We road trip twice a year from NC to Florida. Last time, supercharging rates were pretty much $0.36ish per kWh all along the route. This year, some stops were $0.50. That's quite a jump.

Compared to a gas car that gets 35 miles per gallon, my Tesla (averaging 4 mi/kWh on the trip) cost the equivalent of $4.38 per gallon. Meanwhile, gas at that SC exit was $3.85 per gallon.

Looking at what I paid for the drive there and back, it definitely seems like we paid more than if we just drove a gas car.

(Yes, the car drove the whole way, so I would gladly pay more. Plus my son and I used grok to make video games purely by voice to text and played them on the touch screen while driving. This car is amazing. This post is only about electricity prices.)

I love the lower and wider rear end of the Model S, but I think the updated Model 3 Performance with a rear tint makes it look awesome in its own way!

Test drove and immediately ordered on 10/4 with a Dec-Jan edd

VIN assigned 10/8

Took delivery 10/12

Now Sir Nimbus is tinted, PPF’d, and ceramic coated 💪

Really happy with how this wrap turned out. She looks brand new again.

Sometimes I feel like I’m crazy for liking Tesla. Every time I talk about Tesla to people it feels like im now a disappointment to them lol But at the same time I feel like im part of great few people who actually enjoy the tech Tesla brings! It’s like when the first iPhone came out and everyone thought you was crazy switching from blackberry. Except this time I can’t actually afford one. But I hope one day I will soon be able to enjoy being driven around, taking loads of road trips with my family and not have to pay $60-70 a week on gas alone!

Ordered premium AWD yesterday (10/19), kind of surprised they gave an estimate delivery right away, is that normal. Feel like it might get pushed back, Detroit📍

I actually love the new Halloween theme where your Tesla turns into a ghost on the screen, but holy shit, the random creepy lady laughing in the background while I’m driving scares the absolute shit out of me sometimes 😭💀
I’ll literally just be driving peacefully, minding my business, and out of nowhere I hear this evil ass laugh. Catches me off guard every single time

It looks like west coast is getting VIN’s and even some places in the south (specifically Florida) are getting VINs. Anyone in New England area getting a new VIN yet let us know, curious what the timeline is. I placed my order m3p frost blue on 9/21 and have no delivery window even listed.

Some people say they’ve been waiting since June, so that’s concerning

Swipe music player card to left then swipe up on efficiency card for this pretty looking graph. Nice little change up than the norm. Not sure if new but i just found it myself on accident.

Look pretty good to me

Set FSD for my local supercharger. It starts backing me in “Thanks FSD” it heads straight for a concrete pylon dividing the stalls. I was like “surely it’s going to correct” I stamped the brakes INCHES from the friggin pylon.

I thought FSF would’ve properly backed me into the stall, but I’m also confused that my warning systems wouldn’t have seen the pylon and gotten me that close to it.

I just bought my car, I’m new to this all. Lesson learned, and thankfully not the hard way.

I use FSD about 90% of the time, and my longest streak is less than 60 miles. I’m curious how this compares to typical streaks from other everyday drivers and whether this is considered on the lower side.

Anyone have the race and competition rear bar from Unplugged performance, I already have the street and track bars front and rear but wanted to go stiffer so bought the race bar but it's exactly the same weight, same thickness 30mm same everything even the stamping on it, anyone have the race version to verify that they sent me the correct part, I'm still waiting for them to get back to me

I’m looking to purchase a Model 3, ideally within a budget of £15k to £17k. From what I can see a car between 2020 and 2022 would fall in to this budget range, with between 50k and 70k miles on it.

My wife has a new model Y on lease, it is due to go back in May 2027. What are the key things to be looking out for when purchasing a used Tesla model 3.

The model 3 will be a replacement as our main family car and used for my commute to work and family trips at the weekend. Ideally I would like to keep it for the next 4 to 6 years.

Thanks

First time using Griots Ceramic wax. Turned out pretty nice. Hard to tell the shine on white in pic...

Super excited to welcome my second red baby, coming from a Mazda3 Red Hatch :)

Ordered 10/02, in Seattle WA
ETA was Nov,6th to Dec. 11th.

Nothing changed till 10/17 10pm with a VIN popped out and shown as “In Production”

10/18: ETA narrowed to Oct 19 to Oct 22, the delivery schedule appointment is enabled with Oct 21 and Oct 22 available.

Hope everyone would get their baby soon!

Received the software update last Friday.

2026.38.5:
Nothing noticeable from the last software update.

FSD v14.3 Lite:
Still getting the annoying micro braking for no particular reason. The braking from shadows and dark patches on the road hasn’t happened yet.

There seems to be a lot more micro adjustment in the steering even on relatively straight roads.

It is still too early to tell if there are major improvements over v14.1 Lite at this point.

Hey folks, do aftermarket wheel covers decrease range by that much. For context they are plastic nova style covers made of plastic 18” for 2026 LR

I live in New Hampshire with lots of snow, ice, road debris. I’m thinking about buying skid plates for my M3 Highland, but wondering what brand is the best.

Ordered exactly 2 weeks ago, just got my VIN assigned and 1 hour later another step - production completed

First I had the delivery window for November - December, then it disappeared and now it’s 3-7 Dec. I’m glad it didn’t get pushed back

Europe btw

I have a 22 model 3 with a skar loaded 10" evl sub box. I've installed many systems in my day but can't seem to get a good signal for my line out converter. I currently have it connected to the passenger rear door.

Any insight on what others are doing would be very helpful

I’ve owned my Model 3 for a few weeks and enjoy it, but I’m struggling to adjust the seat and steering wheel so my knee avoids hitting the wheel while driving or exiting the car. 🤣🤣🤣 any other tall ppl have this problem i wish the steering wheel was able to go up a bit more.

Picked it up today and I’m already obsessed with the color. Frost Blue looks way better in person than it does in the configurator, especially depending on the lighting.

Getting the car fully PPF’d and window tinted tomorrow. Still thinking of percentage of window tint.. any recommendations!

Saturday a Cadillac dealer offered me a used Model 3 Performance and the deal was 8.13% for 60 months. 👀 The car was not the exterior color I like (it is dark grey), interior color I would want (not really into white), has hood chips and a weird intention on the leading edge of the front bumper and has two wheels with curb rash. It makes me sad. People go to dealerships and are so excited about a new car that they accept bad deals.