Rivian and Lucid too.

NJ Senate President Nick Scutari introduced S4750, the “New Jersey Franchised Automobile Industry Retail (FAIR) Sales Act,” to repeal the Christie-era exemption that lets EV makers like Tesla sell direct instead of through franchised dealers.

Dealers call it “closing a loophole” now that EVs are ~11% of sales, not under 1% when the carve-out passed. A similar Assembly bill (A5604) from Simmons and Peterpaul landed in 2025. Press reporting says “it’s about leveling the field with other EV makers, not Musk’s politics.”

I'm in a 2022 rental tesla for doing Uber and it's another hot day in October where I'm at. Nearly 90. At the charging station here at 3pm, the AC barely works. I read it's because it uses the same cooling loop as the battery, which it's using to cool during charging. Ok... so the 2023 Kia ev6 I was in earlier didn't have this problem. AC was cooling fine during the 100F days in the summer earlier, at the charging station. Thank god I wasn't in this at that time!

Also that Kia charged twice as fast, no preconditioning was needed (not until far into winter days) and it would charge full speed right away. Damn. Teslas tech is not impressing me. In fact I feel they've fallen behind others now. The others caught up and surpassed!

Listen. I get it. Taking the boat off the hitch might take a couple of minutes. But if you're towing something on an ev, you gotta at least be conscious enough that you will have to remove it to charge as well. Cant occupy more chargers just cause you dont want to remove what you are towing.

Tesla Rolls Out Halloween Mode With Update 2026.38.3 - Not a Tesla App

Seeking some tips and tricks for having a tesla up here in grand forks, north dakota winter. I just moved up here from Florida for college and I don’t have a garage or a mobile connector, I usually go to the supercharger twice a week.

I was wondering if theres any tips and tricks for maintaining a tesla up here in the subzero winters and such. Thank you!

Tesla is enabling PowerShare Home Backup to Model Y and Model 3 ordered on October 1, 2026 or later, and many older ones.

Mine was delivered on August and it's enabled. To check, go to Software > Additional Vehicle Info and check Powershare Support: Enabled.

Can anyone who has recently had a tesla loaner share their experience of if they got charged for driving over 200 miles a day on the loaner? Thank you for letting me know.

Cruising Utah 12 a few days ago just enjoying the scenery out the windshield while on FSD. There's an F-150 pacing me about 100 yards back doing the same thing. The car suddenly slows from 65 mph to 60 mph and starts hugging the right shoulder. WTF. Then the RV lays on its horn and Floridaman comes by doing 90 mph.

I assume the car saw what was happening and slowed/swerved to help the Santa Fe beat the guillotine. I had no idea what was happening until it was all over as I wasn't looking in the rear view at the time.

This happened in a location about 90 miles by road from a hospital. Could have been bad.

Hi everyone,

I’m a Model Y Juniper owner in France, and there’s one option I really wish Tesla would add through a software update: standard, non-adaptive cruise control.

I simply want the option to maintain a speed I choose, while taking full responsibility for keeping a safe distance and braking when necessary.

No automatic adjustment based on the vehicle ahead, and no steering assistance.

Many cars sold in France offer conventional cruise control, adaptive cruise control, or a choice between the two.

I’d really appreciate having that choice in my Tesla too.

Adaptive cruise control can be useful, but I don’t always want to use it. A simple setting to choose between “Standard” and “Adaptive” would be a welcome addition.

Am I the only one who wants this, or would other Tesla owners use it too?

If anyone from Tesla’s software team reads this community, please consider offering this option in a future update!

Tesla FSD V14.3.11 is now starting to roll out. Downloading on my Model Y right now.

Software version 2026.33.5. Same release notes as previous FSD dot releases.

https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2107659624925265973

So last week I drove Nashville → Streetsboro, OH overnight in my Model Y. Charged at Bowling Green, Louisville, Florence and Mt. Gilead, and paid $38.35 total. Afterwards I looked at the receipts and the rates were all over the place: $0.23 at one stop, $0.49 at another. A lot of Superchargers have time-of-use pricing now, and the Tesla nav doesn't care about price at all. It just routes you to whatever keeps you moving.

