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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby AdamB » Mon 05 Jan 2026, 11:10:22

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'T')he Troll


Your jealousy of what Elon can do compared to your entire subservient to the Crown "country" is duly noted. Now back on your knees like a good Toadie.

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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby AdamB » Mon 05 Jan 2026, 17:59:00

What Elon does.
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What the smartest people in Australia do.

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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby AdamB » Tue 06 Jan 2026, 14:12:25

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', '
')Oh how I wish Australia had some people with brains!

Then we wouldn't be embarassed by this!
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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby theluckycountry » Fri 09 Jan 2026, 05:19:48

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Yada Yada Yada

Heard it all before

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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby theluckycountry » Fri 09 Jan 2026, 05:54:39

Keep drinking that fluoride troll :mrgreen:
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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby AdamB » Fri 09 Jan 2026, 10:18:35

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', '[')img]https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SFMqxbZbJDI/mqdefault.jpg[/img]
Yada Yada Yada
Heard it all before


Heard it because IT HAPPENED. Your irritation is because your entire country can't build cars, let alone launch them to Mars. Don't feel bad, as soon as Australia breeds out all the dumbass prisoner DNA like yours, they can possibly achieve an overall average intelligence country.

I recommend you start with building with cars first, and a couple centuries from now maybe can get a rocket to put some vegemite into at LEAST the sub-stratosphere.

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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby theluckycountry » Fri 09 Jan 2026, 20:39:10

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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby careinke » Wed 14 Jan 2026, 03:36:52

Hey everyone,

We are coming up on seven months since we purchased ROW-B, and thought I would provide an update. So far we have driven/ (Supervised) her for 8,511 miles with 99% of the mileage under Full Self Driving, FSD(Supervised). We started with version 12 and are now on version 14.2...

ROW-B keeps track of all our driving stats. so it makes getting stats easy. Our total charged was 2,439 kWh, with total spent $273. This works out to around 31 miles to the dollar or 3.2 cents per mile. I've charged at home 88% of the time, a supercharger 8% of the time, and 4% of the time on Other, not Tesla Chargers.

The gas equivalent would have cost me $1,336. This works out to 6.37 miles per dollar or 15.7cents per mile. I believe this is based on a Toyota RAV4 with similar seating and a slightly smaller cargo capacity. Also the gas price is based on the national average not taking into account Washington's Socialist Government, who's gas prices are two times the national average. So the savings are even higher for us..

The amount I save covers both my FSD subscription and my car insurance. With my fulltime chauffer 24/7 costing me $42 a month, or a buck and a half a day. Plus her AI is Grok, not the other racist AI's.

Finally, we have had a lot of crazy weather lately and ROW-B has handled it like a champ; rain, snow, floods, black Ice, construction, detours etc. NO Problems. Safest car out there.

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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby AdamB » Fri 16 Jan 2026, 15:35:01

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', ' ')Plus her AI is Grok, not the other racist AI's.
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I thought it was Grok that was a nazi version?
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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby theluckycountry » Fri 16 Jan 2026, 18:16:20

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdamB', 'I') thought it was Grok that was a nazi version?

That's the problem with you leftists, you see Nazis everywhere now. Full blown TDS 8)


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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby careinke » Fri 16 Jan 2026, 22:07:31

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdamB', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', ' ')Plus her AI is Grok, not the other racist AI's.
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I thought it was Grok that was a nazi version?


That's because you don't follow AI very well. This has already been tested and proven true as of last week. Hopefully the other AI's will be reprogramed soon to fix this, it will help lower the higher rate of hallucinations the other AI's have.

You do know Hitler and his party were Socialist? Pretty sure neither Musk nor Trump fall into that group. The Deathocrats on the other hand are rife with them.

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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby theluckycountry » Sat 17 Jan 2026, 06:50:27

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sb9aOvEfX0&t=29s
A group of perverts tell the nation what's right and proper, without actually coming out and saying it.
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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby theluckycountry » Tue 20 Jan 2026, 00:08:51

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')eslas, like most new cars, experience significant immediate depreciation, often losing 10-20% of their value in the first year, but recent market shifts, Tesla's own price cuts, and high inventory have caused some models to depreciate much faster, with some used models losing over 50% in just over a year, far exceeding typical depreciation rates for gas cars or even other EVs

rowbee?
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')ar 20, 2025 — CarGurus, a car-buying site, found that used Tesla prices are falling at more than double the rate of the average used car price.

Can't be any better now the Trump has killed all the subsidies.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')ec 23, 2025 — A Tesla dealer paid $151K for a Model S Plaid, and now it's worth just $50K. “That's $2,000 a month loss,” he warns. Is buying a new EV a financial trap?
https://www.torquenews.com/1084/ev-deal ... thats-2000

FSD failures, more common than you'd think
https://www.torquenews.com/17998/tesla- ... miles-then
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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby careinke » Tue 20 Jan 2026, 05:03:25

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')eslas, like most new cars, experience significant immediate depreciation, often losing 10-20% of their value in the first year, but recent market shifts, Tesla's own price cuts, and high inventory have caused some models to depreciate much faster, with some used models losing over 50% in just over a year, far exceeding typical depreciation rates for gas cars or even other EVs

rowbee?
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')ar 20, 2025 — CarGurus, a car-buying site, found that used Tesla prices are falling at more than double the rate of the average used car price.

Can't be any better now the Trump has killed all the subsidies.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')ec 23, 2025 — A Tesla dealer paid $151K for a Model S Plaid, and now it's worth just $50K. “That's $2,000 a month loss,” he warns. Is buying a new EV a financial trap?
https://www.torquenews.com/1084/ev-deal ... thats-2000.

