Tesla Model 3 in Australia

[djayz]

As a non reservation holder but early order I am very curious to see if any non reservation holders get a delivery call. There are thousands of reservation holders and if they decide to only fill reservation orders first (unlike what they did in some other markets) then some of us could be in for a long wait.....

So far it seems only very early reservation holders have gotten a call

 

[RobDickinson]

Nissan Leaf can do V2G. Elon was asked about this couple of years ago and apparently he said they have a different product for this called Powerwall so Tesla was not looking into adding this functionality to their cars. Though it would be awesome, it would most likely cannibalize Powerwall sales too much for Tesla to put much effort into doing this.

Basically anything with chademo can do v2g, like my old phev, it's a fundamental part of the connection. Just not much uses chademo now, and the spec for ccs isn't finished yet afik

 

[Candleflame]

I was in Brisbane today and dropped into Tesla. They had the M3P white on white there for test drives, totally reaffirmed my decision, looks sooo nice in the flesh. We were going to call ours wasp, but now thinking of marshmallow... those seats, mmmm

This has been raised a few times - the M3 is not a very photogenic car only really ever looks good with a wide angle photo, particularly if the front is involved. Apparently in real life it looks a lot better.

 

[Vedaprime]

I just saw one in the wild . At Loganholme south of Brisbane at the M1.

Is hard to see the numberplate in the picture, but looks like one of those from a press-car.

Yes. It’s one of the ex press, now demo

 

[Vedaprime]

and no VINs hidden in source code (yet) from the "middle" ranges of RHD VIN registrations. ie >446XXX <478XXX This range would suit shipping after Cap Capricorn up to Warnambool, I wonder if we may see some further hidden VINs make an appearance from this range of VINs.
(There is ~7200 RHD in that range)

Maybe. We currently haven’t seen any UK, and Aus-NZ mixed togetther, but early days. I am keeping an eye on UK vins on their forums to
see if they invade our ranges.

NZ, is sitting in a tight band 443500-443680 and then Rob almost by himself at 517xxx

 

[RTSL]

White is nice in person but so is blue. Whoever ordered these will be happy.

 

[RobDickinson]

The newest tesla is the bestest tesla...

 

[SquatchM3]

Spotted in Artarmon, NSW. (Overflow car park for Artarmon branch)
Looking very sweet indeed.
Side note this car park flooded last year in that Sydney downpour and there were several Model S’s floating around down there..

 

[1st in Line]

.... and as for some of us the waiting continues, I thought it might be an opportune time to remind people here that others have waited far longer for their cars than us.

People in the former East Germany had to wait up to 13 years for their "Trabant", as explained on Wikipedia:

"Being a state monopoly, it took ten years to acquire a Trabant,[10] East German buyers were placed on a waiting-list of up to thirteen years.[11] The waiting time depended on their proximity to Berlin, the capital.[6] Official state price was 7,450 GDR marks and the demand to production ratio was forty three to one (1989). The free market price for a second-hand one was more than twice the price of a new one, and the average worker had to wait ten to thirteen years on a waiting list, or, if available, pay more than double for a second hand one.[11]"

 

[andygen21]

White is nice in person but so is blue. Whoever ordered these will be happy.

The Blue is not too dark? Its what I've ordered but I've been worried but in every photo it's seemed way darker than on the web site

 

[Candleflame]

Spotted in Artarmon, NSW. (Overflow car park for Artarmon branch)
Looking very sweet indeed.
Side note this car park flooded last year in that Sydney downpour and there were several Model S’s floating around down there..

no pun intended? ha


The blue looks dark in low light/cloud conditions and light when it is very light. I think it looks better without sunlight so imho good for europe but shitty for Australia.

 

[RTSL]

The Blue is not too dark? Its what I've ordered but I've been worried but in every photo it's seemed way darker than on the web site

The Tesla staff mentioned to me that the Blue looks different from when it is in artificial light to sunlight. I noticed it looks lighter inside under the car park lighting and darker outside

 

[Candleflame]

.... and as for some of us the waiting continues, I thought it might be an opportune time to remind people here that others have waited far longer for their cars than us.

People in the former East Germany had to wait up to 13 years for their "Trabant", as explained on Wikipedia:

"Being a state monopoly, it took ten years to acquire a Trabant,[10] East German buyers were placed on a waiting-list of up to thirteen years.[11] The waiting time depended on their proximity to Berlin, the capital.[6] Official state price was 7,450 GDR marks and the demand to production ratio was forty three to one (1989). The free market price for a second-hand one was more than twice the price of a new one, and the average worker had to wait ten to thirteen years on a waiting list, or, if available, pay more than double for a second hand one.[11]"

yeah my dad wasn't very impressed with my 3 year wait at all. Then again he also wasn't impressed after I switched the speakers of my old BMW E46 as he "already installed 2 bookshelf speakers and a radio from west germany in his Trabi in the 80s".

 

[matsoutback]

We saw the blue as well. Looked really sharp to me, especially with the white interior. No losers here imo.

 

[aegidius]

It would also:cause battery warranty issues for the car, and the small issue of free power for all at destination chargers, andlegacy free power for many at superchargers. I dont think tesla want to power my car and my house for free.

Now that's starting to sound like a challenge for a dedicated hacker

 

[Vedaprime]

We saw the blue as well. Looked really sharp to me, especially with the white interior. No losers here imo.

Kota Ekspres will dock in Auckland within the hour.

We can’t really confirm this is ship 2, but It is looking promising given the vin range is 1400 we know of from the first vin reg. The 500 per ship might check out for Cap, Kota, and Brotonne. We don’t have enough to confirm this is the. case.

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[Hovean]

Reservation date Trump's order date. Nice one.

Tesla rang me today suggesting I order a LR AWD, as it has a (slightly) better range than my preferred LW RWD. Mainly due to better regenerative braking. He also said the LR RWD won't be returning, and that I may as well cancel my reservation.
He further advised that reservation holders get delivery priority over non-reservation holders.

 

[Vedaprime]

Somebody wanted me to update the known vin corresponding to ships

 

[RobDickinson]

Under no situation does he awd have more range than the rwd. ****ing sales people..

 

[andygen21]

Under no situation does he awd have more range than the rwd. ****ing sales people..

It did in the original awd model s because the two motors had different speed/ efficiency curves and the driving motor would change based on that. But yes, not in model 3