Thứ Bảy, 29 tháng 10, 2016

Random Model S sightings part 34

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    much blue.
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    Burbank? And that must be a wrap!
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    yep, coming up on olive.
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    My midnight silver 85D on the right, an acquaintance's deep blue metallic 70 on the left.


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    My daughter just sent me the excellent picture below.

    It appears to be a black P90D Ludicrous, with 21" Grey Turbine wheels and panoramic roof. It was on the Cornell campus, heading South on East Avenue, almost at the intersection with Campus Road, shortly after 1:00 PM. If this is your gorgeous car, drop me a PM, as a couple of us in Ithaca are considering trying to get some sort of local owner's group going.

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    I know, since I didn't get a picture it didn't happen...but, a couple of days ago, I attended a Cubs spring training game in Mesa. I pulled into the reserved lot to park and the next car to park along side me was a duplicate to my multi-red Model S. The Ho Ho Kam parking attendents were excited to see two such cars, but one after the other was amazing. Needless to say, the Cubs lost!
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    Saw this black beauty driving north on 95 in Florida or Georgia on Monday.

    On the back window are big numbers 5.10 in red.

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    The only thing that comes to mind when I see 5.10 is a climbing grade...
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    Well, that or a small Ukrainian Libertarian party: 5.10 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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    That's totally it. Exactly.
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    Yours is very glossy and shiny, do you do something to it, a special wax etc? It looks great and classy.
    Midnight Silver keeps nudging Plain white trying to be my favourite Tesla colour.
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    On 290 feeder in Houston today. I'm driving my Volt this week so it was extra nice to see a Tesla.

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    blacked out p85d on the 134 spotted from a p90d.
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    I had C.Quartz applied to it several months ago, and I just finished washing it before I took this picture. I normally wash it at a place that has the spray wands -- I can do a touchless wash there, and they have the different detergents, spot-free rinse, etc. Then I usually take it over to the vacuum station, hand-dry it with a chamois, clean wheels if they need it after the spray wash, and clean glass inside.

    I'm still gun-shy when it comes to wiping the body of the car to make sure I don't scratch it -- I have a box of clean towels and chamois with me when I go so I can change to a new clean one repeatedly.

    By the way, those wheels are the T-Sportline 19" in bright silver (winter set). I have a set of the T-Sportline 20" in bright silver on order to become the summer set.
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    That's weird. Your post shows you are replying to a post I made. But its actually a post from another user - 1208. No biggie, I just never saw that before. Interesting.
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    Me neither...
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    Ya, that's odd, I didn't even notice. I nearly always have trouble with the editor on this forum inserting paragraphs and moving the cursor back to the beginning of the reply when I'm typing, but I haven't seen this issue.
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    Yeah, that happens here also, about 5 seconds into typing a reply, it jumps back to the beginning. After that I can type as long as I want and it's normal. Kinda annoying.
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    Hrm, so it's not just me! I haven't seen this weird jumping around problem as much (at all?) if I "Go Advanced" and finish working on my reply in that environment.
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    It happens to me as soon as I hit backspace and then try to type a letter ... Tesla isn't the only tech company who doesn't squash bugs! (This forum template is relatively common out there.) :smile:
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    LOL! I saw what you did there!
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    :innocent:

    And to get this thread back on topic.

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    Anyone here? This was in my subdivision. Titanium, with what looks like 19" cyclones, didn't catch the model.
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    Really? The pic makes it look like discontinued Green!
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    I think its a Model S. I saw the one below today on I-10 eastbound in rush hour.

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    It was dark, I thin it's just a bad photo, I'm 99% sure it's titanium. I'll see if he's there today, though if no one responded, it's not a regular here.

