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Pretty disgusted with FUD from Fox... The local news station in Seattle keeps the story to the basic facts, while the national fox website diverges the story into FUD about FSD being on a free trial. I detest this sort of FUD because it's dishonest and misleads the public. It's bad enough...

I was at the supercharger in North Charleston SC and we were stacked up 3 deep waiting for an available charger. A guy came out of the Mellow Mushroom, unplugged his car. I ran to get in my car and pulled around to find that he'd run back into the restaurant without moving. I think Tesla...

This is wonderful, the car thinks I'm always looking at the road.

My daughter’s apartment complex didn’t renew the lease on their blink branded Evse. So I had the bright idea to approach them with they could just install a hpwc and let it bill thru Tesla. I see on the latest firmware to my car 2023.44.1 that there’s a note about paid destination chargers. So...

My mother drives a model Y just like I do. Her's is white and mine is red. She drove my car to work today and someone asked her if she got a new car because there was a red Tesla parked in her spot. She said "nope, they just released a feature to change the color in software." and smiled.

If we look back at the original J1772 spec, it permitted up to 80amps @ 400Vdc or 240Vac at 80amps. My understanding was Musk wanted to swap the pins for 400amps and SAE wouldn't do it. So Tesla modified the J1772 physical layout to allow the combining of DC and AC pins. Meanwhile a committee...

So for general discussion.... When a disruptive tech appears, there's an S adoption curve. A few bold people try the product, more and more see and want it and then the market reaches saturation. iPhone followed this and after 5 years the market was saturated and everyone who wanted a smart...

I wonder is there a small LCD monitor that could go in the front corner of my driver's window by that little speaker so that the video from the side camera could go there? It makes no sense to look to my right to see the blind spot video feed when I just want to look toward the mirror on the...

Pretty miffed today. We have a MY with EAP and decided to subscribe to FSD for the month to see how it works. Can't enable it. Says "available on a future update". Spoke to customer service, they say no refunds on subscriptions. BUT I CAN"T EVEN ENABLE IT. Spoke to next tier up at customer...

I'm hoping someone can pass this up to Tesla or maybe a Tesla employee can pass this along. Our cars calculate a start time based on the max current they can draw from the EVSE. My car begins to charge somewhere around 3-4am until 6am. As EV adoption increases this will cause more and more...

We have a 2018 p100d and when we got it the headlights were pointed pretty far down. So now that daylight savings time has hit, I decided to raise them. The passenger side moved up without a hitch, but the drivers side went up almost as high as the passenger side and then popped and fell...

I'm at wits end. My 2020 MY charges at 32amps and when done later in the evening shows 5amps charge available. 5amps is NOT permitted under the J1772 standard, so this throws up a red flag to me. Here are some details.... 0) if we program the car to charge as soon as it is plugged in, it will...

We're getting PPF film on front and we live in a state that does not require front plates.... so I look the front plate bracket off only to run into a pentalobe screw. Thingiverse to the rescue! Printed this little tool in 30 minutes. Tesla Pentalobe Tool for Front License Plate Holder by...

I'm at work and not with the wife's car... so can someone tell me if the 2018 MS has usb port in glovebox? I'm trying to order a HDD for her sentry mode and would like to NOT have it in the center console.

Do you have a gen 1 220v 20amp plug adapter you'd like to part with? I'm setting up a charge station in my detached garage and want to limit the current to what the service to that building can provide. Yes, I could use GPS to mark that spot as limited but it's too close to the other HPWCs I...

If we buy FSD do we get the EAP features like lane change while we wait for FSD to come around to us?

We've just bought a Model S from an online retailer and they won't release the title for a month. This wasn't an issue when we bought our 2014MS because it had free supercharging... but this model says "supercharging not permitted, add to account". Well we can't do that until we get the...

We have three gen 2 HPWC’s networked together. Two of our cars are daily drivers and we have them set for off peak charging because I want the batteries to be at least a little warm when I’m ready for work in the morning. The issue is that the car with the lowest charge sees that there’s...

I’m here asking because I think the HD-wave SolarEdge inverter is used with Tesla power wall. I’ve got a semi-off grid system using SMA sunny islands and am looking at AC coupling using the HD Wave. Sorry for the kinda sorta off brand question… but Sunny islands use the same 62hz power...

Since Ford is offering a special J1772 EVSE that can backfeed your house, I expect Tesla to do the same. Of course this will require a special HPWC (gen 4??). The poorman's way of doing it is to connect the charge cord to an existing EVSE and use the 240v output to feed critical loads in your...

I think I saw in the manual that the Gen 3 HPWC has an RS485 port. Is it's current sharing backward compatible with the Gen2 units?

Our 2014 model S 16 has a battery issue presently. My power display shows that my power is limited to 200 kW instead of 250 kW. We’ve had Tesla do a cooling system diagnostic and they found a problem. Tesla continue to make recommendations and replaced our contactor for free. But none of this...

2014 MS60 has been super charging slowly for the last year, seldom getting over 80 kW, tapering to 50 kW really quickly. It’s not cold here at all yet I have a little yellow dashed line on my binnacle display that indicates top end power is reduced… The same sort of dashed lines that show you...

We’re going off grid and I’m looking for a way to signal to one of three hpwc gen2’s (master) to signal the cars to stop charging. Brute force would be to use a contactor to kill 240v. We have 12kw of inverters and I need the cars to stop charging if the hvac compressor needs to start and/or I...

