Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 17:52:04 +0000
By David Waterworth, from conversations with Majella Waterworth I live in an unusual household. I don’t have a mobile phone (shock! gasp!). My wonderful wife has a mobile, and as we are rarely apart, we think that will suffice. However, the law of unintended consequences ensues. When we converted from dinosaurs to a Tesla 3 […]
Credit to Author: Jesper Berggreen| Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2022 05:00:22 +0000
The amount of writing about electric vehicles in mainstream media these days is staggering compared to when I decided to make the shift from fossil-fueled vehicles to electric vehicles in 2016. From a deep dive technical perspective, there are always new and interesting innovations, but in everyday life? Well, more and more people are making […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 15 May 2022 06:45:56 +0000
Tesla fans are now well aware of Tesla’s approach to “full self driving,” but I’ll provide a super quick summary here just to make sure all readers are on the same page. Basically, Tesla drivers in North America who bought the “Full Self Driving” package and passed a Safety Score test have a beta version […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 15 May 2022 06:44:56 +0000
Tesla fans are now well aware of Tesla’s approach to “full self driving,” but I’ll provide a super quick summary here just to make sure all readers are on the same page. Basically, at the moment, Tesla drivers in North America who bought the “Full Self Driving” package and passed a Safety Score test have […]
Credit to Author: Jesper Berggreen| Date: Mon, 09 May 2022 05:19:10 +0000
Back in November 2019, I wrote about my choice to replace the Michelin Pilot Sport 4 originally fittet on my Tesla Model 3 with all-season Michelin CrossClimate+ tyres (I recommend reading that article to learn more about my choice of tyre size etc.). After 30 months and 85,000 km (53,000 miles), these tires were ripe […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 07 May 2022 21:32:08 +0000
I may have had a one-of-a-kind issue with my Tesla Model 3 at nearly 25,000 miles. Perhaps others have had this issue, but I didn’t find it on forums and the Tesla Service tech I spoke to hadn’t seen the problem before. The problem, as you can see in the pic above and pics and […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sat, 07 May 2022 15:20:36 +0000
That’s what the service technician said when he arrived at my house to do the requested end-of-warranty check. I was concerned that after leaving warranty something might go wrong and I would end up with a big bill (been there, done that, with other vehicles). So, I thought the quoted AUD$200 was a small price […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 13:45:27 +0000
These are the signs that met us as we started our wedding anniversary stay at Rice’s Log Cabins in the Bunya Mountains. The dingo notice was on the fridge in the cabin. The wild dog notice was at the beginning of the nature walks in the national park. Although we saw (and photographed) lots of […]
Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 03:41:05 +0000
Tesla is building and selling cars at a rate of over one million per year now, so there are a lot of people out there who will need to know a few things about their new Tesla (or other EV). I took delivery of my first Nissan LEAF in February 2014, my second LEAF in […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2022 07:55:07 +0000
Electric cars are just like gas cars — until they’re not. In this FAQ series, we’ll explore that 1% of the time that EVs are just different enough to require some explanations.