I had an RWD S from 2013-16. With Nokia Hakka R2s it was great in snow. But for the 3 since I knew AWD was coming relatively soon I decided to wait for it - ordered on Wednesday.
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I had an RWD S from 2013-16. With Nokia Hakka R2s it was great in snow. But for the 3 since I knew AWD was coming relatively soon I decided to wait for it - ordered on Wednesday.
davedavedave
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Daliman
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I didn't have time to count or try to break this down. Most seemed to be MSM, Black and Blue. Not many reds. All aero wheels.Know what's REALLY weird in this pic? One red car in that file? Only one? In CANADA?
navguy12
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We run snow tires here because we have a tendency to take winter road trips to places like Michigan and New Hampshire. A few years ago (edit: earlier this decade; time flies), we got three feet of snow in under two weeks. I had to put chains on my 4WD pickup truck to get around.
racer26
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I checked out international center and the CN lot where the cars are getting off the rail cars today. Looks like about 300 cars on IC property, about 400-600 more in the CN lot. And about 100 more in the Closeout King lot.
Vast majority have aero wheels. I've only seen about 10 cars in Canada so far with sport wheels.
As for AWD - AWD is not a substitute for winter tires. It does not help you stop or turn, only accelerate. So you can get yourself into more trouble by getting going faster than you should.
Why would you buy a 65k+ car and cheap out to save $1k to not put winter tires on it? It's not even like it is more expensive in the long haul because you aren't wearing out your summer tires in the winter so they all last twice as long.
Vast majority have aero wheels. I've only seen about 10 cars in Canada so far with sport wheels.
As for AWD - AWD is not a substitute for winter tires. It does not help you stop or turn, only accelerate. So you can get yourself into more trouble by getting going faster than you should.
Why would you buy a 65k+ car and cheap out to save $1k to not put winter tires on it? It's not even like it is more expensive in the long haul because you aren't wearing out your summer tires in the winter so they all last twice as long.
davedavedave
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It’s the law in Quebec - can’t understand why it’s not the law in more places, or at least a factor in insurance claims...
navguy12
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navguy12
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Preemptive apologies to our team of moderators
5.7 kW.
8 years and 2 weeks old.
Yearly surplus average between 1.2 and 1.8 mWh which should amount to about 9,000 kms in my Model 3
RedOctober
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Yes our imperial gallon is approximately 1.2 U.S gallon or about 3/4 of a litre more.
Nope. 1.39 per litre Canadian currency is about 4.06 USD per US gallon.
Yes
That is an old image you have. Tesla cut it out for the other automated buildings. the rail access was discuss several time on this thread, just about every time we get new drone footage. Then we get fussed at because were off topic. But why are we off topic when Augkuo is off for the weekend and isn't making a special trip to give us Tesla Porn to look at.
How does Tesla get the cars from the factory to the Richmond site or the shipyard? that is why my post referred to them
I had noted that there was railroad construction activity going into the plant along the old roadbed leading into the plant. I need New drone footage to see what changed since the last footage. Is tesla just removing the last of the rail going into the plant or are they starting to rebuild new rail access.
Bottom line is Tesla needs to get rail access back into the plant if there going to produce at the high volumes. you got parts coming in and cars going out. And tesla isn't building tractor trailers yet. there is a lot of lost labor driving, loading and unloading currently to get them on the train.
My S & E came by rail and they only had a couple miles on them. so how did they get from the assembly line to Richmond?
There was also a picture of a ship yard with a whole boatload of Tesla's heading overseas. I forgot the pier number but they had to get there to. How?
Some of the semis loading cars don't have a sleeper on them, that is a good indication they are only doing local runs. Those semis probably move several truckloads a day. Tesla probably does need to install a new rail spur, but they are also probably able to ship at a discount from Richmond. The Richmond yard is where most of the new cars coming into Northern California are delivered. That includes cars built on this continent (Mexico, Canada, as well as the rest of the US) as well as cars from Europe. The only cars destined for Nor Cal that don't arrive at that terminal by train are cars arriving by ship from Asia or Tesla's built in Fremont.
Shippers don't like running empty. It's a waste of a resource, but those car carrier rail cars have to run mostly empty to whereever they need to go. They probably give Tesla a discount to use up some of that space and generates a bit of revenue that would otherwise be lost to the rail company.
I expect Tesla took out their rail spur because it had been abandoned for a while and it would have been too expensive to rehab. There are a lot of safety regulations in maintaining a private rail spur and rail carriers charge a lot of money just to keep access to a private spur.
Teslas bound for Europe will go on the train at Richmond too. Even Asian car makers ship their cars destined for Europe to the west coast of the US, put them on trains, and load them back into ships on the east coast. It's cheaper and safer than shipping them by ship directly from Asia to Europe. The only Teslas that go on a ship in the Bay Area will be those destined for New Zealand, Australia, or Asia.
African train cars, or European?Here is a question, how many train cars full of model 3s can a model x converted to run on rail pull...
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