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  1. AZ Desert Driver

    Wiki Model S Delivery Update

    Wild speculation here- but perhaps a P100D makes such a good "test drive" that the car has had some moonlight trips to show off its stripes. Could you see any ludicrous power spikes? Perhaps a mere luxury car would not get that extra attention.
  2. AZ Desert Driver

    Model S range and interior update imminent?

    Are the 12v battery issues covered by warantee?
  3. AZ Desert Driver

    Model S range and interior update imminent?

    Now ya got me wondering - how long does the 12v last? Typically a lead-acid battery in the heat of the desert needs replacing in 3 years. (my take is that the cells simply dry out- and you cant get to them to put more electrolyte). Rolled cells don't seem to dry out and last 5 years.....What...
  4. AZ Desert Driver

    Model S range and interior update imminent?

    Your opening paragraph is exactly the point I was trying to make. You just phrased it much better. "In supercharging, they would be only of limited use. They might be able to push the taper off to a little higher rate of charge by storing energy quickly, then charging up the battery at a rate...
  5. AZ Desert Driver

    Model S range and interior update imminent?

    OK - please educate me. I thought a Capacitor would accept a high rate of "supercharger" - making the time for filling brief. Then the capacitor would bleed off into the battery - filling it at an optimized (warm, not hot or cold, slow instead of shock) rate. What I'm seeing is talk about...
  6. AZ Desert Driver

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    When I worked in the oil patch - way back in the last century - I found that there was a 25% "tax" on oil removed (Severance Tax) from the lease- paid to the owner of the oil rights (often that was the US Gov). These were put on the "division orders" so every barrel bought had its revenue...
  7. AZ Desert Driver

    Elon Musk

    Dear WDolson - you keep rolling out bits of life in such a gentle and wise way that you must have been a great fellow to be around during working hours. I have had good bosses and bad ones. When I was running my own outfit, I worked for a real jerk that I often times lost arguments and temper...
  8. AZ Desert Driver

    Battery runs out with 16% indicated range remaining

    My battery pack is "misbehaving" - The 'not ready to regen' lite comes on at all ranges of charge % and at warm (50F) temperatures. It also goes off at its whim that does not seem to correlate to anything. From this I presume that the wonderful Battery Management System is detecting something...
  9. AZ Desert Driver

    Battery runs out with 16% indicated range remaining

    So two questions here - 1) are 2170 cells "better" than 18650 cells. If it was a zero cost decision - would I choose the pile on the left or the pile on the right? 2) If I did get the chance to buy the bigger pack...would having just the battery make my car a true 100d? or would it be a...
  10. AZ Desert Driver

    Battery runs out with 16% indicated range remaining

    My service guy has not said NO to any reasonable request. You must have some experience that give to the "never Yes" point of view. Do you think it is just you, or a widespread affliction?
  11. AZ Desert Driver

    Battery runs out with 16% indicated range remaining

    When a battery is needing to be replaced - can an owner request installing a 100 pack instead of a 75 pack? Extra cost, sure, but can one upgrade during this process? Further - the new 100 packs may have 2170 cells. Would this be an upgrade - or are the 18650 cells such well tested workhorses...
  12. AZ Desert Driver

    Model S range and interior update imminent?

    Lets say- you were just rebuffed by GM as being against unions. Lets say you have a bunch of ex-union employees in your Fremont plant that have been agitated toward action because of GM. You know you cant weed out "just them" so you flush a whole bunch of folks, but make sure you get the...
  13. AZ Desert Driver

    Elon Musk

    Weird sound when it squats down (unless thats not the car but the video sound track). Did you notice it lifts front at a diff rate than rear?
  14. AZ Desert Driver

    Model S range and interior update imminent?

    spoiler alert - I dont want my rear to get any bigger. no more revisions
  15. AZ Desert Driver

    Tesla: Help Us Charge Two Cars on a Single Circuit

    shurr [and of course] - coming home, you would have to park in the drive way, unplug, park and re-plug... I was just thinking about departure and not return. As I only have one EV, I always get the left slot in my garage. If I had two---I might lace a permanent wire over the garage door to...
  16. AZ Desert Driver

    Tesla: Help Us Charge Two Cars on a Single Circuit

    Makes sence to just charge one car, then the other - sequential instead of simultaneous. I would interrupt one car - unplug and move the cable out of the way, back out the car, then plug back in. I see no good reason to drive over the cable, even if you have protected it as well as you did.
  17. AZ Desert Driver

    Model S range and interior update imminent?

    Agree that cars are a depreciating asset - almost always. I did buy TSLA stock - several tranches. Now, with that detail out of the way - what is my car worth? If I calculate depreciation, do I take MSRP and subtract current trade in = depreciation. Or do I subtract $7,500 tax, add $1,500...
  18. AZ Desert Driver

    Model S range and interior update imminent?

