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One subtlety here: Tesla forced that "upgrade" without telling us clearly and, AFAIU, without admitting publicly that risk and it's mitigation. That's mostly what I'm not happy with.

Did they, or did they push things too far from the beginning and now they are backtracking. I mean, Elon has a history of pushing things before they are ready, FSD being an example. Of course, this attitude brought us great cars and charging infrastructure when no other company would have done...

Version 2020 of the BMS would not produce the error at the same degradation stage as version 2023 does. Plus, they could do that because they maintained free connectivity and were forcing OTA upgrades. Other manufacturers could not do such "upgrade" without a recall or something. So it's not a...

Thanks for your replies. Here are a couple of answers. Indeed, I should have written "return the car to Tesla" a year before. Initially, 11k$, but a few weeks later, after I tried finding someone interested to part it out, and maybe after seeing the cracked windshield, they decrease to 8k$...

Returning to this old post a few years later, and it aged reasonably well! The fit (orange curve) was on the data until 2016 (blue dots), the rest of the curve being an extrapolation, compared to actual data (in red). The data points from 2018-2022 are from StatCan, considering both BEV and...

For those who want to know what to expect on their road past 10 years and 330 000 km (205,000 miles) with their Model S, here’s our story, especially the last 12 months before returning the car to Tesla. [TL;DR]: My advice to old/high-milage Model S owners: sell it before it’s too late, because...

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Got the new car yesterday, just passing 330 000 km with the old one on our way to Tesla Laval. Over 100 cars were waiting inside and outside to be picked up and more coming in when we were there. The process was as follows: 1) Go to a first desk to get the access cards and a folder with forms to...

On the Teslike Model 3 Survey & Order Tracker, user DapperAF from Montreal says they ordered April 18th and received the car May 20th. Seems like an exception. Didn't indicate the VIN, so we don't know if it's a Californian or a Shanghainese one, most likely the former. Other than that, as...

Got our delivery date: Thursday next week!! They offered three days (Wednesday to Friday), each day with ~10 time slots spaced by 30 min. Can't wait!!

We ordered March 24th with an initial EDD in March! 😅

And when asked, take the red pill...

Indeed, the Morning Caroline is docked here. Looks like the cars will now board a CN train (or at least these are CN tracks). Any tool to track trains, now? :)

We ordered a M3 SR+ on March 24th with an initial EDD in March (!) then in April, then it was delayed to something like June 1-30, then back to May 16-30, and currently it's June 9-21. Quite some shifts! But when we ordered, they told us it would take anywhere between 3 weeks and 3 months; looks...

Hi guys, After 327 000 km (that's over 200 000 miles), my car, an MS85 2013 with over 200 000 miles, decided it had enough. A few days ago, it stopped running on the highway with 30 km left of charge, 10 km away from the next supercharger. But now, among other problems, it has the following two...

In my case (MS 2013), the DCDC converter has the connectors facing the outside and directly accessible, so I can't tell for you. But it has cooling hoses connected to it, so I was not willing to remove it to change the fuse myself.

The thing is, is it the heater core that is short circuit (in which case, if you replace the fuse, it'll just blow again when you reconnect the heater core) or is it just the core not working. In my case, it was both: the heater core was short, which bown the fuse. An independent garage...

P.S. One extra picture: some of the main parts removed: *Note that I removed the upper trim but this was useless. At the right of the "cover under glovebox", you see the attachment place for the cable to open the frunck. This picture misses all the trim panels removed, and the airbag that I...

In my case, the problem was a short-circuit PTC heater which burned a fuse in the DC/DC module. These fuses are 50$ in North America currently, but only 9€ in Europe, so I had some sent to my sister in Spain, who then ship them to me. But then, I was not willing to play with the cooling hoses of...

Hi guys, This answer comes a bit late but, in fact, in most situations (i.e. when the slope is not too steep and not too long), you can save a quite small amount of energy by coasting rather than regen (because you store energy in the form of kinetic energy rather than in the not-100%-efficient...

Indeed, this is an argument about highway driving assuming there is no obstructions such as other cars, curves, or limits forcing speed reduction along the way, or things such as wind speed, etc. Also, I forgot to mention that the graph is for v0 = 60 mph = 96 km/h.

Because the charge-discharge process of a battery is not 100% efficient, when going downhill in an electric car, coasting can save more energy than regen. In that case energy is accumulated in the form of kinetic energy, which is used as the car slows down after the slope. However, energy losses...

Thanks a lot guys for the instructions and comments! Heating also went out on our MS 2013. I understand the two main suspects are one of the fuses in the DC-DC converter, the heating module (as described above), or both (if a defect in the heating module blown the related fuse). What do you...

Here are residual values for "Long Range" MS (i.e. 85/90/100 excluding P) according to a couple sources compared to the equation above. My experience is that (at least my) car maintained its value for a while (like Tesla-Info data, orange dots) then dropped when M3 started to be delivered "en...

My dear Californian car is silver must be blond in the inside because there are a few things she doesn't understand very well, especially about Winter. It's my 6th Winter with the car, so I'm used to it, but there are some new strange behaviors (at least to me) that must result from recent...

@JLC13, I also have an MS 2013 which is usually parked in our unheated garage attached to the house, and I live in Montréal, QC, so similar situation I guess. My experience is that the car is usually 10°C (so about 20°F) above the outside temperature. It's a combined effect of the garage being...

P.S. With the gear repaired and the door reassembled, it operates as before: the door operates normally but the car handles don't come out when this handle is pressed. I forgot to mention that at the bottom of the door interior, I also found the rubber pad supposed to cover the handle assembly...

