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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A similar question has probably been asked before but I was not able to find: Do you know if there is any way to tell the HPWC to stop charging, based on an electric signal (e.g. 0-5V or 0-12V)? Here is the long explanation of why I need that: Here in Quebec, we are in the special situation...

Is it possible to replace the bulb of the reversing lights, an if yes, what type of bulb I should buy? My 2013 MS85 with Tech Pkg has the left reversing light burnt (or at least not operational) with some moisture inside the housing. (I'm in Canada so I expect to have two reversing lights...

Weird behavior of a new UMC that the Tesla service center gave me about a month ago in exchange for a perfectly working one. As you can see in the video, 35 seconds after starting to charge, the current reaches the nominal value (32 A), but then, 1 min into the video, the current starts to...

The wiper on passenger-side stopped working while under heavy rain this weekend. We drove back home (150 km) hoping the drive-side one doesn't break. Surely, this had to be one of the arms in the wiper mechanism since the other wiper was still working. As I'm out of warranty for long now and...

...or more accurately, the end of the paved road in that direction. My challenge for this summer was to go visit relatives who live in a remote location in the North of Quebec, that is, the Mistissini Cree Reserve on the shores of the Lake Mistassini (the largest natural lake in Quebec, 100...

For three weeks now, my wife and I are the very happy owner of a used Tesla Model S 85 of 2013 with just over 100 000 km (or 60 000 miles) on the odo. It has a rated range of 406 km (252 miles) at full charge. So far, we are very impressed with the car performances and all its features...