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CuriousG
Active Member
That Tesla moment went from a rated G to a rated R.Taking delivery today at 1 pm after the long, excruciating wait for this beauty.
Maybe not a tesla moment but not even a broken hand this morning will keep me from delivery!!!!
Good thing it has autopilot
I'm concerned about being seen as a deep pocketed snob too, though anyone who knows me knows I drove the same car for 24 years. They just assume correctly that I saved up for it.
Taking delivery today at 1 pm after the long, excruciating wait for this beauty.
Maybe not a tesla moment but not even a broken hand this morning will keep me from delivery!!!!
Good thing it has autopilot
Ouch! were you jumping around in excitement and hit something?
Rough housing with my 4 year old.
He won.
I've been driving one handed all day and damn is this piece of technology absolutely amazing.
int32_t
Tesla Spotter
That's too bad. Lonely Tesla with no admirers.
I overheard a conversation about Tesla at my workplace and discovered another 3 reservation holder! I'm not the only one ...
Joules Verne
Member
Tesla moments are not always pleasant. Here's some good, bad and ugly (and some lessons for us all):
Roadtrip Niagara & Telsa Lifestyle
Roadtrip Niagara & Telsa Lifestyle
RogerHScott
Active Member
Is there any other way to read it?
RogerHScott
Active Member
You are, of course, using "plug in" as dinosaur-speak for "connect via bluetooth", right?
pedriscoll
Active Member
Latest Tesla moment was on the drive home from work today. On the freeway a guy in a work van pulls up on my passenger side, gives me a thumbs up and accelerates. Since the traffic was light, I floored it and passed him like a shot, then slowed back to normal speed. When he caught back up with me he gave me another prolonged thumbs up.
Joules Verne
Member
Greatest Tesla moment ever...
My 13 year old son said to me "Porsches are no longer cool".
And he doesn't even know about the P100D.
I love that boy!
My 13 year old son said to me "Porsches are no longer cool".
And he doesn't even know about the P100D.
I love that boy!
snellenr
Member
Stopped at a roadside fruit stand in northern Michigan, I hear a loud "Teeesssslllaaa!" Doppler by, coming from the young, fist-pumping driver of a passing pickup truck. This stuff just makes you grin...
Xenius
Active Member
After taking one of my co-workers for a drive the other morning I was then showing him the frunk. A lady was walking through the parking lot where I park (our building is overcrowded so I park across the street in the shade of a non-used building). She looks over as she's passing by then looks up at us and says "Where's the engine?". I responded, "there isn't one, it's fully electric". She says "Oooh!...Pretty car!" and keeps walking.
My co-worker looked and me and said, "if that wasn't the perfect setup for a Tesla commercial I don't know what is" and made a "the more you know" motion and whispered "Tesssllllaaaaa".
It was great!
My co-worker looked and me and said, "if that wasn't the perfect setup for a Tesla commercial I don't know what is" and made a "the more you know" motion and whispered "Tesssllllaaaaa".
It was great!
I've shown people the amazing 17 inch screen, the summon feature, auto pilot and the thing that blows people away the most is the frunk. It is like they mentally cannot picture how this thing operates and its amazing to see their reactions and explain it.
I heard we aren't supposed to call it an "engine" so what do we call the thing in the rear of the car that makes it go???
alexvirital
Member
RogerHScott
Active Member
"Engines" are heat powered. "Motors" are electric powered. That's why your old ICE had a Check Engine light, not a Check Motor light.
Xenius
Active Member
Bingo, you Tesla has either one or for the "D" models, two electric motors. No engines.
Well, really they can be the same thing:
An engine is "a machine with moving parts that converts power into motion."
A motor is "a machine, especially one powered by electricity or internal combustion, that supplies motive power for a vehicle or for some other device with moving parts."
As an example, your BMV/DMV regulates _motor_ vehicles.
There's quite a large company called General Motors that makes a lot more gasoline-powered vehicles than electric vehicles.
In the UK, a car is colloquially referred to as a "motor".
However, it's now become _common usage_ to say combustion engine and electric motor.
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