Here's a new one, for me at least: position sensor wire torn appart both ends! This is the 10th (or 11th?) door handle change or repair on my car. This time, it's the passenger front door, with the motor sound, so I thought it was the broken gear problem. I purchased one, with a couple of...

In all three instances of going below 10-20 km of range, it was the circumstances rather than the "trill" of "rid[ing] on fumes" that made me arrive tight. This time around, it was snow on the road and headwinds in the last part of the trip, unaccounted for in my planning. And trusting my prior...

So yesterday, for the first time in 5.5 years and 253 000 km, I got caught. I was 1 km from destination with +3 km of range left when the car decided that was it... And I lost 21 km of maximum range in the process. After being alerted to safely pull over and stop the car, I was able to drive...

For me, this is the case for a while (a year?) at the supercharger near home, where I seldomly charge anyway, only if I forgot to plug the car at home the night before traveling. I thought it was related to the "superchargers are for travel" kind of argument. But being limited to <80 kWh at...

+1 We were getting >100 kW at low SoC until 2 weeks ago, and after the last update, we"re now limited to 80 kW. We're currently on 2019.32.2.1.

Just wanted to point out that this is a great location for people (like me:D) traveling sometimes between the Eastern Townships (Sherbrooke, Magog) and Nova Scotia or the South of New Brunswick. We went through that route a couple of times. It cuts about 200 km and 1h driving compared to going...

While the plug would be at Anse-aux-meadows (Parks Canada) at the northern tip of Newfoundland rather than in St. Barbe, this could be an occasion.

Hi all, We're back from a fantastic "circum-Gulf of Saint Lawrence" trip in our 235 000 km MS! We saw nearly a hundred whales total (a humpback whale even saw us form 20 feet at the Blanc-Sablon wharf), 7-8 icebergs, hundreds of puffins, 5-6 bald eagles, seals, what else? Plus fantastic...

Two years ago, I made a prediction/extrapolation about the Canadian EV sales market share with the intention to check each year if I was correct. Last year I reported that data were indeed following the trend, and that they were behaving a bit like Moore's law for the number of transistors on a...

We'll be traveling East to remote locations this Summer (Côte Nord to Natashquan, then Blanc Sablon, Anse-aux-Meadows, Gros Morne, Fogo, St-Pierre-et-Miquelon, St-John, and back through NS) and I thought I should not push my luck too much and I should bring a spare tire & wheel with me. (Last...

Looking at the 2nd picture here, the subframe looks quite exposed to possible hits. And I could imagine how a good hit on the wheel is transmitted to the subframe through the tie rod. The car is heavy, and aluminum is not as tough as steel. Personally, my threshold for insurance claim is...

OK, thanks for your answers. I was under the impression that the wrap was opaque, and existed with the same colours. Indeed, I was going to have it repaired first. I guess I'll go for a paint job then.

Hi, Bad luck today: an old lady driving a Yaris backed up in our car while we were supercharging in Magog! There is a dent in the bumper (picture) which already got a couple of other scratches anyway. The car is not like "brand new". I hear many of you saying: "just fix it through the...

I ordered this from Digikey, 4.16$ a piece a couple of years ago (compared to 1300$ for a handle replacement at Tesla!!) However, you need to solder the contacts and as a result, they are unsealed. (I put hot glue to seal it and it works so far after 2 years, but it might not be as reliable as...

Park'N Fly Valet parking is at 125$/9 days for the period where I would have been there (and we saved 800$+/person by flying from Toronto!) And driving a Tesla for 500 km is enjoyable, isn't it? :D But the valet plugging service mentioned above was probably for the airport parking itself, not...

Hi there, I'm pondering our options for a trip during our Spring break (March 1-10) and it turns out that airfares are about 1/3 of the price if we fly from Toronto Pearson rather than Montréal. Montréal-Toronto fights are not as cheap as usual at these dates (although it's better if purchased...

@rajen, you may want to compare your data to others, see here: Original (locked following attacks): TESLA BATTERY RANGE DATA Copy (where you can enter your data): MaxRange Tesla Battery Survey The current trending curve shows a 4% decrease on the first 12 000 miles (initial loss) on top of a...

Had the same problem since V9 update (browser not working at all) but last night I got the new update (42.2) and it now works, including with TeslaWaze. Strangely, this new version allows to display the radio/multimedia and a second app at the same time (rearview camera, phone, calendar) except...

Yeah, probably battery and cabin heating. In really bad conditions (cold, slow trafic), I already achieved 4311 Wh/mile :cool:

Charging overnight on L2 is what I prefer. Keeps the battery warm! But strangely enough, Outremont appears to be a no man's land in terms of chargers. (Nothing in between Hôpital Sainte-Justine and Parc Avenue, for those who know that part of the city.) Actually, if you compare the Outremont...

Didn't know it happened so often with the M3. I actually thought/hoped that since the design was different, it would have been more reliable. On my MS '13, I think I'm at 9 now (either stuck outside and not operating, or not coming out). And another one started to fail. I've been out of warranty...

Wow, impressively stable, despite the collision made your M3 shift left by almost 2 lanes, and second hit is on the front fender. I would have expected more wavering.

Just to answer more precisely to this part of your question, you lost a bit more than 1% in range. If the M3 battery degradation follows the trend of the MS and MX, at the very beginning, you should expect to loose about 1% every 6000 km or 4000 miles, down to about 5% loss after the first 80...