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  1. Missile Toad

    What came first, your EV car or the L2 charger?

    I'm trying to join forces with an EVSE manufacturer to provide charging guidance for drivers who want to depend on the vagaries of the variable wind generation in the U.S. Great Plains. If everyone has chargers before they get their car, it might be challenging to get sign-ups for this specialty...
  2. Missile Toad

    What came first, your EV car or the L2 charger?

    For purposes of this thread L2 is NEMA14-30 (or better), NEMA 10-30 (or better) and/or 208-240v charging.
  3. Missile Toad

    Supercharger - New Caney, TX

    I note that the 'four bangers' have, what appears, as a 'buffer stall' between them. If there are three such gaps, I suspect that the 'gaps' will be marked for Rivian, Ford F-150 and other EVs that preferentially align to the left of the charger in order to connect. In other words, those spots...
  4. Missile Toad

    Supercharger - Humble, TX

    Strange spot, given that Tesla is opting to put one in along the I-69 corridor around New Caney (~13 miles North). The permitted location is about 1 mile from I-69, and aside from the hotel, there are few amenities nearby. It will be interesting to see if Tesla puts the charging units on...
  5. Missile Toad

    Elon: "Feature complete for full self driving this year"

    Editted (no sarcasm necessary): We can expect him to deliver all the features he promised... soon (™ Elon Musk)
  6. Missile Toad

    Have any new testers with a safety score above 80 received the FSD Beta 10.69.3 update yet?

    I've pretty much given up on the FSD clown show. Its not going to be Full Self Driving in my lifetime. Elon Musk has bigger fish to fry at his other businesses. He is now operating as a net drag on Tesla resources by hijacking Tesla engineers to work on fixing Twitter code. This is not what I...
  7. Missile Toad

    Best charging network for road trips?

    I just took a trip Houston to Atlanta. I attempted to exclusively use Electrify America, since my '22 S LR is compatible with the new CCS adapter. For the six EA chargers I used, I estimate it took, on average 6 minutes per charger to get EA to authenticate me and start the charge. Half the...
  8. Missile Toad

    When to Charge? Not at Night.

    I think your Core Co-op is one of the utilities that trade and balance in the Western Area Power Administration. Although the Core website shows only 30% of the energy comes from renewables, if the WAPA generation mix is to be trusted, then the vast majority of that energy is from wind...
  9. Missile Toad

    When to Charge? Not at Night.

    The midwestern states all have surpluses of energy at night. The wind turbines are being put in at a pace that FAR exceeds the demands put on them by electric cars, recently added. This pattern will persist for at least the next 5 years. Accordingly, there are some nights in Texas and Kansas...
  10. Missile Toad

    FSD, a massive fail for TESLA! What secret mantra have I missed?

    Well. That was a lot of opinion just countering a lot of opinion. I would have like to have seen more definitive numbers to back either one of the sides' blah-blah.
  11. Missile Toad

    FSD, a massive fail for TESLA! What secret mantra have I missed?

    Don't worry. The test will be over in two... wee.... err, TWO YEARS. Yes, that's right. Oh, did I mention that I'm counting years in time it takes Mars to circle the sun?
  12. Missile Toad

    Anyone interested in the Tesla Service Manual in PDF?

    I'd rather rub my bare eyes with sandpaper. 1) I've read the HTML -- its short, simple and sad; 2) judging by their normal owner's manual, I'm expecting some errors that are hard to spot. Someday, Tesla will hire someone who knows how to write manuals, and be straightforward. Maybe after they...
  13. Missile Toad

    FSD? Go for it or not?

    Here is a subset of the NHTSA-reported FSD accidents: https://api.nhtsa.gov/complaints/odinumber?odinumber=11444500 https://api.nhtsa.gov/complaints/odinumber?odinumber=11456716 https://api.nhtsa.gov/complaints/odinumber?odinumber=11453025...
  14. Missile Toad

    FSD Beta 10.69 Release Notes

    You know its getting weird, when Elon anonymously trolls the NHTSA: https://api.nhtsa.gov/complaints/odinumber?odinumber=11440180
  15. Missile Toad

    Try this, when your battery doesn't have enough to reach the Supercharger

    It very much surprised me, as I dropped speed from 55 -> 30 MPH, on the ramp immediately next to the supercharger. It's a poor design choice by Tesla, as a wimpy regen can easily be remedied by a friction brake.
  16. Missile Toad

    Hertz Employees Taking Up Entire Superchargers - Charging to 100%!

