Tesla

[StarTrekDoc]

Id.4 is another option.

[Hank]

Id.4 is another option.

Instead of a Model Y? Yeah, maybe if availability is your only concern.

[StarTrekDoc]

Instead of a Model Y? Yeah, maybe if availability is your only concern.

Yeah, just SUV options - ID4 more in the Niro crowd in space and dollars; but an option.

[burritos]

Anyone get enough juice just from doing at home level 1 trickle charge?

[Kamban]

Anyone get enough juice just from doing at home level 1 trickle charge?

Have done it a couple of times and you get a 3% increase per hour in my MYLR. After 36 hours I was still only around 80%. My home 240V 80 amp charger would have gone to 100% in 3 hours or so.

It is like root canal - painful. I would only do it if there were no other options. Better to not buy EV than put up with trickle charging.

[burritos]

Have done it a couple of times and you get a 3% increase per hour in my MYLR. After 36 hours I was still only around 80%. My home 240V 80 amp charger would have gone to 100% in 3 hours or so.

It is like root canal - painful. I would only do it if there were no other options. Better to not buy EV than put up with trickle charging.

I trickle charge our leaf and it works just fine, but that is mostly for weekend driving. I'm trying to convince my wife to try it for her Y. She commutes 50 mi RT. If she knows she has to go further on a specific day she can always use our level 2 charger. But she's used to just filling up everyday. I mean, with gas cars we don't fill every day right?

[StarTrekDoc]

Level 1- 110V - 1.2kh charge per hour usually. That roughly translates to 3-4miles an hour depending on your vehicle and driving habits.
Level 2 240V -30-50A -- gets roughly 7-9kh per hour.

Trickle charge only when you're desperate on the road. Just know where charging stations are nowadays -- back in the past, it was camp grounds with 240V readily available.

[triad]

is autopilot ever going to happen? might get the bolt with super cruise

[StarTrekDoc]

Different levels of Autopilot. What are you asking about?

Our Y has basic - works like supercruise. awesome highway driving.

Our 3 has Advanced and now FSD (beta).
The Advanced has a few more bells and whistles with lane changing and full navigation from onramp to offramp.

The FSD includes full driving on surface roads -- at best it's a work in progress. = permit teenager driver.

[Kamban]

I trickle charge our leaf and it works just fine, but that is mostly for weekend driving. I'm trying to convince my wife to try it for her Y. She commutes 50 mi RT. If she knows she has to go further on a specific day she can always use our level 2 charger. But she's used to just filling up everyday. I mean, with gas cars we don't fill every day right?

You have to get over the gas car mentality while having EV.

Never fill to 100% unless you are immediately going to start on a journey since it will deteriorate your battery faster and regen braking will not occur till it hist 90% or so. Secondly, get into the habit of plugging in every night so that you have 80% or so state of charge every morning. You can let a gas car run until the yellow light comes on and still make it to the nearest gas station and fill it to 100%. But the day you have it run down to 10% and plan to charge it, you might have a sudden emergency trip. You will either waste 3-4 hrs on a level 2 charger at home or drive out to a supercharger ( which may not be nearby outside of Cal) and waste time and money supercharging it.

Your wife should plug the Y into the Level 2 every night and let the car top up to 80%.

[burritos]

You have to get over the gas car mentality while having EV.

Never fill to 100% unless you are immediately going to start on a journey since it will deteriorate your battery faster and regen braking will not occur till it hist 90% or so. Secondly, get into the habit of plugging in every night so that you have 80% or so state of charge every morning. You can let a gas car run until the yellow light comes on and still make it to the nearest gas station and fill it to 100%. But the day you have it run down to 10% and plan to charge it, you might have a sudden emergency trip. You will either waste 3-4 hrs on a level 2 charger at home or drive out to a supercharger ( which may not be nearby outside of Cal) and waste time and money supercharging it.

Your wife should plug the Y into the Level 2 every night and let the car top up to 80%.

This is exactly what she does. When I say fill up, I meant up to the 80% of the cap.

[fatlittlepig]

another autopilot crash in florida. before tesla can develop a self driving car it might want to figure out how to avoid running into stationary objects, in this case another semi truck.

[CordMcNally]

another autopilot crash in florida. before tesla can develop a self driving car it might want to figure out how to avoid running into stationary objects, in this case another semi truck.

This is Tesla's way to try to drive up demand for their upcoming semi...by taking out the competition one by one.

[Tim]

another autopilot crash in florida. before tesla can develop a self driving car it might want to figure out how to avoid running into stationary objects, in this case another semi truck.

Let’s hold off. Not determined if autopilot was on.
Parked at a rest stop.

[fatlittlepig]

Let’s hold off. Not determined if autopilot was on.
Parked at a rest stop.

umm.. so a 60 year old woman drove intentionally into a parked semi at a rest stop shearing off the roof of the Tesla in the process?