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    My 2023 Tesla Model 3 Performance

    in Electric Vehicles

    Posted

    On 4/18/2024 at 9:27 PM, Ashley P said:

    So, you're saying that Tesla drivers are morons?   lol  😄 

    Morons operate ICE cars, too. 

    I've seen plenty of people in my life stranded on the side of the road with a gas can bought from a nearby truck stop. With a gas station every few miles, how the heck do you run out of gas? 😕

    I've never in my life ran a ICE vehicle out of gas. I've also never ran my EV dead in 31,000 miles of ownership. 😉 

     

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    My 2023 Tesla Model 3 Performance

    in Electric Vehicles

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    Well, 8 years / 120,000 miles is an excellent warranty. 

    Most ICE cars are only 3 years / 36,000 miles.

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    Lucid Motors

    • Basic Warranty: four years/50,000 miles
    • Powertrain Warranty: eight years/100,000 miles

    One of the newest car companies on the scene, Lucid Motors, builds the high-performance all-electric Lucid Air sedan. The upcoming Gravity SUV is expected to arrive in 2024.

    Lucid protects its vehicles with excellent warranty coverage. In addition to a four-year bumper-to-bumper warranty, the Lucid Air also features an eight-year/100,000-mile warranty on its powertrain. The company guarantees that the electric car's battery pack will retain 70% of its rated capacity for eight years or 100,000 miles.

     

    Lucid will send its technicians to your home or workplace for many types of repairs or maintenance. The company offers a growing network of service centers for complex repairs or customers who want to drive their car in.

     

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    Tesla

    • Basic Warranty: four years/50,000 miles
    • Powertrain Warranty: eight years/100,000, 120,000 or 150,000 miles, depending on model

    Tesla offers excellent new vehicle warranties on their electric cars, though the specifics for the powertrain coverage depend on the model you choose. The company also offers roadside assistance for four years or 50,000 miles, unless further coverage is required under the car's powertrain warranty.

    Buyers of the Tesla Model S or Tesla Model X receive a battery and drive unit warranty of eight years or 150,000 miles. The coverage warrants that the battery will retain 70% of its rated capacity over the warranty period.

    Tesla Model 3 Rear-Wheel Drive customers get the same coverage for eight years or 100,000 miles, while Tesla Model 3 Long Range, Tesla Model 3 Performance, Tesla Model Y Long Range and Tesla Model Y Performance models get an eight-year/120,000-mile powertrain warranty.

     

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    Rivian

    • Basic Warranty: five years/60,000 miles or four years/50,000 miles depending on configuration
    • Powertrain Warranty: eight years/175,000 miles or eight years/150,000 miles depending on configuration

    Automotive startup Rivian brought the first electric pickup truck to the U.S. marketplace with the Rivian R1T. It was joined by the Rivian R1S, a battery-electric crossover SUV, shortly thereafter.

    Rivian provides a five-year/60,000-mile bumper-to-bumper new car warranty for Quad-Motor models. Its electric powertrain and battery are covered for an exceptional eight years or 175,000 miles for Quad-Motor models.

    Dual-Motor Rivian models get a four-year/50,000-mile bumper-to-bumper warranty and an eight-year/150,000-mile powertrain warranty. Even Rivian's corrosion (perforation) coverage is better than most automakers offer, with eight years of coverage regardless of mileage.

    The company also provides a five-year warranty on the Rivian Wall Charger, as long as it was installed by a licensed electrician and meets building codes. If you purchase any Rivian Adventure Gear (accessories) when you buy your vehicle, their coverage will match the vehicle's comprehensive warranty.

     

    My 2023 Tesla Model 3 Performance

    in Electric Vehicles

    Posted

    On 4/10/2024 at 10:01 PM, Ashley P said:

    John, I think the issue with charging around here was finding a charger that did not have 50 cars waiting to charge.  There were SO many people in W KY that I24 eastbound was clogged for over 6 hours after totality.  Friends of ours from Knoxville hit that road about 20 minutes after totality and it took them about 4 hours to get to Nashville (normally about 2 hrs.)

     

    That had to make the news if true. Link?

    I'll say this.... Not everyone is smart enough to own an EV.

    If you're waiting in a long line for a charger in the snow (in extreme weather) with 2% battery, that's your fault. It's no different than when people wait in lines for gas when extreme weather hits and run out of gas in ICE cars. Stupid!

    You have to think ahead.... The car, if you put it in the trip, will map you to your destination and tell you exactly how much battery you'll have left and it is accurate. It'll also map you to a charger on the way if you need to charge on the trip. How people get stranded or drive until the battery dies and then blame it on the EV or charging network, blows my mind. SMDH....

     

    My 2023 Tesla Model 3 Performance

    in Electric Vehicles

    Posted

    On 4/9/2024 at 6:10 AM, mstrpth said:

    I traveled yesterday to shoot the eclipse. There was an older couple there from NC in an EV. They said they had no  problems other than the whole experience was just really stressful worrying about finding working chargers.

    It must not be a Tesla because when I traveled out of town I didn't have that issue.

    I never had an issue finding a working Tesla supercharger. I actually was amazed how many there are out there and overall how easy they are to find and use (payment info is already in the app, so it auto bills your card on file).

    I stopped at Whole Foods in Chattanooga and they had superchargers with roofs over them. I went in to get food and a drink and the car was charged before I finished.

