Crashnburn80's Tesla Model 3 Performance Longer Range Build

Is that your home panel? That’s at least double, maybe triple anything I’ve had in a home before.

 

Only a 200A panel on a house with a heat pump? My 50+ year old house is running 200A stock with a gas furnace. Pics I posted are just the input panel, not the secondary panel with the vast majority of the breakers. Agreed it is a good learning experience. My guy was a semi-retired lifer.

 

We have a gas furnace too. Heat pump isn’t hooked up right now cause I want to redo the run clean while we can. Relocated it away from the street in hopes of an attached shop someday.

My guy say 225 woulda been cool but I’m burning about 10% of that right now.

If only I could EV convert my ‘05…

 

Team Tesla 3 at the coffee stand this morning.

 

I bought a CSS adapter very shortly after buying the Tesla, thinking that charging was going to be the big deal everyone tries to make it out to be, when it’s not. Tesla dropped the price of the OEM CSS adapter to less than aftermarket units.

https://electrek.co/2023/02/18/tesla-ccs-adapter/

 

Yesss. HomeLink setup. Install was a breeze with a service apt at the local Tesla dealer, took less than an hour.



My car is now the spare key to my house. Power outage, wifi failure, MyQ outage, as long as my phone and the Tesla has some form of connectivity, the Tesla can communicate directly with the door systems and open the doors, regardless of power with battery backup and redundant battery powered doors. Super excited to have direct peer to peer communication and kick MyQ to the curb.

 

Using the Tesla to teach physics.

Kid in the back seat tossing up a very small foam football as we go down the highway.

Kid: If I toss the ball up and the car changes direction while it is airborne, would the ball change direction in the car or would it move with the car?
Me: An object in motion stays in the same motion unless something acts upon it. If it is airborne and the car changes direction, it would move within the car.
Kid: So if I toss the ball up and we switch lanes while it is airborne, it wouldn't land back in my hand?
Me: Correct.
Kid: Lets try it.
Me: Ok.
Me: Toss it up on 3. 3, 2, 1!
Kid: (Tosses ball up)
Me: (Doing 45mph on the highway, stomps the accelerator. Ball flys backward in the car as if someone just chucked it and gets pegged in-between the rear window and rear dash).
Kid: WOW!!! We left the ball in the dust!
Me: The ball stayed in its motion, but during that time we accelerated much faster.
Kid: Its science. Teslas are the coolest.

 

Good to see someone else recognize the benefits of lighter rotating wheel mass for a performance lift.

 

Not just for the Tesla. Same for the Tacomas:
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...eel-tire-combo-trd-rock-warriors-ko2s.381030/

 

Looks like Tesla’s Engineering HQ is headed back to California after leaving it 2 years ago.
https://www.wboy.com/news/national/tesla-hq-leaving-texas-to-return-to-california-musk-announces

 

I'm curious if it will have changes to the battery/motors for improved performance/range, or if this is just a cosmetic refresh. With the primary goal of cost cutting on the update, I'm curious on the direction. I do really like the ultrasonic sensors, I'm glad I got them on mine before they were phased out.

 

Tesla is now labeled as the best selling luxury car brand in the US with incredible growth at +41% over the previous year, while traditional luxury brands are losing sales. I don't know that I would consider Tesla a true 'luxury brand', but the fact that it now has a dominant US sales lead over all ICE luxury brands including the almighty BMW while only producing 4 electric vehicles is impressive to say the least.
https://www.motorbiscuit.com/electric-car-brand-now-beset-selling-luxury-automaker-us/

BMW (the traditional luxury brand sales leader) in 2nd place isn't even close. It is exciting to see an American automotive manufacture, manufacturing vehicles in the USA, take the lead with such a commanding position for the first time ever over such established brands. I've said it before, but if you are not rooting for Tesla here, you are rooting against the home team.

This is coming from a 90s BMW fanboy, my 91 BMW 535i 5spd. Rare as less than 5% of 535is were manual.

 

@$#!



That massive goofball+ sized rock in the lower left is airborne and on a collision course.


Took another good glass removing blow to the windshield as well after deflecting from the body strike. I swear I’ve never been hit by so many massive rocks in a vehicle in such a short time.

 

You were lucky. I was lucky as well since no one was hurt with my electrical fire.

Below are before/after photos of the electrical panel that caught fire at my rental property.

$50K in repairs.

 

Ouch, any idea on the cause?

 

State Farm hired a private arsonist investigator. His opinion was the A-Phase (red) electrical feeder wire was loose, the connection got hot under load, and the heat slowly slowly worked its way up the insulation until it started to burn - idk but okay.

I have to say State Farm was excellent to work with and we had no issue getting funds.

Side note to property owners: be sure to have the code upgrade rider on your property insurance policy. For ~$10/yr. it's well worth it. Any needed upgrades to meet current codes is covered or you are going to pay out of pocket which could quickly become very expensive.

 

crashburn80:

I'm enjoying this thread about your Tesla.

Have you ever come across how people solve the charging problem when they park their Tesla on the street out on front of their suburbia house each night?