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Tesla has shown a supercharger planned in 2020 for the west side of Madison. I'm guessing at the Hy-Vee on Whitney Way. Can anyone tell me what the status is on this?

Probably. Space between the wheel wells is tight. I haven't tried a MTB, but I can just squeeze my road bike in. I'm 6' 2" and the important dimension is the distance from the bottom of the chainring to the top back of the saddle. On my size 58 bike, this is ~ 97 cm. With the rear wheel on...

Check with your service center. Mine (Denver) had them available a few weeks back.

Drive by and see if it looks like they're actually doing any work inside. Last time I did that, maybe a month ago, it just looked like an empty shell. I suspect we're months away from that being a functioning service center. If you need service, you might as well schedule it. If they can...

You might check with your local service center. The one in Denver had some key fobs recently even though they've been listed as sold out online.

Tesla sales guy in Littleton told me a couple weeks ago they got the keys to the building on Jan 1 and he understood electricians were supposed to be doing their thing in there. He didn't think there would ever be a sales showroom there, but it should be a service center.

Interesting. I'm only going by what I was told by a Tesla sales manager. Seems really strange to have a lower limit on an EV. Maybe he's wrong, in which case it's costing Tesla money, or (purely speculating) there are different rules for miles on a car sold directly by a manufacturer vs. a...

No idea, but it doesn't seem like something that would be specific to EV's. I do have the impression Colorado is more restrictive on this than many other states. Maybe it was being abused in the past and they introduced a regulation to deal with it? From a practical standpoint, it wouldn't...

Try driving around and parking in a tight parking garage, then imagine not being able to do it in an S. S has a larger turning circle and is roughly 5" wider. I got overnight test drives of both an S and a 3P and getting the S in and out of my side-load garage was very challenging. Find a...

It's funny, I think people who've never had a car that allows a fully assembled bike inside really can't appreciate just how nice that is. The bike is secure and ready to go. At the end of a ride, when you're nearly bonked, it just pops back in with no problem. Model S is perfect in this...

Went back to the local store to try fitting my road bike into the Model 3. After trying a variety of angles and orientations, I managed to jamb it in there! And jamb is the correct word. It basically involved tilting the frame so the chainrings were high, the saddle low, right in the area...

Interesting detail I learned about new car sales in Colorado that I thought I'd share. In Colorado, a car can only be sold as new if it has under 1500 miles on the odometer. What's the practical difference between a car with 1499 and 1500 miles? No tax credit! Tesla in Denver currently has...

The issue was with the dimension between the bottom of the big chainring up to the saddle. I wasn't able to angle the frame enough to get that portion of the bike between the wheel wells. I think I'm going to go back to the Tesla store and spend more time with this to play with different...

I'm curious what size bike that is. I can't fit my bikes in a Model 3 without dropping the seat post, and that's not something you want to do with a carbon frame and post every time you put it in the car. Road bike is a 58 with a lot of seat post as I'm 6' 2". Eyeballing it, I need about an...

Tesla's Superior store still moving forward despite company's online pivot, town officials say TL;DR: Construction essentially complete, ready for Tesla to move in. Town heard just a few days ago (prior to Tesla announcement about closing stores) that everything is still on track. Tesla has...

I've got a 2010 Prius (3rd generation). It's smaller in length and width than the Model 3, and I can fit my road bike in the back without taking the wheels off. I brought my bike for a test drive of the Model 3 to see if I'd be able to do the same. Couldn't tell if I would need to take off...