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

Hard to believe it's been 5 years since installing solar panels. My net-metering plan was on a 5 year contract, so it was time to renew or pick a new electric provider. I checked around and the rates have gone up quite a bit. Decided to go with Tesla Electric, which is a TOU (time of use) plan: $0.124* / kWh during peek usage, which is 4pm - 7pm. $0.077* / kWh all other times * add another $0.055 for grid and delivery fees for $0.179 and $0.132 respectively. These prices are what appear in the app: The rates were lower than other options, but instead of net-metering any excess solar production is bought at the 90% of market price, which varies every 15 minutes based on demand. This also shows up in the app: This time of year demand isn't very high, as temperature's nice outside so AC usage is low, so the market price is low. It even goes negative on occasion, though it looks like I'm not charged for them to take it: I did see some instances of higher rates, such as getting paid almost $0.30 per kWh for a brief period on the 18th. If the selling price goes above $0.30 then energy stored in the Powerwall will be sent to the grid. I have that set to only use the upper 70% of my Powerwall for that. Bill for first 11 days, note that it lists $0.124 and $0.077 for Tesla's rates, with the grid charges broken out further down: Not great compared to my net-metering plan due to how low market prices currently are for my excess solar. I'll be evaluating how this turns out over the summer when increased electric usage raises market prices. If it works out well I'll keep this plan, if not it's a month-to-month plan so I can easily switch to another without any penalty.

Ran across the 8Bitdo SF30 Pro controllers I'd picked up back in 2018 for a Raspberry Pi Retro gaming project. Haven't fired up that Pi in a long time, so decided to charge the controllers up and try them out with the car now that it has support for bluetooth game controllers. They're nice and compact compared to the Logitech F310 USB controllers I've been using in my car, which would be great for storage: First one paired with the car just fine; however the car wouldn't let me pair the second one as I already had 2 devices connected, the other being my phone. Was surprised at this as I thought bluetooth had a 7 device limit. Controller worked well in Beach Buggy Racing 2; though the button labels are swapped, X <--> Y and A <--> B, vs the Logictech controllers. The on-screen instructions use the Logitech layout, so if they refer to a specific button you have to remember to use the other one - such as button B if instructions say A.