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Pics of white Y with and without Gemini covers
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mackgriggs
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No....the lug nuts and center cap are only for when you take off the aero covers.
Looking at these makes me believe these should have been blacked out as OEM.
mackgriggs
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Looks great. What finish/brand did you use and did you remove the tires or just cover the surroundings?
Yes, was putting on the PPF so had to wait. It's next on the list!
. Plasti Dip in black from home depot. I think it was like under $3. On my model 3, I removed the tires and did the whole thing but for this, I put big plastic bags inside the wheel to cover the brakes and did it. You can't even tell the difference unless you look closely from next to the wheel.
jmatero
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I may be in the minority but I prefer the Gemini covers stock. Between the raised height, black wheel arch trim, and black tires, the wheel wells look like massive black holes and the wheels without covers look tiny. The Gemini covers have so much silver surface area, they make the wheel size look bigger and breakup the black.
Laguna M3
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Charging stations aren't really scarce any longer . . . and if you're going to any place with electricity, you should be fine
Even more important, every time you buy fossil fuels, you increase the risk of catastrophic outcomes on our one and only planet. That's remarkably unwise, but sometimes humans don't act in their long-term best interest.
Charging stations aren't really scarce any longer . . . and if you're going to any place with electricity, you should be fine
Even more important, every time you buy fossil fuels, you increase the risk of catastrophic outcomes on our one and only planet. That's remarkably unwise, but sometimes humans don't act in their long-term best interest.
Let's say next month every ICE car in the USA is replaced by an EV. Can you imagine how vast our electrical supply infrastructure would need to be to support the loads of electricity for millions of EV's charging simultaneously. The power plants that produce electricity use oil and other natural resources and they are all located along bodies of water that is needed to cool the turbines. More power plants = more oil and more air and water pollution. How are the rolling blackouts working out for the folks in California? EV's will not eliminate or even vastly reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. Alternative fuel vehicles will serve that purpose and they are far behind EV's. The main reasons I'm buying a Tesla are for experiencing the BMW-like handling of a premium car without the high LT maintenance costs, the convenience of not having to go out to pump gas on a regular basis, using the HOV lane of the LIE, aka the parking lot, and for the technology and software updates.
While I commend you for your Tesla purchase, you are remarkably misinformed on a variety of topics, extremely so. It's hard to know where to begin, frankly, but the nature of your comments is such that they cannot be allowed to remain posted without correction.
In random order:
1. The grid is sized for the worst-case scenario, which is a summer afternoon during a heat wave, plus some buffer for various plant outages, etc. It is typically operating at a small fraction of capacity. Many ISO's have web pages that will show, in real time, the load on your local grid. You should look yours up, as it will probably show that it is around 20 or 30% of capacity this morning, and that all "peaker" plants are off line as a result, not to mention other production cutbacks as well.
2. The vast majority of EV's charge at night, while their owners are asleep. (Just like you charge your cell phone.) Utility TUO or TOC plans greatly encourage this by reducing their electric tariffs at night to a fraction of what it is during the day. This is a win-win as the utilities get to even out their load over any given 24-hour cycle, and this is especially because some power plants actually have massive heat sinks used to absorb the output that they cannot shut off during periods of low demand. This is not widely known as it is, frankly, pretty embarrassing to be literally wasting their output on purpose . . . a complete lose-lose situation of power plants producing power that no one wants. (But that all the ratepayers get to pay for
3. Even if your local grid was 100% coal (which it is NOT), we would all benefit from 100% conversion to EV's as the efficiency is so much higher, usually well over 100 eMPG. Thus, even with a 100% coal-powered grid, we would still have greatly reduced GHG dumping. (This can be sourced with Google, but I'm running short on time.)
4. Any conventional ICE vehicle will only produce more GHG's and other pollution as it ages. EV's are the EXACT opposite: as the grid becomes cleaner every year with more renewables (solar, wind, etc.) added to the mix, your EV becomes cleaner every year as well.
5. In our case, we power our two Teslas, and our entire home as well, with Tesla Energy solar panels. Our electric bill was under $30 FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR, and this has been the trend since 2014 when we replaced our last ICE vehicle. Just extrapolate the impact if EVERY home had solar panels, as is now the code requirement for new homes in California btw . . . .
6. We produce so much excess electricity with our solar panels (which is then used by the grid) that we have also removed our two gas water heaters and gas furnaces, going to full electric for both. This further decreases our GHG dumping as natural gas is stunningly bad for the environment, particularly the closer you get to the drill site. (There are plenty of videos showing people lighting their well water on fire from leaking methane, all byproducts of drilling/fracking.) It's hard to be a "part of the solution" if we're still writing a check to a fossil fuel company every month, right?
In closing, the far greater issue here is why the hopelessly incorrect misinformation/FUD you posted was in your head in the first place--it's because fossil fuel interests have paid money for it to be in your head.
Ugent suggestions:
1. Stop watching "Faux "News" as many of their programs are NOT news programs, but Opinion, Commentary, and/or Editorials. Knowing what type of program you are watching is key to education, and to help stop EV misinformation and FUD.
2. Watch this documentary ASAP:
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/climate-of-doubt/
3. Best to also watch this full documentary on the same topic, but at least watch the trailer (linked at the bottom). If you have the maturity and open mind to realize what has occured to you and literally hundreds of millions of others, it should make your blood boil. The greed of a literally some of the largest corporations in the world has placed our entire planet in great peril:
Sony Pictures Classics presents 'Merchants of Doubt'
And if you think that's bad, just wait until you read about positive feedback loops; this will blow your mind as we may have already passed several tipping points which have set us on a path to ruin--let's hope we've not:
nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/global-warming-effects/
p.s. After you've learned what is going on, PLEASE spread the FACTS far and wide, and ALSO give a lot of folks the opportunity to test drive your new Tesla at the same time--that's an awesome way to mitigate literally decades of intentional misinformation. More on this, the biggest lies in history, here:
Climate Disinformation
I hear people say this from time to time, but I've never been able to understand how it could really be a problem. Imagine that you had to solve it and the only solution that you had was solar. How much does solar cost using residential prices? (feel free to check my math here, I typed it up in all of about 5 minutes)
1. Solar installation costs ~$3/watt(*). In an area like the southeastern US, an installation of over 3000 watts will produce an average of ~11kwh (assuming roof-mount, decent but not optimal angles, some slight shading)
2. The average commute is ~40 miles, and this will cover that commute. Some days it will cover it with some excess, others a little less.
3. The cost of that solar install is ~$9k USD and will last about ~30 years.
4. 30 years @ 40 miles per day is 438000 miles, gives you a cost per mile of ~.02 cents.
But what if your charging time doesn't correlate with when your panels produce and you need battery storage to fix this? Ok, now you are @ .05 per mile. This is more expensive than the cost of power in many US locales today, but much less than the cost in California.
Residential solar is one of the most expensive ways to produce power too. Going through an exercise like this will really make you wonder how California has managed to botch their grid so badly. Renewals alone certainly don't explain their issues.
(*) - Pre-incentive price in non-Tesla solar markets. Tesla rooftop solar is actually much less expensive than this.
pdx_m3s
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Looks good. Although I think black lug nuts would look really nice with all of the other black trim on the car.
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