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Can't use in my area, vehicle would be vandalized by Jets or Giants fans.

Our family had two Model 3 reservations. Both received configure emails. One was cancelled at the time of the Alcantara switch. Tesla was told it was not because of the material but because of the way that the change was handled and they needed to improve their communication with customers. The...

Are you still planning to bring your Model 3? I can't attend but my wife will if one will be there. We have an invite to configure but are on the fence having not seen one in person.

El gusto es mio! (in Mexico at the moment). You are right, AP will be as standard as seat belts. However there will still be some who prefer driving without it just as there are a few of us still driving manual transmissions.

Maybe by the time I am 80 AP will be safer than I am. What you are not getting is how I drive compared to how AP does. I constantly analyze the road ahead and avoid situation that present danger and avoid them. I will not go into the various scenarios but will give one simple example, I may see...

First tell me how you know a system that has had many reported errors (sudden braking, abrupt lane changes, straying out of lanes, etc.) is safer for me to use than my driving without it with a record of 30 years of driving without an accident. This is your claim. "Humans > AP Humans + AP >...

You are welcome Captain Oblivious.

If you are not alert and attentive, you shouldn't be driving with or without AP.

Clearly we have never met. I drove a Model S with autopilot and do not want it. I am a very conservative driver with an IT background. My last accident (hitting a deer when a group of six bolted single file out of bushes across a narrow road) happened over 30 years ago and AP would not have...

Monthly subscription is doubtful. Free trial makes a lot of sense. No downside for Tesla I can see and lots of upside. Not this year but when it is a more polished product I would not be surprised.

Good, that means I'll get my next issue sooner.

5th in line non-owner in NY received invite in first round of non-owners. Friend in VA was second in line and has not been contacted yet.

You were lucky you were located near a service center. Think about poor Starman when his battery prematurally died. "Starman and his electric-car-turned-spacecraft were equipped with cameras that live-streamed the car’s journey as it floated through space. Unfortunately, the Roadster’s...

Will there be a Model 3 at the event? TIA

Just to be clear if for example I go to the beach and want to leave my phone in a locked Tesla 3, I can log out of my Tesla account and the car will lock? I realize I will need to keep the card with me to enter.

Cancelled one of ours on 1/9 and received check on 1/20. Tesla did not seem very interested in why.

I agree that is odd.

Thanks Glade_EV, if the manual is correct leaving the Model 3 with a 100% charge and the energy saving mode ON, would keep the battery safe for over two years. I realize temperature may play a role but I think 5 months would be safe.

A Model S will not allow its battery to fall below about 5 percent charge. At that point the car can still sit for many months. Of course you can drive a Model S to 0 percent charge, but even in that circumstance, if you plug it in within 30 days, the battery will recover normally. Sorry if...

In this article appears this statement "Tesla’s corporate blog explained the fail-safe provisions of the new model this way: “A Model S will not allow its battery to fall below about 5 percent charge. At that point the car can still sit for many months. Of course you can drive a Model S to 0...

Could you please direct me to a glossary of electric vehicle terms. I want to be able to look up the proper use terms like "bricked" so I don't cause any consternation among the docents here by misusing them.

Should be "photon" everywhere in quote, not "proton" as it is in some instances.

I posted in another thread but for those cancelling, we cancelled one of our reservations on 1/9 and received the check on 1/20. Our other reservation is a for a non owner, 5th in line at an East Coast store on Day 1. It has been pushed back repeatedly from the fall of 2017 to now late 2018. If...

Our remaining reservation is a day one, east coast, 5th in line. Today the estimated delivery time for base model went to late 2018. If correct, that means we will probably not get the full tax credit. If that becomes certain, we will cancel.

In case anyone is wondering about how long it is taking to get a refund, we cancelled one of our family's reservations on 1/9 and received a check on 1/20.

A common definition for bait-and-switch is "The action (generally illegal) of advertising goods which are an apparent bargain, with the intention of substituting inferior or more expensive goods." Note the substitution of inferior goods is mentioned so the posters you referred to were not...

Called Orlando yesterday. They knew Miami had one but they have not been informed when they will get one.

In your third sentence you state what I suggested would not be entrapment so to whom are you directing your first two sentences?

I agree with everything you have posted. To placate current reservation holders what Tesla might do is have employees pose as potential buyers and gain enough info to identify sellers and then pull their reservations. They would not do this for more than a few sellers but would publicize the...

Sorry, that is incorrect. Thermal mass is the product of the amount of it (assuming by amount you mean its mass) and its specific heat capacity. The correct way to state it would be to say the amount of heat required to heat something is based on its thermal mass or is based on the amount of it...

Interesting that in two hours your speculation went from "not unreasonable" to "very likely". If you are correct, then to quote Pepper Brooks: "It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for 'em". I think it is more likely Tesla is concerned that they may incur significant costs...

Posters are stating that the Model 3 has a separate battery warranty and the rest of the drive train is included in warranty for the rest of the vehicle.

If this is directed to me, I simply posted that given the past history of Tesla's drive train problems if the Model 3 warranty is as posted I will not be completing my two purchases. Why does that bother you so much that you must use hyperbole like "the sky is falling"? Do you really think...

And buyers should want to avoid out of warranty replacements.

If correct, another reason to wait for the white interior if you live in warm climates.

Here is a link to EM's tweets Elon Musk on Twitter Tesla is offering a drive train warranty (forget about the battery for the moment) of only 4 years or 50k miles. This is less than many other manufacturers including GM's warranty on the Bolt. It matches BMW and Audi, but EM has indicated EV...

So you imagine the warranty will be increased, but other posters have fanciful dreams? If anyone has fanciful dreams, it's EM. Look at what he said about EV drive train warranties and the Model 3's in particular and what Tesla is now offering.

In light of the the following statements “In hindsight, this should have been our policy from the beginning of the Model S program. If we truly believe that electric motors are fundamentally more reliable than gasoline engines, with far fewer moving parts and no oily residue or combustion...

Will a roof rack be available and if so with which roof options?

Well people arrange marriages of convenience to try to get green cards so maybe....

No, the one I am thinking of was mostly him speaking out the window and introducing this new model. It must have been a smaller model because he looked like he was being squashed by the roof. I've searched and can't find it. We watched for weeks and never saw it again so I think it was pulled...

Strange they picked someone that tall to drive at the reveal. Doesn't look to comfortable.Steering wheel looks very small in his hands too. Reminds me of a commercial that ran during the first game World Series many years ago. It was Chuck Conners for a new model Dodge pick-up. He was talking...

First, after kibitzing here for a long time I finally signed up. I used to post at the "other" forum but the cyber bullying that occurred when anyone posted an opinion that was anything but gushing was insufferable. This thread, that critically discusses an issue, is what I had been looking for...