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    Signature red Model S on County Line Road in Land O Lakes yesterday around noon. Going the opposite direction so it happened too fast to take a picture.
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    Had one of my best sightings on NB Rochester in Troy this evening. A gray (or midnight silver) 85.
    Got a thumbs up out the window (pictured), though I didn't return one because I was sort of caught off guard by how quickly he passed and he didn't seem interested in sticking around since he continued to weave through traffic. By the time I got behind him at a light, I felt it was too late to return the thumbs up and couldn't tell through the tint if he was looking. Instead, we both gunned it. That was fun.
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    On Saturday I saw a signature red Model S at the intersection of Mill Plain and 164th in Vancouver, WA. I only got a glimpse at it (trying to get out of the intersection and not hit the car in front of me before the light changed to red), but it had Oregon plates.
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    Found my Model S on Google street view.
    I suppose it's not really random but wonder how often that happens.
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    Kind of a funny sighting this evening. I stopped with my family at a Potbelly for a late-ish dinner, and we parked close to the front, facing the door. It took a few minutes to order, pay, and sit down, but once we start eating, my wife looks out the window and says "your lights are still on." I know they stay on for a minute or so but I also knew we didn't get our food that quickly. Still, I looked outside and saw the familiar shape of the headlights staring back at me. So I started to walk toward the door and pressed the top button on my keyfob to make sure my car is locked, hoping that would turn off the lights. Instead, the car next to the one whose lights are on (i.e. my actual car) flashes its lights! So someone arrived after me in another Model S and parked next to me. I didn't end up meeting the driver before we left.

    In hindsight perhaps not so random, since we were in Tysons Corner not far from the service center, but I found it amusing.
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    From Allie Knight's (Twitter: @gluttnous) trucking vlog: (Fastforward to 5:08)
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    Passed another Model S this evening, but too fast to even attempt to wave, flash lights, etc.

    It was about 6:50 PM and I was heading East on the access road to Route 81 North at Exit 12, in Homer, and the other Model S was heading West, towards Route 281, probably coming off of Route 81. I could tell that it was a dark Model S as I passed, but that was about all. The video from the dashcam doesn't help much.

    Below are a couple of pictures, coming and going, captured from my dashcam video. Feel free to say hello if this was you and your car!

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    Driving out of Oslo yesterday I had four Model S in front in my lane and three behind me. so 8 in a row which is the longest line of Tesla's I have been in so far. Another couple of Tesla's in the other lanes, but counting becomes too streneous if I start counting Teslas in other lanes or with another type of car inbetween
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    I took the Model S on a very quick errand this afternoon. I was planning on staying in the car, while my wife ran into the grocery store to pick up a couple of quick items. As we pulled into the parking lot, I saw another blue Model S parked a short distance away from the grocery store. I dropped my wife off closer to the store, and told her I'd be parked near the other Model S. I waited there for the few minutes my wife was in the store, but the owner never appeared. It was a P85, standard wheels, and first generation seats. (I noticed the short headrests in the back.) I didn't know of another blue Model S in my town, so this may have been someone passing through.

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    Saturday, 4/2, at Pappas Burgers on Westheimer in Houston. Didn't get a look at the back, so don't know the model, but it looks to be non-AP, so probably an 85.


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    We went to dinner at an Applebees in Vancouver, WA tonight and there was a brand new white P90DL in the parking lot with paper plates. I thought it was funny that our friend's 6 year old daughter who I have never seen take the slightest interest in cars immediately said, "I want a Tesla!" when she saw it.
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    Here's a sighting a bit out of the usual. Before lunch today, I went for a walk around the building complex with my team. One of the neighboring buildings which we share the parking lot with is an auto supplier, which I knew supplied parts for Model X, but didn't know if this location had much to do with it. Well, as we were walking by the front half of a vehicle, I noticed the large windshield, told everyone that it's a Model X, and snapped this photo.
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    We continued on and almost immediately to the other side, we noticed the front halves of two more cars, which I quickly recognized as a Model S and another Model X.
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    Those were the only car parts that we saw for the entire walk and the only Teslas in the 3-building complex besides my own (I estimate roughly 500 parking spaces). So, it seems this location is indeed doing a lot of work for Tesla. They also have an i3 with company decals, which I first noticed about a month ago.
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    OMG. Haha
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    I have a sneaking suspicion who that person will be voting for in the California primary.

    I saw a pearl white S85D in Washougal, WA today. It had Oregon plates. I reached for my phone but realized I had left it at home.
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    Yesterday (Wednesday, April 13) I passed a Titanium Metallic Model S at 2:08 PM as it was heading into Ithaca on Route 79 West / State Street, heading down the hill, towards The Ithaca Commons. I was headed the other way, driving my black loaner Model S. (My P85D is at the service center for its Ludicrous upgrade, and other things.) I attempted to flash my high beams, but it was pretty last second, and I don't think the driver of the Titanium Model S noticed.
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    OK, this is a record for me. Three Model S random sightings in Ithaca, all within about fifteen minutes!

