Peanut3141 posted:

Did they join you in a fistbump three-way with a nearby homeless person?

Endymion FRS MK1 posted:

Why buy a $2k acceleration boost when Aliexpress has this for like

BAD AT STUFF posted:

HOA?

Nitrox posted:

This may come as a surprise, but very few construction trades actually make use of a picture truck. Cargo vans are the default tool and supply carriers. And everyone who needs the extra seating capacity, will compromise by getting a pickup and then a designated trailer.

NZAmoeba posted:

Hi thread





(It was the wife's choice ok?)

Os Furoris posted:

For some people having a truck makes sense. Some of us have a truck *gasp* and a small EV we try to use as much as possible. It sucks they are so big and heavy but not everyone wrings their hands about every consumer choice.

GnarlyCharlie4u posted:

I can really only have one vehicle right now. My normal everyday use is just commuting 26 miles to/from work each way.
I do truck stuff pretty often, and unfortunately can't keep a trailer in my neighborhood. So, I'm stuck with a vehicle that has an open bed to do truck stuff like hauling motorcycles or going to the dump, transporting manure or trees, or getting construction materials. I haven't been camping or biking in a while (having babies kinda puts a damper on that), but I always enjoyed having a truck for those sorts of activities as well. Much more preferable to just dump all of your dirty camping/biking stuff into a truck bed rather than into the cabin of another sort of vehicle. If I could have two vehicles than a minivan or suv or wagon and a beater truck would have been fine.
But yeah, I've always had a truck of some sort, and since the chicken-tax makes it not economically viable to have a small truck, I'm stuck with big truck.

OBAMNA PHONE posted:

well during my 30 day probe i finally acquired a new 2LT Bolt from a dealer in pdx, had to stay overnight because they dont loving charge cars (wtf) before they put them up for sale

great car, love it, no ragrets

cruft posted:

Hey, it looks like maybe Tesla is doing the CCS retrofit finally?

Qwijib0 posted:

Still not available in the app

Elviscat posted:

It would be nice if there were more small EV trucks, or more small trucks in general, they're easier to load and unload and you rarely need something half-ton sized anyways.

I ended up keeping my Ranger and getting a small EV for commuting, wanted a Rivian but holy gently caress are they expensive.

FISHMANPET posted:

The dealership I got my EUV from was about 75 minutes away from my house. I called in the morning before I went down there to confirm they still had the one I wanted, and the salesperson later informed me that after that call ended she immediately plugged it in so it would be charged for me to drive it home that day.

In other words, skill issue (on the part of the dealer).

cruft posted:

quote:

This accessory requires a service retrofit (currently available for Model S and Model X). Schedule Service in the Tesla app.

Nitrox posted:

This may come as a surprise, but very few construction trades actually make use of a picture truck. Cargo vans are the default tool and supply carriers. And everyone who needs the extra seating capacity, will compromise by getting a pickup and then a designated trailer.

wolrah posted:

I have never been able to understand why the "Crew Van" configuration with a second row of finished passenger space in front of the cargo partition is so uncommon in the US. I don't think any of the classic American vans ever offered such a configuration from the factory and even the couple of modern European-style vans that do offer it now only have a subset of the configurations available elsewhere.

It seems like it should be obviously better for any application where severe off road or towing wasn't important. It's like a crew cab pickup with a topper, but with more space for both passengers and cargo.

Cactus Ghost posted:

the above poster doesn't consider tradespeople to be "people" or even "consumers". when he says "everyone", he means "wannabe rich suburbanites" because he is unable to conceptualize any experience other than his own

cruft posted:

I shall now gripe about the Model 3.

• It habitually over-estimates its own efficiency on road trips. If we leave when it tells us to, we either have to turn around, or drive slowly on the Interstate, because the car's always like "whoops, tee hee, I'm using 10% more battery than I thought I would!". Every. Time.
  

cruft posted:

I shall now gripe about the Model 3.

Cactus Ghost posted:

i figured it was for that sort of homeownery type stuff. how much room is in the trunk?

