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  1. jeffhre

    Supercharger - Palmdale, CA (LIVE 19 Oct 2020, 20 V3 stalls)

    Many have tried - no one has suceeded :-( Edison is likely in AV COVID mode.
  2. jeffhre

    Forget Everything I Have Said... I’m Now Totally In!

    "My prediction will be once this baby is ready for prime time production, Elon will have another event where hundreds of large steel balls will rain down from above while air cannons fire even more from the sides but NOTHING WILL BREAK this time.... Elon will then step to the mic with that huge...
  3. jeffhre

    370 miles of range!!!!!!!!

    I like the "tablet" in the Roadster.
  4. jeffhre

    Irritated after 4 days of SR ownership.

    We got the AWD LR in July 2108. Its a car. The 35K version does essentially the same thing. And so does the P with every option checked. We wanted long range for travel and AWD for being in winter conditions, snowboarding etc. We know that newer versions will offer more at a lower price over...
  5. jeffhre

    Colorado waiting room - M3 Performance AWD or non-Perf AWD

    Yes that's it. Amazingly, they don't make it a PITA to take your money!
  6. jeffhre

    Colorado waiting room - M3 Performance AWD or non-Perf AWD

    I decided not to take a cashiers check. Used the ACH transfer (on-site), worked immediately, drove away with DM, standard black, black interior.
  7. jeffhre

    How does it take 4-6 months for new reservations?

    HA ha, when did scheduling the manufacturing and delivery of cars become pure skulduggery...I wonder if johnny Depp would play Elon in the movie version? Does Amber heard have a role?
  8. jeffhre

    Model Y to be based on Model 3 after all

    How does air under a vehicle become favorable?
  9. jeffhre

    Tesla in Pasadena Accident: Driver Fled

    My Volt did the same thing - Wouldn't lock the trunk and honked the horn IIRC.
  10. jeffhre

    President of Chevron on Charlie Rose 5/17/16

    That is Bjorn Lomborg's current line. They ask you to - forget about the fact that the poor are the least able to adapt to climate change - but think instead "about how the poor will be so much better off" - once a lot more and very expensive fossil fuel infrastructure is built, so that they can...
  11. jeffhre

    Model 3 Specification Speculation

    "The 55s weight is estimated to be 1815kg with a driver and the 75 weighs 1905kg with a driver..." The 55s weight is estimated to be 1815kg (without) a driver and the 75 weighs 1905kg with a driver.
  12. jeffhre

    Any point in placing an order now?

    Elon MuskVerified account @elonmusk Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity & PayPal Tesla's Model 3 already has 198,000 reservations ...and it totally lives up to the hype http://bloom.bg/1pQcn2u 2,260 retweets3,859 likes Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk Apr 1 Definitely going to need to rethink production...
  13. jeffhre

    Any point in placing an order now?

    Just pointing out that even in prioritized California, if someone waits until deliveries begin to order - the line could be extremely long.
  14. jeffhre

    Fossil Fuel Divestment - Saudis Want Out

    Better to start working on it 100 years late than never.
  15. jeffhre

    Fossil Fuel Divestment - Saudis Want Out

    Much of the investment world believes there is great value there and will be happy for the opportunity. If there is any worry for most of these potential investors of Saudi reserves staying in the ground, it is with a paternalistic eye toward those who hold the "bag" - 40 or 50 years from now.
  16. jeffhre

    BYD Electric Bus Delivery

    AVTA has recently committed to replacing their fleet with 85 BYD electric buses.
  17. jeffhre

    Any point in placing an order now?

    Congrats! After your Tesla email arrives get your reservation information on the My Tesla tab at their website if you haven't already. Should be faster than when they were getting 100,000s of orders a day!
  18. jeffhre

    Any point in placing an order now?

    Yes, but by the the production begins, there could be 198,000 more globally, in California, or just in southern California! Since orders will be batched, and it's up to 325,000 now, orders that are from California just before the start of production, could conceivably be built after the first...
  19. jeffhre

    How Long Till Solar Powered Car?

    "Whadda ya mean I gotta move my car to meet those specs?" I like the idea of having panels on the roof - of buildings. I'm thinking about raising a few peacocks though!
  20. jeffhre

    How Long Till Solar Powered Car?

    It's interesting that we can so easily get lost in a type of technology, instead of simply asking; How do we get the job done? The job is 40% done! From what I have seen of the statistics from the Center for Sustainable Energy, about 40% of Tesla owners have already deployed solar panels to...
  21. jeffhre

    How Long Till Solar Powered Car?

    I don't want to park my car in the hot UV damaging sun all day every day.
  22. jeffhre

    Anti-Tesla piece in the Telegraph (UK)

    If Bjorn could write an article that didn't lurch wildly from one contradiction to the next, I may just read the whole thing. I read a few paragraphs and wondered why Bjorn even bothered to write that ridiculous hit piece. Then it occurred to me that his fossil fuel benefactors may like to see a...
  23. jeffhre

    Model 3: Too Much Hoopla?

    April 6 - estimated 300,000 reservations so far - just nonsense, LOL!
  24. jeffhre

    When will the Model 3 Reveal II happen?