    My crystal ball tells me: "Beware of buying used Model 3's in the next 2 years -- given fleet wear on many of them."
  17. Missile Toad

    Try this, when your battery doesn't have enough to reach the Supercharger

    Sometimes, the options to charge are slim. This is in contrast with Napa. Note, that the College Station & Navasota area are on same scale, roughly 10 mi to a side. At any rate, life is full of options. And as for briefly low battery SoC, the battery on my last car showed roughly the median...
  18. Missile Toad

    Try this, when your battery doesn't have enough to reach the Supercharger

    I've been driving Teslas since 2016. On my first cross country trip in 2016, I drove the S 70 D down to 3 miles when I reached my third supercharger on the trip. Since then, I've been under 10 miles of range at least 20 times, mostly while on a trip. These adventures occurred during the night...
  19. Missile Toad

    Supercharger - Vicksburg, MS

    There is a Mississippi rest area for the interstate about 1 block away - in case the casino is not open.
  20. Missile Toad

    Seriously. What is your max amount you'd pay for EAP?

    I've seen how it works. My offer: $1000 Oh, and that's with the expectation that Tesla will cover fender-benders under their liability insurance when the car scrapes a grarage door entrance. ... on second thought, since Tesla still can't properly write their manuals, my new offer is: $0...
  21. Missile Toad

    When I last ran out my battery..

    Ford ships its F-150 Lightnings with a Tesla adapter. What for? So it can charge stranded Teslas, what else?
  22. Missile Toad

    What would you pay for FSD, if anything?

    I'll pay $100 for FSD amnesia. This is how it would look. On every one of my devices, a filter is added so that when I'm using a browser, a social network app, or texting with friends, all headlines and content that mentions FSD is covered by black censor bars. If "Full Self ..." or "FSD" or...
  23. Missile Toad

    When I last ran out my battery..

    I'll pay a Ford F-150 Lightning $50 to add 2 miles of charge if I'm ever at 0 miles. I literally saw a lady getting loaded onto a flatbed 0.5 levels below the 3rd (elevated) level of a garage that hosts a supercharger. The final half mile should have little road-side memorials for all the times...
  24. Missile Toad

    Wind News

    Wind exceeds Denmark's total electricity demand two days in a row.
  25. Missile Toad

    Full Self Driving without Assistance by this time Next Year - Musk

    Tesla only adds beta features. What starts as beta, stays as beta. Beta is the perpetual school for fools.
  26. Missile Toad

    Why is lane shifting so hard to figure out?

    It took the car 5 years to get to this point. You guys want it to have common sense too? I'm sure it will be an upgrade to FSD.... perhaps for another upcharge of $2,000? Which you could probably pay for by end of 2022, only to get in 202.... errr... 203_ something.
  27. Missile Toad

    Supercharger queuing system

    Tesla fixes the problem when either of the two happen: Electrify America and/or ChargePoint are on the same scale as Tesla; The stories circulate enough that there are lines forming at stations missing a couple charging stalls. Being terrible is acceptable as long as the alternatives are...
  28. Missile Toad

    Don't Count on Tesla Roadside Assistance

    I've had 3 opportunities to ask Tesla for help with flat tires. The first two times, they were worse than useless. I was told to go to a service center, and that service center had no patching or tires (this is while I was 1,000 miles from home). The third, and final time, they happened to...
  29. Missile Toad

    Supercharger queuing system

    Simple solution. Tesla, fix your broken charge stalls so that they are not broken for more than 6 months. I commit this invention to the public domain.
  30. Missile Toad

    Voice command "Trunk close" being interpreted as "Trunk clothes".

    I'm half expecting that if I say 'boot close', the car will start to render clothing on the images of pedestrians in the instrument cluster.
  31. Missile Toad

    Voice command "Trunk close" being interpreted as "Trunk clothes".

