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At this point, I have burned through all the lease extensions that Mercedes Benz has allowed for my smart EV. I will be returning it tomorrow. This means I'll be back to an ICE and burning gasoline to get to and from work. The smart was charged from either my SolarCity installation or the...

When my Powerwalls were first installed in mid-July, the app displayed software version 1.3.3. This is also visible in some of the screen shots of the app elsewhere in the Tesla Energy forum here. This past weekend, it looks like there was an upgrade to 1.5.1. This isn't for the app; this is...

In 2 years -- 2017 August 21 -- there will be the first total solar eclipse to make landfall on the continental United States since 1979. I plan on getting a Model X earlier that year, and was pondering the possibility of photographing the event from a Supercharger. (I may also look for a really...

Greetings! I'd been following along on the forums on the Tesla Motors site for a while and kept getting referred to this site, so I figured I'd join in the fun here. I teach physics and astronomy at a local community college. I'll add discussions of solar power and BEVs to my lectures when...