thankfully drones are here to save the day

My OEM all-season Model 3 AWD tires lasted 30k miles, which I’m guessing isn’t too far off of my previous cars.

If I recall the original reasoning was that Tesla was not a licensed electricity utility in most states, so they were charging you for the parking by the minute and the charging was free. One of those great loopholes. But it seems to universally (or at least from the 15 or so states I’ve traveled in) made the switch…

It seems like they must keep them until just before the 100k powertrain warranty expires. Seems like most of them that Hertz has listed at low prices are just a squeak before expiration. Check out this first one, it’s a 2023 with 86k miles. That’s a ROUGH life!

If you look at the Hertz Tesla sales site, at least sorted by price low-to-high, they’re almost all around 85k-95k miles. The powertrain warranty expires at 100k. So that’s a clue as to why those ones were selected to be sold off.

Correct. It pops up something like “Your charging session is almost complete” with something about the idle fees. If you have your max set lower, you can just bump it up higher to buy you some more time. Since they mostly charge by the kWh unit now instead of by the minute like they used to, it’s not as big of a deal…

All makes sense. If you look at Hertz’s Tesla sales site, especially when sorted price low-to-high, they are almost all Model 3 RWD in the 85k-95k mile range, which has a 100k factory powertrain warranty. It seems that the end of warranty / high miles is the real thing and the other factors are being pumped up to be a…

Regardless of if they can do the work themselves or not, one of the constraints is likely that lead time on ordering parts. Not a Tesla-specific issue, but maybe due to Tesla’s small size relative to volume behemoths like GM and Toyota.

Basically covered by the other reply you got, but Tesla Supercharger does charge an “idle fee” if you’ve completed your charging session and don’t unplug within a 5 minute grace period. From what I’ve seen you get billed at $1/minute fee. I think it is only enforced when more than 50% of the stalls are occupied.

Ford Mach-E.

Heavy American car with gobs of power doing smokey burnout seems to be the key. Is a big burbling V8 part of the equation? Surely a lot of people would say “yes”, but I still think the early RWD Model S especially fits the spirit of it

Used EVs purchased through licensed dealers under $25k (and some other fine print) can get up to a $4000 federal tax credit.

It’s funny in hindsight to see what the daily news talks about and then what actually happens after. Note the date of this news article (Apr 22) and then compare to the actual stock performance after it was posted.

Sort of conflicting report. It was clarified with:

It’s pretty funny to see headlines like this:

EPA doesn’t list the Plaid for some reason, so really it’s a 68 mile range difference instead of 22 mile difference, but I’m not sure I would call it “dramatically better range” especially given that you could buy almost 3 Plaids for the same price.

I was today years old when I realized this wasn’t already a thing. Every new car I’ve bought in the last 6 years had AEB and I just figured it was already put into law, like how backup cameras were made required quite a long time ago now.

Perhaps going on the other side of the yellow line isn’t great, but it’s not like it was doing it randomly. These guys were purposely trolling the car, as evident by the video posted

Big surprise to see pointing out the obvious omission being criticized on Jalopnik

However, passengers are free to be naked when the ship is at sea or anchored in a port, including at the vessel’s self-serve buffet on the pool deck