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re: Tesla Car Owners?
Posted on 1/25/21 at 7:21 am to Napoleon
Posted on 1/25/21 at 7:21 am to Napoleon
quote:
Elon Musk needs to buy Volvo. They have the best interiors, they have the safest vehicles. The Polestar is lacking though. Tesla has more market value than Ford right now. He should acquire an outlier luxury brand that is already looking to go electric.
Wouldn't be a bad idea. I get the impression that Volvo (Swedes) aren't overly happy with the influences that their Chinese owner(s) are pushing.
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Posted on 1/25/21 at 7:29 am to shel311
My Y was only 53k. I get free charging at work and my place so it’s like paying for a regular crossover
Posted on 1/25/21 at 7:34 am to fareplay
I am making a push for us to have an EV charger at our locations at work. O will completely abuse that if we get them
Posted on 1/25/21 at 8:08 am to Vestigial Morgan
quote:
I get the impression that Volvo (Swedes) aren't overly happy with the influences that their Chinese owner(s) are pushing.
How’s that?
Posted on 1/25/21 at 8:48 am to jmarto1
Most grocery stores in multistory complex have free charging too. ~30 miles per hour so if you go shop you didn’t pay for gas
Posted on 1/25/21 at 9:19 am to fareplay
Yep. I want our business to be on that tesla screen
Posted on 1/25/21 at 11:01 am to CincinnatiTiger
A few questions for you guys that purchased one.
1 - Is there a place close to BTR where I can test drive one?
2 - You order online and a truck shows up in your driveway 10 weeks later and drops it off?
3 - The closest warranty place (to BTR) is in NOLA?
4 - I noticed a lot of you said the $10K autopilot (or whatever it is called) is not worth it. What does the car come with in regards to self-driving vs. the $10K option?
5 - Are any of the models more "reliable" than others? I know there was a big push to get the model 3's out the door so wonder if there were/are some quality issues with that model. I was considering a Model X for my wife in the next year but after reading this thread, I am now going to strongly consider it.
Thanks in advance for your replies.
1 - Is there a place close to BTR where I can test drive one?
2 - You order online and a truck shows up in your driveway 10 weeks later and drops it off?
3 - The closest warranty place (to BTR) is in NOLA?
4 - I noticed a lot of you said the $10K autopilot (or whatever it is called) is not worth it. What does the car come with in regards to self-driving vs. the $10K option?
5 - Are any of the models more "reliable" than others? I know there was a big push to get the model 3's out the door so wonder if there were/are some quality issues with that model. I was considering a Model X for my wife in the next year but after reading this thread, I am now going to strongly consider it.
Thanks in advance for your replies.
Posted on 1/25/21 at 11:04 am to captainahab
I’ll let you know #2 in 3 days
#4 basically enhanced cruise control where it speeds up slows down avoids collisions etc
#4 basically enhanced cruise control where it speeds up slows down avoids collisions etc
Posted on 1/25/21 at 12:22 pm to pjab
quote:To charge?
How much $$$?
Usually $3-4 per charge on long distance drives.
Posted on 1/25/21 at 12:31 pm to ehidal1
quote:Every day when I get home(well I work from home now, but you get the point lol) I plug it in immediately, but the car/app allow you to begin charging whenever you want.
How much has your monthly electric bill gone up from the regular charging? How much money to use a charging station?
I start mine at midnight as I know those are off peak hours.
It's roughly $20/month.
Also, when I did work in office pre-COVID, my building had a free charger that I'd use daily, so unless there was a lot of driving being done on the weekends, I was paying basically $0 a month for charging since I could do all charging at work.
This post was edited on 1/25/21 at 12:33 pm
Posted on 1/25/21 at 12:37 pm to captainahab
quote:Skipping the BR/NOLA questions as I'm not local
A few questions for you guys that purchased one.
quote:Basically, yes. You can set your pickup options. Since I'm near Dallas and the truck will be made in Austin, I may try to pick mine up at the factory because, why not.
2 - You order online and a truck shows up in your driveway 10 weeks later and drops it off?
