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Ok, I just did a full range charge on my Roadster. When I brought my Roadster home immediately after getting the new battery installed is showed a 338 mile range on a full range charge. It has now been two and a half years since the R80 battery pack was installed and I have put about 10,000...

I'm doing a full range charge today and will report what it shows. I haven't actually done a full range charge in a while, but the normal range charge hasn't really changed.

I have had my new battery for two years. And I put like 5k miles a year on the car. I have had virtually no degradation in range. When I got the battery first installed it reported 320 mile range on a full charge. Today it's pretty much the same, maybe a few miles less. When I lived in St...

I moved to Colorado two years ago. I hate to say it, but owning a Roadster without the R80 battery upgrade is a bit of a challenge. Before I got the battery upgrade my car felt kind of like a toy. I couldn't drive it any reasonable distance at all without experiencing severe range anxiety...

It's actually replacing my Model-S 100d. I'm not a truck guy. But we moved to Colorado two years ago and having a vehicle which can off road is almost a necessity. I find just driving to a friend's house often involves some tough driving on pock marked gravel roads. I will also have my new...

I agree. It has no practical use that I can see except, perhaps, picking you up in the pouring rain, which has yet to happen to me. Using it in an environment where there is *any* other traffic is far too risky IMO. It doesn't behave like a human being so it just confuses the hell out of anyone...

I didn't receive the email either, even though my Roadster is on my MyTesla page and regularly serviced. Nevertheless, I just sent them an email thanking them for providing the email address for owners to contact them. The last time my Roadster needed service there was literally no way to call...

FWIW, and it's not worth that much, I will be one of the few people who road-trips their Roadster. By the time I get my Roadster I will be 60 years old. This will be the last sports car I own for the rest of my life and then I will be dead. Once you reach this age the concept of 'worrying...

There hasn't been much discussion about the price drop on the Model-S and X which is kind of insane. I bought mine just a little over a year ago. I just went to the website and configured more or less the same car, and it's like $30,000 less! I bought a Model-S 100D. My $117,000 car is now...

Raise your hand if someone you know has said to you, "Hey, I'm thinking about buying a Tesla" and your response was, "Great, let's go drive to the Tesla store." I mean, seriously, that's not how it works. No, you throw them into your car and make their eyes bleed with acceleration. You turn...

So, there is a lot to parse about what happened in the past 24 hours. However, the one thing I am most surprised by is the negative reaction about Tesla going to all on-line sales. I do get that people want to sit in and drive a car before they buy it. However, this is hardly difficult to do...

Parked next to a brand new Model-3 when driving through Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs

When I first bought my Roadster, after driving ICE sports cars for 35 years, I had a lot of difficulty letting go of the raw experience of shifting gears and the thrill of the roar of the engine. I actually bought myself a BMW-M3 as a daily driver to help compensate. However, over the next 10...

Well, I own a 2010 Tesla Roadster sport and I got the R80 battery upgrade. I cannot recommend it strongly enough. No, you may not drive cross country with it, but pretty much all range anxiety disappears. You can drive it, comfortably, for hours without worrying about range. More...

I realize it's pretty damned early, but I think it's likely I will *not* be getting this option on my Roadster. It sounds like this will be a track only feature, and I cannot justify spending what will likely be a great deal of extra money just to have bragging rights on the racetrack. Also...

I think it's real. I've read some stuff online about how these cold gas rockets could be used to optimize the aerodynamics.

FWIW,I pulled a 12.3 quarter mile on my late 2017 100D on multiple passes.

I sent a wire transfer the morning after the semi reveal. Just the $50k deposit though, so that already puts me later in the line.

In Colorado Springs the superchargers are in a *pay* public parking lot.

I currently daily drive my 2010 Tesla Roadster. I intend to put as much as 20k miles per year on my new Roadster. I have zero intention of worrying about a single penny of resale value. It has a huge range, and I plan to drive it all over the country all of the time in my retirement.

So, I currently own a 2010 Tesla Roadster Sport 2.5 with the R80 battery upgrade. I have over $100k in the car today. I could easily have purchased a used Ferrari, but I did not, specifically because of the known and guaranteed maintenance costs of a Ferrari. I am also a reservation holder...