    I really hope that the price INCREASES. As an owner of a 2016 refresh 60/75....I want my resale value to Increase, not crater. I would be interested in replacing my entire pack with a larger one - for no practical reason other than to have the latest and greatest. I travel just fine with my...
  19. AZ Desert Driver

    Tesla Semi

    Interesting tangent...this thread started as being about the Semi sized loads - but the discussions are now on micro delivery. The Semi is intended to disrupt the long haul market and save the environment. But now there is a case for small disruptions- Sonic like deliveries during supercharging...
  20. AZ Desert Driver

    Tesla Semi

    So there are cases where variety of parts need to be consolidated into a warehouse for assembly and repackaging. But there are also cases where the end-user is small time, and the shipper is small time, so the warehouse model is counterproductive. I think EVSteve has a good point. A more...
  21. AZ Desert Driver

    Elon Musk

    Now, the tricky part...insert a dotted line into the future. What would the stock do iff. if there were no short sellers, no FUD, just market appreciation for the engineering greatness (or lack thereof)
  22. AZ Desert Driver

    Tesla Semi

    jhm makes a good case....but I was thinking that the Mega charger system would be expensive, so it would be better if the purchaser of the semi also buys its own mega charger. Kinda like I bought my own 14-50 when it was time. Is there a case for both (jhm plan) AND letting customers put in...
  23. AZ Desert Driver

    Tesla Semi

    So what I read here is that Tesla bought a trucking company....a company that deploys trucks to haul goods. They did not buy a truck manufacturing company. They were having difficulties getting their product (model s,x,3) delivered by the existing supply of truckers. I presume there is some...
  24. AZ Desert Driver

    Tesla Gigafactory

    ya know- I too disagree. This was sarcasm, snark, obvious error in thinking - I know that a company that makes one thing well does not necessarily make all things well.
  25. AZ Desert Driver

    Tesla Gigafactory

    My arm-chair engineering says "if you make battery cans---C sized, D sized, AA sized or 2170 sized...you either make good cans or bad cans. If you make good cans, then that expertise flows into all your product line". So, when I heard Panasonic was on the bottom......
  26. AZ Desert Driver

    Tesla Gigafactory

    I just watched a video comparing 6 brands of battery cells and Panasonic made "the worst" of the cells tested. Tesla is hitching their future to Panasonic's ability to make great batteries (in large quantities). Why would Panasonic make poor AA cells but great 2170 cells? Should my confidence be...
  27. AZ Desert Driver

    Tesla Gigafactory

    GigaGrunt said 2170 cells from Panasonic are used exclusively in Model 3 battery packs with current production. All Energy products are fed with 2170 cells from Samsung (different chemistry). Most recently, LG boxes have begun showing up for testing. Plan is to use those in the ramp up of Energy...
  28. AZ Desert Driver

    Tesla Gigafactory

    So I saw a carousel producing "machine gun" rate of cells. They produce a jelly-roll, then insert it into the can. Is there recyclable stuff in the jelly roll. If a run of jelly rolls is off spec - can they retrieve any of the chemistry - or is it all trash? Seems like this step would be the...
  29. AZ Desert Driver

    Tesla Gigafactory

    Question(s)...The GF produces a lot of battery cells. Do they all meet specs? Do the "first quality" get prioritized into the car packs, and the mid-quality go into Energy Products. How many of the millions of daily 2170 cells have to get reworked/scrapped? If you buy a powerwall, do you get...
  30. AZ Desert Driver

    Supercharger - Fort Stockton, Texas

    Now THIS is an answer. I asked and you delivered in spades. Thanks.
  31. AZ Desert Driver

    Supercharger - Fort Stockton, Texas

    I read and re-read your message. I must be thick today because I cannot figure out what you said. Could you post a picture of a Type 2 CCS plug and compare it to a type 2 Tesla plug? I cant figure out when its part of the car, part of the station and when its part of an adapter kit. Picture is...
  32. AZ Desert Driver

    Elon Musk

    Samsung? Do they make 18650 or 2170 cells, or did Australia get a whole new form factor? Can they make enough to fill other grid packages? I thought all production of batteries at GF1 were 2170, and that the Model 3 was taking all of that capacity. Now you say only 1 of three lines are 2170 M3...
  33. AZ Desert Driver

    Elon Musk

    I have a battery supply question.....The GF makes a ton of 2170 cells, but not enough to satisfy the Model 3 pack demands. How can the Energy company make micro grids, supply Puerto Rico and Emergency Center, and Australia (etc) when there is not (yet) enough cells for the Car company? I...
  34. AZ Desert Driver

    Supercharger - Fort Stockton, Texas

    I have a supercharger question - not sure where to ask it, so here it is on a weak link to the general topic. CCS has a ring of posts on top of a pair of posts. Tesla is saying Model 3s in Europe will be fitted with this configuration. Will conventional Tesla plugs fit into the CCS plug? Or will...
  35. AZ Desert Driver

    [Poll] - Will you buy Model Y if it has Falcon Wing door?

