Supercharger Nightmare ?

Afraid of not being able to charge your EV?

Well, with a Tesla, in addition of being able to charge on almost every public one,
Tesla offers a fast and stadily growing network of superchargers :
https://www.tesla.com/fr_CH/supercharger?redirect=no

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Tesla unveils its Cybertruck

Range announced up to 800 km and an estimated 0–60 mph time of 2.9 seconds.

Dimensions :
  Length 5,885 m.
  Width     2,027 m.
  Height 1,905 m.

The base price of the rear-wheel drive model of the vehicle will be $39900, with all-wheel drive models starting at $49,900.

Competition is dead.

0-60mph in 2,998 seconds !!!

Tesla model 3 just received a « through the air «  software update.
Happy owners now have 5% increase in power and torque.
This translates in an incredible 0-60 mph in less than 3 seconds.

https://electrek.co/2019/11/14/tesla-model-3-performance-0-60-mph-acceleration-dips-below-3-sec-software-update/

Elon Musk announces Tesla's 1st European Gigafactory site

"We’ve decided to put the Tesla Gigafactory Europe in the Berlin area," Musk said on stage at the Auto Bild’s Golden Steering Wheel Awards in Berlin after accepting an award for his Tesla Model 3.

"Berlin rocks," the CEO added. "I love Berlin!"

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/elon-musk-announces-teslas-european-gigafactory-berlin/story?id=66974080

Billions miles driven by Teslas autonomously

First billion miles on autonomous drive was reached by Teslas car in 4 years.
Second billion miles took then only one more year.

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-autopilot-hits-2-billion-miles-full-self-driving/

Inside the Tesla Factory

Model 3 side crashed Vs Volvo S60. Who wins ?

Interesting to watch, and truth telling /

Unraveling a Tesla secret

While waiting for the car delivery, I accidentally found the TEsla BOM site.
Great stuff in there, as one can literally view every bolts and nuts of the car, and Part numbers, ...etc.

https://epc.tesla.com/#/login

A quick login with your tesla account, :

And there it is, for example a nice view of the entertaining system and its numerous speakers.

How cool is that :-)

On its way

The waiting time had been both frustrating and irritating at the same time, but all that will disappear when I'll pick the car up and meet the new love of my life!

         The Jasper Arrow is now moving again towards Europe, full of M3P :-) 

For those who are currently waiting a Performance Model 3

Two days ago, my Tesla advisor confirmed I was assigned a VIN, and my car is a Cargo Carrier that departed from San Francisco packed with performance cars, the "Jasper arrow".

But one of the ships carrying cars to Europe, the Jasper Arrow, has stopped in Kingston Jamaica...

Indeed, we can see the cargo stopped in Jamaica since 3 days,  with "VT Explorer" ..

 

it is making circles in the port...

Real pricetag of my diesel SUV

I used to own a Range Rover Evoque Diesel ( I know..) and it was fun to drive, cool looking too.
Now I will soon get a Model 3, and wanted to share with you some basic costs differences of the cars side by side.

In the following table I calculated the cost of the energy used to drive 35000km per year, as well as the associated service costs ( i am not displaying items like tires, that are exactly the same):

    Bottom line :  in six years, you save about 25000 CHF if you own an EV vs an ICE car.

if you look at it from a different angle: take the purchase price of the car, and add these energy and service costs. How does it adds up ? it is a no brainer !

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VIN decoded

You tracked the ship carrying your Tesla with "VT explorer" as explained in a previous article, now you know it has reached your country.
--> For Europe deliveries that will be "Zeebrugge" Belgium port.

Now what ?
Now if your lucky you have a VIN assigned (vehicle identificaiton number), meaning one fo the car on this ship was assigned to you.

Where do I find the VIN?
Either you wait to get your Tesla advisor on the phone, or look at the source code of your Tesla account ( under the "manage" section).
--> right click and hit"view source code"

 

What does this VIN tells you ?

Decoding it with the offical USA NHTSA  tool will tell you all about your car config :

https://vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov/decoder/

I also provide as a bonus the latest official coding provided by Tesla to NHTSA :

so, some info to play with while waiting for the final delivery that is gettng very close now that you have a VIN :-) 

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