Loucks posted:

I have gripes about mine too, but it seems funny to me how many of these are a result of you choosing to buy a car designed to be paired to a smartphone and then throwing away your smartphone.

bird with big dick posted:

Do you leave when it says "You are ready to proceed on your journey" or just when you do the math and leave when you see that it thinks you'll arrive at your next destination with 15%+ or whatever?

ROFLBOT posted:

I know this is probably missing the point somewhat because hey why buy a car with a feature when you dont use that feature

But

i drive over 500km a week in my Model Y and the most automated driving i use is the TACC (ie, adaptive cruise control), which since the past couple of updates has been pretty solid, the phantom braking thing that some people go nuts over has been for me a pretty rare gentle backing off of the throttle in very specific (and largely predictable) circumstances, i mean some people are saying their car literally jams on the brakes at speed, which i find hard to believe

cruft posted:

I shall now gripe about the Model 3.

• The autosteer is not built for rural roads: not even rural Interstate highways. It loses its mind at night because it doesn't see anything out the left cameras, and assumes that means they're broken. They're not broken. It's just dark outside.
  
• When somebody finally passes in the opposing direction, the car's like, oh, I guess the cameras are okay after all, and clears the error. Then, 6 seconds later, it yells at you because the cameras are broken. They're not broken. It's just dark outside.
  
• The driver-facing camera flakes out when it's hot outside, and then you have to downgrade from the lane centering that adjusts the speed based on road signs to the one that happily continues going 45MPH in a 65MPH zone. This is annoying on highways that enter and exit little towns every 10 miles: especially after becoming accustomed to the car noticing the speed limit changes. I probably need to get this fixed, the car's 5 years old now. But this is my gripe list, and that's a gripe.
  

cruft posted:

• There is no (Tesla-provided) way to remote-start the climate controls without a smartphone. Tesla won't let me install the app on my Android-capable Chromebook. There's still no Siri or Google Assistant integration. I set up an IFTTT thing years ago so I could say "Okay Google, get the car ready." Why the hell does Tesla still not provide this?
  

cruft posted:

• It habitually over-estimates its own efficiency on road trips. If we leave when it tells us to, we either have to turn around, or drive slowly on the Interstate, because the car's always like "whoops, tee hee, I'm using 10% more battery than I thought I would!". Every. Time.
  

cruft posted:

I shall now gripe about the Model 3.

cruft posted:

I mean, you're not wrong. But it still feels like a bad decision on Tesla's part. This isn't a problem with any other manufacturer.

If we leave when it says "you are ready", we have to either slow down or turn around. If we leave when it says we'll arrive at the next stop with 20%, we arrive at the next stop with 10%. It's been this way since we had the Model S. We're just in the habit of not leaving until it says 20%, and if there's wind or it's cold, we'll wait until it says 25%. Then we roll in around 8%, typically.

I'm not going to talk about the speed I drive, because it will cause another 2-page derail. But suffice to say that unless the car doesn't understand Interstate highway speeds, there's no reason it should be over-estimating energy use. I'm not even steering: I'm just supervising the car keeping itself between the lines for 2-hour stretches.

I guess I was hoping that at some point the software would be like "hey, this is the third time today I've underestimated consumption by 10%, I'm going to readjust the estimate". It's a dumb gotcha that other drivers have mentioned to us when we're charging. Maybe it's just the region: most of our longer trips are I-25 and I-40.

I've wondered since the S whether Telsa's maps think we're going to drive 65MPH on the Interstate. That, at least, would explain why it's wrong every time.

bird with big dick posted:

The phantom braking can be harder than max regen, which I would personally qualify as "jamming on the brakes at speed."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKqKrG5H_bo

It sure as gently caress ain't no "gently backing off the throttle."

ROFLBOT posted:

"I did know it was going to happen, because it did it like 30 times that day."

Sounds more like a fault with his car than a typical experience. I mean i've talked about having phantom braking events myself, but they have never been anything remotely like actually hitting the brakes.

bird with big dick posted:

Do you mostly drive in areas that aren't similar to those in the video? Because when it happens is when traffic is sparse (so sightlines are long) and there are heat mirages on the pavement which the car mistakes for vehicles stopped in the road.

Indiana_Krom posted:

people turning in front of me closer than I would have attempted while I was traveling at highway speeds.