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As a P90D owner, I'm looking forward to upgrading the battery to obtain the P100D performance. It would be much appreciated if some of the P100D owners could provide some feedback in the following areas: 1) Have you heard any cooling/pump noise from the battery? 2) During launches, do the...

I'm wondering if Tesla is releasing Firmware 8.0 first to high mileage per day drivers. I think it would make sense to start getting the most feedback from the fewest drivers in the beginning deployment. It would also make sense to give a broad distribution over the various models and...

Talked with Service in Indy about the upgrade. They expect it would be a multiday job and a loaner vehicle would be provided during the upgrade. Unfortunately it is not expected to be available until early 2017. They did confirm that the retrofitted 100 kWh option with new battery and wiring...

Over 6 months with my P90D and it has not yet seen a drop a rain. But that is not long compared to some Corvette owners I know which have gone more than a decade without the car ever being out in the rain. To be fair, we treat our Tesla special as a fun around-town car. It's never been on an...

My wife has been complaining since we took delivery of our P90D about the difficulty of buckling her passenger side seat-belt. The problem is that the seat buckle receptacle is almost vertical and that makes it awkward to insert the belt buckle. There is a simple solution to this problem which...

I've been collecting data from various threads in an attempt to understand how battery Max Power varies with battery State of Charge (SOC) and temperature. Here are the results so far: Since receiving my P90DL, I've been able to add some of my own data including a test of how the max power...

Jay Leno's Garage show had two segments featuring Tesla. In the first segment he raced his 575 Hp Cobra 427 against a "grandma" in a Tesla P85D. Needless to say, the Tesla blew his Cobra away for the short race. Jay made the point after the race that he always says that it's not the car HP...

Going thru the delivery spreadsheet, I've notice that once you get the two week specific delivery (example Dec 7 - Dec 21), most often the actual delivery is very near the earliest date. It appears that Tesla shifts from a general month (example Dec - Early Jan) to a specific two week estimate...

I understand that Tesla model year is not defined the same way as other car manufacturers where a 2016 model is available in the fall of 2015. Instead, Tesla defines the car year based on actual production. My question is: If a Model S starts production late December and finishes early...

OK, I had seen the videos and thought I knew what to expect. One evening we spotted a silver P85D in a restaurant parking lot and took a guess at which of the couples eating outside owned it. I asked if the Tesla was theirs and they said yes. We talked for a while and the owner ended up...