    I was still driving the black Model S loaner. The first Model S sighting of the evening happened at about 7:40 PM or so. I was heading south-west on University Avenue on the Cornell campus, down the hill towards West Campus, and the other Model S, a dark one--probably black--was headed up the hill. I noticed it from far enough away that I flashed my lights several times, but I don't know if the other driver noticed or not. There was no indication that he did. (It did look like a youngish man driving.)

    I dropped my daughter off at her apartment, chatting a couple of minutes, and continued downtown. I let my wife and mother-in-law out while stopped at the light at the intersection with The Commons, so they could see about getting a table for dinner, while I attempted to park. Just after turning the corner onto North Aurora Street (heading North) I realized there was a blue (new blue) Model S behind me. I pulled over as far to the left as I could, and lowered the passenger window on the right, as the Model S was going to pass on my right, and tried to wave as it did, but again there was no sign of any recognition.

    My wife, who was on foot at this point, actually snapped a picture of this one. The picture, which shows the car has New Jersey plates, is below. The black loaner I was driving is also visible, further up, on the left.

    I found a parking spot a block or two further up N. Aurora, but having seen how crowded the restaurants on the street were, I figured we'd be leaving and going somewhere else, so after I parked, I called my wife. The wait at the restaurant we had wanted to eat at was an hour and a half, so I told her where I was parked, and she and my mother-in law started walking the couple of blocks to where I was parked. Just as they got to the car, I spotted a dark Model S approaching from behind. I was parked on the right side of the one-way street, so I lowered my window and stuck my hand out, and this time the person waved as he went by. I'm not sure, but it could have been the same Model S I had passed fifteen minutes earlier, though he would have had to have been going somewhere else first, as the route he had been on would not have taken him to this location in any sort of direct path.

    So it was at least two, and possibly three different Model S random sightings all in about fifteen minutes. In Ithaca! Crazy!

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    I saw this one as I was leaving Joe's Crab Shack in Clifton, NJ. Looks like it has the new wheels.
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    The new wheels are 19" Slipstream wheels. The wheels in the picture appear to be the regular (old) 21" Turbine wheels.
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    Today (Sunday) was one of the most summer-like days this year (so far) here in Silicon Valley, and today I saw more Tesla's (especially in the places I usually see them, e.g., Los Gatos), than I ever have in the past. Obviously, Teslas have continued to be the current most popular expensive car to be seen in by those who want to be seen in a nice car (true for the last three years and continuing to be so), in addition to those who prefer electric and prefer being less of a pollution problem and prefer to stop subsidizing dirty energy wars and religious terrorist reactions to those wars. I did not count, but it felt like between 3 and 6 dozen. They are becoming nearly ubiquitous.

    I have noticed that Tesla's are not increasing in number in the less expensive parts of town. In fact, I'm seeing slightly less of them in the places less wealthy people live. I have a feeling that cost is a factor.

    Also, I have been doing some mountain driving lately, on dirt roads commonly referred to as "jeep" roads, and I'm not seeing any Tesla's there at all, for obvious reasons. Also, Teslas have not penetrated the farming areas I often drive through.

    I think cost is a huge factor, so when the Model 3 comes out at a lower price point, they will have solid sales; not only do people want the idea of Tesla, but I think they will also actually get one, if they can afford it, and many many more people will afford a Model 3. Distance is a real issue day to day, but not super long distance; this makes the Model 3 an obvious benefit since it can handle ample distance. People finally realize that most weeks, they don't even need to fill up on the road any more, since they just charge at home, and they love that. Superchargers just fill the gaps of the occasional road trip. As Tesla's become more popular, more people understand how they work, and they are comfortable with them. Having the roads filled with the luxury versions obviously has helped with this.

    But after that, I think Tesla is not showing any obvious signs of entering the rugged vehicle side of the marketplace, such as trucks, pickups, jeeps, all-terrain vehicles, etc. (or even campers); indeed, this market tends to be populated by people who don't get along with the high end car marketplace, and would rather throw a bail of hay or mound of dirt into their vehicle than be fancy. But unless there's something that lithium batteries don't like about being shaken about, I don't see any reason why EV's ought to stay out of the rugged vehicle marketplace. I feel like Tesla's plans to go into Model 3, then swing back to Model S & Model X refreshes and improvements, would leave out the rugged side of the marketplace. Perhaps they're hoping other brands fill this gap, or are hoping they can branch out and develop multiple product lines simultaneously.
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    Elon Musk has said Tesla will produce a pickup at some point, but with the Model 3 Tesla is aiming towards a more humble market that the high end the S and X occupy. The long term mission is EVs for everyone, not just the wealthy. But Tesla is a classic high end disrupter, moving from the top end of the market down. That isn't unusual for new tech, most new technology starts out as expensive and only affordable for those with money to burn and then moves down market for everyone.

