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The "charging improvements" are mainly a fix for some charging issues specific to Norway, as far as I know.

Describes my own experience as well. Only difference is that I got my winter wheels in late October, but it now seems that I may have been lucky. On the other hand, I ordered the three-phase adapter with the car, it was not there when the car was delivered late August, got a mail sometime in...

Thanks for the advice! Talking to Tesla Service twice today, it seems that the software in the car flags fairly normal conditions on the power grid as error conditions and panics. It will eventually be solved in some future software version. In the meantime, I have ordered a 3x16A 400 V...

I have a recurring charging problem. I normally plug in the car every night. Often, perhaps a few times per week, charging is aborted during the night and I find red LEDs when I unplug the cable in the morning. The car reports "12V battery low" and predicts various dire consequences. Sometimes...

The imagined technology with supercapacitors seems strange. Why add that to a battery electric vehicle? The battery can already deliver enormous current in an instant. The power electronics and the motors may not want to be hit by even bigger lightning bolts, and the software to coordinate...

Semi-interestingly, there is an existing word in Norwegian that means "unnecessarily embellished", often used to describe a story with too many gratuitous made-up details. That word is "utbrodert". But, yes, it can get pretty cold up here. After all, Oslo is at the same latitude as Anchorage...

I'm sure we'll have a similar event in Norway next winter, in the middle of the permanent Arctic midnight, y'know. For instance through the mountains from Oslo to Bergen and back, 500 km each way. We just need some cars. And a few superchargers. (Hint, hint. :smile:)

I don't think you have N(eutral) & L(ive) on an IT network. You have three phases into the house, each at 132 V compared to ground and with 120 degrees phase difference. There is no Neutral, just a Protective Earth. Your regular sockets are connected to any two of those three phases, giving a...

The cars that are comparable to the Model S P85 performance-wise, such as the M5, Panamera S, or S6, all cost somewhere north of $250k up here. No wonder that there are more than 500 Model S reservations in Norway so far, even before prices or delivery dates have been announced. Edit: With...

Uhhm, so the range of the Fisker Karma with its range extending internal combustion engine, a fully charged battery and a full tank of gas is... 230 miles, according to the EPA. And the range of the fully electric Model S, with no ICE or combustible gas tank, is 265 miles, according to the same...

Those 35.4 dB are about the same background noise level as I measure in my living room on a quiet night with the AC and computer turned off and the kids safely in bed. I live in the countryside, a mile or so from the nearest highway. Not real noisy around here. :smile: Roughly speaking, a...

Would like a music player that can handle 24-bit FLAC files, with a decent user interface on it.

Factoid: Tesla was the third best-selling sports car in Norway in 2010, after the BMW Z3 and Audi TT, but ahead of the Mazda MX-5 Miata.

Yes, it is an oil refinery. At night. You gotta love the symbolism. I sure did, since I had not seen that picture before.

Got the R/C car today. Orange, btw. Nice toy, but the greeting card that came with it was awesome. It shows a bright green Roadster overlooking...