FSD failures, more common than you'd think
https://www.torquenews.com/17998/tesla- ... miles-then


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'r')owbee?

Sigh....Let me explain it to you again. On the positive side rowbee is phonetically correct, but her real name is ROW-B, which is short for Robot On Wheels-Beta. Tesla requires a name for it's vehicles and that's the one I chose, for numerous reasons. Other names I have seen include: Janes Tesla, Bills Juniper, Kids Car, 2nd Y, etc. etc. Get it now?

I was a little amused where you put the question, especially after a non related quote, talking about how new cars depreciate the fastest during the first year. Well Duh!! In high school I used to buy used cars out of necessity and did my own maintenance on them and I hated it. In college, I ditched my car for a Harley Davidson 125cc two cycle Enduro which I rode on and off trail. It cost me $500 new, and was very cheap to run. After my commission as a 2nd Lt, we had enough money never to buy a used car again, we either bought new, or leased and never regretted it. Saved me lots of time and unexpected expenses.

As far as ROW-B goes, I will never sell her, I plan to give her to my oldest granddaughter when she turns 16.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'F')SD failures, more common than you'd think
https://www.torquenews.com/17998/tesla- ... miles-then

Thanks for this link I read it, the authors profile, watched the video (crazy) on the Facebook page it was posted on, and read all the comments. So let's break this down; First off, that Cybertruck has Hardware Version 3 (HW3), ROW-B has Hardware Version 4 Like every other 2026 Tesla. I have never ridden in a Cybertruck but I plan to. They are supposed to be the most comfortable of all.

I have NEVER seen FSD do that with ROW-B it was pretty crazy, I would definitely schedule it for service, which he has not seemed to have done yet. He can still drive without using FSD and it still the safest vehicle on the road. The truck was sending all sorts of warnings for him holding his phone and he ignored them, but I don't think that was the problem, my guess is one of the front cameras was not secured.

The software updates are always slower to release with the HW3 vehicles but the software engineers are committed to bring them along. Cyber taxi's will be HW5 and the engineers are well aware and planning for the Software Upgrade to Version 15 will go more smoothly for both HW4 and HW3 vehicles.

The other thing nobody brought up in the FB comments is it is impossible to follow the same exact route back. If you did, you would be driving the wrong way on the wrong road directly into traffic!!

On another note, I've scheduled service, at the insistence of ROW-B, to get my forward looking windshield cameras serviced. Since the beginning of the year the weather has not been good with very high humidity and the windshield in front of the cameras is starting to fog up. So I get constant reminders to pay extra attention to the road. Now when it drives directly towards the sun I get this VERY LOUD alarm and huge display telling me to take control. I'm sure there is all sorts of scattered light messing with the cameras. It's pretty easy to predict this and it does not last long. Lots of people have gone in for this service, but I have never seen anyone having to take it in twice for this. I expect they have figured out how properly seal the unit. Cost = $0.00

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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby theluckycountry » Tue 20 Jan 2026, 21:57:22

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', '
')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'r')owbee?


Sigh....Let me explain it to you again. On the positive side rowbee is phonetically correct, but her real name is ROW-B, which is short for Robot On Wheels-Beta. Tesla requires a name for it's vehicles and that's the one I chose, for numerous reasons. Other names I have seen include: Janes Tesla, Bills Juniper, Kids Car, 2nd Y, etc. etc. Get it now?

Oh yeah, I get it. You bought into a cult. You have name it, make it part of the family like. That way you can't get angry when things go wrong. It becomes all very emotional, very smart, good marketing tool Elon. Made in America, patriotic emotions, it doesn't matter if the Chinese can make one twice as good at half the price, it's not American, and you have to buy American even if it means slashing your own wrists.

Stupid "Stoopid" really, when you consider all your home appliances, your laptops and smart phones and half the components in a Tesla too all come from China.

Over 90% of Tesla Model 3 and Model Y Parts Now Sourced From China.
https://alsettevs.com/over-90-of-tesla- ... rom-china/

Why pay so much extra for a Chinese car assembled in an American factory? It's... all part of the cult of Elon, the Prophet of Tech.


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His father, Errol Musk, had a few children to a former stepdaughter, Because that's what rich South African Whites do :lol:

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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby AdamB » Tue 20 Jan 2026, 22:38:42

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', ' ')After my commission as a 2nd Lt, we had enough money never to buy a used car again, we either bought new, or leased and never regretted it. Saved me lots of time and unexpected expenses.


Now THAT is interesting! I went the opposite route. I started buying new early, usually the cheapest new I could afford. Mom had always said "buy the cheapest new thing you can get so you don't get someone elses problems". In hindsight and her as a single mom it made sense, so I did it as well. Right up through the kids getting ready for college (coinciding with me hitting it big on the peak oil circuit, with commiserate boosts in company visibility and salary), and there was no way I sending them off with something new. So I bought a clunker. Paid for itself in insurance savings within 18 months. Still have it more than a decade later, and I use it to take to work. Veritable shitbox. I love the thing! Will need a clutch someday, and rear brakes, but it'll be 20k more miles before those crop up.

The only reason I bought the most recent EV is because they damn near GAVE it away, I already had an older model of the same car that was doing just fine, just without the additional range. (I do really appreciate that extra range though, post-buy)
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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby theluckycountry » Wed 21 Jan 2026, 22:19:36

Inke you have made your buy point at around $150, that's where the stocks probably heading now it's obvious the "Robot in every home" marketing is turning in a "Base on Mars" event.


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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby AdamB » Thu 22 Jan 2026, 22:16:17

Tesla...more than just EVs!

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