    In the 1970s VCRs for home users existed and they were toys fro the rich. Around 1980 the price dropped to around $1000 and they took off in popularity. Tesla is doing the same thing.

    Over the last year when I talk to people and the subject of Tesla comes around, I hear lots of lust for the cars, it's just nobody I'm talking to can afford a Model S or X. The 400,000 reservations for the Model 3 is an indication of that pent up demand. It's a major stretch for me to afford a Model S, but I'm doing it because it's the only car I looked at I really liked. My 24 year old Buick is nicer in some ways than most of the junk being sold by the mainstream car makers these days.
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    From a trip to the San Juan Islands...

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    A nice car in a nice place!
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    I am on the East Coast and unfamiliar with that area. Could the 2nd case partially explain the first? While totally possible to own a Tesla without a garage or dedicated driveway, it is much more involved and complicated. Much of the simplicity is having a dedicated area at home to charge. Do the "less expensive parts of town" require curbside parking for instance?
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    Silicon Valley and the cities of the west coast in general have a lot of single family homes, even in the bad neighborhoods. Apartments and condos are often in complexes with a dedicated parking lot or parking garage. Silicon Valley is a weird place for real estate because houses in the poorest parts of town are often worth over $500,000. My SO grew up in Portland, but the rest of her father's extended family settled in east San Jose. I've been to her aunt's house and it's a working class neighborhood built in the 50s and she was an original owner. Her aunt has a garage, but few in that neighborhood has the kind of income to afford a Tesla.

    Because of the nose bleed property prices in the Bay Area people who don't make 6-7 figures a year live in economic hardship. Many have to live a long ways out of town an drive a very long commute, which is ideal for a Tesla, but they don't have the money to buy one. Most drive older economy cars. A few are lucky to get subsidized housing or have a relative who was there before the property prices went nuts, but it's a very tough place to live if you're not in the top 5% of incomes.

    My SO's ex-step son (her ex husbands son) lives down there and the closest place to the Bay Area where they could find a house they could afford was Manteca, CA. It's 70 miles from San Jose (probably a 2 hour commute when traffic is heave). 54 miles to Fremont, CA. I would not be surprised if some of the workers at the Tesla factory live in Manteca or somewhere around there.

    The Bay Area has some mass transit, but it's far less extensive than what you see in most East Coast cities. Because so many people live in single family homes, the population density is much lower than on much of the east coast. (Row houses are rare and most houses have big enough lots to have space around them on all 4 sides.) In western cities some people who live in the city core and don't want to leave it can get away without having a car, but generally if you don't own a car, you're life is going to be miserable.

    I know a guy who has a seizure disorder and can't get a driver's license. He lived here in Portland which has one of the best mass transit systems in the west, but he still had to plan out his travels or hitch a ride with someone and on mass transit he was limited to the city core. If he came out to see us (outer suburbs) we would have to pick him up from the last light rail stop. Otherwise he was looking at 1 1/2 hours on a bus to travel a distance you can cover in 20 minutes by car.
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    This was this morning on 290 eastbound - a beautiful white 90D still with its Tesla tag so brand new... sorry for bad dashcam quality, didn't get my phone out in time. white 90D 2.jpg
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    image.jpeg Saw a tesla taxi this morning in Paris. I've seen many in Amsterdam but this was my first for Paris...
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    Yea right, you just want everybody to know you're in Paris... I wish I was.
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    HAHA! I go there often for work - but just for 24 hours at a time. So no time to actually enjoy it! I doubt I'll see any Teslas when I'm in Athens on Monday. ;)
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    Yes Tesla made a deal, I guess, with the taxi company to drive with white Tesla's. Although I would pay to sit in one sure, the back seat is actually not very comfortable. I'd rather take the S class taxi or 7-series. Or even a Skoda Superb has much better rear seats. I don't find the Model S a very good car to be a taxi....
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    @Pilot_51 - Pictures not showing up for me. Do you still have them?
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    If Tesla taxis become more common they may bring back the executive seats for commercial Teslas?
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    Sorry, I used the G+ images directly and I guess that doesn't work on certain networks. Here they are...

