I subscribe to The EV Universe's newsletter by Jaan Juurikas, the latest includes: My Tesla Semi deep dive, Electric cars overtake petrol in Norway, Electric School buses in US, EV Spotlight: NIO’s Onvo L60, EV range better shown visually, Enel X Way shuts down in US & CA The Semi deep dive is so big it doesn't fit within the newsletter, so he linked to it. It starts with this summary: While the newsletter and deep dive are both worth checking out, I thought I'd post some extracts from PepsiCo's fleet case study.

Received an Email from Tesla: Not sure what I'll do yet - Tesla does support other music streaming: Though I don't currently subscribe to any music streaming service. I never felt a need to before as I've hundreds of CDs and previously used an iPod And later an iPhone to play rips of my CDs in my prior cars. I do have a USB SSD in my Model 3 that now holds those rips. I use it on occasion, though the user interface to access that music isn't the best.

Delivery date's been moved up

Delivery Date: Monday, July 29th at 5pm Location: Tesla League City 400 Gulf Fwy S League City, TX 77573-3528 Was unaware that Tesla had opened a new location in the south-east corner of Houston metro, looks like it opened up in December.

I have a VIN with an ETA by end of month:

did notice the inverter isn't generating quite 60 Hz as my clocks lost 8 minutes over the 3 days:

Well that was unexpected - Hurricane Beryl was originally forecast to hit Mexico, just below the Texas border, but instead veered a few hundred miles north to hit the Houston metro. Only a category one, but lots of damage. The morning of July 8th the grid bounced off/on five times as the storm arrived, then went offline at 5:06 only to return 3 days later at 11:08 am on July 11th. There's still over 1 million without power My house survived intact, though I did have some broken branches I had to cut down and lots of debris in the yard that I cleaned up on Monday and Tuesday: Ended up filling 10 yard size trash bags - 5 for debris in the yard, and 5 for the branches I cut down (and chopped up). My folks lost some shingles and had water make its way inside My solar and 1 Powerwall provide limited power - not enough to run my home's AC, nor my normal 14-50 outlet for charging my car but enough to run some fans and keep my food in the fridge from spoiling. During the day my folks came over and sat in the living room with fans running while their electronics and large portable battery recharged via my solar. The large battery powered a couple fans overnight for their bedroom. The first night was "cool" so I slept in my bedroom with the ceiling fan running all night, the Powerwall made it through to the next morning then recharged to 100% again via solar. Next couple of nights were very warm so I used Tesla's Camp Mode for the first time and slept in Talith, my Model 3. Talith used 63 miles of range, about 20% of the battery, to run the AC for 11 hours overnight. Even by myself it was a bit cramped, but the AC was awesome. Here's a few daytime shots of my sleeping arrangement: During the day I was able to use my 14-30 dryer outlet to recharge Talith. Faster than a standard 120v outlet, but not as fast as the 14-50 outlet I normally charge with. I setup some fans for my home office so I could work yesterday and this morning. The dyson blows air into my office while the box fan sucks air out. My thinking was hot air rises, so I put the box fan up higher. I'll wrap this post up with a few photos from my neighborhood:

Between this: and FSD Transfer being revived again for a couple months: I decided it was time: The blue with black trim doesn't do it for me, so I decided to go with red this time. Think Scarlet will be a fitting name:

The latest software update added the map in the upper right of the Expanded FSD Visualization: Also added a progress bar in the revised Destination/End Trip display - the horizontal divider line starts out blue and turns grey behind the red arrowhead that moves to the right as you get closer to your destination: The progress bar also shows upcoming traffic congestion:

Today's shareholder meeting had this interesting tidbit - "Model 3 and Model Y battery packs retain 85% of their capacity on average after 200K miles of driving"

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Received a message yesterday in the Tesla App. Will respond to it later this week.