I feel extremely confident that Elon will let you give him a whole bunch more money for extra features. The only thing you won't be able to to get is the Founders edition badge.

I don't know if I'm the only one around here who invests in bitcoin, but I gotta say I am continuously amazed by how much the TSLA market behaves like the bitcoin market.

My co-pilot is Winston Niles Rumfoord, a more popular attraction than the car. Here he is greeting children at the Shiners Circus.

Yeah, I didn't necessarily get all the stats perfect for the R80 but for the people who will see this that's a minor item.

I go to quite a few car shows with my Roadster and I like to have a sign that helps answer the many questions people always have about the car. My old sign was getting pretty run down, so I just ordered a new one. I'm pretty happy with how this turned out. If anyone is interested, the...

I just ordered an inventory 100D. I'm taking delivery in two weeks. I just fired off an email to my SC and asked if it could be delivered to me 'uncorked'. I just went through this thread and, of course, there is lots of talk about the 0-60 time, but I didn't see anyone post their 1/4 mile...

So, by the time I get my Roadster, I should be about 60 years old. If things go according to plan I should also be retired by then. I not only plan to daily drive the car, I plan to drive it cross country as well. I have no intention of limiting the miles I put on the car, because at my age I...

Sweet, at what price did you buy your bitcoin at? :)

The main feature that I'm looking for would be to actually get the car in 2020; early 2020 would be even better. Reserved by John W. Ratcliff posted Nov 21, 2017 at 8:51 AM

I just did the $50k reservation. I got into bitcoin back in 2013 when they were only $80 apiece (just hit $8,100 today) so, technically, my reservation had a cost basis of about $500. (Funny anecdote, I got my first bitcoin ever from the brother of one our forum members and current Roadster...

Who wants to guess how much money they raise in the Roadster kickstarter campaign? I'm figuring they could hit a billion dollars.

I just traded the anxiety of worrying about the price of bitcoin crashing for the two+ year anticipation of getting my dream car. That was a pretty easy call for me.

FWIW, this should help with the market price of the original Roadster. At least that is what happened for the Acura NSX.

I'm cancelling my Model-3 order and getting this instead!!

Does anyone have a link to pay the $5k registration? In answer to the question where do you get money for this. You buy a lot of bitcoin five years ago like I did.

Here's a link to a video of one of the runs that I did. https://photos.app.goo.gl/LVXMbKl2ce5e9imr1

Update. My final run got into 12.7 territory. That's Tesla's stated fastest 1/4 time. Very happy to see the R80 make this big of a difference!!

I'm pretty psyched! I finally got to the track to drag race with my R80. I cut two tenths of a second off of my 1/4 mile time!! Only $15,000 per tenth of a second. I'm pretty damned happy!

Companies are notorious for listing 1/4 mile times that are hard to achieve in real-life. I'm a heavy guy, 250 pounds, maybe that's worth a few tenths of a second. 13.0 beat most everything I went up against.

>It is basically half power which is the same as driving in range mode. So slower similar to a BMW 3 series. I can still pull a 13.0 quarter mile even if the performance light is pure red, my BMW-M3 couldn't touch that.

>So for those with the 3.0 battery, does Performance mode going Red seem to make a difference in the car's behavior? Behavior of the light switching was the same. That said, just because the light goes red I cannot observe *any* difference in behavior or performance. It's just a light...

No, it didn't resolve it. The tech spent a ton of time looking at it, since he was authorized to do so. At this point, I think we are just trying to diagnose a light problem, because when the performance mode light turns red there is absolutely no recognizable change in performance. It still...

So, I got my Roadster back today with the 3.0 (R80) battery upgrade. I'm quite happy with how the logo looks on the left hand side. I think it gives it a nice balance with the 'Roadster Sport' logo on the right. When I took it for a drive I didn't notice anything different on launch, and I...

Thanks. I forwarded this to my service guy. I can't believe they were going to remove the sport logo without even asking!

So, Tesla service is installing my 3.0 upgrade. He just told me they removed the 'sport' logo and to replace it with the R80. I just asked him 'please don't do that!' I want *both* the R80 badge and my sport badge. Anyone else who got a sport upgraded have this happen to them?