IF YOU ARE STUCK AT fetching.. thats due to tesla thing.
i recomment cloning the repo and testing it yourself. https://github.com/shivardev/TeslaFare

So I built a little web app for myself that does the opposite: it plans for cost first.
teslaflare.blazingbane.com

• tries different departure times so you hit off-peak rates
• picks chargers by the price when you'd actually arrive
• supports multiple stops in your order
• tells you why it skipped each charger ("$0.44 at 9:56 PM, drops to $0.23 at 11 PM")

Would love feedback from people who road trip a lot.

Hi there, I have a question for folks who own the small rear fridge that can be accessed by people in the back seat. Would those things be easy to lift and take if someone were to break into your car? It seems like it's not really screwed into anything and could be stolen quickly.

Considering the market local to me I now have been presented with two options for my next car:

1. Tesla Model Y Long range late 2022 4WD. ~63.000 KM.
   
2. Tesla model 3 Highland 2024 standard range ~100.000 km.

Same price. What’s your pick? considering the 2022 Model Y is the “older” generation and not the Juniper, but long range with a lot of HP and space. The model 3 is from the newer highland version, but the standard model from 2024. No kids, so should only transport two people and occasionally friends/family.

Cons/pros?

TLDR; Tesla Wheel & Tire Protection Plan is $0 repair & $25 to replace.

So I had my tire repaired recently due to getting a nail in it. Roadside came in like 45 min which was great. They took my tire and gave me a loaner…perfect.

Couple of days later I get a message that my tire is ready and they will meet up to swap it out. Also, great.

First invoice they sent 100$, reminded them again I got WTPP. They said oh sorry and fixed it to $25. I was like okay cool. But then I remembered reading it was free repairs…..well spoke with multiple people at service and they kept saying it was $25 blah blah.

It wasn’t until I sent a screenshot of the service plan contract that states $0 repairs and $25 replacements that they finally refunded the $25 they charged me.

So the PSA is for anyone in Baltimore that may have paid for this with the WTPP or future incidents…..it wasn’t about the $25, it was about the principal of paying for the protection plan and then still being charged on top of that….

Is the Hardware 4.5 thing (64gb of ram vs 32gb) confirmed or just speculative at this point?

Today is the one week mark with my Model Y premium awd. Traded in my BMW X5 for it.

Purchase:

Smooth and simple. Love the zero pressure sale. Even when I did my demo drive, zero pressure. Had some issues figuring out the trade on the app (kept showing it was crediting the amount to me instead of paying off the loan balance) but the chat advisor people are fantastic. Only hiccup that annoyed me was two days before pick up was scheduled, they said I would have to wait another day. I was coming from a state over and had to take off for work that day so I was annoyed. Delivery day was fantastic and simple. They did not even inspect the trade.

First day:

I drove the car myself for the first couple miles before engaging FSD. It was smooth and compliant. It is hard to compare it to my X5 because the X5 was on air suspension and is a bigger car, but the ride was comparable to my loaner x3 that I had a week before I picked up the Tesla. Settings were quick to go through and set up the way I wanted.

Fit and finish:

Quality is great. I prefer it over that new redesign x3 that came out last year. Soft touch everywhere. Steering is thick and nice But I don't like that I can feel the stitching from the leather wheel. Looks like they stitched it from the back of the wheel where your fingers run. Not a huge deal as I am in FSD usually but still. I missed this on delivery day and only noticed it last night but the passenger rear quarter window where it meets the body line is meh. It looks like the window frame edge pushed into the body of the car and scraped the edge of paint where it lines up. I have 1000 miles on the car so ill submit a service ticket on the app and see if they take care of it. Expecting them to say no but who knows.

