A nerve racking experience yesterday that could have ended in a bad way.
I was on my way for a one day trip up hwy 70 to visit a friend in Medford Oregon when I ran into really thick smoke and at mid day, I would have guessed it to be night time. The smell and irritation was terrible. I turned on the Bio mode and man it really worked great. I decided to not risk going further as it seemed to be coming from the direction I was heading. Then I was hearing on the radio that 70 was being closed. I turned around. Traffic was getting slower as a lot of people where headed back South. Then I saw fire sparks blowing down from the West. OK, this was starting to get scary, yet the highway patrol was encouraging people to move in that direction. About an hour later I was completely out of it and it wasn't until this morning that I learned of the nasty devastation occurring in Paradise CA. WOW.
All I can say is I was really happy to have that feature in the car and I was feeling a little better not traveling through that area in a machine filled with gasoline. This was the first time I was really testing the capability of that mode aside from the trips down I5 where the cow pasture smell is overbearing. If you go down that route in central CA then you know what I am talking about.
This morning I see I am probably going to need to replace the SunTech film on the passenger front panel of the car. Apparently embers burned some spots on the film. Otherwise all is well..
Thanks Tesla for the great air filtering system.
I was on my way for a one day trip up hwy 70 to visit a friend in Medford Oregon when I ran into really thick smoke and at mid day, I would have guessed it to be night time. The smell and irritation was terrible. I turned on the Bio mode and man it really worked great. I decided to not risk going further as it seemed to be coming from the direction I was heading. Then I was hearing on the radio that 70 was being closed. I turned around. Traffic was getting slower as a lot of people where headed back South. Then I saw fire sparks blowing down from the West. OK, this was starting to get scary, yet the highway patrol was encouraging people to move in that direction. About an hour later I was completely out of it and it wasn't until this morning that I learned of the nasty devastation occurring in Paradise CA. WOW.
All I can say is I was really happy to have that feature in the car and I was feeling a little better not traveling through that area in a machine filled with gasoline. This was the first time I was really testing the capability of that mode aside from the trips down I5 where the cow pasture smell is overbearing. If you go down that route in central CA then you know what I am talking about.
This morning I see I am probably going to need to replace the SunTech film on the passenger front panel of the car. Apparently embers burned some spots on the film. Otherwise all is well..
Thanks Tesla for the great air filtering system.