Good afternoon everyone.
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I am a hater. I do not wish to remain a hater.
Bill, I am late to this thread but really like everything you are saying.
Here is what I want in a car:
Start with the basics. All the Tesla's were the
safest cars and then the
Model Y was ranked as the safest SUV ever tested. Tesla's are some of the quickest in each category. I bought a muscle car back in the day. My Model 3 is way faster. My Model Y
SUV is way faster too.
But how can a car I bought in 2018 be one of the newest cars?
Other cars were frozen in time 12 to 24 months before they first shipped. No feature is ever added. Your "new" car was already old when you got it.
Since I got my Model 3 in 2018, Tesla has added hundreds of features and upgrades. See
@R0cco_Speranza's list of hundreds of new features and upgrades since 2017. Here are some of my favorite features added to the Model 3:
- Santa Mode (car turns into Santa's Sleigh, other cars are reindeer, pedestrians are elves)
- Chill Mode (because it is so freakishly fast otherwise)
- Upgraded braking (yup, one day existing Model 3's could brake better)
- Navigate on Autopilot (set a destination and it goes there, interstate only at this point)
- Key Fobs
- Increased Braking Re-gen (more efficient and now one-pedal driving!)
- Auto Park (parallel or back-in perpendicular)
- Faster V2 Supercharging
- Track Mode (for when you want to go freakishly fast)
- Fart App (the most requested thing I show people)
- Sentry Mode (alarm system)
- Romance Mode, Dog Mode, Camp Mode
- Blind Spot Warning (cars in nearby lanes show up in red)
- 5% Faster Acceleration (yup, 0.2 seconds quicker 0-60)
- 5% Faster Acceleration (yup, it's quicker, again)
- 7 mph faster top end (155 to 162 mph, no lie, one day it could just go faster)
- Dash Cam (first 1 camera, then 3 cameras, then 4 cameras saved to a USB drive)
- Red Light Detection (it can stop for red lights)
- Summon ("it will come to you like a puppy")
- Auto Lane Change (if it sees you need to change lanes, it does)
- Faster V3 Supercharging
- Smart Summon ("it will follow you around like a pet")
- Voice Controls
- Text Messaging
- Watch Cameras from phone app
- Speed Limit Sign detection (Tesla was late to add this)
- Green Light Camera Detection (it can automatically go when the light turns green)
- Full Self Driving Beta (still really a work in progress)
- Light Show (make your own, watch the videos)
- Blind Spot Cameras
- Too many new games to count
As to most fun, my Tesla's have a dozen ways they make me smile. Like any time I touch the accelerator pedal.
I have not really mentioned Most Efficient but My Tesla's are over 120 eMPG. Even more fun for me is that in our area you can get a demand meter and pay a lower rate over night, typically 2-3 cents a kWh. But there are nights Com Ed pays me to take their power.
It's not a lot, but there are nights that Com Ed actually pays us to take their power because they can't turn off their plants at night. Now that is fun!
Oh, and I should mention that Tesla is saving the planet too. But the other things are a lot more fun.