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Happy Noodle Boy posted:isn’t Texas currently somewhat hosed by their own “independent” grid now being a deregulated mess with higher costs woefully inadequate to handle the states’s actual electric needs and since they cut ties to other grids they can’t even offset it by buying power off state? Texas has its own power grid because in 1935 Texas said “gently caress President Wheels” and “feds can’t do poo poo if what happens in Texas stays in Texas”. Forty years later, one company intentionally sent power to Texas to Oklahoma. This company, CSW, wanted to bring themselves under federal law, and if they had to drag the rest of Texas with them, kicking and screaming, so be it. This signalled the start of what has been called “The Second Battle of the Alamo”. Texas wriggled out of it and kept their independence. I would say that that it’s unfortunate that Texas won the legal battle, but Texas really just succeeded in cutting off their nose to spite their face. quote:Prior to the creation of the PUC during the 1970s, state and federal regulation of the state’s utilities was almost non- existent. The transmission grid that would be overseen by ERCOT was designed to serve specific communities, with limited interconnections for reliability purposes. The state’s major utility monopolies vigorously protected their own territories and resisted federal oversight. Consider, for example, the famous story of the “Midnight Connection” in which an unnamed technician from the Central and Southwest Corp. secretly opened a substation connection between Vernon, Texas and Altus, Oklahoma. Through this unprecedented action, CSW sought to preserve its status as an interstate electric power holding company, which would allow it to come under integration provisions of the Public Utilities Holding Company Act that were legally advantageous to the company. http://tcaptx.com/downloads/THE-STORY-OF-ERCOT.pdf
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Dumb Lowtax posted:Man, Grimes has seen some real poo poo hasn't she Grimes: I'm seeing double! Four Elon's?!
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Shifty Pony posted:I'm at around $4.20 nice
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Tesla does give you loaners, just not insurance and registration on them: https://translate.google.com/transl...kret%2F24676839
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evobatman posted:Tesla does give you loaners, just not insurance and registration on them: lmao watch them sell that loaner as new
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evobatman posted:Tesla does give you loaners, just not insurance and registration on them: Among my social group, 2 of the 3 tesla owners have had month+ service delays. The first guy, a few months ago got a Model X for the period. The other more recently got a base model Ford Fusion lol
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Parking garages full of unsellable Teslas, but no loaners available. Here, have a commuter bike and a dented helmet.
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:Parking garages full of unsellable Teslas, but no loaners available. Here, have a commuter bike and a dented helmet. they’ve suffered enough why give them a dirt lot time bomb?!
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Dented helmets and Tesla ownership go hand in hand.
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I mean ford sold 1.5 million cars with faulty transmissions and now have multi-month wait times for warranty repair parts which don't actually fix the problem (but which ford hopes will put the next occurrence outside of the warranty period)
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Delivery day! Didn’t go as expected  I arrived 7 minutes early to my appointment and no one arrived until 4 after... not a big deal except that the car wasn’t there. Even after confirming multiple times Friday because I am a super anxious person who overplans everything lol. Wasted a couple hours today and I’m just super sad because I was so excited. Tesla offered me $150 in store credit. I assume this is very uncommon but I’m just venting because I’m super depressed today. Hopefully I will get it Tuesday.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Delivery day! hahahahahaha
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The heck do you spend Tesla store credit on. Elon shirts and LOVE THE CAR mugs?
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5% of an FSD license that poofs out of existence as soon as your car breaks or leaves your possession.
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I'm not 100% sure, but I think this song is basically a melodic curse on Elon and other rich ilk determined to die on mars? https://scottstutzman.bandcamp.com/track/may-you-die Can't be sure but it would definitely mesh well with Stutzman's apparent political ideology.
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Platystemon posted:Texas has its own power grid because in 1935 Texas said “gently caress President Wheels” and “feds can’t do poo poo if what happens in Texas stays in Texas”. I might be in a state that is as chuddy if not chuddier than Texas but by god they figured out how to provide utilities like a century ago and even the bald-rear end old money governor loves my city's big beautiful socialist electric company
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A Couple of Build Issues on New Delivery. Please Advise. I've been meaning to post this. Picked up my Model 3 recently and the delivery process was great. I looked over the vehicle briefly at the shop and it looked fine. Looked at the main places, curb rash, any paint chips, paint damage, etc. I got home and looked at it more carefully and realized there were a couple of flaws. Trying to figure out if these are "within spec" or if you guys would take it in. The rear doors are not evenly flush. One side is high, the other is low. I read about this among Model 3 owners. Scratches on the shifter These unstiched parts on my rear doors. Again, I can't tell if this is normal if its a bad stitching job. Hope you guys can help, bummed that a 50K+ car would have these small issues. https://imgur.com/Obh1jK7 https://imgur.com/RRoUmvm https://imgur.com/UDZFCXX https://imgur.com/KV1wmxy https://imgur.com/fewHhQt https://imgur.com/mrx53mY https://imgur.com/wrK4vQP https://imgur.com/TpdUGiU https://imgur.com/seHSJPX
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"Can't tell if this is normal": A normal thing for car owners to ask other car owners in regard to the new car they purchased.
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Excellent trim work. Lmao, what a farce. Maybe he'll get a $150 credit for the elon musk store.
