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Pacific Northwest Owners (Seattle, Portland, or towns/cities in the region)
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Super_Popular
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I would suggest joining the Tesla Owners of Oregon group:
Tesla Owners Oregon - Home
There are a couple of detailers that give discounts to members and people in the group can give recommendations. It's also a good group of people with various meet ups and group drives throughout the year.
Tesla Owners Oregon - Home
There are a couple of detailers that give discounts to members and people in the group can give recommendations. It's also a good group of people with various meet ups and group drives throughout the year.
This is me in the streets of Portland.
If you see me, go beep beep
If you see me, go beep beep
Nice, chrome blackout job. But you do realize there are a lot of Model 3s around Portland these days? When I got my S most drivers would acknowledge one another when they saw another Tesla, but these days most Tesla drivers I see are oblivious to other Teslas. I still note them, but I try not to confuse other people by waving or honking at complete strangers.
There haven't been many group activities during the pandemic, but if you want to meet other Tesla enthusiasts and do group activities with other owners, I'd recommend joining PDX Tesla. There is an email list, Facebook group, and just recently a private forum was started. We do group drives several times a year and other meet and greet activities.
There haven't been many group activities during the pandemic, but if you want to meet other Tesla enthusiasts and do group activities with other owners, I'd recommend joining PDX Tesla. There is an email list, Facebook group, and just recently a private forum was started. We do group drives several times a year and other meet and greet activities.
JasontheBeaver
Jason Barker
It is so difficult to get a good photo of a black car under overcast skies, but you did a great job with this one!
This is me in the streets of Portland.
If you see me, go beep beep
I appreciate the kind words but I really can't take credit. The iPhone did all the fancy HDR stuff and I just did a light touchup on the photo haha
Side note for anyone interested, my wheels are for sale. Full wheel set with TPMS mounted and balanced. Can even deliver and install in the Portland Metro area. Message me!
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JasontheBeaver
Jason Barker
Turn your wheels one full turn to the right in this photo and you'll have professional quality posing skills!
I used to do that every time I parked when I had an Audi (I also have always backed into parking spaces so boy was I set for Tesla and chargers, LOL)
Hello fellow PNW’ers! Just checking in as it seems the PNW dialog has come to a trickle. What’s up? Me? I just ordered a Plaid….
Stay Covid safe!
Stay Covid safe!
Definitely a “boooooooo” on likely never seeing a tax credit for Tesla vehicles ever again. Seems like the “administration,” who continually tout Global Warn concerns, feel like only Unionized manufacturers can solve the problem. Unreal.
⚡️ELECTROMAN⚡️
Village Idiot
I don’t think it’s going to hurt Tesla, but it shows just how corrupt and bought our government is. It’s really sad.
Had my 80 year old parents talked into getting a Y. My mom really wants one. They are holding off to see if a federal tax incentive is going to be available soon.
whitex
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Tesla wasn't even invited into the Biden administration EV car event. Are they are not American or EV enough (spoiler, Tesla cars are most American EV's there are today)? Unions you say? I doubt it. Like my father always says, when you don't understand what something is about, it's about money. Tesla simply doesn't donate hundreds on millions to the politicians, like the other US auto manufacturers. If you voted for Biden because you though he was less corrupt than Trump, you were wrong, he's just less crazy.
Full disclosure, I didn't vote for either Tump or Biden last election - simply didn't want either of the outcomes on my conscience. I preferred to throw my vote away (then again, voting for anyone but a democrat in my state is throwing your vote away since the state was called for Biden with 1% reporting with Trump in the lead, meaning everyone knows WA electoral votes go democrat no matter what). Let the people have what they want. I have a Taycan on order, but if WA passes the per mile penalty on EV's (in addition to the 12K miles worth of gas tax already included in the annual registration and $75 extra for public charging infrastructure), I will get a 1000+hp gas guzzler instead to satisfy the voters will who think EV's are rich people's toys - if they'd rather suck on my exhaust, who am I to challenge the will of the people. Oh, just to be clear, I do think EV's should pay road taxes, I just don't think they should be singled out. Simplest solution, tire tax - the more tires you use, the more roads you use, so it would seem like the ideal way to get road taxes, but the WA democrats are not interested in fair, they want "the rich to pay" and EV's are seen as the toys of the rich. Even the HOV lane access was never granted to EV's because "WA does not have a pollution problem, WA only has a traffic congestion problem", meaning pollute all you want, WA state democratic government doesn't care.
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Yep, WA is rapidly become an extreme socialist state. Don't believe me, just look at what's happening in Seattle....
Washington has a population of 7.7 million and Seattle city itself is around 750K. Democrats outside of Seattle are more moderate in general.
I also believe that lumping what Donald Trump did with any other politician playing business as usual is very dangerous. It normalizes the behaviors of a want to be dictator. Biden is doing what most politicians in American history have done: try to pay back the constituencies that put them in office/contributed to their campaigns. What Trump did and tried to do was much more sinister and dangerous for everyone.
I'm not saying that the former is great, it's one of the things that happens in a democratic republic I don't really like very much, but it doesn't break the democracy itself. The US has survived 240 years of these behaviors.
The latter is what a dictator does, they break the norms that hold the democracy together and bend them to their will to get rich or advance their egos at everyone's expense. That usually ruins a country. The most extreme example is Germany in the 1930s and 40s, but many countries are still recovering from dictators run out decades ago.
Dictatorships that are dangerous tend to get isolated by the international community. North Korea is the most extreme example today, but Russia has been under many international sanctions for a while now because of things Putin and his oligarchs have done. Over the last decade or so Russia's GDP has sunk below Italy's. A dictatorship with the world's largest military would likely get a very strong response from the rest of the world.
Because Biden is an old school politician, he will likely bow to pressure if enough people write the White House asking why Tesla wasn't included in his American car expo. But if Tesla supporters just complain on social media about it, it will happen the next time there is an American car expo too.
I also believe that lumping what Donald Trump did with any other politician playing business as usual is very dangerous. It normalizes the behaviors of a want to be dictator. Biden is doing what most politicians in American history have done: try to pay back the constituencies that put them in office/contributed to their campaigns. What Trump did and tried to do was much more sinister and dangerous for everyone.
I'm not saying that the former is great, it's one of the things that happens in a democratic republic I don't really like very much, but it doesn't break the democracy itself. The US has survived 240 years of these behaviors.
The latter is what a dictator does, they break the norms that hold the democracy together and bend them to their will to get rich or advance their egos at everyone's expense. That usually ruins a country. The most extreme example is Germany in the 1930s and 40s, but many countries are still recovering from dictators run out decades ago.
Dictatorships that are dangerous tend to get isolated by the international community. North Korea is the most extreme example today, but Russia has been under many international sanctions for a while now because of things Putin and his oligarchs have done. Over the last decade or so Russia's GDP has sunk below Italy's. A dictatorship with the world's largest military would likely get a very strong response from the rest of the world.
Because Biden is an old school politician, he will likely bow to pressure if enough people write the White House asking why Tesla wasn't included in his American car expo. But if Tesla supporters just complain on social media about it, it will happen the next time there is an American car expo too.
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