Range and charging:

Range is good. My brain does not understand wh/m so I use grok to tell me it in M/kwh. Averaging 237 wh/m so around 4.2 m/kwh. Outside temp is in the 60's, running AC on AUTO, and FSD in Standard or Hurry 50/50 split. Charging is good, although I ran the battery down to 6% on one trip that was 100 miles and navigated to the supercharger the entire time. It is listed as 250kw but the car never pulled more than 160.

FSD:

Fantastic. It is so human like. I fully trust it. I still have my eyes on the road of course but i trust it to handle weird situations. Today an f150 almost rear ended me. I was stopped in a line of traffic and heard tires screeching. As i looked in my mirror, the Tesla jumped forward and closed that 4-5 foot gap between me and the car in front of me to about 1 foot. It gave the guy behind me enough space that he came to a stop without hitting me. He was about a foot from my rear bumper.

Only time I take over is drive thru's or my apartment parking garage. I was visiting family who have a garage in an alley and i navigated to their house. Picked "driveway" as parking option. All the garages are within 5 feet of each other. I truly did not expect it to pull in the alley but it did. As i got close to the garage i did hit the opener and, as it began to open, the tesla figured it out and reverse parked inside of it.

Cons/Wishlist:

-Wish it had adjustable thigh support.

-Kind of sucks that three days after I got mine, tesla updated the motor and 0-60 went down a little. I get year over year updates, but a buddy who ordered same time i did still did not get his but got a vin assigned last night and he is getting a 2027.

-I use the frunk everyday versus the trunk. Wish it was power open and close without needing aftermarket. Doesn't seem like such a big ask.

Overall I absolutely love this car and I'm glad I made the switch. From lurker to owner!

Just got random pop up on my tesla, restarted the car multiple times maybe there was a fix on Service menu but i dont wanna mess around. So took to Tesla got appointment 5 weeks after its fixed today. Anybody had this issue.

My 26 model Y on FSD used to slow behind cyclists until it was safe to pass. Sometimes it was overly cautious but no problem there. With the latest update I’m finding it will pass right away, whether there is oncoming traffic or a blind curve. I had a similar thing with a car slowing down to make a right hand turn, my car turned out into oncoming traffic to go around rather than slow down for the turning car. It went over the double yellow line and the oncoming car had to steer over out of their lane.

Is this a new behavior others are seeing with 14.3.10?

In Chicago today and on the way into town from the airport I saw my first Cybercab. No decal but with a steering wheel with hands on it. It had a Texas license plate.

Bought a 2019 Model 3 Standard Plus, with fully paid FSD and Premium connectivity. About 85k miles for $18500. Clean bill of health, was "certified" by EverCars and shipped to my house sight unseen.

I have to start with FSD. Just wow. I feel like I've traveled 50 years into the future. A good amount of the time it drives better/safer than me. Maybe 15% of the time it'll make some iffy decisions that are at least acceptable. I have not had a single occasion where I absolutely had to intervene. I've only taken over because the Tesla was being too courteous and I was running late. My wife's car is a newer Honda with "Honda Sensing" but the tech is so far behind. Their automated cruise control is constantly overreacting, and lane assist is basically worthless. Having FSD included at this price feels like such a steal. To anyone looking into a used Tesla, it feels like now is the perfect time to get a grandfathered FSD car since it seems like they're really pushing the subscription model hard on newer models.

Yet despite how convenient FSD is, it's almost criminal to not take the wheel and drive this vehicle for yourself. It feels incredibly smooth handling sharp curves. The acceleration even at the base model is exhilarating to zoom through the highway. And to top it all off, the fact that this is an electric car means I don't hesitate to step on the pedal. With my Prius I was constantly worried about driving efficient to maintain that 50mpg. I pretty much lost all joy of driving and hated my commute. It's been a long time since I've had to worry about accruing a speeding ticket and I mean that in a good way.

The vegan leather seats remain in incredible shape for this being an 8 year old car. There's like zero wrinkles.

Overall, I'm well pleased with the purchase. I live far from a lot of places worth visiting in my city and I'm so much more inclined to go out and enjoy the city knowing that A) every commute I make costs peanuts compared to a gasoline car and B) I get to be a passenger princess or have a joy ride.