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I am seeing a strange behavior with my Model 3. I use scheduled overnight charging, which finishes by early morning. If I am not using the car, but leave it plugged in as recommended by Tesla, later in the day I walk past the car in the garage with my phone. This wakes up the car and it starts...

I use a J1772-based charger at my home and with my Model S it was sufficient to open the car door and the charge port would unlock so I could remove the cable. With the 3, pressing the “Open Charge Port” button on the center console has no effect on the lock. Instead, I have to use the Tesla app...

Since around 10 days ago I started experiencing problems with my 3G radio. Every 10 minutes or so it completely drops the signal (no bars and no 3G icon). This is on my typical commute that I've been driving for more than a year without this problem. I called Tesla to report it and get them to...

Today I was driving home from work on a regular surface street, no autopilot engaged, and received a bell tone and a red alert on the main console. When I selected the alert, the following message was displayed (see attached image): "Car needs service. Contact Tesla Service when convenient."...

I got my new firmware today and I must say I am VERY impressed. The new autopilot features are amazing! The autosteer worked perfectly for me on a 15 mile stretch of highway here in Houston, including automatic lane change. I did not need to put my hands on the steering wheel at all, but of...

Great to meet other EV owners at today's Drive Electric Week Houston event at IKEA. I counted about 7 or 8 Tesla Model S and 1 Roadster owner there. It was cool answering questions from passers by about electric car ownership. Some pictures below.

Since the last firmware update a nasty bug has returned that I had a few months ago, but which had disappeared for some time with other updates. I am now on 2.5.36 of 6.2 I believe. Since this was applied, I have the TACC shutting down without warning about once a day during highway driving. I...

I recently posted over in the Battery & Charging forum a link to my blog on my most recent day trip between Houston and Austin. Here is the link to that thread: My first 300+ mile destination day trip: Houston - Austin roundtrip. Thanks everyone for the excellent help you give on TMC.

I recently completed my first trip requiring use of a supercharger and I captured my experience in this blog: http://www.andersontexas.net/blog/2015/8/9/first-houston-austin-day-trip-300-all-ev-miles. I hope it helps a new owner make such a trip with confidence! Please don't hesitate to ask me...

In my previous cars I always maintained an XM subscription to increase my listening options. I thought hard about paying the extra cost for the UHF audio (when I bought my car I think it was a $2500 option). I ended not getting it and I don't miss XM at all. I have all the music I care about and...

I am having a difficult time consistently registering my tag at toll road facilities. I have an 85D with autopilot and the solar coating over the windshields would not work with a sticker tag. I was given a plate-mounted tag but I have no front plate (yet). Currently I hold this device up at the...

I know that we are advised to leave our cars plugged in when not in use for best battery conditioning, etc. However, if you are using delayed charging, is there still a reason to plug in before charging starts? Say I get home at 6pm with charging set to start at 12am... and assume I may head out...

I got my new S85D yesterday and am thrilled with everything so far except for this: despite driving around various parts of Houston where I know there to be reliable cell tower signals, I am getting very poor 3G reception. In fact it never got above two bars, and mostly was at no bars or one bar...

On Saturday I'm taking possession of my new S 85D, upgrading from a Volt (yeah!). I have this Seiemens 30A EVSE level 2 charger (Amazon.com: Siemens VC30BLKB 30-Amp Bottom Fed VersiCharge Electric Vehicle Charger: Home Improvement) in my garage connected to a 240V outlet wired to a 40A breaker...

This is my very first post to TMC, but I have spent the last month reading and reading until I feel somewhat smarter from all you wise Tesla fans. I am planning to get my own S 85D and decided to ask about inventory cars that match my top requirements (which are tech package with autopilot, pano...