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We got carried away. I am ashamed.There's a thread over in "off topic" about electric gardening equipment. Please take the discussion there.
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We got carried away. I am ashamed.There's a thread over in "off topic" about electric gardening equipment. Please take the discussion there.
It's the Lowes house brand (I'm on holiday right now, can't remember the exact name). It came with a charger and two batteries. I always have juice left in battery one when I'm done mowing.What brand do you have
Sorry for off topic reply.It's the Lowes house brand (I'm on holiday right now, can't remember the exact name). It came with a charger and two batteries. I always have juice left in battery one when I'm done mowing.
Thanks for guiding this thread to the appropriate topic. I was starting to wonder how “Tesla Moments” was related to electric mowers.
I would definitely resist the urge to attempt to jump start another vehicle. However in dire necessity (she would have to be awful cute) I might do like we did in the army when we needed to start a large tracked vehicle and the only power source was a small jeep. Heck we even did it without jumper cables and used lousy commo wire.
That was to hook it up and charge the other vehicles battery for a half hour or more, disconnect and then attempt to start the larger vehicle.
Easier to tell them a white lie and say my battery is 400volts and just offer them a ride, where you can corrupt them with the Tesla experience!
The safe way to charge another cars battery is use an inverter of at least 400 watts then plug in a 10 amp 12 volt battery charger which you hook up to the dead battery then about 10 minutes charge should be enough for him to start his car. Won't blow the 50 amp battery fuse nor have a high load put on the battery. Keep the MS powered up to supply power to the 12 volt battery.
Oh man, your family just "richard-blocked" on your retired teacher game.To rehabilitate myself, here's the story from our recent trip. We have pulled in front of the hotel to unload some of our luggage. I had popped the trunk open and before you know it I hear someone screaming from behind: "Holy... this is the Tesla, isn't it? How did you get hold of it? Isn't that you need to wait like 2 years to get one? I have never seen one in person! Can I touch it?".
I talked to this lovely lady for a while, showing her some of the features of the car. She congratulated me on being "on the forefront of the revolution" as she has put it. She's admitted to be a retired science teacher who always took pride in educating children about sutainability and protecting our planet for future generations. Needless to say, I walaked away from this with a big smile and so did my (shocked at first) family.
I ex[experience that all the time on I-70, west of Denver. To add to the ICE's sluggishness is being at 6000+ ft ASL where the ICEs are starved for oxygen for combustion.I had forgotten about the grade (I usually don't do this commute), and realized that I was effortlessly climbing the grade while all the other ICE had easily lost 10-20 mph trying to climb the grade.
Ok, not "really" a Tesla moment in the expected sense (someone else commenting or noticing).
The other day my commute took me up a 6% grade for around 3 miles (Highway).
I was zipping along with the other traffic (we were all doing the... ahem... speed limit) when suddenly I had to start passing everyone. I had forgotten about the grade (I usually don't do this commute), and realized that I was effortlessly climbing the grade while all the other ICE had easily lost 10-20 mph trying to climb the grade. The only car that was keeping up with me was a Corvette, and barely at that.
Love my S70D.
While I've had quite a few Tesla moments already in the short time of owning a Tesla, I've also had a couple of annoyances that comes with owning any BEV... all of them owing to the fact that people still find EV's to be foreign and are clueless about them. Soon after driving my car off the lot, I was looking to get state inspection done on it. I called a few places such as PepBoys and a tire shop nearby my place and they said that they can't do an inspection test on it since they don't have Tesla "show up in their computer system"!
Finally took some time to browse through this thread. Reminded me of one of my own Tesla moments... back when I was doing some stuff with the car at the local AAA. The guy behind the counter was so excited that I had a Tesla, and word quickly spread throughout the AAA office. I had to go do a demo outside, and the reaction when I opened the frunk was... well, you know how it goes. Then, when it came time to set up everything in his computer, he discovered that the web form insisted on specifying the number of cylinders in the engine. I was sitting in the waiting area but saw him reach for the phone and call someone. His side of the conversation then went something like this:
"Hi this is so-and-so at the AAA in New Mexico, I have a question."
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"Well, I'm encountering a problem I have never ever seen before. I am trying to enter a Tesla into the system."
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"Yes, Tesla. T E S L A. And your screen is requesting number of cylinders, and the car has none."
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"No really. It's an electric car. I'm getting this error message saying "number of cylinders must be numeric."
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"Right, I tried that."
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"But it's a Tesla."
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"Could we use zero? Let me try zero."
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"No, it's giving me another error message that number of cylinders must be 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, or 16."
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"No, it wouldn't take the zero."
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"No. Do you have some other code? Some sort of universal code to bypass?"
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"Right. No, it wouldn't do that..."
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"Number 4? Ok that would equal the horsepower? Match the horsepower of the vehicle? I don't know..."
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"Ok so we wanna go ahead and use that. Let me see if they'll let me do that..."
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"What's that? Ok, we're gonna go ahead and use the 4 then...."
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"Yep it did! Thank you very much. Ok. Bye."
[ Who knew? Tesla Model S has four cylinders. Pretty amazing actually. I would've thought with all the Nissan LEAFs I see around the state, the concept of a) electric cars and b) they have no cylinders, would have made its way into the bureaucratic IT infrastructures by now. ]