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    Update: It looks like they finally got a full Model S test vehicle. As I was walking out of work on Monday last week, I saw the car carrier just outside the door and immediately suspected Tesla, which I confirmed as I approached and saw the car inside. Introduced myself to the guy (with I think a French accent) taking delivery and congratulated him assuming it was a normal owner delivery. It took a little while to sink in that it was only a test vehicle, as I asked where he worked after he told me maybe twice it was a test vehicle. As they were starting to unload it, I continued on my way only to return with my car because I was wondering if it was the new design (it wasn't, apparently a CPO since it has HOV stickers). Didn't take any photos, but my dashcam caught the moment.
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    Visiting Prague, saw a couple of Model S image.jpeg image.jpeg
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    [thanks to my eagle-eyed son for spotting this nice subtle detail in this video]
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    At 13:17, a parked Model S
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    oh, hi.
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    You guys need to turn down the your launches... You're peeling off road pavement :p
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    @AEdennis - hahahaha

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    6 2 2016.jpg On a residential street corner in Laramie Wyoming (!!!) as I was visiting family there.
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    wasn't at this event in person, but I noticed a Tesla quickly flash by in a brief clip on the local 6pm TV News last night (maybe this belongs instead in the "Teslas in Movies & TV" thread?!?)

    - a red refreshed Model S was the pace car for yesterday's Gastown Grand Prix bicycle race here in Vancouver.
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    the news clip was brief and I was too slow to catch a pic at the time but I found a video of the event elsewhere online
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    I can just hear someone razzing Tesla for being the pace car for a bicycle race ;)
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    You wouldn't want the bicycle riders breathing in car exhaust, would you?
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    An electric car would make the perfect chase vehicle for a bike race.
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    Saw my first random Model S "in the wild" in this city today. I didn't react as well as I thought I would. As I was moving slowly through traffic I said to myself of the black car coming towards me "That car's front looks a lot like a Tesla's." Then realization hit, my jaw dropped and I did a double take just as I was passing by, "Hey! That is a Tesla."
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    I saw one yesterday on the Bronx River Parkway about 2:00 P.M. What made it interesting is it was a 2-tone black and grey Model S. I had not seen that before and slowed for it to catch up so I could snap a pic. Too late it exited the pkwy. :(
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    SERIOUSLY?
    No one is going to point out the irony of a Tesla ruling in Gastown? :cool:
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    that's funny, I never gave it a thought!
    fyi the Gastown area is named after "Gassy" Jack Deighton, a colourful saloon owner in early Vancouver history.
    "In Victorian times the term 'to gas' referred to talking a lot, something which Captain Deighton had become famous for."

    but now that you mention it, Vancouver city council makes a big deal about how "green" a city we are, and aims "to get 100% of our energy from renewable source before 2050". I wonder if it will have to rename Gastown then???
    Anyhow in light of this goal, maybe appropriate to use a Model S as a pace car
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    Haven't checked here too much but this happened yesterday at a local Pizza joint near where I work in Rockville, MD:
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    Mine is the ride on the left...
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    Need MOAR pics!!!!!! :)
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    Finally something an i3 or Leaf could easily handle!
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    White P85DL with 19" standard rims, Florida tag "Tesla 15" spotted in Charlotte, NC heading Eastbound on US-74 on Friday evening about 7:15 pm.

    Waved at the driver and he gave me a Shake wave hello. Excited to see a traveler in these parts!
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    In the parking lot of my hotel in Bellevue earlier this afternoon...

    My car's twin from ARK charging on the 40A circuit, left us the 80A to use...

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    So purty.
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    Great parking spot too!
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    I saw a black, refreshed Model S in Salem on Tuesday. I was turning around on Capitol when I looked up and saw the S go by. I haven't seen another refresh in the wild (though I have one).
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    You randomly saw your model s? :)


    I swear I'm not following you! I think I'm being drawn to your car by entering threads where photos of "it" has been posted
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    This is incredibly random, or something. I recently drove to Charlotte for work, and took Thursday afternoon through Sunday at the end of that trip to visit friends who live in nearby Lake Wylie, SC. They took Friday off, and we made a day trip to Asheville. Of course, I drove.

