We received our 3rd VIN for our Black Model 3 order today!There’s a long story behind this car and sounds like the saga will continue as we are now in a stand off with Tesla about the price.The original car assigned to us was rejected for quality issues on the ( more… )
Tesla’s website indicates fires occur with their vehicles at an approximate rate of one fire every 205 million miles traveled. Data for all vehicles in the US comes in around a vehicle fire every 19 million miles traveled per several sources. One item we see highlighted in the news in ( more… )
Tesla has released the latest vehicle safety report for Quarter 1 of 2021. In the 1st Quarter they revealed an accident rate of one accident every 4.19 million miles traveled with Auto Pilot engaged. This dropped to an accident rate of 2.05 million miles with Auto Pilot off with all ( more… )
Sunday we decided to try a new area for a hike, our choice was a trail at the McCully Heritage Project in Calhoun County, Illinois. This will be followed by a drive down the Great River Road through Grafton and Alton Illinois. When we arrived home the day before we ( more… )
The first weekend with our Tesla Model 3, Misty Blue, gave us a chance to expand beyond it’s daily roundtrip commute of 28 miles. Total drive for day one was 98 miles and we used 21.4 kWh’s of electric, which would cost us $1.72 with our current electric rates.On Saturday ( more… )
Our first evening at home with our Tesla Model 3 was spent familiarizing ourselves with the features and how to operate them with the minimal interior. First up was setting up our phone’s as keys, this was a simple process using Bluetooth, as well as assigning each phone to a ( more… )
Pickup day is filled with anticipation and a couple of phone calls and or text communications from Tesla. A phone call was received around 9:30 am to confirm our late afternoon pickup. It’s getting real! Next up was a text about an hour before pickup with instructions and a link ( more… )
Now that our orders are placed, it’s time to wait. If you haven’t done research and ordered a Tesla, you might be surprised. We ordered on 11/24/2020, placed our orders on hold until 1/2/2021 to put off a substantial Personal Property Tax Increase due to us owning older cars, 2011 ( more… )
We arrived home from our test drive and sat down at the laptop to order Shawna’s car, will it be a 3 or a Y?Shawna likes the extra space of the Y and the higher sitting position, but then she looks at the price and the slightly lower efficiency and ( more… )
Much of the year had passed, and we were approaching late November 2020, we were ready to take the next step, now how do we safely test drive a car or two while being mindful that the COVID Pandemic has spread from coast to coast.I hit up the Tesla website, ( more… )