But for the car, yes. I ordered mine. At that time it was 2 weeks, and 2 weeks later some dude drove my car right into my driveway and that was that.
quote:Car comes with auto pilot. AP won't make left/right turns or stop at stop signs/green lights, but it's basically an auto steer, keeping you within the lane you're in. Still very useful, but nowhere near as detailed as the full self-driving, but for $10k I just don't think full self-driving does enough as of right now to make it worth it, plus as of now, you can't transfer FSD over to your next car. You'd have to pay for it all over again.
4 - I noticed a lot of you said the $10K autopilot (or whatever it is called) is not worth it. What does the car come with in regards to self-driving vs. the $10K option?
quote:As long as you're not getting, say, a super new Model Y, it's probably all the same IMO. Model Y is still new and may still be working the production bugs out, but otherwise between the 3/S/X you'd be fine with any of them from a reliability standpoint.
5 - Are any of the models more "reliable" than others? I know there was a big push to get the model 3's out the door so wonder if there were/are some quality issues with that model. I was considering a Model X for my wife in the next year but after reading this thread, I am now going to strongly consider it.
Posted on 1/25/21 at 1:50 pm to captainahab
Just rent one for a day or two off of Touro
Posted on 1/25/21 at 1:53 pm to Tshiz
quote:
What cool personalized license plate will you get?
3MTA3
Posted on 1/25/21 at 2:00 pm to jmarto1
quote:Yea, I never actually rented one from Turo, but it seems like a cool site and an easy way for you to get a couple days of a real "test drive" for a a couple hundred bucks if you're on the fence on whether to purchase one.
Just rent one for a day or two off of Touro
Posted on 1/25/21 at 2:03 pm to fareplay
quote:Yep
My Y was only 53k. I get free charging at work and my place so it’s like paying for a regular crossover
I keep harping on it but a great many people simply don't realize and think that every single Tesla on the road is owned by rich folks and must be near $100k, and a lot of those people have their own cars that are more expensive than most Teslas.
Totally making this up, but I'd guess that pretty soon well over half of Teslas on the road will be $50k or less. And when you factor in the savings on routine maintenance as well as average maintenance on fixing broken items, that $50k car is now more like a $40k in terms of total cost of ownership.
Posted on 1/25/21 at 2:03 pm to shel311
There is definitely a couple in Slidell as I had my mother test one. People knock EV's because they are different. They are definitely not for everyone but most people can greatly benefit from one. My mother went with a sentra but she could have plugged into a 110 outlet and gotten all the charge she needed
Posted on 1/25/21 at 2:05 pm to Eric Nies Grind Time
quote:
Thought they would have improved the interior by now. Kind of amazed at how they get away with such a poor quality interior in a 70k car.
This seems to be a lot of car companies these days. (Looking at you GM)
Posted on 1/25/21 at 2:08 pm to Rust
quote:A lot is obviously just personal preference.
This seems to be a lot of car companies these days. (Looking at you GM)
But for me, like everyone else, we all grew up with cars that just had a shite ton of buttons everywhere in the middle of the dash area. No big deal, nothing inherently "wrong" with that.
Then a Model 3 becomes your daily driver, and other than a button on the door to roll your windows down, there isn't a single button on the car, and it's all controlled through the touch screen. But that then becomes your norm, and now you sit in other cars, and it really does make that car's interior with all those buttons just seem a bit odd and weird looking.
With the Model S and X currently more than likely going through a refresh, I'm interested to see if it's minor tweaks or something major like going a bit more of this route.
Posted on 1/25/21 at 2:28 pm to shel311
One thing that bothers me about the touchscreens in these electric cars is how they look like somebody just threw an iPad in there. It’s just not aesthetically pleasing to look at for me personally and I’m nitpicking. Why not build it into the dashboard more so, similar to what the Ram pickups have now?
Posted on 1/25/21 at 2:34 pm to Rust
quote:Yea, that's fair. The S and X have it built into the dash.
One thing that bothers me about the touchscreens in these electric cars is how they look like somebody just threw an iPad in there. It’s just not aesthetically pleasing to look at for me personally and I’m nitpicking. Why not build it into the dashboard more so, similar to what the Ram pickups have now?
The 3 has it sticking out. Like you said, it may look a bit odd with personal preference.
But I think the issue is that if you're going to have zero buttons and nothing right in front of your steering wheel(like the S and X) you need that screen to be out farther and closer to you for ease of use.
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