    After I got back to FL, I got a PM from another TMC member, from GA, asking if that was me leaving the Asheville Supercharger! I had indeed passed my nearly-identical Tesla twin on my way out, and waved at them like a complete idiot. They seemed excited to see me, too, and waved back. Yup, what are the odds that it WAS a chance TMC encounter away from home for us both AND that they would even think it might be me!
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  • 1/1/2015
    guest
    Thought of you when I read this post! :) Tearing up the highways with your friends?
    3 Model S's with an X leading the way on I-95 North out of Florida Today
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  • 1/1/2015
    guest
  • 1/1/2015
    guest
    I'm visiting Stockholm, Sweden... In past couple days I've seen a couple different Model S, including three Model S taxi sightings (likely just the same one, three different times). Didn't have my camera handy the first couple times, but this afternoon I caught this photo:
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  • 1/1/2015
    guest
    ... I'm visiting Copenhagen and wasn't expecting to see many Teslas in this small country, but then I spotted at least six different ones this afternoon all in the same general area. (And that's not counting the one in the local Tesla Store which I also coincidentally stumbled upon later the same day)

    Had a nice chat with the Advisor in the Tesla Store... I was surprised to hear that there are about 4,000 Model S in Denmark (pop. 5.7M)... now it makes more sense why I saw so many driving around town. Other interesting tidbit: he told me taxes on ICE cars include the normal 25% VAT tax that's on everything, PLUS another 180% license registration tax !! If I understood correctly, EVs also have the 25% VAT but this registration tax lowered to 20% - though I later read the government is phasing out this EV incentive completely by 2020. Wow, cars are expensive here (like everything else) - no wonder everyone here rides a bicycle.

    A few of the random Model S I spotted here today:
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  • 1/1/2015
    guest
    Tesla had a huge sales surge in Denmark at the end of last year because the tax holiday on EVs was expiring, or at least partially expiring at the end of the year. Tesla was hustling to get as many cars to Denmark as possible before the end of the year. When I read about the car taxes there I thought they were insane.

    I've read because of the big sales surge, Tesla's service centers there are overwhelmed and it takes a couple of months to get an appointment.
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  • 1/1/2015
    guest
    Seen by a friend yesterday.


    "I think a Tesla test vehicle was on the roads outside Ann Arbor today. CA mfg plates with a fair bit of wiring in the passenger area. Weird plate then [sic] protruding on the bumper."

    Thanks JB!
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  • 1/1/2015
    guest
    That looks like the same test car that was photographed at a supercharger few months back. It has all sorts of extra hardware including what appears to be an AP 2 sensor suite along with an AP 1 sensor suite. People speculated they are comparing the data from both.
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  • 1/1/2015
    guest
    I am always looking for one but here in NY there are not many. Over 2500 registered but it's a big state :) Saw one on the way upstate Monday and my daughter and her friends were admiring it as we passed it, in my Yukon :) (older lady driving) It was interesting to them because I pick mine up tomorrow!
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  • 1/1/2015
    guest
    This was spotted in Pittsburgh a couple months ago-- closer views/info posted here: TeslaPittsburgh.com: Autopilot 2.0


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  • 1/1/2015
    guest
    a few days ago I commented on my surprise seeing so many Model S here while visiting Copenhagen... (I still can't get over how expensive car taxes are here in Denmark). Every day while walking around I'll see 6 or 7 MS within any half an hour span, so no point taking pics of them all.

    But just one more before we leave, this one of a 70 and an 85 in the parking lot at Christiansborg Palace - also home of the Danish Parliament. The driver of the 70 on the left I assume was a politician or gov't worker - he parked in the EV spot without plugging into the charger! I also notice the 2 chargers here don't show up on PlugShare, perhaps they are for gov't employees only. The charger cable seems detachable on both ends, not sure how that works, maybe it is somehow stored inside the pedestal when not in use... Or do drivers have to bring their own cable?

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  • 1/1/2015
    guest
    Ran into a Model S outside Rum Club today. First time I have seen one there.
    ModelS@RumClub.jpg
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  • 1/1/2015
    guest
    "Ran into" probably isn't the best choice of words ;). "Spotted" might be better.
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  • Sep 12, 2016 at 8:44 AM
    wdolson
    Why is the charging port door open? Someone trying to siphon electrons and got scared off? :)
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  • Sep 12, 2016 at 9:33 AM
    Chopr147
    Maybe he was jogging :)
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  • Sep 12, 2016 at 9:56 AM
    f-stop
    a final random sighting from a visit to Scandinavia, this distinctive Model S spotted in picturesque Geiranger, Norway - population 250 (if you exclude the many thousands of cruise ship tourists visiting). didn't know at the time but seems the car is owned by a local chocolate shop.