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baka kaba posted:The heck do you spend Tesla store credit on. Elon shirts and LOVE THE CAR mugs? This of course https://shop.spacex.com/featured-products/nuke-mars-t-shirt.html
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Delivery day! “Not a big deal except the car wasn’t there” 
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lol having to inspect your car and question whether the flaws in fit/finish are severe enough to merit a return instead of just knowing your chosen manufacturer has a robust QC regime that prevents poo poo like mismatched doors and paint bubbles from making it to the dealer lot. like do they exhibit the same concern about sushi? "Hmm, my shrimp roll might have liver fluke, good thing I have a microscope in my ~~eVeRyDaY CaRrY bAg~~ and can check to see whether there's enough parasites in the sample to merit concern about a statistically significant chance of infection"
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For those who might be unaware, the experience of Supercharging is actually pretty different than a traditional gas station. You park the car, and plug it in. When you're done, you unplug it and leave. That's it. You don't even have to manually open and close the charging door. The Supercharger already knows the car, knows your account and and knows your linked payment instrument. There's no swiping a credit card and entering your ZIP code/PIN, or going inside the station to stand in line to pay cash. There's no annoying question about your gas discount card. There's no selecting which grade of fuel to put in. There's no annoying advertising playing on the gas pump screen. In fact there's no pump controls, keypad or screen, because none is needed. There's no smell, no fuel spills, no drops of engine oil or other random fluids on the ground next to the pumps. There's no little lever thing you have to click down to keep the gas flowing without squeezing the handle. When you're done, there's no button to press to print a paper receipt -- that just goes directly into your Tesla.com account. After trying a Supercharger for the first time, you realize just how bad the user experience of a gas station is. The only bright spot (and admittedly it is a big one) is that the actual act of filling up with gasoline doesn't take more than a few minutes. But everything surrounding the act of putting fuel into your car at a gas station is dumb, annoying, and archaic.
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no risks except the part where you're exceeding safe current and heat levels for your daisychained vapist batteries which can make the car explode violently and burn unquenchably while you are trapped inside because the door latches were operated with power from the now-burning battery
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FAUXTON posted:no risks except the part where you're exceeding safe current and heat levels for your daisychained vapist batteries which can make the car explode violently and burn unquenchably while you are trapped inside because the door latches were operated with power from the now-burning battery A small price to pay as an early adopter of climate-saving technology from a man whose other company launches loving rockets into space, a thing it is hard to imagine topping in terms of CO2 production.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:I felt ill copy/pasting that post from the sheer amount of No, these are great. Keep going. Gas station: A few minutes out the door and depending on MPG 400-700 range. But ewww...stinky gas fumes and levers and buttons and receipts.
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i a found a tesla solar relaunch thread and now i want to die https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1163018466871263234?s=20 [–]vinodjetley[S] 4 points 3 hours ago 1 Gigawatt per square kilometer of solar energy reaches Earth’s surface. [–]strontal 4 points an hour ago On the ground you can capture a maximum of 1kw of solar energy per square meter of panels. Over a 24 hour day there is a best case of being able to obtain 6.5kWh of energy per square meter. If the panel is optimally oriented toward the sun If the panel is optimally angled toward the sun If the panel optimally sited If there is optimal weather If there is optimal environmentals Currently good quality PV panels are about 20% efficient. Meaning if all the above applies in the best case of all environments you can obtain 1.3kWh of energy per day per square meter. [–]arizonadeux thermodynamics says EVs are better [score hidden] 51 minutes ago Source? [–]croninsiglos [score hidden] 22 minutes ago* Nature. (not the journal but actual nature) See "solar hours". Where I live we only get 4 solar hours per day. Efficiency is about right too for residential solar, source: every PV manufacturer. Thus, where I live max I can get per sq meter is 0.8 kWh per day. (4 * 0.2) [–]vinodjetley[S] [score hidden] 3 minutes ago Elon Musk on twitter. Please read the original post and then ask source, not before you read it.
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The big missing part here that ol Musky seems to ignore (and becomes apparent if you spend more than 30 seconds thinking about it) is that, even ignoring the capital costs of building any such system for generation and transmission, we have no scalable method of offsetting that production to when we're not generating power You can't just make bandoleers of Li-ion batteries for distribution scale power
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Not a Children posted:
You say that but.... what is Musk can????
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My car may have mismatched panels but at least I didn't have to risk getting gasoline on my shoes like you disgusting PROLES!
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"I sold car 4 months ago & the rear end in a top hat changed the password but still hasn't updated the billing information on Tesla.com"
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P100D Brake Noise Help video here I have been told by my local Service Center that this brake noise on my Model S is "normal" because of the 21" arachnid wheels I have on it. This has been going on for several thousand miles, with many attempts made to resolve it based on other posts I've read, including driving with regen on low, burnishing the pads, etc. This just doesn't seem right to me since I've driven several other Model S vehicles (including loaner vehicles unfortunately) and none of them have this issue. If it is related to the 21" wheels, would it help to convert to 19's? It's incredibly embarrassing to drive for a vehicle that I otherwise love so much! Thanks for any help/advice!
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:i a found a tesla solar relaunch thread and now i want to die lol this man claims to have a physics degree
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NoWake posted:"I sold car 4 months ago & the rear end in a top hat changed the password but still hasn't updated the billing information on Tesla.com" Please tell me this is real.
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So, this video very shortly shits on Elon Musk but I'll take any excuses to let you guys know about this channel, I got lost in this dude's videos until I watched pretty much all of them. The theme of the video is really good, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_Z4Jd0AtfI&t=1s
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