This may not be the right place for this thread but here goes.... I have two Gen 2 HPWC in my garage and one failed about 5 weeks ago. I contacted Tesla's powerwall / charger folks and they advised me to send some pictures of the unit not powering up. about 3 weeks later, they responded to a...

So I'm one of those weighted wheel guys.... driving this morning on AP and looked to the side to see a burned up truck at a rest area to my right. When Iooked back, the display was just beginning to flash blue telling me to apply pressure to the wheel. I wiggled it a bit and it would not...

I don't care about power trunk... I'm just looking for soft close. Does anyone know where a person can buy only the latching mechanism? My reasoning is I'm thinking about mounting a ham radio antenna on the trunk and I don't want to have to slam the trunk lid and cause the antenna clamp to...

I used to work for a Crown Ltd in Savannah GA and their specialty was hand polished stainless. Looked like a mirror. It occurs to me that someone is going go pay good money for a mirror finish on their truck! The pipes that you see for these pedestals come in as raw stainless and are turned...

Is there an extra video port on the MCU? Like the MS and MX have the instrument cluster display, wouldn’t it be cool if we had a HUD display projecting on the lower part of windshield?

It was time for new tires, so I went to the local tire store. They asked for the key... I handed them the RFID card.... puzzled looks. I offer to drive it into the bay. No, insurance regulations they say. Mechanic comes into lobby to collect the key and paperwork packet and the cashier grins...

Maybe this is a silly question but it's got me puzzled. As long as my car is actively charging (or awake) I can simply walk up and hit the magic button on the charge handle and it'll unlock the port. BUT.... first thing in the morning when the car has finished charging and is asleep, pressing...

I posted this on a couple facebook groups this past weekend and thought it was appropriate to share here as well. I travel for a living in a M3LR and often use destination chargers. I'd hate to think that I'm keeping someone with a lower range car from charging if they needed it. So I got out...

I'm kinda torn on this.... I travel for a living and so I spend time scouting for hotels that have 120v plugs and even unlisted L2 equipment. Yesterday I came upon a hotel in a town where I have a client that has a L6-30 receptacle near the parking lot. They say it used to be used by an...

I just changed jobs and will be travelling 100%. Sold my beloved Bolt EV and got a LR model 3. I'll be dependent on hotel charging as much as possible and ICEing is a real problem. Several weeks ago I bought a 20' extension cord with a Tesla female at one end and a J1772 pistol grip at the...

wheres a good place to find 12v when the car is on. Not just when the headunit is on, I mean when I press the brake and the car comes on. Thanks!!

South Carolina is one of the several states that does not permit a new car to be sold directly to the public. There is a bill that has just been proposed and is presently in committee which could change this. Mods, I couldn’t figure out where to put this post, move if there’s a better place...

We're about to go on a road trip where there is no supercharger. So I made a "have Tesla will travel" kit... a NEMA 14-50 mounted in a single gang box with a some 10 gauge romex and a pair of eaton 20amp breakers. Don't yet know what brand our friend's panel box is, but I'll either install the...

My mother has a 2014 MS that doesn't have navi (no tech package). I can get any old GPS with mapping and route planning for $100... the value in Tesla navi is the battery management and charging suggestions. A better route planner is difficult to use on her phone, but at least it connects to...

My mother has a 2014 MS w/o tech package. I was pulling it forward tonight to move to a different parking spot and she stepped off the curb behind me. Keep in mind I was moving away from her. The parking brake locked so harshly that I thought for a moment I’d hit something with one wheel. I...

a local hotel installed a hpwc this year and it has only been used a couple of times. I spot checked it the other day and it showed a solid red led. I reset it and it came up again with red led. It seems it should still be under warranty but I hate for the hotel to spend money on it. What is...

How easy is it to find 120v in parking garages? More specifically, long term places like cruise terminals. For example, we went on a cruise out of Charleston SC a few years ago, but didn’t own an EV then. I think I remember seeing 120v plugs inside their Parking structure. It’d be really...

Has anyone ever used the 120v 20amp adapter plug? If so, did you ever hook it up to an adapter cable at 220v? Does that work? I think the resistor in the UMC plug sets the current and the car will accept any voltage, is this correct?

Is there a way to have the car send a notification if it's not plugged in by a certain time? My Chevy Bolt will remind me at 7pm. Case in point... dear daughter ran an errand last night and begged mom to take the Tesla. She didn't plug it in upon her return and now mom gets to supercharge on...

Our county put in place a 1cent sales tax for parks and recreation projects. Things like soccer fields, tennis courts, ball fields. This morning I called the lady in charge and put a bug in her ear about installing EVSEs. She said she was looking into it but didn't know where to start. We...

Just wondering... an idle question.... what happens if I order a car with FSD and Tesla decides 3 years from now that the AP2.5 isn't good enough for FSD? Would they be obligated to upgrade my car to the correct hardware? Or would they kindly refund my money and say "our bad"?

I found this video that shows how an electrical fire can start from a lose connection. Any of you charging using the stock charger (EVSE) on 120v should realize that most 120v outlets are daisy chained together. The outlet in your garage may be 4th or 8th in line from the breakerbox and you...

My dad used to say "That car would pass anything on the road except a gas station"... we sure fixed that.

I heard through the grapevine that the MS's with 75kwh batteries that are software limited to 60 are being opened up by Tesla to facilitate hurricane evacuations. Has anyone confirmed that this happened? I have a MS60 made in Sept 2014 and the extra capacity hasn't shown up for me... Just...