The “Edit” button on my Tesla account disappeared today. That’s supposed to be a good sign of progress! Next I’m hoping to get a VIN assigned to me and then it’s a waiting game to see how long it takes the Gods of Logistics to get it to my nearest Service Center.
I forgot, what’s your build?
Blue AWD with EAP, not Performance or FSD.
ETA: Got the wheel upgrade too
Congratulations. I think it took about three weeks from when my edit button disappeared until I got the call, but it seems to be much faster for some people. Now you have to answer every unrecognized number that calls you. No more screening.
I was already doing that much to my chagrin… I did get an email today from Tesla directing me back to the website to submit my credit application so things are moving in the right direction.
Nice! A friend also just got his blue AWD, and it’s quite snappy. Curious how the delivery experience goes. I think they’ve… streamlined it since I got mine to handle the high volumes. But maybe it’s not so bad where you are and you’ll still get the showroom experience.
I did a few thousand miles up and down I-80 last week and saw 7 truckloads of Tesla’s heading east.
Just got the v9 push. Woot! Will give a mini-review once I get a chance to play with it.
I’m guessing they’d be going down I-40 or I-20 to get to NC. Maybe next shipment:p
Driving off the rails with this post but it goes back to what I’ve always said, EV’s will replace ice cars overnight when batteries are fast charging.
I was watching a video of an EV Mustang that had 2 motors and produced 1000 hp and 1800 lbs of torque. 0-60 in 1.8 seconds. Zombie 222
The difference between a Mustang Shelby and a Focus is substantial in today’s market. 'In the world of EV’s adding slightly larger electric motors or sistering another motor will blur that gap into non-existence.
The days of blowing a motor at the race track will now mean limping home on the remaining 500 hp motor.
v9 is pretty nice so far. I like the new energy graph in particular; I know that the S/X had that but the 3 did not. Nav features are handy; sending directions from the phone works fine, and the map now shows Supercharger occupancy right on the map (at least I think that’s new–I don’t recall seeing that before).
The info bar at the top is much better now, with the time and temperature on the left, with less-used ones (wifi strength, Bluetooth, etc.) on the right. Much easier to see from the driver’s seat. Nav directions are now on the left, too.
Atari games are cute but hard to control. Also, one of them crashed the head unit :).
Media control is a mixed bag–not sure I like the new linear listing as compared to the previous icons. But it’s easier to select the source now, which is good. Probably a matter of getting used to it.
Haven’t actually gone on a drive yet so I don’t know about blind spot detection or Autopilot improvements yet.
I continue to disagree, because you still think an EV is used like an ICE car. It isn’t. Your gas station is home, where you park your car 98% of the time.
Cost is by far the biggest hurdle, followed by availability of EVs, followed by charging infrastructure (esp people who need to park on the street or in a lot shared by many people). The speed of charging is far down the list and is essentially a red herring thrown out there by those who don’t understand the different use patterns no matter how many times it gets explained.
No I continue to believe the replacement for ice cars have to have the same functionality of ice cars. EV’s currently don’t meet that functionality.
It’s ICE cars that no longer have the functionality I need. Home charging makes everything else obsolete.
My recent road trip clinched it for me. Out of 9 hours on the road, I spent well under an hour stopped. That included food, coffee, and bathrooms. I have zero desire to optimize this further, and regardless, faster charging would not have made the trip take less time.
A longer trip would not change this ratio. Had I gone 1000 miles instead of 520, it would have been an overnight trip. And I’d have started the next day with a full charge (assuming I pick a place with an L2 charger).
Like how cars were supposed to have the same functionality as horses?
Even with my podunk battery PHEV I have become so annoyed when I have to take time to go to a gas station. It feels so archaic. And such a waste of my time.
If you drive less than 250 miles per day, than an EV like the Model 3 will fill your needs. Sure there are edge cases. Maybe you have a job that require driving more than that. If I had a job that meant I drove 250 miles per day, I’d want a Model 3. It would cost less to drive, and I wouldn’t waste any time filling up. There are also people who daily drive a diesel dually so they can pull their 30 foot camper once a year.
In over 1500 miles, I’ve never charged anywhere except home. I keep wanting to charge someplace else, but I’m not going to pay extra for the privilege. Boulder provides four hours of free charging, and I was in the same lot as the chargers, but they had city vehicles (ICE and non-plugin hybrid) parked in the charging spots, so nobody could use them. I have free charging at work, but not in my lot. And really, charging at home is incredibly convenient. It’s as much trouble as plugging in your phone overnight.
So far I’m liking V9. The info bar is just part of the general UI cleanup. I can’t think of anything that was an arbitrary change (oh, that’s over there now, whatever). The changes are generally for the better. USB media playing now has shuffle, but it is still not as featured as on my old $120 Kenwood head unit.
The dashcam is definitely half baked. The videos look good, and may as well make use of the cameras, but USB drive interface is not complete. There is no clean way to eject the drive, so file corruption is a problem. Recording runs whenever the car is on, so you have to pause the dashcam, wait some time for the drive to stop writing, and then just pull it. Yesterday the dashcam worked great, but today it decided to stop working. I had to remove the drive, fsck it on my computer, and then it started working again.
Driving seems improved. Using all eight external cameras to detect traffic is a big improvement. The display draws cars with trailers as buses, but it shows cars on the rear corners and the sides which is a nice change. Autosteer seems a bit better at keeping a track in the lane, instead of before when it would often oscillate a bit. Either that or my tires are wearing a bit and are no longer having tracking issues with the road grooves.
From the person who had to reroute power to break the 7 mph speed limit. You’ve been accommodating your car from day one instead of the other way around and then gone on to explain how that’s better… somehow.
Slow charge times are not better. Waiting 20 minutes to get enough power to make it to the next 20 minute delay is not better.
So lets go back and review EV’s. They were built and available in large quantities at the very beginning of the automotive age. Ice cars won out because of convenience. They were available on demand. The same robust simplicity of design existed back then between EV’s and ICE cars yet the ICE car was chosen for it’s convenience.
A century later the same parameters still exist. In the real world there aren’t nice warm garages to tuck our cars in that are wired for 220. In the real world those with garages don’t have space for 2 vehicles.
So that leaves the huddled masses yearning to drive free of fueling issues. No drudgery of plugging and unplugging the car every day to ensure you can make it to work. No plotting out a modest trip ahead of time and scheduling extra time to charge en-route.
Horses, like EV’s, need daily feeding. ICE cars don’t. They can sit for months in the winter with the fuel in their tanks and are ready to go without thought.
I don’t have that problem with gas stations. They’re everywhere. I can charge my car with fuel in 2 1/2 minutes and it’s good for the whole week. No waiting. I don’t have to plug it in and then unplug it everyday in the winter. Even with a garage that’s a hassle. Without a garage that sucks. Without an outdoor outlet (apartments) it’s non-existent.
Again, the same convenience factor exists today as it did 100 years ago. When batteries are fast charging then EV’s will replace ICE cars overnight. the infrastructure of powering cars will change overnight.