his shiny Chairman's exclusive collector's edition pin...and he's still being a naughty boy.

...Tesla. There I fixed it for you. You can't play by a different set of rules just because you don't like the rules. Elon: Dear Court, I promise to behave with my tweeting from now on. I'll be a grown up. Elon: <misbehaves with tweets and completely ignores his promises> SEC: Hey wait a...

When you get to the Tesla dealership you will be given the bad news of "we don't know where your used/CPO is", "we don't have the title" or they will neglect to tell you about the 2 foot long scratch in the bumper that wasn't in the photos.

Such as: "All stores - CLOSED. Everyone - FIRED." One week later "Just joking, LOL." Very trying indeed.

When the initial announcement was made and all of a sudden a Model S P100D was $178,000 I was seriously tempted to upgrade. Now with all the shenanigans, all I can think of is; Do I want to buy a car from this company? What incentive do the people that would actually build, check and deliver my...

A former contractor. Given no one anywhere within Tesla appears to have the ability to make any sort of decision about anything meaningful, this may well prove to be closer to the truth than you think.

Based on some insider information from someone involved in the Model X car seat design/manufacture + other evidence, here's how Elon works: 1. Elon makes a seemingly impossible demand on a seemingly impossible timeline, seemingly on a whim. 2. Forthright contractor or employee points out why...

Agree totally. Pay MSRP at a car dealership and you'll be treated like a king. That is NOT the Tesla experience. You pay Tesla MSRP and you're still treated like crap. It really takes some doing to manage to create an experience that is WORSE than the car dealership experience, but...

As prima facie evidence that you are wrong; Elon Musk Tweet "Tesla made 0 cars in 2011, but will make around 500k in 2019" 11:15 am 20-Feb-2019 Elon Musk Tweet after being lawyered "Meant to say annualized production rate at end of 2019 probably around 500k, ie 10k cars/week. Deliveries for...

I'm sure the board will be on board with this once they find out.

EM: Our highest priority this year is fixing slow crash repairs... <inhale> EM: Our highest priority this year is fixing service delays... <inhale><munch><munch> EM: Our highest priority this year is making a 35K Model 3 <snort><sneeze><inhale> EM: (What, we need to close stores to make a 35K...

Without taking away from the great improvement that 250kW supercharging is over the status quo, I can't help but be reminded of Elon's disparaging response to the 350kW charging announcements from other vendors a year or two back - he called 350kW "child's play".

But you can't. The car doesn't respond to the throttle because it notices that you still have the brake pedal pressed, and throws up a warning message saying don't do that. Using Hold + a careful stab at the accelerator pedal is the least worst way to minimize rollback in this situation. Creep...

Danger: This real-life valid testimony will cause many of the more rabid Tesla supporters here to spontaneously combust.

I'm in the same boat as you (also Model S P85DL), but I look at it this way: I've had the absolute pleasure of driving an extraordinary vehicle for 4 years which I paid $200K for. The grin remains ear-to-ear every time I drive it. A Model S P100DL was more than $300,000 last time I looked...

Only going to pick on the things that affected me. My P85DL still makes me grin from ear-to-ear whenever I push the go pedal to the floor. Understand those upset with the 691HP snafu but I'm too busy :D:D when I drive. Nagged the local service centre until I got it. Next traffic light, I went...

That was last week's top priority. This week: Elon: "Hey look over there, 35K Model 3." TMC Crowd: "Oooohhh. Shiny" (forgets about service issues for a while).

Not being first has many advantages with Tesla. More likely to have the kinks worked out by the time we get the product. Do you really want to suffer the pain of the first Model X and Model 3 owners?

No, but if you keep cancelling it after about a month it will eventually give up and stop nagging you until the next update is pushed.

Agree. He can keep his twitter account. He just needs to resign or be fired from Tesla. A small price to pay so he can keep producing gems like "Pedo guy" and "Shorts Enrichment Commission".

This is not correct. Indicator only = USA Indicator + move wheel = everywhere else (unsure about Canada)

We both have similar dim views of Elon Musk's antics, however I vehemently disagree with your assessment. Elon has always behaved exactly in this way (Broder, Top Gear, 691hp). He throws a tantrum when he doesn't get everything his own way. It worked really well for a while. It's not working...

I get all this for free by keeping my car at firmware 7.1 + to my understanding, it is entirely possible to have the nags turned off on current firmware for a much lesser fee via various people that prefer not to advertise that they can do this. Having said that, no I would not agree to the...

Quite so. Here, I'll fix it: The "P" makes passing safely an absolute breeze. Step 1: Decide you want to pass Step 2: Signal and push GO pedal. Step 3: Blink eyes once. (There is no Step 3.) Step 4: You're now past. Time to merge back in, waaayyy ahead of the car you've just gone past.

The "P" makes passing safely an absolute breeze. Step 1: Decide you want to pass Step 2: Signal and push GO pedal. Step 3: Blink eyes once. Step 4: You're now past. Time to merge back in, waaayyy ahead of the car you've just gone past. You also learn that other cars simply don't expect you to...

I recall visiting our local Tesla store to pick up my then top-of-the-line P85D. Lots of millennials milling around chatting amongst themselves and going out of their way to ignore us. No other customers in the store. Wasn't impressed. The odd visit since then has been exactly the same.

Wonder how many of us parked our Teslas in the dedicated spots at Chadstone and then strolled around the corner to the iPace to have a look? What was interesting to me was how they initially tried to talk it up as "faster than a Tesla Model X", just like in that disingenuous video comparison...

I see what you mean - the cover seems tethered to the port.