Nice! I think yours has the LFP battery, which means you can charge it to 100% every day. For mine they originally recommended up to 90% for daily use, though that was lowered to 80% at some point. I can charge to 100%, just need to hit the road soon after. FSD is slick. Still has some issues, but has improved a lot since I first started to use it. I don't use it that often around town, but always use it on road trips. Your accessories look good - did you get the wood grained controller? Only thing I'd look at is to see if any of the optional NEMA adapters for the mobile connector would be useful for you - especially during a trip. I ended up getting the adapter bundle with all of them and mostly use: 14-50 - charging at home 14-30 - charging at family via dryer outlet 5-15 - fallback on trips I've also had occasion to use 5-20 - 33% faster charging than 5-15 6-50 - welding outlet I have a 14-30 and a 5-15 extension cord, which are quite useful on trips. I ordered this 14-30 on Amazon, though the socket end looks a bit different now. The 5-15 I already had though make sure it supports the full amps, the initial one I used did not which resulted in even slower charging: I'd forgotten they changed the backend from having the Tesla logo to having the letters T E S L A. For tips 1) voice commands are very useful. 2) You can map a long-press event for your left steering wheel button. We have handicap placards for my dad in the glovebox of both my 3 and their Y, so we've mapped it to open the glovebox. 3) and use this to track when you last did your tire rotations

I can't wait for the Smart Summon update. My 2024 M3 doesn't have it, but it's supposed to come out later this month.

I had been driving a 2000 Audi TT Quattro that I traded in, so this was a massive upgrade! The Tesla that I just got is a 2024 Model 3 rear-wheel drive, and I couldn't be happier! The car was flawless (that I could see), and had 15 miles on it. I'm still learning a few things, but for the most part, I've figured it out. I have a free month of Full Self-Driving, and used it for the first time last night. It was a total blast! I may subscribe to this. The only accessories that I have so far are the mobile charger, a Jowua controller, SUPER LINER Floor Mats, and a USB Hub Expansion Dock that goes in the glovebox (this one was super-cheap and coming from AliExpress, so I'm a little worried on if it will work correctly). Anything I should know? Tips and tricks? Anything else that I should buy?

Honestly, no home charging as of now. I do plan on installing one though. For now, there's a supercharger less than 2 miles away that I will go to. I drive around 300 miles a month, so I'm assuming I'll be charging every other week or so.

third tire replacement in May 2024 for $1376. Also replaced the wiper blades for the first time for $49 Annual Texas vehicle registration now includes a $200 EV fee. I understand the need to fund the roads, though I find this to be punitive as the Texas gas tax is $0.20. That $200 is equivalent to buying 1000 gallons of gas, which would take the average new car 26,0000 miles. My current milage is 50970, so I've only driven 4,551 miles in the past year. If I had a gas car that'd have been $35 in Texas gas taxes.

Awesome! I'd love to get the refreshed Model 3, think the new ventilated seats would be really nice to have here in the summer, but will be having some home repairs and remodeling done later this year. Maybe next year. What are your plans for home charging? I've been using the Mobile Connecter since 2018, it was included with the car back then. For the first 6 months I used a regular household NEMA 5-15 outlet in the garage for 120v charging. I eventually installed the 14-50 outlet for 240v when I switched to a free-nights electric plan in order to make sure charging finished during the free period.

I ordered a Model 3 (lease) online shortly after midnight on Saturday going into Sunday, and chose one that the site said was ready in nearby Brooklyn. I paid the $250 order fee, entered my info, was approved and almost immediately got a VIN. I filled out all of the info but still waiting. I can be really impatient at times. Boy, I can't wait!

Have noticed a change in behavior for the PowerWall - it's 1:30pm and a thunderstorm just started, so there's no solar production. In the past I would now be drawing from the PowerWall, but I'm currently drawing from the grid instead. Presumably due to TOU rates the energy stored in the PowerWall is being held in reserve to be used during 4-7pm peek usage period when the grid rates are higher.

294 miles of range confirmed. Didn't check it earlier as we were heading out of town that night for the eclipse in my folks' Model Y and it's not good to leave the battery sitting at 100%. The new V3 Superchargers that went online 5 months ago in Luling, TX made a big difference for the trip - plug in, walk in to use restrooms & get drinks, walk back to car, unplug, resume trip. In past trips to Bandera the older V2 Superchargers in Flatonia would require additional time, so we'd use the stop as a meal break even though the food options weren't the best.

My most recent update included a change to the Estimated Battery Range: My car just finished charging and is at 80% with 235 miles of range, which extrapolates to 294 miles at 100%. That's 5.2% down from the original 310 miles of range. Cumulative milage is 50,151.

FSD Beta is now FSD (Supervised). Got v12 earlier this week and it's a major improvement over v11. Issues I'd been having like the blinker turning on too early when leaving my neighborhood, and waiting too long to change lanes for an upcoming turn, have finally been resolved.

Hmm, looks like both rates went down by 1.6¢ per kWh