     

    My car will map you to the nearest supercharger and prepare your battery on the way so it will charge faster. 

    Superchargers are everywhere now and more being installed as we speak. 

    https://www.tesla.com/supercharger

    They have a page where you can suggest a location for a charging station and folks vote on it. They give priority to the place with the most votes of course. 

    Tesla Truck is open for pre-order

    in 4x4 Trucks and SUV's

    Posted

    1 hour ago, mstrpth said:

    Heres the kicker... i don't care about going fast. I have too much to lose if going fast goes bad. I'm more interested in feel and sound. I've been in both. i still choose the gasser

    matter of fact, i'd take a pristine 2004ish cobra over any tesla lol

     

    I'm with you. I'd take a new GT500 and be happy. Might not be as fast as the Plaid, but still way fun and cool. lol

    I don't street race like these clowns roll racing to nearly 200mph at night.

    I do love stabbing it from a dead stop in sport mode to like 60 (3.x secs).

    I also like when I see people trying to get on it from a stop (flexing) and I just give it enough to effortlessly and silently walk away. lol

    My M3P is just a slow 11sec car, but it's enough to have fun and pull away from 98% of the clowns on my daily drive. 😆

     

    Tesla Truck is open for pre-order

    in 4x4 Trucks and SUV's

    Posted

    7 minutes ago, mstrpth said:

    I'd take that z06 any and every time over a truck

    That Vette is over 1 second slower than a Model S plaid and a half second slower than a X Plaid SUV.

    I think you'd have more fun in the 9.2x sec S or 9.9 sec X.

    How would you feel to go to the dragstrip and get beat by me in a 6 seat heavy Tesla SUV that cost $91k in your 2 seat reverse engineered Ferrari Vette for $112k?  lol  

    Look, I love that ZO6. But after driving and owning a Tesla, I have seen the light. 

    Plus, nearly nothing can beat a Tesla Model S Plaid, especially for its under $100k base price. https://www.tesla.com/models/design#overview

    Tesla Plaid's are smoking supercars and hypercars that cost 3x plus more.

    Helluva value to get a reliable 1,100rwhp daily driver that costs just a fraction to operate over it's ICE competitors. 

    I have a value system. Don't hate me for it! lol 

     

    Tesla Truck is open for pre-order

    in 4x4 Trucks and SUV's

    Posted

    6 hours ago, Ashley P said:

    TVA claims a goal of "Net Zero" by 2050.  Look at how they claim to get there.   I stand by my conclusion that this is going to change the way our children live vs how we lived.   I don't mean they'll be in electric cars vs ICE 60s GTOs, I mean energy will be so expensive they won't be able to take a "Sunday drive"....and perhaps they have travel distance limits per person per time period.  And food will cost more/be scarce for the poor.

    The very wording of the TVA site indicates to me they've been neutered by the climate extremists.  https://www.tva.com/environment/environmental-stewardship/sustainability/carbon-report

     

    List of former TVA coal power plants.   Several closed due to "environmental impacts".  https://www.tva.com/energy/our-power-system/coal/plants-of-the-past    And TVA buys power to sell...they aren't making enough.  Hmmmm....

    If you listen to the far-left, that is their goal. Because they believe we're killing earth and the only way to save it is by neutering us. Meanwhile, China keeps building new coal fired power plants. Makes you wonder who is behind the madness? 

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    Tesla Truck is open for pre-order

    in 4x4 Trucks and SUV's

    Posted

    11 hours ago, Ashley P said:

    1. I'm taking actions and ideas to their logical conclusions.     I didn't use "news media" for any of the info that lead me to conclude that climate extremists (always Democrat) have put policies in place that power companies are mandated to follow.  Those policies are increasing the cost of electricity and increasing the cost of food.

    2. How much farmland around you has been turned into solar panels?

    3. Do you find it "odd" that a partially subsidized farmer is out-bid on land rent by a factor of 4 by a "solar company" claiming to have pre-sold the electricity it's projected to make?

    4. Have you signed a petition lately

    5. No media involved on my end.  Your data shows TVA buying 15% of it's power from other people.  Why is that? 

    1. The hysteria had to start someplace. Do elaborate. 

    2. None around middle TN that I've seen. More is gobbled up by new warehouses, apartment complexes and condos/townhomes/single family homes, etc., than anything else. Which makes freaking out over solar panels kind of silly. I bet 99% of your farm land is gobbled up by the aforementioned rather than solar by itself.  

    That said...

    The decline is farming has been going on long before solar farming came along. It's mostly because it's so hard to make a living farming. Add the kids of farmers find out the land is worth millions in a quick flip and they cash out to the highest bidder rather than WORK the land for pennies. Even some of the farmers around here threw in the towel since land prices have skyrocketed due to demand for new housing.

    3. Supply and demand economics. I don't like the decline in US farming and I fear depending on outside countries to supply our food for obvious reasons. but we're not arguing those facts. 

    4. I'm very politically active. Petitions are junk mail for politicians who don't care about junk mail. If you don't show up at their office, you're a nobody to them. 

    5. Because a lot of people have solar panels that sell juice back to the grid, etc. Why would there be windmills if they couldn't sell back to the grid? And lastly, because it is probably cheaper by some means (like buying cheaper green energy also gets them tax breaks), etc. 

     

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