Tesla stock jump, Hertz, and FSD 10.3 test drive SOoo much to unpack from yesterday. Ok, lets take this one at a time. First the stock jump to over $1000 a share. In less than a week, TSLA went from $775 to close at $1080 today with a peak at $1094. This 25% jump is pretty crazy. So what is going on? Two things.… Read More
Tesla adding USB 3 support could open interesting possibilities for FSD So seems confirmed, all Tesla vehicles going forward are going to support USB3. Recently I was invited to update my M3 to HW3, but I’m holding off to be sure that the upgrade will include USB 3. Why? Well aside from WAY better wireless charging, the faster data throughput could be interesting. Sigh… have to add… Read More
Why my Tesla M3 feels like my first iPhone and my M3day plus 30. Long long time ago, I got the new iPhone. I was one of the first. So I used it for a week and thought, its nice, then discovered jail breaking! Oh man, Apple fan boy overnight. My favorite thing was to show off what this amazing new phone could do when I went to events/parties. … Read More
How to fix minor rim scrape on a Tesla 3 and the 3-6-9 rule I finally got my Tesla Model 3 a few weeks back. Driving in an unfamiliar parking area, I did an over correction avoiding a pedestrian and ‘crunch’, I scrapped the rim on my M3. Sigh. So here is how you can repair the damage without taking the wheel off or paying $200 to a shop.… Read More
First video evidence (I’ve seen) of self driving car avoiding an accident All this talk about self driving cars causing accidents, very little about how they avoid them and save lives. So here is the first video clip of a real world situation where a Tesla avoided an accident by stopping way faster than I could have. Also note, its wet. So if a human was driving,… Read More
The First autodrive car you may try will be a rental As of last week we finally have an in service self driving vehicle on the road, however the vehicle is a big rig. So unless you haul 18-wheelers, you are not going to get your freeway autocruise just yet. However, now that we got trucks on the road, its only a matter of time before… Read More
The Tesla Powerwall will NOT change the world … at least not yet. So Friday Elon Musk finally gave us the full details on the home battery he has been hinting at for the last few months. As expected, it’s basically a smart battery that you can mount on a wall that will smooth out your home or buildings power demand from the grid as well as extend the… Read More
NYT reporter responds to Elons claims that he faked poor Tesla test drive So, like any story, there seems to be 8 sides to this coin. As I just wrote about a few hours ago, Tesla’s founder and CEO Elon Musk claims that the Article written by John Broder in the New York Times claiming that the Tesla Model S was not matching claimed range and in fact… Read More
How Tesla caught the New York Times faking a test drive and why this is more then just a bad reporter story I’m already in the market to buy an electric or extended hybrid so I tend to pay attention to these story more then most people. Now, I do not exactly consider the New York Times the go to publication for news on electric cars, however, like most people, I normally accept anything I read in… Read More
No, your Telsa will NOT brick if you leave it uncharged A story broke a few days back from a blogger named Michael DeGusta saying that if you let your Telsa’s car battery full drain that you have effectively bricked your car. He gave 5 examples of cars that were fully drained and thus ‘bricked’. He reports one example of a user who took his car… Read More