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I didn't see any thread about this yet, but I just saw Toyota claims that they are going to kill off EVs with their new ammonia engine. Toyota Takes Aim at EVs With Ammonia Engine Seems like they are trying to do anything but electrify their fleet. The most common process used today to make...

I think the switch for the driver's window is going bad. I noticed a few times recently that the window didn't go down when I pushed the switch all the way down, but it would if I pushed it again. Then Friday I rolled down the window and discovered it didn't want to go back up. I had to pull...

I was out running errands Wednesday afternoon and when I got home I got the stuff I picked up out of the back and plugged in the car as normal. I remembered I forgot something in the front seat so went out to get it. When I opened the door I heard a fluttering sound and thought it odd, but...

I haven't been on a road trip since a year ago October, but it looks like the end is near for my father and I have to head down to central California soon from the Portland area. Earlier in the pandemic I saw people report having trouble finding open restrooms near some superchargers. I'm...

Where is the setting to allow the car to go to sleep? It won't go to sleep since the last update and vampire drain is about 4 miles a day. I looked through all the settings and couldn't find anything. Was the setting removed?

My third anniversary of ownership came up a week ago on the 6th. I haven't had much chance to travel and work from home so I only have 21,000 miles on the clock. But in an odd coincidence the odometer turned over 21,000 almost to the day of the anniversary. I did some math on the cost of...

Tesla had a lot of people bemoaning when free supercharging for life went away. They could bring it back as an option you order. When you order the car, for a couple of thousand extra, you could buy unlimited supercharging. They have data on how much people supercharge and they have data on...

It appears a number of people are now organizing to ICE superchargers. Most appear to be in the South. Pickup drivers target Tesla Superchargers in "ICEing" incidents I hope this doesn't evolve from being jerks to open confrontation.

I looked at the basic specs for the three. I'm not all that impressed with the eTron and iPace's efficiency. They both have batteries closer in size to the Model X 100, but range closer to the X 75. IMO that's a drawback with a long range CCS charging network that may not be up to Tesla's for...

I came across this when checking Tesla sales for last month (looking good BTW). Bob Lutz was an CNBC today and while he's still bashing Tesla I noticed he's beginning to hedge his bets a bit about Tesla's profitability. Lutz On Tesla: Deliveries Aren't Necessarily Money-Generating Sales I...

Every few months PDX Tesla has group drives to various places around the area. Last spring we did a drive up the Columbia Gorge as far as Stonehenge and back. In July was a trip to Mt St Helens. The next event will be doing the Hood River Fruit Loop on Sunday October 14. The town of Hood...

We were on SR-14 today and while driving past the Camas-Washougal Marina area my SO pointed out a truckload of new Teslas parked in a yard with a bunch of utility service trucks not far from the Ford dealership and a hotel. I turned around and went back because she was pretty sure they were...

Though 150 KWH isn't usable for propulsion :D I did some calculations and a 20 lb bottle of propane has 126 KWH of energy. Another example of how poor ICE engines are. I can fit almost 3X the energy of the battery pack in the way back, but good luck getting 300 miles of range out of a 5000 lb...

Looking for something else I came across this: 1908 Ford Model S Roadster - The Henry Ford 0-60 time: 104 years

I've had two ongoing problems, and I'm wondering if it's me or others see the same problems. I've been working with the local service center on the mirrors but so far no change. Fairly rarely the car doesn't shut down after charging in the garage. I'll go out there hours later and the...

There is a new member called hahahew1 who is starting post after post. The latest ones are in some Asian language, looks like Chinese. The ones in Latin characters are just gibberish. It may be a bot testing the forum software or something.

On the way home from running errands Saturday I ran over some piece of metal and I think the tire is toast. The tow truck driver thought so too, but I won't know for sure until Tuesday. My bad luck to get a flat on the first day of a holiday weekend. The tire was losing air so fast I had to...

My SO has complained about cold air on her feet in the passenger side of our Model S. Looking under there, there are 4 vents that leak cold air when the A/C is on, even if she has her side temperature turned up so high the heat is on over there. I finally got around to putting some memory foam...

I came across a TED talk given by Cambridge Physics professor David MacKay from 2013. Unfortunately he died of cancer in 2016, but he gave a last interview less than two weeks before his death. He did some interesting analysis on how much energy you get from different types of renewable energy...

I was out the other day and saw a double rig gasoline tanker on the freeway (one tank on the truck's chassis and a second trailer). They are a common sight on American roads, but I began thinking about how much energy was on board that truck. I looked it up and tanker trucks range between 5500...

There has been a lot of discussion about when Tesla would hit 200K US sales and in general where the other car companies are in the mix. I took the data from Inside EVs and massaged it into a company total list. These are the totals as of the end of last month. Tesla and GM are both within...

I was looking at the plug in sales on Inside EVs and got to thinking about how sales overall have been affected by Tesla and the Chevy Bolt. I found some interesting patterns. Outside of Chevy and Tesla, BEV sales have been dropping since 2014. Sales of non-Tesla BEVs were up in 2017, but it...

The rumors around here are always flying around. I came across this article today that was predicting changes to the Model S back in 2014 that never came to be. When we hear rumors about this or that change coming, we should keep stories like this in mind. Tesla Model S Long Wheelbase to Debut...

Some articles say 10% other say 15%, but a significant percentage of the US refining capacity is in the destruction zone from this hurricane. Almost all of those refineries are shut down right now because of the flooding and storm damage. There are concerns oil imports will be curbed after the...