    IMG_9021.jpg

    I know there are many Tesla Model S in Norway, and did spot a number in the various other towns we visited, but this was the only Tesla I saw in this particular town. There were however a lot of Renault Twizy electric cars for rent, and even a large public EV charging lot, with over 20 electric chargers and a Chademo station too (not listed on Plugshare I notice).
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  • Sep 12, 2016 at 10:06 AM
    AEdennis
    Random because of the plate...

    ...in California.

    I was at the Torrance Service Center.

    [?IMG]IMG_20160908_104758 by Dennis Pascual, on Flickr

    They usually get Model S before it leaves the Port of LA/Long Beach...

    Thought it was a Turkish Model S, but it turns out it was a new California one that has not received its US plate yet and decided to mount a Turkish one.
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  • Sep 12, 2016 at 3:27 PM
    fallen888
    Just saw one in my garage. ;)
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  • Sep 13, 2016 at 10:58 PM
    Btrflyl8e
    That's really the best place to see one, AMIRITE?
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  • Sep 14, 2016 at 7:46 AM
    msnow
    I could be wrong but this doesn't look like a new refresh to me given the chrome underneath in the back and the vinyl underneath.
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  • 1/1/2015
    guest
    New to the owner... Could be CPO, like I said, the Turkish plate caught my eye. Tracked down the owner and got the answer (he hasn't received his California plate yet and just mounted the Turkish one decoratively)
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  • 1/1/2015
    guest
    Yesterday, as I was running my errands, I saw a Model S heading northeast on Plymouth Rd. After an intervening car, there was *another* Model S! Typically, you see maybe one a month -- but, wait, there's more! I saw another one heading west on Ellsworth Rd., and a little while later I saw a FOURTH Model S heading south on Carpenter Rd.! I've never seen so many Teslas in the space of an hour -- crazy! I'm sure the fact that it was football Saturday had something do to with it, but still -- it would probably have been way more likely to see four Ferraris in an hour. I still can't believe it...
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  • 1/1/2015
    guest
    When I was visiting CHI two weeks ago I saw a chrome wrapped S in downtown. Also a white S parked in a parking zone in front of some condo or other... I saw more S's in CHI in 4 days than I have since I moved to Houston in June of this year.

    I have seen two refreshed S's in the last 5 days here in Houston. One was a black 70D on the 290 West in Cypress-ish area. The other was just yesterday, white refresh (Sunday) going Westbound on the 99 Tollway while I was traveling EB.

    No nods, no waves, no smirks/smiles/acknowledgements... so odd about Tesla's... of all the cars you would think we would acknowledge each other with a smile or whatnot...!
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  • 1/1/2015
    guest
    Don't feel too bad. Even the Porsche double flash died ten'ish years ago.
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  • 1/1/2015
    guest
    My daughter said she saw a Model S in my town the other day. Apparently I have some competition now :)
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  • 1/1/2015
    guest
    Wow. I've seen two within a few minutes on a few occasions during my commute, but those were the only ones I saw all day if not week. I had to go on a 4000 mile Supercharger trip to see four Teslas within an hour just once, of course all at a Supercharger. It was at St. Joseph on the way back on June 26, with two Model X's and two Model S's seen in the hour I was there.
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  • 1/1/2015
    guest
    Maybe the chromed car you saw was this one:
    Tesla Model S Gets Chromed & Lowered At Office-K
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  • 1/1/2015
    guest
    In Feb 2014 I was on a trip to Vientiane, Laos and was really surprised to spot a brand new Model S parked on the street a few blocks from my hotel.

    A couple of days later I was walking by the same place and saw an lady leave the building where the tesla was parked - she was in the process of taking out the trash. I struck up a conversation with her in broken French about the Tesla. She explained that it was her car, and that her husband had purchased it for "her" during a trip to Palo Alto. The only problem, she explained, was that she didn't know how to drive.

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  • 1/1/2015
    guest
    I bet that was it.

    On another note, I did see ANOTHER refresh-er last night at my local HEB grocery store off Fry Road in Cypress. P90D with two child seats in the back :) Might have been roomier to get an X at that point?
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