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I have a vacation house with a garage. Right now, I don't keep a vehicle there. Overall, I'm concerned about the hassle of a car needing service every time I travel down there, so I just rent cars instead. I'm thinking about buying a used Leaf to park in the garage. It would be used for a...

This site has any number of threads about congestion at California superchargers. Most of my long-distance travel has been here in the Midwest... and of course I see nothing like that crowding around here. It set me to wondering: which SC station is the *least* used? Now that Tesla puts out...

A few months ago there were several reported stories about Tesla buying a building in Chesterfield to open a real showroom / service center. Nothing at all in the news since then that I can see. Does anybody know the timeline for this new facility?

I tried to charge my MS from a J1772 this weekend--for the first time ever--and failed miserably. Was this my fault, or was there a problem with the charger? I was using the Chargepoint chargers in the Aqua garage in downtown Chicago. No problem unlocking them with the Chargepoint keyfob...

I've noticed a subtle but consistent behavior in my MS that puzzles me: I see this behavior when I come to a stop while pointed up hill (a traffic light, for example). I bring the car to a complete stop using the brake pedal, and the hill-hold feature engages. I then take my foot off the...

Well, this is awkward. I've had my MS for about a year, and I only just now realized that the aftermarket site is "E. V. Annex" rather than--for who knows what reason--"ev-uh-nex". Please tell me there are other people out there who made the same mistake...

I just moved, and I'm dealing with getting a charging circuit in my new garage. In my old house, I had a circuit installed for powering my main panel with a gasoline generator. (Properly done, with an interlock on the main panel to avoid electrocuting linemen, and an external breaker.) In my...

(This is just a hypothetical situation. I haven't lost my keys.) At work, I park my MS in an underground garage that has low ceilings and no wifi or cell coverage. I got to thinking today: what if I lost my keys? I can't unlock the car through the app, because the car can't connect to the...

Planning my first road trip (St. Louis - Florida) and looking for ways to bridge the St. Louis - Nashville gap. Has anybody ever charged at Mathews Nissan in Clarksville, TN? Plugshare says that it's available 24 hours. This surprised me for a car dealership--is it really true? Is the...

Many threads on these forums say that charging at 120V / 12A is less efficient than charging at 240V / 40A. Most of the reason for this observed inefficiency, I think, is the constant level of vampire drain from the car's systems. So for example, if the car uses 500W constantly, that's a much...

I live in St. Louis and frequently travel to north Florida. Usually we fly, but this March, we'll probably drive in our 70D. Assuming that the mythical Paducah / Sikeston supercharger doesn't materialize by then, I'm trying to figure out how to get there. On the way down, we usually drive a...

My wife just had a peculiar accident (fortunately without any damage) in our MS. Although she seems to have been responsible, it seems like something that could be avoided with a minor tweak to the car's software. She was stopped at a light on a slight uphill gradient, with the hill-hold...

I drove this afternoon in the coldest weather since I've owned my MS. A few minutes after setting out, my TPMS put up a warning that the right front pressure was low. I pulled up the status screen, and the right front was an amber "37". The left front was a white "37" and the rears were white...

Or something like that. I've had my MS for about 4 weeks. I usually charge it whenever it's parked in my garage. Over the past week, it's started doing something really weird. When I push the button on the charge connector, the port door flips open like normal. However, the locking pin...

My MS is in for service (buffing out a scuff on the bumper, alas). I usually get done with work after the body shop closes. I'd like to pay them with a credit card over the phone, have them lock my key in the car, and go pick the car up later that evening. With a physical lock, this is...

Probably not in reality, though. Click back and forth between "today" and "2015" on the Tesla map. The pin moves a couple of miles to the west, some time in the next 2 months. Wonder what that was about.

Picked up our MS 18 days ago. Still waiting for the paperwork that will allow us to register and title our car with Missouri. I spoke with them last week; they promised I'd have the paperwork by the end of the week, and that they'd call me with an update. Nope, and nope. If my temporary...

Okay, I know this is a trivial question, but I'm curious. How do the car washing connoisseurs on this forum clean the inside of their windshields? My usual strategy--with previous cars--was just to spray Windex on the inside of the windshield and wipe it off with something fairly lint-free...

We picked up our 70D yesterday. Everything looks really great, but the delivery rep said one really surprising thing to us... She popped the frunk open and said "Well, here's the front plate holder. But you should know that most of our customers here don't actually put front plates on."...

Taking delivery of our MS next Tuesday. One thing that worries me: We have a weekend cabin that's way out in the boonies. When it's cold outside, we have a problem with squirrels, rats or something getting into the warm engine compartment and building nests. Once they chewed through some...