April is done and I’m looking at how much electric our Tesla Model 3 uses. I know others are thinking how much electricity does a Tesla Model 3 use? Since this is our first full month, I’m anxious to dig into the data. Our electric bill for April is $19.85, ( more… )
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… )
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… )