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I was surprised to see, now that Fords, and soon other cars, can use superchargers, that Tesla officially blesses cars parking in such a way as to occupy two supercharger stalls -- or even three! -- due to the short cords. They even show it in a graphic. (They warn them not to park...

You probably read the stories of cars in Chicago having trouble with cold batteries and more. While that was happening I was taking a Tesla road trip through snowy south Utah, which is perhaps the best road trip destination in the lower 48, but it has no superchargers in the center and a few...

On Forbes.com, my account of another road trip this month trying to push the boundaries of easy charging by going far from the fast chargers. Reminding us of why it's no mystery that Tesla won the charger wars, and where we need to go in the future...

Many of us have now used FSD-Beta pre-release extensively, operating on city streets with full time driver attention required. GM is releasing a similar product in UltraCruise and other companies have it in the works. The question of the poll -- we all find it interesting, but do you find...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2023/03/03/tesla-did-introduce-the-model-2-this-week-at-26000-but-kept-it-quiet/

We've seen the announcement that Tesla will open 3,500 supercharger stalls (probably new ones) to use by CCS cars and, announcing this in concert with the White House, will presumably receive federal money to do this. The question is, just how big an opening of the network is this...

We've all seen the frustration here, both those who bought recently and those who now will see their used car value plummet. I felt it in 2019 after the price of my 2018 Model 3 dropped a ton. But aside from vent, I am trying to figure out, just how would we want a company to drop prices...

You may remember in Thanksgiving 2019 there was a horrible Supercharger line with many-hour waits in the California Central Valley caused by a combination of weather, the geography of the pass and location of chargers and of course the holiday. The last few years have had more muted...

I finally installed my gen4 charge controller with bundle of wires from 2muchsun on my late 2018 model 3 mid range and got the Tesla OEM adapter. All went well and have done two software upgrades. It works, but seems to be limiting me to 50kW. That's with two tries on a 250kW supercharger...

Most should have seen that Tesla is bumping the FSD pre-order price to $15K. This is odd with a product which isn't there yet, and has a resale price of around $3K to $4K in the used market, with a declining global take rate now at 7%. I explore these price factors, and also consider the...

I noticed that on the Tesla Korea store, the CHAdeMO adapter is listed in stock but the price has gone up. Unlike the CCS adapter, which can only be bought with Korean credit cards and shipped to Korean addresses, I don't think you need that card for the CHAdeMO. Harumio used to offer both...

Putting together a variety of tips and tricks I have learned in many miles of Tesla road tripping, go to Forbes.com to see my Tesla Road trip guide, with a focus on how to spend zero time charging -- which of course actually means to always charge while doing something you already planned to do...

Here's a new article I released (including gathering some comment here in TMC) on Forbes.com today. https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2022/05/25/ev-charging-costs-from-015-per-mile-down-to-free-how-should-they-price-it/

I wrote an article for Forbes.com on Tesla maintenance experience and also made a video version of it. EV maintenance is cheap but the dark secret is tires Nothing should be too surprising to the folks here. Maintenance has been almost non-existent, with the exception of needing new tires...

I am curious to collect opinions from people on how much supercharger users care about price. (Obviously I mean the ones who pay, not those with older Model S and unlimited charging.) Looking at two Superchargers near me which are very close together, less than 2 miles apart on Stevens Creek...

Here's a story I released today with some tidbits learned from the grants given by Texas to pay 70% of the cost of charging stations. https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2022/04/14/teslas-texas-charger-grant-applications-fail-its-bad-for-texas-but-reveals-teslas-super-low-costs/...

I wrote up this trip last year but never posted about it here. Of interest to people will be that a lot of it was through regions of British Columbia where there are no superchargers, though since the trip chargers were added in a few places, like the road to Prince Rupert, and Jasper national...

I saw you liked my more serious videos. This one is in fun. And everybody who has seen one of the thousands of other Hitler videos should know they are not in any way trying to compare the subject with Hitler, just do some satire. Enjoy.

While everybody talks about car owners buying adapters (and indeed I have the Tesla CHAdeMO) that's the backwards way to do it. Adapters should be placed at charging stations that want customers of the other type. Every charging station should be very pleased to support Teslas, there are...

I am on a Tesla road trip with a 12v camping fridge. It uses about 500wh/day -- about 2 miles of range, but having Sentry mode on to keep the power going uses up 14 miles overnight which is not great. I have seen proposals to use camp mode with heat and AC off as much as possible, or Smart...

Had it for a couple of weeks, and have been encountering problems when I turn on scheduled charging to start charge at 11pm when off-peak power turns on. Problems as in, it doesn't start charging then though plugged in, or it stops charging sometime in the night (nowhere near the charge...