    You are right - after one hand slam, I was much more careful. "Fool me once- shame on me..." I am trainable. The door closed when I stepped on the brake pedal, not knowing that would be the closer trigger. Learning curve. As I get older and more feeble - reaching out to grab the door handle to...
  36. AZ Desert Driver

    [Poll] - Will you buy Model Y if it has Falcon Wing door?

    I got a two day test drive in Model x with falcon doors. Also it had self closing front doors. I get into cars butt first, and hang on to the roof rails for balance. the self closing doors did just that and slammed my hand and would not let go until I stretched to the release button. ouch. I...
  37. AZ Desert Driver

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    Further - I have heard that the Gov. has a back room deal with APS that says- even if the proposition passes and requires APS to install more solar, The Gov will give them a back door and not require them to follow the proposition language.
  38. AZ Desert Driver

    Tesla Gigafactory

    And the VW battery is a pouch form, not a can (18650 or 2170). My drone pouch batteries always puffed up after a bit of use. I'm not confidant the "other guys" have learned that heat is an issue, cold is an issue, overcharging is an issue...etc. Perhaps they can learn from Panasonic, but some...
  39. AZ Desert Driver

    Model S rubber floor mats

    When I put in the 14-50 socket, I also ran a 20 amp 120v utility box. I installed a hook for my charger cable - a nice Tesla one that holds the charging handle just so. I added a WiFi range extender to the garage wall so the car can talk to the mother ship. I also applied c-Quartz to my...
  40. AZ Desert Driver

    Model S rubber floor mats

    Ahh- I thought you had some type of door pocket. I miss that socket in my Model S. Your luggage seems like a good product - just not what my need is.
  41. AZ Desert Driver

    Tesla Gigafactory

    Ive now seen more "official" tasks for GF3 - They want to make "car parts" soon (2019). They are NOT saying finished cars, and they are not saying batteries. Perhaps just getting something/anything being produced soon- and starting cash flow - is a good step at getting roads, staff, tariffs...
  42. AZ Desert Driver

    Model S rubber floor mats

    What are "Oscar and Hamish side pockets"? Tell me more about your stuff!!
  43. AZ Desert Driver

    Model S rubber floor mats

    I bought Tesla rubber mats - front and rear, but not trunk - from Tesla. They seem to be the same product as WeatherTec - but with the Tesla logo. Same price, same laser cut size. When I was ordering, there was some "product -availability" issue and I had to wait weeks to get my set. Getting...
  44. AZ Desert Driver

    Tesla Gigafactory

    So - three years is your bet? I don't know how long GF1 took - just grabbed a date from the air that felt about right. Was actually hoping someone had a better time line. And you said CAR, not just battery. I was thinking they would build the battery line first and perhaps sell a bunch of...
  45. AZ Desert Driver

    Tesla Gigafactory

    Any bets as to how long it will take to make the first battery? GF1 took - 3 years? - from ground breaking.
  46. AZ Desert Driver

    2nd run of camera switch that show a front image on the touch screen

    So - there is no way to have front view and rear view at the same time? I pull into my garage and advance toward my tool box. I have my rear camera on, and watch for a piece of white tape to appear - telling me when I have advanced far enough. This works well in my garage, but not so much when...
  47. AZ Desert Driver

    Tesla Gigafactory

    So at GF1 - they need to build a city to have housing to have workers to build batteries to build cars. They have "only" built a battery factory, the biggest in the world and started a world wide movement. Now they need more batteries to build more cars and power plants. In view of...
  48. AZ Desert Driver

    2nd run of camera switch that show a front image on the touch screen

    Cool. I have faith in you guys. You have spent time, money and brain cells to get this right. I may still, yet, jump back into this project and protect the nose of my car. Right now - still seems too complicated for my feeble brain to see what button to push to get the screen I want when I...
  49. AZ Desert Driver

    2nd run of camera switch that show a front image on the touch screen

    So there is a new Version 9 that does lots of things to the dash. My rear camera is now under a couple of clicks, and I use it to place my car properly in the garage. Does V9 interfere with this Akikiki connection plan?
  50. AZ Desert Driver

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    What? The power company that makes the power does NOT own the distribution system? The grid guys can buy from whatever supplier they wish? including small producers like ranches/farms and even private homes? Blasphemy!!! oh- the grid guys dont even buy the power, you do? I'm so used to having...