I have recently learned that in United Arabic Emirates the wait time for a new Tesla (Model 3/Y) is approximately a year and that the cars are exported from China. They have a very large backlog in UAE and Tesla's are extremely popular there.
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Buckminster
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"The voice of the people [is] the voice of God" means Elon will complete on TWTR this Friday and be inducted as Hermes.
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You're gonna basically have to boycott this entire country.
Not quite correct, my 2016 build Model X doesn't use the phone as a key, but can use the app to unlock and start the car. But then that being said, I don't need wifi network for that, cellular connectivity is fineWhat utter rubbish. Phone as Key works off BT. Not Wi-Fi.
'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' actor said Tesla 'lost a customer' after his car was stuck in a parking garage for days when his key fob broke
"You guys lost a customer today. I've been a Tesla customer for 10 years," Glenn Howerton said he told a Tesla salesperson during the incident.www.businessinsider.com
I suppose there might be some parts of rural America where there's no cell signal, so could be an issue, but sounds very dodgy, agreed
Have to say that I love using my phone as the key for my wife's M3P, and that it knows it's me and adjust the seat, looking forward to my MX Plaid with he same
Based it on the picture of the car in the article. Possibly an invalid hypothesis on my part. But I think the M3 has had Phone key since day 1 (my father’s ‘18 or ‘19 has it). Plus there’s the keycard which he might not have had with him.As the story notes- he was trying to use the app, not phone as key. Those are different things.
It also notes the age and model of his car isn't known, so his story is 100% possible on older models with no internet connectivity available.
Here's a whole thread about how this is entirely possible on an older S for example which never had BT phone as key- so wifi with the app was the ONLY option other than the fob.
Model S 75 Phone as a key
I have a 2016 Model S 75 (just bought) and the app I downloaded connects to my car and gives me some control but the key is not an option. Am I missing something or is there a feature I need to get this to work?teslamotorsclub.com
He'll hear horror stories about his friend in a competitor's electric car getting stranded using 3rd party chargers and will continue to buy a Tesla.What utter rubbish. Phone as Key works off BT. Not Wi-Fi.
'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' actor said Tesla 'lost a customer' after his car was stuck in a parking garage for days when his key fob broke
"You guys lost a customer today. I've been a Tesla customer for 10 years," Glenn Howerton said he told a Tesla salesperson during the incident.
The voice of the people is the voice of God (or dawg in my case)
bobfunn
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In this case its in a garage that goes deep underground (The DGA building in Los Angeles) So no signal there.
EDIT: Couple of facts from the video; It was an older model X, He went home and got a key card to open the car but still couldn't get it into Drive. (Implies there was something else wrong with the car)
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Elon just likes giving me heartburn.
He sure likes to get his investors to clinch their butts nice and tight an hour before earnings
Buyback is the easy interpretation.
My Conservative Expectations for Q3 Earnings:
1) 4680 bottlenecks all solved, production rate of 100 gWh/yr by end of Q4. Tesla discovers it can use beach sand instead lithium so mineral bottlenecks eliminated
2) FSD Beta to be released worldwide by end of quarter, expected to up margins to > 35%. Robotaxis begin deploying in Q1 in San Francisco with sole purpose of blocking Cruise and Waymo cars.
3) Elon announces purchase of Twitter but also Tesla share buyback plan and personal share buyback. But also announces Kayne and Trump have gone missing to never return.
4) Cybertruck and Semi will reach volume production in Q1.
5) Musk announces he has successfully overthrown the Bolivian government for real this time, partly to secure mineral deposits near Lake Titicaca, but also partly so he gets to say "Titicaca" all the time.
6) All non-sold China made Tesla are purchased by the U.S. government, and sent autonomously to Crimea and clog the Kherson bridge. Russian soldiers are confused how to unlock the cars without WiFi, and promptly surrender.
Anything less and I'll be a bit disappointed.
1) 4680 bottlenecks all solved, production rate of 100 gWh/yr by end of Q4. Tesla discovers it can use beach sand instead lithium so mineral bottlenecks eliminated
2) FSD Beta to be released worldwide by end of quarter, expected to up margins to > 35%. Robotaxis begin deploying in Q1 in San Francisco with sole purpose of blocking Cruise and Waymo cars.
3) Elon announces purchase of Twitter but also Tesla share buyback plan and personal share buyback. But also announces Kayne and Trump have gone missing to never return.
4) Cybertruck and Semi will reach volume production in Q1.
5) Musk announces he has successfully overthrown the Bolivian government for real this time, partly to secure mineral deposits near Lake Titicaca, but also partly so he gets to say "Titicaca" all the time.
6) All non-sold China made Tesla are purchased by the U.S. government, and sent autonomously to Crimea and clog the Kherson bridge. Russian soldiers are confused how to unlock the cars without WiFi, and promptly surrender.
Anything less and I'll be a bit disappointed.
I think I failed to conveyed the amount of excitement that there is in UAE for Tesla by people living in the country at various level. I have not seen a discussion on it on this thread. It is hard to estimate it from the wait time on the official website.Design Your Model Y | Tesla
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Knightshade
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Not to speak for the OP, but folks often post what they perceive as FUD stories in here.
Turns out though the OP misunderstood the capabilities (or lack thereof) on older Teslas and the original story is an entirely possible failure mode for those older Teslas.
This is fixed on newer ones for the reasons others have mentioned but there's no retrofitting the BT and NFC stuff on older vehicles.
Some actually do... onstar can remote unlock your car for you for example. But of course the card would need to be able to get a signal- at which point the app would work too.
Do you mean ON him? Because there simply isn't another way, other than carrying two fobs on your person at all times.
I agree he ought have a spare at home though.
No, I feel compelled to correct folks misunderstandings about how older Teslas actually work and how the entry methods are much more limited than newer ones.
Or should we only correct tesla misinformation when it doesn't support a specific narrative?
The article notes that's just a random Tesla picture, not the actual car he had, and they don't know what year/model he has-- but every detail in the story fits an older S.
Older Model S has no keycard and no phone as key. At all. it's fob, or wifi/app.
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