My experience with the Tesla Model 3

[ferniesnow]

All’s I know about the T M3 is don’t buy a white one. Oh my phluck….19 of 20 you see from say Merritt to Vancouver is a white one. Oh, and you only see them from Merritt to Vancouver.

Don't want to burst your bubble Dave but on Thursday we saw 2 black ones, a blue one, and two white ones. They were south of Merritt. All of them passed us doing 130+ as we were holding steady on 130 kph.

Saw one of those fancy new Mustang SUV's out in Squamish. Looked kind of neat! It was a nice clean shiny black one.

 

[DaveB]

No bubble burst here I’m not lying…95% white. I chuckle every time I see one and twice when it’s white….which they mostly were. Saw 1 eMustang. I held back the puke….barely.

 

[ferniesnow]

No bubble burst here I’m not lying…95% white. I chuckle every time I see one and twice when it’s white….which they mostly were. Saw 1 eMustang. I held back the puke….barely.

I wasn't implying that you were lying and I am sorry you took it that way.

 

[Cableguy]

A Tesla Supercharging station will soon be ready to use in the Anderson Subdivision - Vernon News

A Tesla Supercharging station has been built in the Anderson Subdivision.

www.castanet.net

 

[tejay]

U.S. opens probe into Tesla’s Autopilot over emergency vehicle crashes

WASHINGTON — U.S. auto safety regulators said Monday they had opened a formal safety probe into Tesla Inc’s driver assistance system Autopilot in 765,000 U.S.…

torontosun.com

 

[acesup800]

In Alberta the combination provincial and federal fuel tax is $0.2373 per liter of gasoline. If you consider somebody that drives the average 20,000km per year in a vehicle that averages 9l/100km, this works out to $427 per year.

This obviously doesn't factor in carbon tax or GST on the tax. If you factor those in, that amount rises to $573.84.

Now if you're driving a jacked up diesel 60,000km per year, towing and hauling, and getting an average of say 18l/100km, that amount would be $2536.92.

It's 60 cents/L in Vancouver. Do that math.....adds up to a lot.

 

[jhurkot]

U.S. opens probe into Tesla’s Autopilot over emergency vehicle crashes

WASHINGTON — U.S. auto safety regulators said Monday they had opened a formal safety probe into Tesla Inc’s driver assistance system Autopilot in 765,000 U.S.…

torontosun.com

"the 11 incidents included: 2 cases of DUI, 1 suspended license, 4 cases of driver inattention (of which one charged with reckless driving) and 4 unknown circumstances (i.e. no police report readily available)."

 

[tejay]

From what I’m reading the problem is with the Tesla technology when encountering emergency vehicles is shi**ing the bed

 

[jhurkot]

From what I’m reading the problem is with the Tesla technology when encountering emergency vehicles is shi**ing the bed

Probably has nothing to do with people being drunk or inattentive while driving. I would guess that there has never been an accident involving cruise control under those circumstances either.

 

[tejay]

Cruise control when encountering emergency vehicles is driver error not technology error .

 

[jhurkot]

Cruise control when encountering emergency vehicles is driver error not technology error .

If you are sitting in the driver seat, it is always driver error.

 

[jhurkot]

 

[jhurkot]

Construction crew is busy....

 

[jhurkot]

 

[Beer Slayer]

 

[LennyR]

LOL. Certainly not surprising !

 

[jhurkot]

Some dude in Ontario. I guess he is a courier and drives 540km a day. Says all he has done is front upper control arms and rear knuckles.

 

[Summitric]

We've replaced inner tie-rods and sway bar links on a couple Tesla's already... one was around 230,000kms(tie rods and alignment) and the other was 145,000kms(broken sway bar link

 

[jhurkot]

189kWh = 5.73 gallons
1037km = 644.3 miles

112.4 MPG

Supercharging costs...

 

[jhurkot]