Recent content by eswimm

Yup, my failure mirrors yours. I've thrown a few PCS errors and one day I had a weird 5-6A charging issue that went away with a power off. Still able to charge at 48A and use the outlets, for now. Hopefully it limps along until my August appt without me having to rely solely upon SC.

My longest charges have been 95.0kWh (12-90%) in 53m, 94.4kWh (9-87%) in 42m and 91.1kWh (15-90%) in 44m. Widest range on the battery I'd have to combine 2 charges, 55.3kWh (5-51%) 18m and 49.8kWh (49-90%) 29m for a combined 105.2kWh (5-90%) in 47 minutes. I'll concede that if you absolutely...

The half shafts were never really that big of a deal anyway. If you kept it set to always low or restrained yourself before it lowered itself they wouldn't develop the tick. Even if they did it was a cosmetic/sound issue, not a functional one and the part was in no danger of actually failing...

Claude is just compiling a bunch of random owner's guesses about what the problem is. It's just as likely the problem is caused by shock/vibration, relative humidity or use of low octane electricity. Until somebody actually tears down a bunch of failed PCS modules or Tesla releases a cause of...

My DC charge curve over the life of my vehicle, ~ 2 years and just over 2MWh of DC charging. No v4s in my area and some older SCs that I frequent that don't exceed ~155kW. Looks like there's at least 1 urban SC in there too. 2.08 MWh over 17h 22m of DC charging. That's an average charge rate...

I imagine we'll get them eventually, but Tesla has typically offered an extended warranty a few years into the model release. Ultimately an extended warranty is insurance and like casinos, the house always wins. You don't know how to price an extended warranty until you know what the actual...

I'm a control freak, I'll feel a lot better asleep than awake, that's for sure!

This will probably end up a recall eventually. While recalls are for safety issue, that will usually include any systemic issue that can result in loss of power while driving or requiring you to pull over immediately. The cases where it simply prevents charging likely won't qualify, but I...

Torque vectoring in my BMW X6M was a magical thing. I'm not surprised the CB can out-handle the AWD. Still happy I went with the AWD though, because I'm not a fan of front wheel bias AWD. Rear wheel bias and torque vectoring was the one main thing I missed going from my X6M to a Model X...

Billed to your Tesla account, I believe Tesla covers the 1st time you charge at a 3rd party SC.

I think it depends a bit on the circumstances. I've taken a Waymo in Atlanta and it helped me realize that I'm probably overly critical of FSD on my cars. Would I feel safe letting FSD drive unsupervised in a vetted region, especially where speeds are unlikely to result in accidents with...

No. Maybe it will eventually reach a point where this isn't the case, but supervised FSD is safer than FSD alone. It's in a really good state, perhaps safer even that the majority of drivers, but it's not perfect and FSD operating in conjunction with an aware driver is safer than either alone...

It's really going to depend on how much capacity you have. I have a 2nd gen Tesla HPWC for the Model Y, a Tesla UWC for the CT w/ Powershare, a NEMA 14-50 w/ a 40A Juicebox for the BMW i8 and a NEMA 6-20 for my Zero SR. I'm on a 320A split service so I can charge everything simultaneously if I...

I think for me, it loses me at the 145mi range. I need a 250+mi EV far more often than I need a 400+mi one. The occasional 400-450mi round trip I make, involves 1 charging stop that is often offset by leaving early for a meeting (in case of traffic) and charging with that time if traffic...

I believe $35 under the current proposal for plug-in hybrids.