Today my car is one year old, well ownership-wise anyway.
It would have had a lot more miles, had this pandemic not come along.
I have a 2019 Performance X, with FSD. it was delivered with 5 miles on the odometer. At 90% charge, my mileage indicated a range of 270 miles the day I picked it up. Though I keep my display in percent most of the time, I like to check mileage every now and then. The new 28.5 update came last week, before it did, I showed 268 miles at 90%, so I lost 2 miles my first year. I now show 276 miles with the new software, an increase of 8 miles.
Pretty happy with the battery. I drive in Ludicrous mode all the time, have reasonably heavy foot while driving, love pulling briskly away at stoplights, though in town I don’t floor it when I do. I do floor it when I pull out on the main road into town from my neighborhood. I have done a dozen or so launches in appropriate areas. What a hoot.
I keep it plugged in when I am home, set to 90%. I live about 20 minutes out of town. A normal day of driving for chores (I am retried) takes me down to about 70-80%. We have made a half dozen or so 200 mile trips, supercharged maybe 8-10 times, I have had it as low as 14%, though it’s rare for me to go below 50%.
At some point I will be driving it to both NY and Oregon to visit my children and grandchildren, that had to be put off for a bit, so we will see how lots more supercharging affects the battery next year.
I love this car, no issues since the day I picked it up, filling the washer fluid twice is the total maintenance done so far.
It now does many things it did not do the day I picked it up, through the magic of software updates. It is far more relaxing to drive than any other vehicle I have ever owned, around town or on trips. My wife remarked that my minor road rage episodes have disappeared. A three hour drive feels like about an hour.
It is smooth, quiet, powerful, roomy, it’s design proudly acknowledges it’s difference between ICE vehicles and the future of personal transportation. Between the giant windshield and the falcon doors, along with a map screen reminiscent of the displays in aircraft I used to fly - It feels like a spaceship, I named it Rocinante after The Expanse sci-if show.
I plan on installing full solar and power walls, hopefully later this year, and will be solar powered 100%. It’s the future come alive that I read about as a kid devouring science fiction. So cool.
I am a retired pilot, and used to fly competition aerobatics as well as airshows back in the 90’s, and this car gives me that same Vitamin “G” every time I drive. In 47 years of car ownership, from a rusted out VW Bug that had to be started by rolling it and popping the clutch (my first car) to a Lexus 350GL, I have never been so happy with a car.
Well, the VW was my first taste of independence, so it was special too.
Can’t wait for the Cybertruck, so I can trade in my Ram truck!
Good Health and Happy Driving fellow Teslanauts! ;-)
It would have had a lot more miles, had this pandemic not come along.
I have a 2019 Performance X, with FSD. it was delivered with 5 miles on the odometer. At 90% charge, my mileage indicated a range of 270 miles the day I picked it up. Though I keep my display in percent most of the time, I like to check mileage every now and then. The new 28.5 update came last week, before it did, I showed 268 miles at 90%, so I lost 2 miles my first year. I now show 276 miles with the new software, an increase of 8 miles.
Pretty happy with the battery. I drive in Ludicrous mode all the time, have reasonably heavy foot while driving, love pulling briskly away at stoplights, though in town I don’t floor it when I do. I do floor it when I pull out on the main road into town from my neighborhood. I have done a dozen or so launches in appropriate areas. What a hoot.
I keep it plugged in when I am home, set to 90%. I live about 20 minutes out of town. A normal day of driving for chores (I am retried) takes me down to about 70-80%. We have made a half dozen or so 200 mile trips, supercharged maybe 8-10 times, I have had it as low as 14%, though it’s rare for me to go below 50%.
At some point I will be driving it to both NY and Oregon to visit my children and grandchildren, that had to be put off for a bit, so we will see how lots more supercharging affects the battery next year.
I love this car, no issues since the day I picked it up, filling the washer fluid twice is the total maintenance done so far.
It now does many things it did not do the day I picked it up, through the magic of software updates. It is far more relaxing to drive than any other vehicle I have ever owned, around town or on trips. My wife remarked that my minor road rage episodes have disappeared. A three hour drive feels like about an hour.
It is smooth, quiet, powerful, roomy, it’s design proudly acknowledges it’s difference between ICE vehicles and the future of personal transportation. Between the giant windshield and the falcon doors, along with a map screen reminiscent of the displays in aircraft I used to fly - It feels like a spaceship, I named it Rocinante after The Expanse sci-if show.
I plan on installing full solar and power walls, hopefully later this year, and will be solar powered 100%. It’s the future come alive that I read about as a kid devouring science fiction. So cool.
I am a retired pilot, and used to fly competition aerobatics as well as airshows back in the 90’s, and this car gives me that same Vitamin “G” every time I drive. In 47 years of car ownership, from a rusted out VW Bug that had to be started by rolling it and popping the clutch (my first car) to a Lexus 350GL, I have never been so happy with a car.
Well, the VW was my first taste of independence, so it was special too.
Can’t wait for the Cybertruck, so I can trade in my Ram truck!
Good Health and Happy Driving fellow Teslanauts! ;-)