    I'm thinking of giving more context. "Close the fahcking trunk". I'll report what I find. I have to be careful. If I word it too sternly, the car could drive a mean slalom, and turn my insides into a milkshake. You never know what AI is thinking.
  32. Missile Toad

    Costco or Tesla Mobile Service for replacement tires

    Bridgestone® POTENZA S04 245/45ZR19 on the old '15 S70D
  33. Missile Toad

    Prediction: Tesla average selling price will increase to $150,000 USD

    When Tesla takes any feature out of 'beta' (remind me, when did that last happen?), the car's value will improve 0.5%. Ok, for the first feature to leave beta, price improvement will be 1.0% -- just because Tesla will show that it actually can be done. I'm hopping that traffic aware cruise...
  34. Missile Toad

    Costco or Tesla Mobile Service for replacement tires

    Yes. And vastly more convenient. I've gone to Costco about 5-6 times on two Teslas. I wouldn't trust Tesla further than I could spit them, for replacing tires. Here in Texas and the midwest, they are worse than useless.
  35. Missile Toad

    Scheduled charging not working for me :(

    I'm having a similar problem with 2022.8.2 SW release. Best current solution, 1. Plug-in; 2. Go into the phone app, and command the charge to stop; and 3. Wait and see how it charges in the wee hours, as expected.
  36. Missile Toad

    2022 MS Long Range - What you seeing?

    My 90% is 365 mi, after driving the Model S LR around 1800 miles. So, at 100% I'm around 406 or so. I'm using 19" wheels.
  37. Missile Toad

    Supercharger - Waller, TX

    This was posted to a local Facebook group. Construction now underway. @Chuq @MarcoRP @corywright
  38. Missile Toad

    Scary near crash with a big truck today. Disappointed that teslacam did not record the event 😕

    Does Tesla make any features that are not beta?
  39. Missile Toad

    $12K for FSD is insane

    I love that Elon is hitting us up for $12K right now. My 2022 S LR (FSD not purchased) is in the Tesla shop right now with a poorly designed remote charge-port opening 'feature' (it only operates about 10% of the time). My remarks to the Tesla technician(s) using the stupid app: Your...
  40. Missile Toad

    Paid for FSD, when will I get the software?

    For those new to the thread TL;DR; FSD is for those who have been trained to drive like grandma, and are prepared to wait like Rip Van Winkle. You think Tesla is making, is magical software. What they are actually doing, is training us, like our first grade teacher did.
  41. Missile Toad

    2021+ Model S LR Delivery Tracking

    Tesla's behavior on this is just shady. The competition will exploit this.
  42. Missile Toad

    Wiki Model S Delivery Update

    Has anybody had any problems with paying for their car for delivery in Texas? Their instructions are, opaque. I'm guessing that they don't want to see any money, in any form, within the state of Texas.... but they don't come right out and say it. Which means, if its complicated now, you are...
  43. Missile Toad

    Wiki Model S Delivery Update

    Easy bird gets the worm. ;)
  44. Missile Toad

    Wiki Model S Delivery Update

    I would totally expect periodic a) features disappearing; b) diminished performance, from time to time. This is the same team that decided that their years-long strategy of sensor-fusion wasn't working, and they decided to go to vision only. Further, there are defects in the basic UI of the...
  45. Missile Toad

    2021+ Model S LR Delivery Tracking

    1145 I keep forgetting you're still alive. Just say the word and I'll sell you a Model S. ;)
  46. Missile Toad

    Wiki Model S Delivery Update

    FYI, I just did one of these 'spy before you buy' trips to the local service center. If you are taking pictures, press your phone right up to the glass. It virtually eliminates all glare from the photos.
  47. Missile Toad

    Wiki Model S Delivery Update

    Chris: I know you are getting your car in the next week or two. I'm picking up in Houston too, but the way Tesla is doing it, is they are aiming at the dates I'm out of town. When they actually ask you to schedule, can you give some more precise timing for when the VIN was announced and the SA...
  48. Missile Toad

    2021+ Model S LR Delivery Tracking

    Actually, since Tesla didn't tell people that they were getting a 'Swiss cheese' Tesla, I'm expecting there are twenty more potential holes to check now -- since we know we can't count on Tesla to be transparent.