EV's & Tundra's

As a fella that owns both....2020 S/C'd 1794 & '21 Tesla Model S Plaid

yes...both sides of the carbon bell curve.

Both have their place.

Tundra does everything I ask & can go 400 miles in a trip. 7 minute fill ups ~$80.00.
It's a utilitarian dream. simple, reliable & spunkified with the 9psi blower.

The Tesla is a monster. but good luck going 300 miles in a trip. 40 minute fillups ~$8.00
There is no rpm range that you do not have 1020hp/1000ft/lb. it's a whole new world. and yet, my wife drives it daily. it's literally an Iphone with 1000hp. A rear tire flat = $600.

I truly do not like how awesome the Tesla is. I'm a motor head. and this thing beats all comers.

I'll have my Tundra till it craps out...2035?

 

@T-Rex266

 

2135 you mean…..

 

Why is a rear tire flat $600? Is that for a tow truck also? Also it has a 396 mile battery, why can't you atleast go 300 miles?

That car is very pricey but it's like a 4 door supercar.

 

Michelin 295/30 21

and mounting at discount tire

I brought the damn tire in.

wife got a nail in sidewall

the tire monitor system is awesome in a Tesla.

 

The whole story is the entire country was sold out of that tire size

so I had to order it from tire rack and ship to discount tire

And all I could source was a perelli

so now we are rolling hooptie on three Michelins and one perelli

so of course I now have to order the Michelin because they are now available


So. All in. $900. For a rear tire

Ill now have a spare tho’

yea. Model s does not have. Spare tire

just use the app and they will come fix you up

but even Tesla did not have this tire

 

https://m.tirerack.com/tires/TireSearchResults.jsp?width=295/&ratio=30&diameter=21#0

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a38449436/2021-tesla-model-s-plaid-range-test/

 

396 is going to zero

nobody goes to zero

since you should really charge to only 80%. That drops your range to 310ish

charging to 100% is bad for the battery

So they say


And yes The tire is now available everywhere. Not so
Much a couple weeks ago

and everything is critical when the wife’s car is down

 

Should that not already be calculated into what the consumer sees? I'd figure their programming would allow you, the user, to utilize the battery from a 0-100% while the safety aspect of the under/over charge of the battery we built into the backend.

 

And I don’t care who you are

when you drive an ev. You gauge watch the battery

and when you give it the beans. it will guzzle electrons just like our tundras guzzle gas

 

Maybe. But I can set the charge rates

right now I have the min charge at 20% and the max at 80%
The 20% accounts for wife factor

 

Pretty impressive car that I will never be able to afford, or want to anyway, unless I could pay cash. Cool that you get to experience it. An if it was mine I probably wouldn't even make it to 200 miles a charge. Would be into it constantly with an ear to ear grin

 

Never fully discharge a battery unless you want to lose capacity...at least on all current EVs et Al.

 

Intersting, thanks for the info.

 

Agreed on the ability to charge to 100%
We recently took a trip houston to San Marcos. We set it charge to 100 the night before

it worked great. The new comfort mode was like a ‘77 Cadillac fleetwood

we charged at the factory mall at 500 miles per hour. Tesla technology

a full tank cost $22. 25 minutes

passing is astonishingly fast

 

I'm all for EV but for me the charging time is meh as well as charging station availability outside main cities.
Hybrid is a good compromise for now for my uses.
Also working on your own car, I don't know how much can be done on an EV car with those high voltages.

 

we have one down here next to the Rudy’s bbq.

our home charger is only 12amps 220
I used an existing wire to covert over to 220

we can charge about 100 miles overnight

perfect for wife

 

I'd like to petition to have this thread deleted.

20 posts in and @nobodyintexas still hasn't posted any pictures of his Tesla.

 

Agreed

I work in a very industrial area and also need the ability to jut away on a 400 mile trip to pick up crap.

the tundra is perfect

 

I posted in the harrop thread

I’ll post in the morning when I’m on my desktop

it’s white. With the arachnid rims

and self driving crap too. But I’m not that brave yet

 

Best I can do

 

You say "the harrop thread like there is only one...








Also, posting a pic elsewhere does not exempt this thread from a need for pics... especially when it's a cool toy!

 

I learnt it

This is the side with matching tires!!!

 

sorry. The stage 1 harrop thread
We beat that topic to death. And still are

 

Since nhra changed the rules to allow cars like Tesla to run the qtr without a roll cage

I’ll be needing y’all to help me come up with an excuse for the wife to take the car out.

 

And as soon as the wife gets close to the house it raises the suspension and opens the garage door

it lowers the suspension as soon as she leaves the driveway as not to scrape

and closes the garage

and the horn is la cocharacha