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So what exactly does service now handle? Last night in changing lanes on a freeway in dark conditions I “fell” off of some height difference and slammed the underbody of the car against a low divider (half curb height in the upper side, I think - only saw it briefly when slowing down to the...

Tesla’s Model 3 will be the prime target at upcoming hacker contest — The Verge “ The Pwn2Own contest is one of the biggest events in competitive security research, a place where up-and-coming hackers can show off their skills and earn money by finding new vulnerabilities in widely used...

Every page I try to reach in the manual comes back with this screen... Thoughts on what I can do here?

She recommends charging to 100% about once a month to help with rebalancing your battery. Does that sound like a good idea or bad idea or just neutral? She got to this point after regular charging to 50-70% for the life of her M3 over six months and then seeing range display as 260 miles on a...

Tesla Model S becomes sneaky undercover police car Let’s see Instant torque Fast speed Extremely safe Long range Few mechanical breakdowns Charging up is cheaper than fueling up. If you’re a police department why would you NOT want all of that? So not surprising news, just good news, IMO. A...

It reads like they brought in a lot of rural whites from the Central Valley, out of state, or something... I’ve worked in a place like that described here, but that was back when I was in the Air Force so had to work with a lot of back-country low education whites... Menial Tasks, Slurs and...

Got a new FastTrak tag in the mail Thursday. Realized it fits perfectly behind the tablet display. Any reason to not place a toll tag / RF transponder somewhere like this? Sorry my garage light is reflecting so strongly at the bottom of that image...

Tesla Model 3 protects owner from unsafe air even without Bioweapon Defense Mode “Keeping the same settings, the air quality inside the vehicle continued to get better, hitting 5 μg/m3 within nine minutes. For a vehicle with a filter that Elon Musk simply described as “good,” the results of the...

531587BF-35D4-403A-B76A-625E00937354 by Kichwas posted Nov 2, 2018 at 11:22 PMGot home today and noticed my plates had come in the mail. But there was a stamp all over the envelope noting “received in damaged condition” and my city. Suggesting it was so stamped by a local postal worker. Plates...

Tesla Model 3 production reportedly under investigation by the FBI “ Under examination is the company’s public statements about Model 3 productions as compared to the number of vehicles that were actually built. The company recently turned its first quarterly profit in two years after smoothing...

New Tesla: Same company, only profitable - CNN Article indicates Shorts are either flipping stance, going neutral, or otherwise standing back before they get stuck eating too much crow. The writer reads like someone trying to find the negative in a positive, or alternatively trying to be...

Did anyone else get the impression that Elon was getting emotional as he thanked customers that volunteered to help at stores at the end of Q3? It seemed like he was genuinely touched by that. Now I cannot take any credit there. I wasn’t one of those volunteers. That was instead the weekend I...

I have an iPhone 6s for the headphone jack. My case is one that allows me to slide my drivers license and one credit card into a back flap. But now with the M3 I have a third card on hand... Should I just stop carrying the Tesla Card around? I have it onhand as backup in case the phone...

Tesla short-seller goes long on TSLA: "The story has become too compelling to ignore" “ Tesla stock (NASDAQ:TSLA) is up more than 5% on Tuesday’s intraday amidst news that prominent activist short-seller Andrew Left of Citron Research, who currently has a lawsuit against Elon Musk over his...

Tesla Production Reportedly Close To 1,000 Per Day Tesla Production Reportedly Close To 1,000 Per Day “In mid-October 2018, Tesla seems to finally be able to maintain the production pace of some 1,000 cars daily (7,000 weekly at 7 days a week). According to Electrek’s sources, in the past...

Here’s Why Tesla Will Go Bankrupt in 2019 “The problem is pure and simple: they have no money. In fact, they have a massive pile of growing debt, and the lenders are going to want that money back.” Note that before I reached that point in the article, I red past a series of “this is all bs and...

This one is really ticking me off... Ya’ll seen this article doing the rounds since yesterday? Different tech, business, and auto rags are painting the same facts very differently in their headlines but the core is basically: 3rd party dudes rip a Tesla M3 and two other EVs apart to see how...

As bad as the iPhone podcast app might be, one thing I have come to rely on is it showing me which of my podcasts has a new episode I have not yet played. On my M3 (still in v8), I don’t see a way to gather this same info. Thus far all I have is to hit play on every icon in my favorite list and...

If I have my own free Slacker account from before I got my M3 and I log into it in my car will I “lose features” that are included in the car right now, and start seeing things like adverts playing? I would like to use my existing account because it has my playlists and such... But not if...

Just picked up my car. Halfway through drive home the music dropped out and the stereo started making an echo chamber ticking noise almost as if it was calibrating surround sound zones This started after I was messing with the two steering wheel knobs trying to see “what does this do” because I...

My delivery appointment is tomorrow (red, rwd, premium, no autopilot). For who have their cars or just have the ‘car smarts’ on this... What should I be looking at before I accept the car. We’re about 5 decades out from the end of “kick the tires and shake some bloke’s hand” being the test...

What is the “telling” piece of the VIN number? I notice it ends in a number in the mid 58,000s range. Otherwise it’s a bunch of letters with a 5 and a 3 mixed in for flavor. What’s all this then? Is there a process to making that guess about how long you’re car has been sitting in an...

Shopping quotes for a NEMA 14-50 plug in my garage here in Hayward, CA and getting quotes from about $500 to $1700... Pretty all over the place... While the $500 is very tempting, it is also from the guys who didn’t ask for any photos of my electrical panel or garage... Going to call them up...

I have never done paint protection on a car in the past. The only times I might jave regretted that would be my 1996 dodge neon that peeled on it’s own (something that model was infamous for), and when my 1998 Camry got keyed while I was back in college... (In 91 I had a college roommate who...

Last night, sent around 1am, was an email asking for me to confirm next steps to get ready... Delivery location, drivers license, insurance, financing. - I have done all of this already. I go to my account and it’s all already there... One of the links in the email even takes me to my account...

Placed my order while in the Palo Alto store Sunday (live near Fremont but work just up the road fron the Palo Alto shop). I was in the system with an order placed on Sept 30. Walked into the store yesterday to ask a fee random questions as I am geeking out, and noticed that an hour later my...