Note this is not a complaint, just an observation. Some people have brought up questions about range loss and I verified it Sunday. I had an 1 1/2 hour appointment and took pictures of the instrument cluster before and after. I left the house with 266 or 267 miles range (I forget which) and...

I thought there was a thread on Model 3 mule spotting, but I can't find it. I was headed west on SR-14 in Vancouver, WA today when I saw a car coming off the I-205 interchange onto SR-14 eastbound. The nose looked kind of like a Model S, but not quite, it looked a bit smaller than a Model S...

A year ago today I picked up my Model S. In many ways it's been a rough year, two major health crises among close family, losing my cat at 21, and having some insane work pressures for several months. Through it all, the only real high points of the last year are the new cats who are a...

The Tesla expansion map shows a supercharger going in at Cambria, which I figured could be handy for me as my father lives in Morro Bay. Though Atascadero worked fine the last time I went down there. I suspect the Cambria supercharger might be a lower priority now that highway 1 north of San...

Recent sabre rattling on the Korean peninsula got me thinking about what would happen to the world economy if the Korean War started up again (the first one never technically ended). In 1950 many countries poured resources into the Korean War because of it's location with respect to other...

I was wondering if anyone else's HPWC has crashed? Mine has three times now, twice in the last two weeks. It resets by throwing the breaker and turning it back on, but I'm wondering if this is normal or if something is wrong with my HPWC. The first time was late last summer or early fall...

There is a gas station we have to drive past coming and going from home. It's at the bottom of the hill. They did some remodeling and installed a giant electric sign on the curb that shows the current cost of regular in characters about 3 feet high and right at eye level when you're sitting at...

Which is most of the English speaking world outside the US... I was just wondering the other day, wouldn't the storage compartment in the front of the car be called the "froot"?

From here in SW Washington I have a bit of a rant about our Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler (Republican). I got a call out of the blue last night asking if I wanted to join a virtual town hall she was doing. I'm not sure how they got my number, but I tuned in. My SO wanted to ask a question...

Amazon.com: 2016 Tesla S 75, 2016.5 4-Door Sedan Rear Wheel Drive, Silver Metallic: Vehicles The Model X is on there too, though it appears to just be a form of advertising.

This may seem inconceivable to most of us who are well plugged in (pun intended) to the EV world, but 60% of Americans still don't know much about EVs. Charged EVs | New survey: 60% of Americans still know little about EVs

Just watched this documentary from NHK (Japan). It's narrated by an American, but the tone is that irritating lecturing down tone a lot of Asian documentaries tend to take. As far as I can tell it first came out in November 2016. It's Japan-centric as you'd expect, but they spend a fair bit...

:) Serves Em' Right? Walmart Shopper Boxes Double-Parked Car

Doug DeMuro is a very humorous car reviewer. He just did a review of the Model X. He starts out trashing the car, but it's really his dry humor. He gets more serious at the end.

After the update to the forum, when I was scrolling through posts in a thread, it would say "Viewing 5/20" or something like that at the top. It wasn't always accurate, but I found it very useful to gauge where I was on a page and to get an idea if I had only a few to get through or if I was in...

Just an observation here. The forum has a number of people complaining their car doesn't have AP 2. I find it kind of ironic. The Models S and X are among the most fun to drive cars ever built and people are complaining their Model S or X won't drive itself full time.

I made my first road trip to California a week ago. I've just finally got enough time to write about it. For the most part, my Model S proved itself to be a wonderful road car. First off before leaving I wanted to add a couple of things for the trip. I normally leave the back seats folded...

I don't know if it's just my experience or if cats seem to be better riding in Teslas than ICEs. We had our 21 year old cat have his last health episode two weeks after getting the car. He had three rides back and forth to the vet before the end, and he seemed to be more at peace in the car...

At least I don't think it's possible... Jump start an ICE. I'm getting my old car ready to sell. It's been sitting for a couple of months as a whole bunch of life stuff seemed to happen at once just after getting my Model S. I found the battery was so flat the other day the dome lights...

When driving the other day I needed to adjust the climate controls and had to take my eye off the road for a second to see where they were on the center screen. It got me thinking about how I was able to control most things in the cabin by braille when I had physical controls. After driving a...

I decided to start a blog for some of my longer writings. I try to get at least one new post a week up. Hopefully some people might find the information useful or helpful. Tesla Blitherings | Musings about Tesla, and many things tagentially related

Tesla Model S Gets Chromed & Lowered At Office-K

Had to take a long twin mattress to Goodwill. Only when we tried to drop it off we found out that Washington recently passed a law forbidding the donation of mattresses to charities, even if it's clean.

Ever since we got the car my SO has been complaining that cold air is blowing on her feet even if she cranks up the climate control on her side (she cranked it up enough to run the heat on her side one time) and the climate controls are set to only use the upper vents. With the A/C running I...

This may have just been a glitch, or it may be the first instance of a problem that might get worse. I drove the car for the first time in 2 days on Saturday. When I got in the 90% charge level only said 264 and it's usually 268 or 269. I was thinking the battery might need conditioning, but...

I haven't seen any other comments on this except one person who took a test drive and thought it was worse on the car he drove than my experience. I have a refresh S90D delivered June 6 of this year. I've noticed the bottom 1/2 to 1 inch of the front windshield has a fair bit of distortion...