    Could be much sooner - my wishful thinking though!
  25. jeffhre

    Reservation process detils (payment options)

    I reserved using Amex but was told Checks weren't accepted - North Los Angeles County.
  26. jeffhre

    A way Tesla could convert preorders to cash

    "A way Tesla could convert preorders to cash" I assume you mean beyond the 300 million USD that they already have taken in?
  27. jeffhre

    JH Photography of Sig Model X at Champs, January 10, 2016 (4K)

    Wasn't there some sort of consensus forming on it being a smaller CUV than the X? Potentially!!!
  28. jeffhre

    Largest tesla gathering in the world, if you show up

    Plug-in hybrids unwelcome?
  29. jeffhre

    Chevy Bolt - 200 mile range for $30k base price (after incentive)

    Though it doesn't say much for their attempts to handicap Tesla, but there is: Design, spec, coordination, production engineering, financing, testing, homologation, FMVSS/50 state certification, crash testing, drive component engineering/tuning, production tooling, stamping and pressing...
  30. jeffhre

    Good German P90D Review (Autobahn)

    Yes. But not so unexpected after reading about the FTC hearings on the dealer franchise system and how attempts are being made to thwart Tesla.
  31. jeffhre

    Can powerwall be setup for off grid with natural gas backup?

    "I find it odd that people have trouble reducing their electric consumption, it was the easiest part, just means a different TV, PC and lighting use, along with natural gas powered appliances (dryer,water heater,stove)" LOL, not so easy w/o turning to NG. I'm trying to wean myself from fossil...
  32. jeffhre

    Model X Founder Series - Facts

    You didn't do well in anticipation of Christmas as a kid - did you?
  33. jeffhre

    I'm starting to think the X still isn't ready...

    Perfect. I'm glad someone else is saying that!
  34. jeffhre

    Logistics Ugh

    Yes, alas so much of that is true at Tesla's current scale. And I don't know why they didn't try, considering so much of what they do differs from the industry. Except perhaps to try to decrease unit costs that are IMO, much higher than other OEMs delivery costs. Though this is an industry which...
  35. jeffhre

    Logistics Ugh

    Seems to me it would be fairly easy to track the 1 millionth widget sold. And very easy to ship by the box. Try instead,tracing the very fist widget shipped and sold by a company that shuns outside third party assistance (auto dealers - love em right?). Shipping something as large and...
  36. jeffhre

    Model X Reviews From the Launch

    Reveal could have been better He's right of course: "The Model X will sell well" - But it could have sold weller-er; except it's sold out for the next year at maximum production capacity. "And Elon Musk will continue to be an outrageously successful individual." - could have been an even...
  37. jeffhre

    NET METERING; Four reasons "Net-Metering" is no longer our friend...

    With net metering, you will drive east across the toll bridge, after adding a local on-ramp to the bridge at your own expense. And since the bridge is losing money, you encourage your neighbors, friends and family to use the bridge, and pay their tolls also. Ultimately your compensation will...
  38. jeffhre

    Allow me to introduce the 50 rwd.

    That would not be less expensive, but more, as it is a coupe.:crying:
  39. jeffhre

    Tesla PowerWall without Solar

    That is why California has lower per capita electricity use.
  40. jeffhre

    Tesla Mule 1 - Where it all Began!

    Inadvertent? Thank you Jurjen for posting an amazing review of Tesla history. Really nice to be able to go back again without having look up a lot of references myself to check to see if my memory is accurate (which I am certain it would not be).
  41. jeffhre

    Tesla Lemon Model S owner Rebuttal to Tesla's Blog Post

    Yes that seems to work well for you. Though I would be curious to know the effects that the opener is having on the base :)
  42. jeffhre

    CNN's Favorite Cars of 2013

    ..I would expect two results from this course of action; 1. Nothing from the great masses, 2. Perhaps enough information for the 1 or 2% sitting on the fence to come to an intelligent decision.
  43. jeffhre

    SuperCharge every day?

    If you use 120V while you are sleeping and use the supercharger once a week or so until you get a charger at home sounds about ideal, no? Though I wouldn't want to get out of my car for an extra stop several times a week ad infinitum, to save a few pennies. If that was the case, why waste...
  44. jeffhre

    1,200 fewer gas tanker deliveries on our roads?

    Multiply it x five! How much electricity has been saved by not having to refine that much gasoline. Or by EV owners who were inspired to get solar panels, and or to install LED lamps, bulbs and other energy conserving measures?
  45. jeffhre

    "Tesla. A Much Needed Reality Check (in depth)" - Julian Cox's Expert Analysis Posted

    Then we are all wrong, since that encapsulates what we are all doing. How can you peg the mid to long term CoC of a company that grew revenues 1500% in one year, based on it's one and only, newly available model, and assume there is some possible potential for predicting present value of future...
  46. jeffhre

    Tesla on CBS National News Nov. 19

    "The MS is more prone to fire as a result undercarriage stike than an ICE vehicle. This is what the NHTSA is interested in. This one is harder to assess because we don't know the rate of undercarriage strike and fire in ICE vehicles. That stat may not even exist. However, the NHTSA wants to find...
  47. jeffhre

    Top Speed. Governed or maxed out?

    Doug G, Todd Burch, and Teg are correct IMO with respect to limits on speed. Although any engineered product that was constantly run at it's limit, would not be robust in the hands of some consumers. So to approach the question from another angle, I'd ask; What would happen to the car if the...
  48. jeffhre

    Badging for Solar-Charged EVs

    Alpha, "OK, I realize that not all superchargers are currently net zero CO2 emissions, but longer term I believe most of them will be." This is certainly no fault of yours, Elon Lyndon and Peter have to chip in on their part of the bargain as well!
  49. jeffhre

    Shell and Tesla

    I don't see it as admitting defeat. With oil more expensive to find, planes trains trucks and ships to fuel. A myriad of industrial and chemical processes to feed. Heating and a small slice of passenger car transport needs to fulfill, oil companies will have their hands full with as much...